- 6/13/2025
A Woman is Held Captive in a Shelter With Two Men Who Claim That The Outside World is Poisoned
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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recapped. Today I will show you a drama, action, horror film from 2016,
00:06titled 10 Cloverfield Lane. Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.
00:11Michelle is seen quickly and angrily packing all of her things from the apartment she shares with
00:15her fiancé. Before leaving, she makes a call that doesn't end well. She grabs a bottle of scotch and
00:21leaves the keys next to her engagement ring. Michelle leaves town and stops at a gas station
00:25in the middle of nowhere. When she continues driving her ex-fiancé calls her and she picks up,
00:30but doesn't say a word. He begs her not to run away because of one argument and she hangs up.
00:35She turns on the radio to listen to the news, which report on a blackout that happened earlier in the
00:40day. Ben calls her again, but this time she doesn't answer. Suddenly, something hits her car and she
00:46gets pushed off the road. Michelle wakes up with an four in her arm, not remembering how she got there.
00:52She feels that her leg is hurt and checks it, only to find that it is chained to the wall.
00:57Looking at the place it becomes obvious that she's not in a hospital. She sees her things,
01:01along with her phone on the other side of the room and in yanks out her four.
01:05Michelle panics for a moment because she can't get to them or unchain her leg,
01:09but she calms down and uses the fourth pole to get to her cell phone.
01:13Unfortunately, she doesn't have any service. Suddenly, she hears a rumbling noise outside and
01:18waits to see her captor. A large man enters, carrying a gun and some food for her. She
01:23begs him not to hurt her and let her go, but he just sets her four back up and tells her that she
01:27needs fluids to recover. Terrified, Michelle asks what he'll do to her. The man, Howard, says he'll
01:34keep her alive and brings her a set of crutches, telling her to learn how to use them. She tells him
01:39that her boyfriend is looking for her, to which he replies that no one actually is. He drops the key
01:44to the cuffs on her bed and leaves, locking the hatch behind him. Michelle quickly unchains herself,
01:49puts her clothes on and starts looking for a way to escape. She uses the key to the cuffs to sharpen
01:54one of the clutches and waits for Howard to come back. At one point she realizes that he won't come
01:59back soon, when she hears the air circulating in a vent. She finds her matches and starts a fire
02:04inside the vent, then waits. The smoke activates the alarm and Howard rushes to the room, or rather cell.
02:10She attacks him, but he quickly incapacitates her and sedates her. Michelle wakes up to a new dinner
02:16plate and Howard's sitting opposite her, telling her that she's tough. He admires her for that,
02:21but isn't willing to put up with it anymore, since he's already been too generous. Howard gives hands
02:26her some painkillers for her leg. She begs him to let her go, but he says that there is no place to go.
02:32Furthermore, he saved her life by bringing her there. Howard sits down to explain the situation to her.
02:37He says that there was an attack, but that he's not sure what kind it was. He tells her that he
02:42found her car flipped over and couldn't leave her there, so he took her to his bunker under his
02:47farmhouse. Michelle thanks him, but asks to go to a hospital. Howard says that she can't leave,
02:52because if the attack was nuclear or something even worse, there would be fallout and it might
02:56be years before they could go outside at all. Luckily, he says that he prepared for something similar.
03:02Michelle wants to call her family, but Howard tells her that they're probably dead.
03:05Suddenly, there's a racket outside of her room. He excuses himself out and starts yelling at someone.
03:12When he comes back, he tells her the same thing he's told the other one, that she needs to eat,
03:17sleep and show him some appreciation. Michelle hears a noise on the level above her room and then some
03:22music. The door is open, so she walks outside and meets the other person that's in the bunker,
03:27Emmett. They talk about what Howard has told them about the fallout, but she just wants to know if
03:32there's a way to escape. Emmett believes what Howard has told him. Then, Howard shows up and leads the
03:38two of them through the bunker toward the bathroom, telling her what the things there are. There's a
03:42common area with various forms of entertainment and a fully equipped kitchen. Michelle almost falls
03:47over and when Emmett tries to help, Howard tells him that he mustn't touch her. He takes her to the
03:52bathroom in his private area and tells her that she can only go in there with express permission.
03:56She asks for some privacy, but he says that he doesn't trust her enough to leave her there alone and that
04:01she can close the curtain. Later, Howard is preparing dinner and telling Michelle about his
04:06daughter, when the lights phase out for a moment and the same racket as before can be heard above
04:10them. He says that it's the generators, but she wonders if it might be a car. Michelle thinks they
04:15should call the police to get information on what is happening, but he tells her that if anyone was
04:19alive he would have heard it on his scanner. Howard can tell she doesn't believe him, so he takes her
04:24to see some proof. They go to the hatch at the bunker. Howard opens the first part that will get them
04:29to an airlock and, once inside, Michelle takes a look through the window. She sees two dead pigs and
04:35he tells her that it's from being exposed to the air. Michelle sees a truck outside too and remembers
04:40it from her car crash. Howard tells her that he keeps the outer door sealed at all times, with no
04:45one coming in or out. Later, Emmett comes into her room and invites himself to sit down. She asks him
04:51what he knows about Howard and he tells her that he was in the Navy, working with satellites. Emmett was the
04:57one to help him get the doomsday bunker set up. He comments that Howard is the conspiracy theory type.
