The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 13 Apr 2012
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 20 wins & 34 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Cabin_in_the_Woods
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-cabin-in-the-woods
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Japanese
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Runtime: 95 min
• Writer: Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard
• Director: Drew Goddard
• Cast: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison
• Keywords: zombie, creature, woods, marijuana, werewolf,

	7.0/10
	72/100
	92% – Critics
	74% – Audience

The Cabin in the Woods Storyline

Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics and curios, but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a book, she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers. However, there’s far more going on than meets the eye.

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The Cabin in the Woods Movie Reviews

It’s almost extremely clever…

“Cabin in the Woods” was a very frustrating film for me to watch. While the movie did a great job in explaining WHY we keep seeing all those dumb clichés in hack ’em up movies (such as the bimbo who dies first and the dumb jock), it ultimately allowed itself to, in the end, be just about as dumb and mindless as a typical hack and slash film. It’s a real shame, as for so much of the movie it kept my attention.

The film is a twist on the usual young adults being murdered in the woods film because you soon see that all this is being orchestrated by a group of people working in a weird base underground. Exactly why and who they are isn’t known until later…all you know is that these folks watch EVERYTHING that’s happening to a group of victims and they even bet as to what is going to happen next. It’s all very clever and the actual explanation is a mixed bag. On the one hand it does explain things pretty well but on the other, it just degenerates into a giant bloodbath that seems to value blood and chaos more than sticking with the underlying plot.

The bottom line is that the film is a near miss…a film that almost works superbly. Instead, the ending just lost me amid the chaos. For my time and money, I much preferred “Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil”…much more complete and enjoyable anti-hacker sort of film. This was a disappointment…as was seeing the gorgeous Chris Hemsworth…but without his usual blonde head of hair!

Not as good as it thinks it is, but great last half hour

For the first hour of its running time, THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is a fairly awful movie. It comes across as a semi-spoof of THE EVIL DEAD and all of its ilk with one of those oh-so-witty post-modern twists, in which the whole set-up is being televised and broadcast a la THE TRUMAN SHOW. For this first hour, the film is saddled with an obnoxious script and the kind of characters you’d find in a cheesy B-movie. I’m not quite sure what Joss Whedon was thinking.

Then, at around the hour mark, there’s a huge, huge twist and the film becomes something else entirely. It becomes a higher-budgeted spin on the likes of CUBE, and then of course there’s a sudden onslaught of monsters which will delight any fans of the horror genre. Sadly, copyright means that some of the monsters only resemble cinematic creations of old, like the Lord of Bondage and Pain guy who looks like Pinhead from HELLRAISER but isn’t. Imagine if they’d had the rights to show all the great movie creatures – now that would have been great!

So, for the finale, this film becomes a post-modern spoof with references to anything and everything, not least my old favourite, H. P. Lovecraft. The thing it most brings to mind, for me, are the two WAXWORKS movies with their celebration of the depth and breadth of horror movie monsters. The CGI effects are passable, and the script is never as good as it thinks it is, but it is quite a bit of fun at the end. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS as a whole doesn’t hang together and both acting and direction are bland, but it’s a film that’s been purpose built to appeal to movie fans so it’s worth at least a single watch.

Drew Goddard/Joss Whedon solid horror

Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Jesse Williams, and Fran Kranz are five college friends who head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. It’s a simple classic horror setup. What follows is a series horror classic discoveries, and finally the shocking truth.

Director Drew Goddard co-writes with Joss Whedon as they bring a smart spin on the traditional horror. It’s easy to see how this is the work of movie fans. They definitely know the horror genre. Chris Hemsworth is proving his movie hunk status. This is best described as a mastercrafted movie.