Formula. Every film has one. Watch enough films and you learn the formulas, perhaps even subconciously; and it can ruin the film for you. It drains a film of tension, it makes a film predictable. And in no other genre is the formula more apparent than in horror.

The Cabin In The Woods (TCITW)has a formula too. It is no different to any other film in that respect. But while your Texas Chainsaw Massacres and your Excorcists and your Last…

This film tries to put its tongue in its cheek so hard it has left a big, gaping hole that should have been filled by a great film.

Let me start off by saying that I actually like Whedon's work. Most of the stuff he's done is quite enjoyable. Here, however, he is at his worst. Every single twist, turn and reveal felt like him screaming at me: 'Hah! Look at how clever I am! I am reinventing the entire…

Seeing as we're not supposed to be spoiler-y on this thing lest we offend the horde, I will use this space mostly to work out my feelings on Joss Whedon.

I'm not a fan. I've seen a lot of Buffy, just a bit of Angel, just a bit of Firefly (apathetic), Serenity (just cause), Dr Horrible (apathetic). I like Alien 4 for Jeunet mostly.

I heard it opined once that theres a couple kinds of male nerds. One is the…

I went in knowing virtually nothing about this film. I don't even think I saw a trailer for it. If I did, I probably shrugged it off as some generic horror flick. All I knew was that it was written by Joss Whedon and it had been delayed ever since 2010. I expected nothing but hopefully fun generic horror flick. What I got was something far from generic. I think this might be the ultimate horror film.

It's hard to…

Hype can be a very bad thing. Having read countless reviews about how brilliant this film is I couldn’t help but be a little disappointed by the end results. That is not to say this is a bad film, or that I didn’t even enjoy it, but it was never quite as funny, scary or consistently inventive as I had been led to believe. Much has been made of how it turns the horror genre on its head, subverting tropes…

I have waited so long to watch Cabin in the Woods, it was a real struggle to wait for it to be released on bluray and to not read a single thing about it, but somehow I managed. I knew that people really liked it but that's it, I had no idea what it was about or what it was about The Cabin in the Woods that they liked so much.

I'm pretty confident in saying this isn't one of…

I hadn't wanted to see this in the theatre because I was afraid I'd be too scared and make a fool of myself, but I needn't have worried. Too funny (at times) or too self-aware (at all times) to be scary.

But yes, as much as I try not to be, I still fell subject to the hype. I felt that the warnings to go in without seeing or knowing anything, although something I aspire to in general, were mostly…