THE CABIN IN THE WOODS - Review

SPOILERS AND SHIT ARE IN THIS REVIEW BUT IT'S BEEN OUT OF A WHILE SO MAYBE YOU'VE SEEN THIS I DON'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO REVIEW IT EARLIER BUT I HAVEN'T GOTTEN AROUND TO IT UNTIL TODAY SO YEAH SORRY THIS MOVIE IS A FEW MONTHS OLD N' STUFF. 

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The Cabin in the Woods 

1 hour 35 minutes
Comedy/Horror, 2012
Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
Directed by Drew Goddard


Starring
Chris Hemsworth
Kristen Connolly
Anna Hutchinson
Fran Kranz
Jesse Williams
Richard Jenkins

"Yes, you had "zombies," but this is "zombie redneck torture family." Entirely separate thing. It's like the difference between an elephant and an elephant seal."

...what?
I'm not a horror movie guy. I don't go to the movies to see people get tortured for fun because frankly, I just don't enjoy that kind of stuff.
Then there's Cabin in the Woods. I honestly don't know what to make of this. It's got to be one of the most unusual movies I've ever seen. It's like, 12 different genres at the same time. Parody, horror, comedy, action, a whole bunch of stuff.
The central premise is this: five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a weekend, but shit hits the fan and zombies come and etc etc etc. What makes this movie so unusual is that everything is being controlled from a booth by what appears to be a major corporation. Most of the humor comes from everything going exactly as you think it would in any horror movie. The popular girl does horny things, the jock does jock things, the stoner does the stoner things, it goes on and on.
But arguably the strongest part of the film comes from the office workers running this operation. The whole thing is totally insane, particularly when they bet on what monster is going to kill the campers.
The premise, script, and acting is strong all around. The finale is totally out of left field, but the best part of the entire thing is everything that happens right before the ending when the monsters jump out of their cells and massacre everybody. I'm not a huge fan of the final couple minutes, which kind of feels like something I've already seen before, but otherwise the whole thing leading up to that is totally insane.

TLDR: Somehow manages to be incredibly scary and incredibly funny at the same time, with a strong central premise that somehow manages to be completely original.

9.2/10