The whole movie straddles this ambiguous moral post which is the size of a redwood, that changes and moves with each new clue dropped into the audience's lap. The Comedy: Hot Christ, is this film funny. So funny. Not just "LOL, there's a hippie with a bong" funny although that's in there.
It's "We know you're watching now watch us turn this all around and scare you with the silliest horror trope in the history of the world" funny. The Writing: You could pair this with the comedy, but the whole twisted plot deserves its own positive plug. Not once does anything feel forced or like some sort of jury-rigged teenage vernacular penned by a bunch of old guys desperately trying to court the teenage audience. The dialog, the plot, the big reveals, it's all great.
Even if you don't agree with the final verdict you can't help but admit that the whole thing is delivered in style.
This movie's got flair, and lots of it and you can bet your bottom dollar that it all started on the page. Boards were covered in clues, cellars were stuffed with items that had more than one meaning, heck the cabin itself is a bright shining Easter Egg from movies past, the whole thing is stuffed with clues and monstrous secrets — we just know we won't be satisfied until the Blu-Ray comes out and we can go through this entire film shot-by-shot.
The Conclusion: We could easily see how some folks might be a little miffed with the ending. But we would argue that it works really well with the rest of the film. The Comedy: If you're looking for a straight up and up horror movie, you should know.
By the end of the feature, the horror has been traded for sheer unbridled hilarity. So if you hate fun in your gore, this might not be the movie for you.
Goddard creates the opening of almost every s horror slasher so perfectly — right down to the score — that the audience would immediately be turned off by it. Goddard was careful to actually recreate the horror movie setup that he is looking to tear down — the other two friends joining them on the trip fill the roles of the comedic stoner Marty Fran Kranz, who gives one of the best performances of in the film and love interest Holden Jesse Williams.
The group even encounters a creepy old man at a seemingly abandoned gas station warning them of their impending doom. However, Goddard and Whedon use the scenes at the facility to explain those occurrences. Simply put, The Cabin in the Woods is one of the sharpest satires of our generation. Any horror fan watching the movie can pick out the cliches and stereotypes. However, the movie quickly subverts those and replaces them with reference after reference to classic horror movies — some direct and some you have to dig through your brain to unlock.
There are so many that you have to pause the movie several times to catch them all. Because trying to explain Cabin in the Woods is futile — and succeeding at the task would ruin the fun of seeing the film cold and getting shocked by it's every twist and turn. He wasn't kidding. Unlike most films, where knowing who the bad guy is or whether the main love interests end up together is simply a bit of a let-down, knowing key details of Cabin 's plot could prove devastating, because trying to figure out what's going on in the f ilm is a game in and of itself.
Spoiler alert: As few plot points as we could feel comfortable sharing follow. The Cabin in the Woods is an R-rated metanarrative comedy about the science of horror movies.
It starts with the most pedestrian of slasher-film tropes — the group of young, attractive people going away for a fun weekend in a creepy old cabin — and then turns that story into a series of smart questions:.
What if every horror movie were playing out some sick show for a larger purpose? What if the similarities in the characters and plot were part of that purpose?
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