10 Movie Posters That Spoiled EVERYTHING
6. The Monster - 10 Cloverfield Lane
The marketing for 10 Cloverfield Lane did a genuinely solid job of only hinting at the dangers awaiting protagonist Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) outside of Howard Stambler's (John Goodman) survival compound.
That is, except, for the movie's international poster, which flipped the bird to subtlety and just straight-up revealed the film's late-game set-piece.
The poster shows Michelle running through a field while being pursued by a gigantic alien spacecraft, confirming that a) Michelle does indeed make it out of the compound b) she can safely breathe the air out in the open and c) the finale involves a fight with an alien.
Even with the film having "Cloverfield" in the title, many went in assuming it to be a smaller-scale spin-off merely existing within the same world as Matt Reeves' 2008 found footage film.
But anyone unlucky enough to see the international poster had any and all ambiguity ripped away, ensuring they spent the entire movie anxiously anticipating the showdown they already knew was coming.