Teaser Poster

What was first seen in a comic book store window last week in North Carolina, has now been confirmed as the teaser for Abrams' 1-18-08 film.

The poster, seen to the right, shows a be-headed Statue of Liberty and a disrupted wake of water leading towards Manhattan with destruction and smoke in the distance and the date at the bottom - earlier versions of this seen had the word 'Monstrous' labeled across the top of the poster.

Expect more news as Abrams is expected to divulge new details at Comic-Con this weekend.

Aliens? Flashbacks? Coney Island? Oh My...

The New York Post released an article about filming of "Cloverfield" from several weeks ago in Coney Island. It can be found here.

Paramount also announced yesterday that they won't comment on who cut the trailer. All signs seem to point to Abrams as having a personal hand in the edit of the teaser that appeared before "Transformers".

More details as they become available.

New Pic @ 1-18-08.com

A new image has popped up within the last couple of hours of more mayhem in the streets with a timestamp of 1:24am - 36 minutes later than the last one released and it appears if martial law has taken over in the streets.
With news having been slow these last couple of days this is the first new look we've had recently.

However it is being speculated that new hints and clues might be found within the History detail of the Slusho.jp website.

ABZ 3293 & Slusho

I failed to post these screencaps from the trailer the other day pertaining to my posts on the ABZ 3293 site and the Slusho website.

This is the car from the trailer, with the same license plate that this website is asking about. The other is a Slusho t-shirt one of the party-goers (the one who asks about seeing what's going on from the roof) is wearing.

Armageddon?

I'm getting a lot of emails about whether or not this film is about the end-times or destruction of Earth from a Biblical sense.

Granted there's been things to point us in that direction (the newly found Romans 1:18 website, the talk of one victim seeing a "lion" in the trailer, the number 6 being painted all over the Slusho website).
That being said there's no indication at this point that this film is indeed an Armageddon story, we have no more clues pointing us in that direction than we do that this is another Godzilla remake (with hints like Rob going to Japan and the Slusho website).

While I hope that's not the case (and if you really want to know I'd love to see Cthulu but I'm not holding out hope) we really don't have any more indication that this is a big screen adaptation of Voltron either. The best way to view all these clues and and sites and images is to take them for what they are.

It's like a 3D Magic Eye image, you can't focus on one part, you've got to look at everything and blur the image to see the big picture. So far all we have are breadcrumbs, follow the trail long enough and we'll eventually get to grandma's house.
...What?

Ethan Haas Video Messages

Whether we believe Abrams debunking Ethan Haas' involvement with 1-18-08 or not, it stands to reason that Paramount has some hand in all of this. If you've felt the urge to finish the puzzle on the website you've seen the cryptic messages, if not they're available on YouTube but God only knows for how long. Here they are in order:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6D8Fv79KNMs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dsmv_0WgGk0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yfAfpyqjVEk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z58cEbtU3Pg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ND9096d7Ias

Check them out while you can, they're still interesting even if not 1-18-08 related.

New Websites?

What do www.abz3293.com and www.anti-christ.com have to do with 1-18-08?

I'm refraining from giving a lot of my own opinions on what I think is going on behind this film, basically because I don't want a flood of emails telling me how wrong I am, but more importantly because this isn't about my opinion, it's about this amazing film.

That being said I'd like to thank 'Stan38' for emailing me about these sites.

ABZ seems to be a cryptic classified, a user is searching for an New York City resident with an SUV and the license plate of ABZ 3293 - saying that this driver has a family heirloom that the user would most likely want returned.

The latter anti-christ site has an interesting header of Romans 1:18 (1-18-08?).
That verse from the Bible reads: "The wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness..."

Search the sites, see what you find. Email me or comment if you find anything odd.
What with all the shenanigans and goings-on.