20 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies Of The 21st Century
15. Cloverfield
The found footage movie style had already blown up with The Blair Witch Project back in 1999, with its creepy, isolated locales and ambiguity.
Cloverfield by comparison is loud, intense and large-scale captivating. JJ Abrams sets the scene perfectly with the confusion at the start, before dropping an absolute behemoth of a monster in front of our faces.
And then immediately... takes most of it away.
What made Cloverfield the hit it became was the old school styling of "less is more". Instead of throwing the monster at us for the entire run time, the occasional glimpse of something out to destroy did more to scare than it outstaying its on-screen welcome.
Shot as found footage under review from the military, it tells the story of a farewell party gone wrong. No build up, just the sudden invasion of a massive alien force disrupting every day life in New York.
Whilst in recent years the Cloverfield expanded universe has a few hits and misses, the first entry is still a great reminder of the positive benefits of first person horror movies. Also, keep an eye on your friends if they start bleeding from theirs.