Matt Reeves tunnetaan nykyisin The Batmanin ohjaajana, mutta hänen aiempi työnsä on hirviöelokuva Cloverfield. Nyt on selvinnyt, mistä innoitus tuli, ja miksi monsu hyökkäsi New Yorkiin.
Syfyn haastattelussa Reeves paljasti, että hirviö on avaruusolio.
"It's alien. In fact, at the end of the movie, you can see the moment when it comes to [Earth]. When we revisit that footage where they're on the Ferris wheel at the end, you can see the meteor flying down and hitting the ocean. That's actually the beginning of the baby being on Earth."
Ja kyseinen olio on vasta lapsi.
"For me, the big secret was that the monster was a baby and was experiencing separation anxiety. The reason the monster was freaking out is because they were having fits based on looking for their mother. And so, [the monster] was just as afraid as the main characters, because it seems like there would be nothing more terrifying than the human element fighting this giant monster element and, actually, both of them are just terrified."