This post hold spoilers for10 Cloverfield Lane , a moviewe absolutely loved .

This weekend,10 Cloverfield Lane ’s secret mania lured ( and scared ) unsuspecting audiences to a formidable $ 25 million at the box office . The movie is as crocked as Hollywood thriller add up . Under the direction of first - timer Dan Trachtenberg , the claustrophobic sci - fi film put away Michelle ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead ) in an underground bunker with Howard ( John Goodman ) , a paranoid physicist who – he swears ! – wants to make nice while the Revelation sink , and Emmett ( John Gallagher Jr. ) , a southerly towny who feels lucky to be there . Their world implode when Howard ’s muddied secret house of cards to the top … of his barrel off acid . There are murdered girls , hidden girl , bold lies , and alien parole ships.10 Cloverfield Lanegoes in every direction – and sticks the landing .

Like the original 2009Cloverfield , former tag - buyers clump to the net to make sense of it all . And because we ’re responsible , we made sense of those pervade theories . allow ’s talk about the last of10 Cloverfield Lane :

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" Howard had say that ' they will attack all major universe inwardness first , then institutionalise out ground troops to kill the survivors … Like us " . The initial attack(s ) that caused Howard to crawfish out to his bunker was [ the Cloverfield monster ] . "   –ImJonJordan

You know it . The Internet knows it . J.J. Abrams knows it . The10 Cloverfield Lanetitle is load . cyberspace sleuths who spend months crack the original ’s Augmented Reality Game , devising answers to the monster movie ’s who s , what s , where s , when sulphur , why s , and how s , would inevitably use the same game logic to the new movie . Hints in the movie and the subsequence ’s ARG invite wonder , with passing book of facts to Howard ’s caper at Bold Futura , a space section of Tagruato , a minelaying company that may or may not have awoken the first Cloverfield lusus naturae . Intricate !

Abrams relate to10 Cloverfield Laneas a blood relative ofCloverfield . unmediated connections are limited to Easter ball and the ARG . Think of it like a mirror universe of discourse . Or do n’t – if anyone ’s inching closely to a unifyingCloverfieldtheory , it ’s the guy above , who wonders if Howard , Michelle , and Emmett live through the event ofCloverfieldin the bunker . What if the plan of attack on New York was just the first ? What if Cloverfield monsters attacked all the major cities , and the " onslaught on the Southern seaboard " mentioned on the tuner while Michelle ’s hurrying down the main road is a similar event , the precursor to a full alien invasion ? Sure , why not . Maybe the outer space - worm - ish creature that assault Michelle in the heroic finale is the fully germinate adaptation of those subway system - dwelling barnacle . Anything goes in the back alleys of Reddit – aTwilight Zonefor the Internet epoch .

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" Everything Howard says that she thinks is crazy eventually turn out to be the truth . [ Because ] Howard is n’t the defective guy . Emmet is the bad guy . " –Juke777

Hit the brakes . There ’s a ton of post - viewing forum yack that reforge Emmett as10 Cloverfield Lane ’s unuttered scoundrel and vindicates Howard , an brainsick , scurrilous kidnaper , on the basis of being " right . " This is a hypothesis that overlook the scar and the point.10 Cloverfield Laneran with a terrific tagline : " teras come in many forms . " As the story unraveled , Michelle feared Howard ( who chain her up in his underground bunker ) , softened to him , then swing back to revere as it became clear this father figure was a murderous creep . Emmett was a victim , too . Many wonder if the trio ’s simpleton kill Brittany , a girl who pass absent years ago ( and is clearly Howard ’s former captor ) . Emmett ’s arm is in a sling – did Howard break it to ensure there would n’t be any more issue ? There ’s a grime on the roof of Michelle ’s room – did Howard conceal the body to keep the peace ? So many questions , so few reply . Cloverfieldobsessives postulate to take it all at face value . Emmett run into the bunker to escape the Revelation of Saint John the Divine . Howard did n’t want him there , and broke his arm . When it became clear there was a cause of death in their thick , Emmett read a bullet to save Michelle ’s story . Howard is a ogre so bad , it was deserving be given into an alien - overrun corn whisky field to escape him . End of story .

" Could the acid inside of [ Howard ’s ] barrel and the gas pedal used by the aliens be the same ? " –toonytoon180

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distinctly , not everyone has binged - watchedBreaking Bad . Back in the twenty-four hours , Jesse and Walter dispose of the stagnant using vats of hydrofluoric acid.10 Cloverfield Lane ’s antagonist obtain barrels of chemical tub from his day job " launch satellites , " lead Reddit ’s science community to pin it as perchloric acid or ammonium perchlorate . The timeline is also a ( ghoulish ) element . In - pic clues insinuate that Howard killed Brittany with the corrosive liquid state . If the longtime weirdie was in cahoots with the foreigner , he would have obtained the material ages ago .

This theory is a full reach … though the parallel is n’t . Howard destroys life just like the alien invader . There ’s nothing " spare " about his tellurian Lucy in the sky with diamonds , but he ’s still a monster . Let ’s really drive this home for our ally who think he ’s an OK guy for being veracious about the whole " do n’t go outside " affair .

" I was hop the physique outside was confirmed , however , to potentially make the red flash actually from the experimentation inGod Particleand not even because of the aliens . " –cysubtor

Savvy viewers are already pinning10 Cloverfield Lanetheories to Abrams and Bad Robot ’s next picture show , God Particle , wherein " a squad of astronauts on a space place make a terrifying discovery that challenges all they lie with about the material of reality , as they desperately fight for their survival . " That sci - fi lineament ’s due in February 2017 , and many wonder if a faint figure seen in Michelle ’s first glance of the outside populace , and a red Inner Light describe by Emmett , are entangle in what could be a transverse - dimensionalCloverfieldthreequel . If10 Cloverfield Lanedoes huge box seat - office business concern , bear Abrams to giveGod Particlea name change . You know , the Higgs boson is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field . See what I ’m say ?

" This picture show was toWar of the Worldsas the originalCloverfieldwas toGodzilla . " –Radaniel9

Not so much a possibility as an sharp observation that anyone familiar with H.G. Wells ’s novel likely picked up , too . The opening broadcast could be an allusion Orson Welles ’s 1940 radio dramatisation ; Tthe egg on " flashing " fathom like the Martians ' laser blasts and their deadly red skunk . The female foreigner ’s atomic burns align with Wells ’s own description . Michelle ’s Molotov cocktail Riff on Steven Spielberg ’s 2005 adaption ofWar of the Worlds , which also imagines the Martians as hybrids of mechanical and constituent material . And Howard ’s own dementia recalls the book ’s narrator , who eludes aliens but suffers from a nervous breakdown .

Possible demon in final tantrum ? –NotMySeventhAcct

Many hint there ’s aCloverfieldmonster proper in the clouds behind the final starship . Get ready to expend hour last physical body by frame through this damn movie .

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