05:02Michelle asks him if Howard kidnapped him too, but he tells her that he actually hurt his arm trying to get
05:07inside the bunker, not out. She doesn't believe the whole doomsday scenario, but Emmett tells her that he
05:12actually saw it happen. Michelle doesn't believe him either and he tries to convince her by telling her that
05:17he fought his way in. She tells him that she hurt a car above them, but he doesn't think it's possible.
05:22Howard interrupts them for dinner. There's an awkward silence at the table, but Howard pours them a drink
05:27and starts talking about the food, telling Michelle that she'll learn how to cook. Emmett tries to get
05:32on his good side and cheers in his name. He continues to talk, trying to ease the mood, by telling them
05:38what he wishes he would have done before. Emmett asks Howard what he wished, but he says that he already
05:43did what he needed to do, get prepared. Emmett continues blabbing to Howard's displeasure, so he tells him to be
05:49quiet and let them eat in peace. Michelle sees the keys on his belt, then continues the conversation
05:54that Emmett had started before. She flirts with him to make Howard angry and succeeds. The man
06:00confronts her and calls her ungrateful, asking her to apologize. She tries to get the keys, but fails,
06:06then he insists she promises to behave, pining her to the wall more closely. Michelle makes the promise
06:11and sits down, successfully stealing his keys. They continue to eat, when he notices them gone.
06:16There's another sound from above and suddenly Michelle hits him and tries to run to the hatch,
06:21leaving them behind. She opens the first door before Howard can get to her and locks it behind
06:26her. He yells for her not to open the second door, but she sees a car in front and scrambles to open
06:31it. Suddenly, a woman that looks hurt appears outside, begging to be let in. Michelle is reluctant,
06:37so she asks Howard what to do. He tells her not to. The woman says that it hardly touched her and
06:43that she'll be okay. Michelle freezes, unsure of what to do, when the woman starts banging her
06:48head on the window. Later, Michelle is crying in her room and Howard comes in to change a light bulb.
06:54He tells her that he knows how hard it is to loose the people you love, then confesses that he crashed
06:58into her car. Howard had panicked when he heard about what happened and was driving like a madman to
07:03get to the bunker, when he ran into her. He tells her that it was an accident, but that it was his fault
07:08and he was too afraid to tell her. He apologizes and gives her his daughter's clothes. After Michelle
07:14showers and changes, Howard tells her that the woman was his neighbor and, like Emmett, she also knew
07:18about the bunker. He thinks that others might come there as well. Then, he tells her that she'll need
07:23to stitch up his forehead. She's scared to do it, so he pours her a drink that he distilled himself.
07:29They chat and Michelle seems like she's warming up to him. He disinfects the needle and she starts
07:34stitching him up, with him saying that she's doing great. After they're done, he gives her a box with
07:39her belongings that he managed to save from her car. She opens a sketchbook with her drawings,
07:43telling him that she wanted to design clothes. His daughter wanted to be an artist too. Howard shows
07:49Michelle a photo of his daughter and talks about her some more. He tells her that her mother took her
07:53to Chicago. Sometime later, Emmett and Michelle talk through the wall. He tries to comfort her by saying
07:59that she couldn't have helped the woman. They speak about regrets and their lives. He was an
08:04athlete in high school and even got a scholarship to a good college, but he got cold feet and never
08:09left his hometown. She tells him that she had an abusive father and because of that she always
08:14runs away instead of doing something about the situation. Emmett thinks that there must be a reason
08:18behind their survival. In the following days, Michelle starts to cozy up a little. Their dinners aren't as
08:24awkward anymore. She becomes more relaxed and friendly with Emmett. The three of them even play
08:29games together and eventually, she even gets closer with Howard too. One day, Michelle and Emmett are in
08:35the common area, having fun and talking, when suddenly the bunker starts shaking and there's some
08:40strange noise outside. She calls for Howard asking for reassurance, when they realize they can hear
08:45helicopters. He tells them that if it was helicopters, they wouldn't be theirs, but only part of the second
08:50phase of the attack. Howard thinks that it might even be extraterrestrials, patrolling for the last
08:55remaining signs of life. All of a sudden, an alarm activates. Howard tells them that the air filtration
09:01system is malfunctioning and that something must be blocking the hatch. If they don't fix it, they'll
09:06run out of air. He tells Michelle that she's the only one that will fit inside the vents and that she
09:11needs to restart the filtration system. Before she crawls in, he instructs her on how it's done and tells her
09:17not to get stuck because they won't be able to get to her and help. As she moves through the vent,
09:21Howard helps her navigate until she reaches the filtration unit. She does what he instructed her
09:26to do and restarts the machine, but sees another hatch going outside. It's locked. Michelle sees the
09:32word help written from the inside of the window and when she gets down she finds something. When she
09:37gets back, she tells Emmett that Howard must have lied about his daughter and shows him the bloody
09:41earrings she found. Michelle shows him the photo of the girl and he tells her that she isn't Howard's
09:46daughter, but another girl that he knew. At some point she went missing and never came back.
