History Film / TenCloverfieldLane

* ForWantOfANail: Invoked by Emmett talking about how he got wasted the day before he was due to ride the bus off to a new life, and he couldn't bring himself to go in the following days.

** The first trailer for this movie appeared before a Creator/MichaelBay movie ''Film/ThirteenHoursTheSecretSoldiersOfBenghazi''. The first trailer for the original ''Cloverfield'' movie appeared before a [[Film/{{Transformers}} different movie]] by Michael Bay.

''10 Cloverfield Lane'' is a PsychologicalThriller and surprise "blood relative" to the 2008 FoundFootage Kaiju movie ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' from Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead, Creator/JohnGoodman, and Creator/JohnGallagherJr, and is directed by Dan Trachtenberg. It follows a woman who wakes up after a car crash, trapped in a bunker with two men who tell her that the outside has been affected by a chemical attack.

** [[spoiler:Howard gets really upset when Emmett so much as touches Michelle. [[OverprotectiveDad What dad wants a cute boy anywhere near his daughter?]]]]

* ConversationCasualty: "I accept your apology." - Bang!

* DysfunctionalFamily: Howard intends for he, Emmett and Michelle to behave as a family unit. However, [[spoiler:Howard is intent on having the 'family' conform to his rules.]]

** We first hear Emmett screwing up offscreen; however, when we do meet him in person, he's charming and seems fairly intelligent.
* EvidenceDungeon: The air filtration room, where Michelle notices the "help" carving and a blood-stained ear ring.

** Michelle, the one who frquently does what she wants and provokes Howard's authority (Id, bordering on Ego)

* FutureCopter: The people in the bunker hear a definite aircraft flying overhead which sounds like a helicopter, but Howard insists that it doesn't sound like any US government helicopter. [[spoiler:When Michelle finally escapes, she sees a strange vessel without rotor blades hovering over the field. When it turns in her direction to reveal multiple wing vanes and CombatTentacles, she belatedly realises that Howard was right after all.]]

** When [[spoiler:Michelle gives Howard a taste of his own acid, we only see the aftermath -- the actual scarring is done as Howard lies face-down in the acid. The most explicit shot is showing us what it does to an electrical cord.]]

** When Michelle does escape to the outside world, [[spoiler:she hears birdsong, realises the air isn't poisoned after all, and happily takes off her mask. Then she sees the alien aircraft.]]

* ThePlace: The eponymous 10 Cloverfield Lane is where the underground bunker, which is the setting of the film, is located.

** Howard picks up-tempo songs from the jukebox in the bunker, even as the situation between he and his bunker-mates deteriorates.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Near the end, Michelle [[spoiler:looking over the field, notices that the helicopter-like noise the group heard earlier was actually being made by an obviously alien craft. It drops a creature into the field near her and she utters a "Come on." at the complete absurdity that Howard was actually right about an alien invasion.]]

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry:
** Michelle's home-made MolotovCocktail would not explode remotely like that.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchloric_acid Perchloric acid]] is not flammable (although it is dangerously corrosive).

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Michelle's home-made MolotovCocktail would not explode remotely like that.

* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:When Howard confronts Michelle and Emmett with the barrel of acid, he is wearing earplugs. Unlike Michelle, he's not [[SteelEardrums deafened by the gunshot in a confined space]] a few minutes later.]]

* NoSexAllowed:
** Howard immediately enforces a 'No Touching' rule between Michelle and Emmett, even though they show no signs of romantic affection to each other at any point in the film. Michelle breaks this rule once on purpose, flirting with Emmett in order to make Howard angry enough to not notice when she steals his keys.

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Michelle, who was abused by her father as a child, successfully defeats the equally-abusive Howard, who has been trying to become a ParentalSubstitute to her. It's made clear that overpowering Howard is essentially Michelle "killing" her childhood trauma and becoming strong enough to defend herself and others.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''The entire film'' retroactively becomes this since the third film in the franchise, ''Film/TheCloverfieldParadox'', [[spoiler:is a direct sequel/prequel to [[Film/{{Cloverfield}} the original movie.]] Slightly mitigated by the fact that the franchise is confirmed to take place within TheMultiverse.]]

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* ConversationCasualty: "Apology accepted." - Bang!

* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:"Your apology is accepted."]]

* TechnicolorToxin: The aliens' DeadlyGas is [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green]]. Likewise the perchloric acid, which is actually colorless in real life.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Near the end, Michelle [[spoiler:looking over the field, notices that the helicopter-like noise the group heard earlier was actually being made by an obviously alien craft. It drops a creature into the field near her and she utters a variation of this line at the complete absurdity that Howard was actually right about an alien invasion.]]
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Michelle's "Come on" when seeing an alien airship landing at the farm towards the end.

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** Emmett, however, we first hear about when he screws up, and when Michelle meets him he's charming and seems fairly intelligent.

* AirVentPassageway: One [[RealityEnsues that works about as well as you'd expect in real life]], given that it's extremely cramped. Michelle doesn't crawl through it so much as she inches her way into it.