10 Cloverfield Lane: 9 Clues To What The Mystery Sequel Really Is

2. You Can't Really Use The Trailers For Clues...

At the end of the Super Bowl TV spot, clue hunters were treated to a very familiar sound; what appeared to be the monster's squealing roar. It was slightly different to the pure audio and accompanied with some foley effects, but it's too close a match to ignore. Although maybe you should, because sound bait-and-switch was one of the original Cloverfield's most subtle forms of manipulation. The first teaser (which, unbelievably, was first seen all the way back in 2007) had the monster delivering a deep, rumbling roar totally unlike anything in the finished film, which successfully had everyone guessing it was a hulking mass rather than the spindly beast we eventually got, while a key shot in the second trailer used biting sounds to make silhouettes of doctors look like mini-monsters. So while that may seem like the monster's roar in the Lane tease, it could easily be a bit of cheeky misdirection, and the same goes for other audio cues.