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Cloverfield

Three films with no shared characters, two of which were written as something else and attached to the first afterwards.

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Where to start with Cloverfield

Release order and calendar order are the same three films in the same three positions, so the ordering question is easy and the useful question is a different one. What release order gives you is the ambiguity, in the order it was meant to arrive. What it costs you is a tidy explanation, because the film that supplies one is the last one out and is also the weakest of the three.

  1. 1
    Cloverfield (2008) Cloverfield

    Eighty-five minutes of camcorder footage of one night in New York. It is the only one built as a Cloverfield film from the start and everything after it is measured against it.

  2. 2
    10 Cloverfield Lane 10 Cloverfield Lane

    New people, a new state and a new genre, sharing not one character with the first film. Its closing stretch only carries weight if you already know what happened in 2008.

  3. 3
    The Cloverfield Paradox The Cloverfield Paradox

    Set twenty years further on and reverse engineered to supply a cause for the first film. Go here last, because an explanation is the one thing the other two are better off without.

Then what? That is the whole series. A fourth film, a direct sequel to the 2008 one, has been in development since 2021 with Joe Barton writing and Babak Anvari attached to direct, and as of the most recent word from Anvari in March 2025 it is still only in development, so it is not listed. If you want the connective material, the viral marketing sites for the fictional company behind the 2008 film and the tie-in manga fill in background, but no film requires any of it. Overlord, from 2018, is not a Cloverfield film despite years of reporting that assumed it would become one.

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