Holy shit.

J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost and Alias, has a new film to be released next January. Shrouded in secrecy, the film hit the public in the guise of a (terribly teasing) preview before Transformers. The preview was certainly one of the finest and most exciting I have seen in a long time. This is definitely something you should be seeing on the big screen with no conception of what awaits you, but if you’re an impatient bastard, read on.

The greatness of the trailer lives and dies by its twist ending, so it’s really impossible to describe it without ruining it. So, again, GO SEE THE DAMN TRAILER IN THE THEATERS. Or, if you’re still with me, a description of the trailer from firstshowing.net:

It starts off at a party in a loft in New York City for this guy around his mid-20’s who’s leaving (the city). It’s filmed on home video cameras and looks just sort of like another independent drama comedy about this guy. This goes one for a little while when all of a sudden there’s a big earthquake and people start to go a bit crazy and they all run up to the roof to see the lower half of Manhattan, and one of these buildings, erupt into a huge ball of fire after this unidentified object from the sky comes flying down and hits it. Then people really start to go crazy and the camera is dropped and blacks out. Then it comes back up and they’re out running on the streets and all of a sudden this huge flaming object comes flying through the air and lands on the street and it’s the ripped off head of the Statue of Liberty. You can hear this odd freaky roar in the background as more huge flaming/smoking things fly through the air and it ends with people running and screaming.

As for the trailer, Paramount forced Youtube to take down all the videos of the trailer (God knows why), but it persists on Google Video (ha! take that, same company!). If you’ve come this far in the post, then my pleas have fallen on deaf ears anyway, so take a look:

After you hear the roar in the distance, there’s a quick line asking “what animal is that,” further cementing the giant monster idea. And, of course, Ain’t It Cool News has the scoop: “Well, word from inside the company is that CLOVERFIELD is a giant monster movie, featuring something that’s being referred to internally as ‘The Parasite’.”

Other details are sketchy at best, but hopefully a full trailer will be released in the coming months. And hopefully this isn’t some disappointing Lost tie-in.

I am so excited.

UPDATE: The teaser has officially been released. Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/ for the HD versions, or check out the trailer on YouTube below:

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