27 November 2013

The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)

8/10
I thought it was pretty fun, and very clever. In fact I thought they could have done even more with the genre pastiches and parodies, and it veered off too soon into becoming an "actual" movie (i.e. when the cabin-goers find the lab technicians perpetrating all this violence on them).
I feel like the movie was really close to saying something interesting and insightful about the cabin-goers "becoming" their character stereotypes but it let that thread drop pretty quickly, which was disappointing. But overall it was a lot of fun to see so many well-worn horror tropes being sent-up like this.

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