Godzilla and his ilk continue to draw crowds to movie theaters around the globe.

The movie is presented as footage recovered from a camcorder by the Department of Defense.

The rest of the movie is a fight for survival against the monster, dubbed Clover.

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But because it had a more conservative $25 million price-tag, it was deemed a huge hit.

Butthe found footage style ofCloverfieldallowed it to do things that the genre had never done before.

It gave audiences a perspective of a giant monster theyd never seen before.

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When New York City is attacked by an unknown monstrous entity, chaos ensues.

The poster for Cloverfield 2008

Directed by Matt Reeves, Cloverfield is a found-footage disaster movie that follows a group of people seeking safety during a state of emergency. When New York City is attacked by an unknown monstrous entity, chaos ensues. A group of friends document their attempts to flee the city and find sanctuary from an onslaught of monsters on a handheld camcorder - footage which is designated as an account of the “Cloverfield” incident.

Soldiers firing into the air in Cloverfield

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