Creature comfort

Horror fans will enjoy the monster flick Cloverfield | Sam Thielman

Paramount Pictures

Let's get it out of the way: The 9/11 parallels in Cloverfield aren't clever or observant; they're just in poor taste. That hasn't stopped the flick from becoming a runaway hit, though. The $25 million movie grossed $41 million in its opening weekend, buoyed by a web marketing campaign that denied fans-to-be the film's credits, its title, and all but the stingiest glimpses of the monster. It's rated PG-13 for violence, but that mostly means that when somebody explodes, she has the decency to do it behind a plastic curtain.

For all its pompous conspiracy theories (the film stock is watermarked "Department of Defense"), Cloverfield is not much more than a high-toned creature feature with some excellent scares.

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