10 Movies That Are Totally Different By The End
1. 10 Cloverfield Lane
How It Starts
Even with the word "Cloverfield" in the title, Paramount and producer J.J. Abrams decided to market their spin-off 10 Cloverfield Lane as a claustrophobic, self-contained thriller largely taking place in a single location.
And indeed, it kicks off with protagonist Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) crashing her car and waking up in an underground bunker alongside survivalist Howard (John Goodman) and another "resident," Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.).
Howard claims that an apocalyptic situation above ground makes it impossible for them to leave the compound for a few years, and both Michelle and we as viewers are basically immediately distrustful of him.
How It Ends
Yet 10 Cloverfield Lane veers suddenly off-course in the last 10 minutes, when Michelle escapes Howard to the outside world and learns that he was basically-sorta right.
She soon enough spots an alien biomechanical craft in the distance, and spends the movie's remaining minutes battling a creature which drops from it.
Even though many expected to see an alien monster at some point in the film, by this time it was so close to wrapping up that many had just assumed that 10 Cloverfield Lane would indeed be a mere psychological thriller set within the Cloverfield universe.
It finally shifted gears at the very end, in a move which some criticised as tacked-on and unnecessary, while others appreciated it as fans of the original Cloverfield.
Tellingly, the film was actually written as an entirely standalone thriller called The Cellar before it was retrofitted into a Cloverfield movie during production.