By Vurdlak on February 1, 2008, with 206 Comments
Scott Pehoushek found this Cloverfield optical illusion poster. I’m not familiar with this Hollywood Blockbuster, but apparently it’s already a big hit in USA. Has anyone seen it? What is it about? Is it worth watching? As it goes with illusion posters, they usually have some sort of hidden face or multi meaning skull integrated from my experience, and this one shouldn’t be much different. The only problem is that I haven’t noticed the hidden monster in it. Can you help? This is original email sent by Scott: “There is a monster-looking cloud in the upper right side of the picture with its head reaching towards the statue of liberty’s right arm. (the one with the torch)”.
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It’s a dragon. The heads were the old head of the Statue of Liberty was. That’s cool.
Oh there also might be a weird skull face. So a dragon and a skull face? The tail could be the mouth.
I see the monster and it kinda looks like the one from the movie..
and yes the movie is worth watching its the first time we arent the miltary we are hopeless civilans not knowing what goins on just trying to stay alive… great the whole movie feels like you are there!!! just the worlds shittest ending!!!
this movie really sux btw not worth seing it, just watch it when a friend rents it
No, the illusion is there. The people talking about the two pictures mirrored are right. The Cloverfield monster looks like this:
http://patrick.ripp.eu/images/cloverfield_monster.png
And this link with the mirrored image shows its arms and face and crap:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/08/30/images/monster.jpg
Could be wrong, but makes a little sense. It kind of seems a little planned, but whatever. It’s a pretty crappy illusion if there is one.
I dont see anything
It kinda looks like either a dragon head or an evil horse’s open mouth.
i’m gonna have to disagree with everyone else
here’s what i saw
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg33/pattonlee/cloverfield.jpg
but the outlining i did kind messed it up :]
I c I c!!!
I think you must be blind if you cant see the “monster cloud”, stands out like a sore thumb. My mate saim cant see it but hes a muppet.
I really don’t think any of these ‘illusions’ were put there intentionally. When you go outside on a nice day with some clouds, you can imagine the world out of them, and it’s not mother natures intention!
Beautifull picture, but no illusion!
oh yeah go to
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e98/durasell93/clover.jpg
and youll see it
are you kidding, it is a steriogram
it has verious monsters made from clouds and dust in it
WOW!!!
what a crap illusion! its not even a illusion its like a thing!!!
Wow, poster 85 is right! The mirrored picture looks very similar to the monster. Similar enough that I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
The first picture that he showed though, which supposedly shows the actual monster, looks nothing like it though.
There isn’t an Illusion in this poster. If anyone is seeing anything it’s just your mind making faces in the cloud much like people did with the Super Smash Brothers Brawl pictures awhile back. Then again I guess your mind seeing things in the clouds that arn’t there could be considered an Illusion. The creators didn’t put anything there though. I, along with many many others, have followed the viral websites and screen notes and such for this movie since it was first previewed before Transformers in the states and while many believed there was a monsters in the clouds here at first all of it turned out to be nothing.
This movie is very good however, but if you go to watch it expect nothing but action as there are no answers to any of the big questions that come up.
If you look at it at an angle (tilt your head to the left) you can see a vague skull in the clouds.
I think this one is an optical delusion THERE’S NOTHING THERE!!!!!
I dunno about a monster but I see an eagle in the bottom right hand corner near the towers…
OMG! I can see the dragon on the right of the torch… but also I can see a skull on the left of the torch!! I’ve traced out them: look HERE
try again, look at this then look at the original, its hard to notice, but you can deffently see the details when you know where to look
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d14/cosmicfool311/clvrfld.jpg
I can see an evil face, the nose by the torch, and the eye after that, and then the mouth below that. Scary…
Look closely above the beheaded statue of liberty, a few centimeters
left to the torch, it looks like the head of the Statue of Liberty.
I see a mans face in the statues elbow, and a arm crossing the chest.
