Monstrous News: themonstrousmovie.com Is Registered by Paramount and 'The Parasite' Is Up

The buzz on the new untitled JJ Abrams movie bouncing around the Internet is quite fun. Seems like everyone has a theory based on something they read on a forum somewhere. However, that's most of the excitement when it comes to viral projects like the 'Project Cloverfield.'

So far people have claimed that the 'Cloverfield' project is one or more of the following:

A LOST tie-in, Voltron, Godzilla, a remake of 'The Host', A Leviathan (also a shitty picture staring Peter Weller), Ethan Hass (turns out it's a video game), The Parasite and Slusho (production working titles), Behemoth, Stay-puft marshmallow man, Monstrous, Cthulhu Mythos ( and any Lovecraft related works), and the The Apocalypse.

In the end you're relying on people to spread the word and keep the movement alive. That also means you're relying on those same people to give you true clues, which is usually not the case. Some people just like to join in on the fun and throw out their own ideas while the true sites are mixed in the big web of misinformation.

That's why there are so many people putting up fake information in situations like 'Cloverfield.' It's a big, fun viral project that nobody really knows anything about. The best way to determine if it's fake is whether or not it is giving new information on the project. Fakes will usually take something they know already, like a license plate or fact that the Statue of Liberty lost its head, and use that for a basis of their information.

The source will almost always provide an answer in the form of a new mystery or question. Take this weeks biggest clue in the form of a blurry picture of a poster depicting the headless Statue of Liberty and the movie title, "MONSTROUS." It's been reported that Paramount Pictures bought the website domain name in June.

Although it has every look of being a fake, it does a cool job to get the talk going about the movie. For now, if you type in "The Parasite Movie" into your url you'll be directed to the official trailer for 1-18-08. That's odd because just a week ago the site was an ugly, fan-boy looking site that directed you a forum on lawn games. (see old site here)

If that is the poster for the movie it would be acceptable. If that's the title of the movie, MONSTROUS, then that's debatable. We'll just all have to wait until JJ Abrams talks at Comic-con next week to reveal the true movie title. Waiting sucks...

Update: (THURS) The Parasite Movie redirects again toward another website. The domain owner is just having fun. Shame! Liked that idea...