The Cabin in the Woods

2011 Directed by Drew Goddard

You think you know the story.

Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

Kristen Connolly Fran Kranz Chris Hemsworth Anna Hutchison Richard Jenkins Bradley Whitford Jesse Williams Brian J. White Amy Acker Tim DeZarn Tom Lenk Dan Payne Jodelle Ferland Dan Shea Maya Massar Matt Drake Nels Lennarson Rukiya Bernard Peter Kelamis Adrian Holmes Chelah Horsdal Terry Chen Heather Doerksen Patrick Sabongui Phillip Mitchell Naomi Dane Ellie Harvie Patrick Gilmore Brad Dryborough Show All…

Alternative Titles

O Segredo da Cabana, La Cabaña del Terror, キャビン, 캐빈 인 더 우즈

comedy thriller horror

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Popular reviews

Review by Grooveman ★★★★½ 18

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Seeing Richard Jenkins yell " Fuck You" to a screen filled with 9 year old Japanese school girls is extremely funny to me. This is the most fun I've had watching a film this year.
Review by Simon Ramshaw ★★★★★ 12

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

What this film WILL do:
- Go down in cultdom.
- Become a fan favourite.
- Add more fuel to the beast that is the Whedon Machine.
- Never allow any other horror movie to look at itself in the same way ever again.
- Hold up on many re-watches.
What this film WILL NOT do:
- Be popular with meat-headed horror directors.
- Grant people with the ability to create better stoner characters.
- Grant Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford with Best Supporting Actor nominations (although it really should).
Wow...having thought over The Cabin in the Woods a lot after I saw it first in April, I thought that the re-watch would be full of plot holes. But no.…
Review by Darren Goodfellow ★★★★★ 5

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 Houses On The Lefts say 2 + 2 = 4, TCITW says, "Yes, it does equal 4 but did you know that this 2 is actually 0.5 plus 2.5 minus 1 and the second 2 is really a shit ton…
Review by Coolnilk ★★★★ 2

Love the unique and original take this film brought out. It convincingly plays into those horror tropes that we all know about when it comes to the specific genre very conveniently while also making fun of it at the same time which ultimately made this such a blast from the minute it starts.
Thought the college friends cast with the five talented actors who portrayed them were great in how they allegedly handled things, but it's the climax and the ending of this that were definitely what made this film so extraordinary by the time it reaches that pivotal point.
Countless multitude of horror references from what made the horror genre what it is today, too! Don't want to spoil those details specifically because this is certainly a film you want to go into as blind as possible for sure. Make sure to check this one out if you haven't.
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Review by DirkH ★★ 31

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 genre!'
The problem with Whedon's script is that he has actually written two films. One a rather funny, sometimes hilarious comedy. Two, a boring and generic horror film. Somewhere in between lies the idea of a great film, which is…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 3

75/100
Yeah, ok, whatever, this is shaky territory in the sense that its stuck-up "creativity" doesn't necessarily conform with the sincere trash of the films it is parodying, and it's also 20 years late, but goddammit, there is *nothing* funnier than Richard Jenkins in this movie. Except for Richard Jenkins in Step Brothers.
4 stars for Richard Jenkins. And for this line: "It was the pioneer days; people had to make their own interrogation rooms."

Recent reviews

Review by Zach ★★★½

Very weird and interesting concept, and I’m not really 100% sure if it works, but it seems to and I really love the ambition and thought process of the creator did this movie.
Review by chips19 ★★★

Great movie that pokes fun at itself and the genre while providing a serious enough plot to keep you hooked and invested.
Review by dmchoul ★★★★

Really wierd, but cool premise
Review by Víctor Pernas ★★

Era un WTF que parecía que OMG pero al final MEH.
Review by smthclevr ★★½

tried so so so hard to actually do what it meant to and it still did not do that so kind of awkward actually. cgi is shitty but i mean it's 2011 can't ask for too much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Review by leyleyley ★★★★★

Unique take on a very stereotypical horror genre. Bravo!
Review by XposeYourTDs ★★★★★

When I saw this in theaters, I had a total blast. Did not expect nothing..literally thought it was gonna be a by the book horror flick. But boy was I wrong. It has all you want in a movie, to not spoil anything, it was incredible in every way. In my top 5 favorite movies of all time.
Review by Dan Brandao

Honestly this night I was just looking for a fun, quick watch - and this definitely fit the bill. I hadn't realized this was from the same director as Bad Times at the El Royale, a movie I stumbled upon and loved. I like this Drew Goddard guy! My memory of this movie was more about the last act, and I hadn't realized the framing device existed literally throughout the whole thing. This film didn't just turn the horror genre on its head - it literally reinvented what a horror movie can be. It's a little nihilistic, but such a fun ride as we start to figure out what's going on (and why).
Review by Samuel_Azik ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Despite I knew the distinctive aspect about this, it happened to be even weirder than I thought.
It feels like a good twist for this specific area of the genre, even when it slowly becomes more bizarre to the point where I thought that “downstairs” Sigourney Weaver or someone like her would be expecting us, and well...

A pesar de que conocía la característica distintiva de esto, resultó algo todavía más extraño de lo que pensé.
Se siente como un buen giro para esta área específica del género, aunque poco a poco se vuelve cada vez más bizarro hasta el punto en que me imaginaba que en “el piso de abajo” estaría esperándonos Sigourney Weaver o alguien como ella, y bueno...