New 'Cloverfield 2' Viral Or More Crapola?

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Dread Central / Avery Guerra

A few weeks back I posted a small article about a video that has surfaced on Youtube that was loosely being associated with "Cloverfield 2", to this day I honestly feel that the clip was the work of a fan, but I wrote about it anyway.

Today, I have yet another Youtube find for you, that is again getting attention as a bit of possible "Cloverfield 2" viral video.

The video shows a young woman on the roof top of her apartment building explaining how excited she is to have moved from a small town to New York. The images in the video scramble from time to time, just like the footage used in "Cloverfield" to mimic a 'used' video tape, to show scenes of the city at night and some soldiers on a street corner. In a surprise ending, the video again becomes scrambled before showing the young woman either dead or knocked out in a scene that looks very much like the ending of J.J. Abrams giant monster movie.

I would honestly buy these videos as "Cloverfield 2" viral publicity work much more if they didn't copy the original film so much. If you may recall, the first clip actually contained monster footage that came straight from "Cloverfield" and this video copies that film's ending.

Does this rule out any possibility of this being another J.J. Abrams publicity stunt created to generate interest in another monster movie? No, but the facts at hand certainly do form a cloud over the whole business, and lead to doubts to that being the case.

I do want to point out a similarity in both videos. Each clip ends with some stamped Japanese text followed by some English 'catch phrases.' The first video had the words "RU THERE?" at the end, and this clip is labeled, "0041.avi".

Are these clues? or are they just random junk? Who knows?

The similarities may point to the clips being produced by the same person, or persons, and then again it could just mean that the second clip is just 'inspired' by the first.

Only two things are for certain, either there is some film maker out there who wants to get a lot of publicity for his amateur movie skills, or there is another huge viral publicity campaign that is about to be unleashed upon us by J.J. Abrams and his monster movie team.

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