Has JJ Abram’s Cloverfield gone Viral?
Filed under: Film News, News | By: Lucy
Posted on: July 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
Cloverfield is definitely generating a buzz in the movie blog world. Coverage of this mysterious monster movie keeps coming in thick and fast - it’s hard to keep up! It appears that Cloverfield has gone viral. There has been a vial blog set up to draw people to a viral website.
The site EthanHaasWasWrong.blogspot.com links to a flash website at EthanHaasWasRight.com which contains a puzzle game. Now, for all you fact fans out there Jason Ritter played a character named Ethan Haas in the 2006 T.V show The Class. Does this have any relevance? We still don’t know.
It hasn‘t been confirmed that this website is actually related to JJ Abram’s Cloverfiled. The postings on the blogspot site were only made over the past two days and the EthanHaasWasRight website has been online since earlier last month. It was also registered long before the 01-18-08.com website, which is believe to be the Monster Movie’s official site.
Slashfilm has found the following text in the html code of the site:
…war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star’s rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape.
With a walkthrough posted on Escape The Room on the 3rd July, many people have already solved the puzzles. The puzzles are as follows:
1) The first lock will test your memory. Follow the trail of light and sound, but be careful — one wrong move will send you back to the beginning.
2) For the second lock, you may need to look to the stars. They will help you find HAAS who will lead your way.
3) The third lock will require you to extinguish all lights but one. Only with one light remaining will you be able to proceed.
4) The fourth lock will let you move all 4 pieces through the control of one. However, unless the three key pieces are simultaneously placed into position, you will not be granted access.
5) The fifth lock will be the toughest. Seek help again from the stars to reveal your key and the message that you must decode. The two working together will open the way.
There is still no concrete evidence to be had about this site, but be sure to keep it locked at Product Reviews for the latest.
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jeez, ethan haas and the ethan haas websites are in no way related to cloverfield which is not being referred to as cloverfield but Slusho!, the only official Cloverfield/Slusho! websites seem to be http://www.1-18-08.com and http://www.slusho.jp, JJ is using a viral campaign but it seems to have been launched at a similar time to a new table-top video game about the end of the world involving a character called, yep you guessed it, ethan haas. The current clues to the movies title/synopsis can be found at the afformentioned websites and the films teaser trailer, although several blogs/forums with minor connections to the trailer have been appearing ever since its debut, for example http://www.abz3293.com (the licence plate of a car in the trailer).