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(Preview) Movie Club | Cloverfield (2008)

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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This week, Alfredo brings the team the found footage classic that spawned a genre-spanning franchise: Cloverfield. Where does this rank in the found footage genre for you? Is it deserving of its legacy? Let us know in the comments! Sensitive topics: death, body horror, gore "Awkward Meeting", "Crypto", "Echoes of Time v2", "Redletter", "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Task Force. This is Christian.

0:03.0

Have you heard of our show called Movie Club? Over at RedWebpod.com, the first and third Friday of every month, we watch a horror movie, we break it down, go through the plot, beat by beat, so you can listen along and share our reactions. If you have seen it, if you haven't seen it, we keep it accessible for everybody. And you can join in on the fun over at red webpod.com.

0:21.2

Here is a preview of this week's episode on the movie, Cloverfield.

0:24.8

Rob's best friend Hudson, known as HUD, is given a camera by Jason and the responsibility

0:30.2

of recording final goodbyes from family and friends at the party.

0:34.2

But instead, unsuccessfully flirts with his crush Arlena.

0:39.3

Beth arrives with a date, Travis, which upsets Rob.

0:43.3

To his dismay, he realizes HUD is taping over footage of him and Beth, including their trip to Coney Island, which shows up throughout the film.

0:51.3

Lily reveals that Rob and Beth slept together several weeks earlier, which Hudson then shares with others at the party, making the matter

0:59.3

worse. Shares with everybody, man. Yep. Yep. Rob provokes Beth and her date into leaving the party.

1:07.4

Yeah, he runs around telling everyone, did you know, did you know, did you know did you know did you know which I

1:12.1

will say like HUD is a great character behind the camera because I don't know that's the

1:17.1

personality and the clips that you get throughout the film by the person that's holding the

1:21.4

camera and the fear you know it all kind of like works out pretty well you don't want

1:25.8

the person behind the camera being too dull.

1:28.4

Yeah, yeah.

1:29.6

You need somebody to keep it going in some way.

1:32.7

Mm-hmm.

1:33.3

It was also funny.

1:34.3

You know, his name's Hudson,

1:35.6

but I've never once heard the name Hudson shortened to HUD.

1:40.4

And yet it was so fitting for this man.

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