Photo: Paramount

Hearing our heartfelt pleas, some benevolent, camera-phone-wielding nerd has posted an animated gif of the Cloverfield monster — probably from the film's press screening on Tuesday — on a message board. Anyone wishing to remain unspoiled till the movie hits theaters this weekend should probably stop reading this post … now.

Spoiler alert: Holy crap, this thing looks scary. See real footage of the monster after the jump!

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