10 Cloverfield Lane 🎥 2016 Movie Info

Plot Summary

After an argument with her fiancé, a young woman named Michelle leaves her New Orleans apartment. That night, while driving through rural Louisiana, she hears news reports of blackouts in several major cities. Suddenly, her car is struck off the road, knocking her unconscious. Awakening with an injured leg, Michelle finds she is chained in a bunker. Her captor, an older man named Howard, unchains her. He explains he took her to the bunker to save her life and claims that the air outside is poisoned after an attack.

Howard gives Michelle a tour of his bunker, introducing her to Emmett, his construction assistant. Through a viewport at the airlock, Howard shows her two decayed pigs outside, supposedly killed in the attack. Michelle also sees Howard’s truck and recalls it striking her car. She privately talks to Emmett, who assures her the attack is real: he begged to be let in after witnessing the attack. During dinner, Howard shows flashes of jealousy when Michelle grows closer to Emmett. Michelle steals Howard’s keychain and flees. At the airlock, she prepares to open the outside door when she witnesses a woman covered with lesions screaming to be let in before dying. Michelle retreats to the bunker, and Howard explains that he accidentally struck her car while rushing to the bunker. Michelle is seemingly convinced.

Over the next few days, the trio begins to adapt to life underground, and Howard opens up about his daughter, showing Michelle a photo. After something loud passes overhead, the air ventilation system fails. Howard sends Michelle through a small duct to reactivate it. In the control room, she finds a padlocked skylight with the word “HELP” scratched on the inside, and an earring she saw in the photo. Michelle shares this with Emmett, who recognizes the girl as a local who disappeared two years earlier; Howard’s actual daughter left with his wife.

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