Movie Trivia for 10 Cloverfield Lane
Memorable Movie Quotes
Howard: Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.
Howard: People are strange creatures. You can’t always convince them that safety is in their best interest.
Trivia
The name of the gas station Michelle stopped at to refuel is named “Kelvin”. This is an Easter Egg J.J. Abrams slips into all his projects, a tribute to his maternal grandfather Henry Kelvin, who owned an electronics company and influenced Abrams as a boy.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is barefoot on the majority of the movie. In an interview, she stated that in a lot of the close-up shots that did not show her feet, she was wearing slip-on shoes or flip flops.
Goofs
When running from Howard before escaping the bunk, Michelle is bare-foot. She goes into her room to collect the “hazmat suit” and we see her boots on the floor there, but she leaves the room still bare-foot. Moments later, when she climbs on the table to go into the air-ventilation opening, she has those boots on.
Perchloric acid is highly reactive with metals and organic matter. When Howard (Goodman) has Michelle and Emmitt help with the barrel of perchloric acid, it is contained in a blue plastic barrel, typically perchloric acid is stored in glass, one of the few containment vessels that does not oxidize in the presence of the acid. Also perchloric acid is more oily at room temperature and of a viscous nature, it becomes extremely volatile and is exothermic when oxidizing thus the electrical cord and metal wire within produces heat and react to cause the explosion when Michelle is outside the bunker.
At the end of the movie, the car alarm is activated for several minutes. Due to environmental laws, car alarms have to stop after 30 seconds. They can be triggered again, though.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $15,000,000
Opening Weekend: $24,727,437
Gross $72,082,998
Filming Locations
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Home Place Plantation – State Highway 18, Hahnville, Louisiana, USA