I loved the movie! It was shot in such a way as to make you think it was all done in a single take with a single handheld camera. An illusion unto itself, really.
I do see the monster, but it looks a little like a turtle and rather harmless. I don’t believe the creators of the poster intended any such illusion.
this is pretty funny. i work in the film business and know the person who made this poster. THERE ARE NO ILLUSIONS IN IT. ofcourse part of the plan was to make people think that there was. it worked, you people fell for it. you can find 100 monsters or anything you want if you convince yourself they’re there. :)
İ have watched the film…
if you look above the release date, you can see something has swam through the water and emerged, destroying the buildings because this is monster film of a similar ilk to Godzilla.
Dude there is no illusion to this, there is no hidden monster just the headless statue of liberty. Some people become so obsessed in trying to find what isn’t there they miss the main idea, which in this case is that everyone in that movie is screwed.
iv seen this movie..its fucking gay.
its done in the blair witch project-style and the whole plot is that some alien comes to new york and then kills everyone. it doesnt tell any back story or any story after it ends.
and if you watch it in the theaters–or even for some people on their own tv’s–it makes you sick because of how badly it was filmed so it would look like a video camera is recording it and it shakes 24/7 and doesnt stop, even in some theaters they put up a notice that said you shouldnt watch it if u get motion sickness easily cuz ur gonna puke if u do.
bottom line: dont watch it.
(oh and btw, yeah i saw the illusion lol)
If you wanna go that far, there are several illusions in this picture aside from the “monster.” The dark cloud above the statue resembles a woman’s face, the cloud just to the left of the statue’s arm resembles a skull, and there is some type of evil face in the middle of the picture…a feline-like face.
wow one of my favorite movies but theres also illusions in the movie when the camera switches scense puase it at the right time or slow it down and u can see the old movies that helped make that movie its pretty cool
it is a skull if you look for the triangle nose then you most likely can make out the rest of the skull
I loved this movie. It seemed more real because of the idea of like a home movie. I wished i would have seen it in the theater. I didn’t see blair witch, so i don’t know how close it is too it. be sure to pay attention to the very ending when they are on the ferris wheel and you look out onto the ocean.
I think its not a real Illusion.
someone said “there’s a monster”, now everyone is looking for a monster. if someone didn’t say “there’s a monster”, nobody knows it’s a illusion
Comment Post No.22 is the only conceivably possible illusion, its the only thing that actually looks anything like the monster in the movie, and even so i’m sure the person/people who are responsible for the artwork even did that deliberately, it is purely and simply coincidence.
I See A Monster On The Statues Body At The Bottom Right Hand Corner It Kinda Looks Like A Dragon Bird Thing Can Anyone Else See It? I Hope This Helped! :D
I see a strange distorted face in the torch arms sleeve. The rolled part of the sleeve at the top looks like a beret (hat) the elbow looks like a big nose and the sagging fabric at the tricep looks like the chin.
hey. good illusion, i see the dragon thing and the skull thing. And for you, its a really good film, about a monster attack on New York, definately worth watching and ive heard, just for everyones benefit, there going to be a sequel to explain everything. I understand already but this should help!
worth for watching…in my opinion.
first of all to jeremy November 13, 2008 at 4:46 am,your stupid first of all you probably dont know the first thing about this movie if someone said it was a telly tubbies remake youd beleive them. i dont know about the skull but the head is in the top right corner open it in paint by copying and pasting it and zoom in. you should see it,thoughit is not the creatures real head but a crudely created replica it was one of the rough sketches of the head by jj abrams and the main animator. as for the recamendation i give it a ten out of ten. someone mentioned about godzilla that is where jj abrams got the idea in japan with his and he thought{what if america had a creature such as this}ACORDING TO BOTH VISUAL EFFECTS/THE MAKING OF ON CLOVERFEILD DVD I highly reccomend buy i have only seen regular version so rent the secrets revealed version because i dont know what the differece is……….p.s.whether you rent/buy it watch it till the credits end and hear a secret message then put it into your pc and play the credits scene backwards then enhance you will hear{ITS STILL ALIVE!} :)
hey i dont see it
awesome movie
bullshit illusion .
its a cloud ok ?
