1h 25m Rated 15. Rob and his friends emerge from their apartment to discover a monster rampaging through New York, decapitating the Statue of Liberty and destroying bridges with a flick of its scaly tail. What is it and where did it come from? We never find out, because Cloverfield's brilliantly simple gimmick is to take a traditional monster movie scenario and shoot the carnage from the ground up, using a camcorder carried by one of the protagonists.