The Cabin in the Woods

Hilarious and frightened: shaken, not stirred.

Great movie, one of the best in this "genre" for quite a while.

Finally got around to The Cabin in the Woods. 8/10, great fun. A Joss Whedon-(co)written (also co-written and directed by Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield) take on an old horror staple in which 5 stereotypical teenagers (an academic, a jock, a stoner, a slut and a "nice" girl) venture out into the woods for a dirty weekend. It's no spoiler to say that these unfortunate young naïfs appear to have been cherry-picked and are being heavily monitored all the way into the woods by some very (very) high-tech manner of... what? Government agency? It's with these fellows that we visit first, before we ever meet our protagonists; two middle-aged, white collar I.T. types, a little brow-beaten by what appears to be a fairly monotonous job (although ...

This is another one of those movies where I cannot understand why so many people give it so high scores. Sure its not a really bad movie but, personally, I found it only moderately good. Im not sure whether the movie was intended to be scary or funny or both. It wasnt very funny though and only moderately scary.

It has been presented as a not-your-usual-teenage-slasher-horror movie. Well, it sure has an interesting twist butit is still a teenage slasher horror movie. The twist could really have lifted the movie but unfortunately this good idea is pretty much wasted in a poor implementation.

Instead of holding on to the surprise its spoiled right away with that eagle flying in to the force field (since when did we learn to build force fiel...

The following is a long-form review that I originally wrote in 2012.

Jesus Christ. What just happened to my brain?

I was worried that Cabin in the Woods was gonna be a letdown, cause I had built it up so much in my head, and it seemed such a ridiculous concept that it would have been nearly impossible to pull off flawlessly. And maybe it wont go to join the ranks of my favourite films in existence, but it was So. Fucking. Good.

Drew Goddard (who wrote Cloverfield) is no stranger to working with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Avengers) and my God do they ever make a team. Joss Whedon is my unopposed all-time favourite person involved in the film industry in any way, shape, or form. Which is quite the claim, giv...