10 Cloverfield Lane is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stucken, and Damien Chazelle. The film is a spiritual successor to the 2008 film Cloverfield and follows a young woman who awakens in an underground bunker after a car accident, only to be told by two men that a global chemical attack has rendered the outside world uninhabitable. As the woman questions their motives and tries to escape, she discovers the truth about the situation and the real danger she faces.