J.J. Abrams says he wanted to turn the genre mash-up machine to 11 in '10 Cloverfield Lane'

The pop-culture generator that is Bad Robot, the production company led by J.J. Abrams, has not been averse to mixing and matching genres over its history. This is the outfit, after all, that gave us “Lost” and “Alias.”But its creative free-for-all may have never been so willfully anarchic as in...