J.J. Abrams managed to surprise everyone when he dropped a trailer and an impending release dateย forย the “blood relative” of 2008’s “Cloverfield,” and critics are loving “10 Cloverfield Lane.”
The thriller/drama has a current score of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and critics are describing the film starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher, Jr., as “tense,” “exhilarating” and one of the “scariest movies” they’ve seen in a long time.
The movie, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, is about aspiring fashion designer Michelle (Winstead) who walks out on a relationship, but after her car goes off the road — in an accident that’s jarringly captured under the opening credits — she wakes up in a knee brace that’s chained to the wall of a cinder-block bunker.