09:51The earrings were hers. They find another photo of Howard and the girl wearing the same shirt as
09:55Michelle. She thinks that he took her and killed her. The two of them talk about what they could do,
10:01but Howard interrupts them and plays music for them. He tells her to shower, just in case of
10:05contamination. When she goes to do it, she gets an idea and shares it with Emmett immediately.
10:11That night, Howard is watching a movie, and Emmett goes to the kitchen. He steals a pair
10:15of scissors, then goes over to talk to him. He puts an idea in his head that Michelle might have
10:20brought in the contamination with her when she touched the filtration unit. Howard panics and
10:25throws away the shower curtains, then the two of them scoop it out from the trash. Michelle begins
10:29designing and creating a protection suit. Emmett helps her find everything that she would need to
10:34make it. Most of it is done and the two of them concoct a plan on how to incapacitate Howard so that
10:39one of them can go outside and look for help. One night the three of them play a game of
10:43association. There is an awkward moment in the game when Emmett misunderstands what Howard is
10:48making and guess, but Michelle steps in and saves him from exposing their whole plan. Later, Michelle
10:53is putting the suit together, when she hears something outside. Howard walks in and asks for
10:58her help. They join Emmett in the common area and he shows them a barrel which he needs to be moved
11:03into the bathroom. Inside of it is a type of highly corrosive acid, that can dissolve most biological
11:08material on contact. Suddenly, Howard confronts them, showing them that he found the tools they
11:13were using and asking them what they were doing with them. He drops the tools and the acid to scare
11:18them and Emmett confesses, saying that he used the tools. His story is that he wanted to take his gun
11:23away from him with some kind of weapon he could make, so that he could get Michelle to respect him
11:27the same way she does Howard. He apologizes, but Howard still kills him. Howard talks to Michelle like
11:33she's a child, trying to calm her down, saying that he needed to kill Emmett so he couldn't hurt them.
11:38Later, Michelle is in Emmett's bunk. She's upset and goes through his things, when Howard brings
11:43her some ice cream. He tells her that he wants the two of them to be a happy family. She goes back to
11:49her room and finishes the protective suit, when Howard almost catches her with the mask. He walks in and
11:54asks her to dinner, but a bolt falls from the van ten he goes to check it. Howard doesn't find the
11:59mask, however he sees a piece of the suit under her mattress and uncovers the whole thing.
12:04Michelle locks him in her room and runs to get the liquid nitrogen. Howard catches up to her and
12:08she spills the acid on him, managing to escape. The acid causes a fire to break out in the bunker,
12:14as she's hurrying to get the suit. Howard, still alive somehow, catches up to her again,
12:19but she incapacitates him. Michelle straps the suit to her leg and goes inside the vent.
12:24As she's crawling through, she sees that Howard isn't where she left him and suddenly he stabs through
12:29the vent. He opens one of the hatches and grabs her, telling her that she doesn't know what's
12:33outside and that she can't run from them. Howard begs her to stay, but she breaks out of his grip
12:38and gets to the filtration system room. Michelle puts the suit on and goes up the stairs. She
12:43sprays the lock with the nitrogen, but it doesn't break immediately. In a panic she sprays it again
12:48and hits it harder, eventually breaking it off. Michelle makes it outside of the bunker and
12:53instantly heads for the truck. She rips her suit getting in, but manages to close the hole.
12:58Suddenly, she hears birds chirping and sees them flying in the sky, so she takes her mask off.
13:04As she's taking a big gulp of air, she hears something in the distance and sees some kind
13:08of flying object. Suddenly, the bunker explodes. The object heads straight toward her and drops
13:14something in the crop. Michelle can't find the keys to the truck, so she goes to the woman's car,
13:19accidentally activating the alarm. She hears something behind her and hides in a nearby shed.
13:24The woman's body is there too. Michelle peeks through the window and sees some kind of creature
13:29approaching the car and lifting it like it weighs nothing at all. Getting a better glimpse of the
13:33alien sends her in a panic and she rushes to find the woman's car keys. The thing peers inside the
13:38shed, but Michelle distracts it by turning off the car alarm. She walks outside and starts running to a
13:44nearby house, screaming for help while the little creature is after her, when she suddenly hears an
13:49ominous sound. The little one is gone and a giant one appears behind the house, spraying it
13:53with something. Michelle puts her mask back on, but the little creature sees her and goes after
13:58her again. She barely escapes it. Suddenly, tentacles appear all around the truck and a
14:04giant creature picks her up. As she's being pulled into its mouth, Michelle finds a lighter and the
14:09bottle of scotch. She makes an explosive out of it fast and throws it into the mouth of the giant,
14:14blowing it up. Michelle survives. The creature doesn't. She takes the woman's car and drives away from the
14:20farm. Suddenly, the radio turns on and she hears a human message telling survivors where to go.
14:26Michelle is faced with a decision, go to the liberated town of Baton Rouge or head to Houston
14:30where the fight is still in progress. She turns for Houston.
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