I see 3faces and a skull …
that cloud is supposed to be what the monster looks like because in the movie they never show the face of the real monster.
In order to see the illusion in this poster you must have 2 copies of this picture. One of them you must flip around like as if you were looking at it in the mirror. Then with photoshop or whatever program you prefer, you take the picture and its mirrored version and put them side by side. The smoke coming from the buildings will then make the monster.
Alex did you actually see the movie? Because near the end they DO show the face of the monster pretty close actually.
And noone ever talks about the object caught on the video falling into the water in the very last scene where it shows the main couple at Coney Island ironically having a nice day. They captured the beginning of their end on film which is kinda creepy.
That movie, is HORRIBLE!
Never see it ;D
The building that is faded out a little looks like the Statue of Liberty’s head, only upside down.
On the sleeve below the torch, it almost looks like the mask the guy wears in V for Vendetta….
I see it! cool!
Hmm..I don’t see anything. Did watch this movie on Giant screen though and it is sooo good! I didn’t think I’d like it but my bf made me go watch and I ended up loving it. Funny how that works, eh?
Cloverfield is a movie filmed entirely using a video camera.
In it these people are at a party in a penthouse in new york and then this giant spidery kind of alien attacks the city and it sends out these little spawn and if they bite you you die. So there are these 4 people, one with a video camera trying to escape.
I thought the ending was a bit sudden but it was a really good movie.
The video camera made it seem almost real
I Made This Poster. There Is A Monster To The Right Of The Torch.
when u look at it the smoke from the building look like a claw and i do see the monster …
*SPOILER*
haha! it’s a snapper turtle!
look at the top right corner of the poster, just beside the torch, and there’s an angry turtle
it looks nothing like the monster in the movie
just on the arm and the bottom of the torch is a dragon head
i think i see an evil face zooming at the statue at the far right near the right edge.
This psoter also gives me the chills for some reason.
Alex it showed the monster’s face at the end.
oh i don’t get it this is dumb and that little monster couldn’t eat the whole head everybody knows that
I see it :D
i can see it it looks a bit like a snake its part of the lighter clouds
Haha, listen to Jake. Take the image and flip it so that the smoke is touching itself. There’s definitely a ridiculous little face going D:< on the very bottom right of the poster.
This pics sucks just as the movie did.
i see a cloud that on one side looks like a persons profile and on the other side looks like palkia
lol the face looks like Ruyk from an anime i watch called Death note!!
Ace Frehley on top of head monster
also look at the water it proves it came from water :)
I think I can see the monster opening it’s mouth in the top right hand corner (the smokey white bit framed by the black smudge), it also looks like it had beady eyes, kinda like the one in the movie.
there is a bright yellow godzilla man between the buildings.
also snake’s head in the statue
The numbers in the middle look like they’re either leaving a water trail or the start of one.
I see it, it looks like the monster is in the movie. It’s a left,side profile shot with the monster looking at the torch. You can see it’s left eye and it’s mouth open. Kinda looks like a turtle head as well.
i think it looks like a skull shape monstetr with two beady eyes if you cab really imagine wat it looks like then you can see it its actually very abstract..
What is it obvious or more like thing that you use in your imagination?
pretty obvious…
on the top right corner if you tilt your head a little bit you will see mastermind(from the movie not long ago)
I can see what this is refering to but i dont think it is obvious enough to be deliberate. I think it is a weak example of pareidolia
that movie sucked, do not whatch it i would give it a -9
true. i was feeling the “lost tape” vibe but the storyline was friggin’ annoying.
btw i can’t see the monster thing. can anybody help?