10 Cloverfield Lane is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film directed by Dan Trachtenberg (in his directorial debut), written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stucken, and Damien Chazelle, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, and John Gallagher, Jr. It is the second film in the Cloverfield franchise. The film was developed from a script titled The Cellar, but under production by Bad Robot Productions, it was turned into a spiritual successor of the 2008 film Cloverfield.
10 Cloverfield Lane was released in North America on March 11, 2016[4] in DLP and IMAX.[5] Critical reception towards the film was positive, with praise for the performances of Winstead and Goodman.Following an argument with her fiancé Ben, Michelle leaves New Orleans and drives through rural Louisiana. Late at night, she turns on the radio only to hear that there were continuous blackouts in major cities. Ben tries calling her to change her mind about leaving him which distracts Michelle while driving and causes a collision, flipping her vehicle multiple times before rendering her unconscious. She awakes in a concrete room chained to a wall with a saline IV in her arm. Her apparent captor, Howard, tells her that he is her only chance for survival and prevents her from escaping. She attacks Howard at her first opportunity, but he overpowers her and insists that he is helping her. Howard tells her that some attack has taken place (for which he blames the Russians or aliens) and that he has brought her to his bunker after finding her on the side of the road.
She meets Emmett, another survivor, to whom she expresses extreme skepticism of Howard's seemingly implausible explanation. Emmett, who takes Howard's apparent reason for granted, confirms that he saw the attack himself and that he came to Howard's bunker to escape. At dinner, Michelle, intent on escaping, conspicuously flirts with Emmett to provoke Howard and uses the opportunity to steal his keys. She rushes through the bunker to the airlock on the top floor but discovers a woman suffering from a severe skin infection desperately begging to get into the bunker. Now realizing that some attack has happened, she returns to the bunker.
Over the next few weeks, the trio begins adapting to live underground and become familiar. Howard loans Michelle some clothing from Megan, his daughter, and shows Michelle her picture. When the air filtration unit breaks down, Howard asks Michelle to climb through the ductwork to reset the system as she is the only one small enough to fit. She discovers a window with the word 'HELP' scratched on the inside and a bloody earring which she recognizes from a picture Howard had shown her of "Megan," his daughter. She shows the picture to Emmett, who recognizes the person as a missing girl from his high school, Brittany, not Howard's daughter. They then discover a polaroid of Brittany, who is wearing the same clothes loaned to Michelle, and Howard together in the bunker. Realizing that Howard is dangerous, they begin to plan an escape. Michelle fashions a makeshift biohazard suit from a shower curtain and Emmett assembles a homemade gas mask. When Howard discovers the tools they've stolen for their work, he confronts the pair and dissolves the tools in a vat of perchloric acid. In defense of Michelle, Emmett accepts the blame under the pretense of using the tools to craft a weapon. After accepting an apology from Emmett, Howard summarily executes him.
Michelle works to complete the biohazard suit but is discovered by Howard. She manages to get past him and dumps the vat of acid on him, severely injuring him and inadvertently starting an electrical fire. She climbs back through the ductwork, seeing Emmett's remains in the perchloric acid, puts on the suit and attempts to escape. Howard tries stabbing Michelle through the vents, but she manages to evade the attacks and pulls her way to the air filtration unit, using a can of gas duster to freeze the lock on the outside door and break it.
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