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The Cabin in the Woods

2012 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…

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Review by Grooveman ★★★★½ 17

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 ★★★★★ 11

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 Haydn Elmore ★★★★ 2

Today was a good day. Being able to pass my first two tests in college and having an absolute blast with this awesome gem that’s shocking, hilarious, twisted, and simply a lot of fun to watch.

Maybe college isn’t going as depressing as I Thought.
Review by whatever ★ 15

not to ruffle any feathers but this movie sucks alot of shit and its now banned by the censorship board in my head. if u watch this starting today you will be fined $500 payable to me and if you dont pay me im telling my mom and she'll tell your mom and you're gonna get SO grounded. that's obviously not true you're not gonna get grounded for liking cabin in the woods even tho its a shitty movie. like what u like, even if its a shitty movie that shouldnt exist! just like... whoever made this rly hates horror movies and thinks horror fans are idiots, imo. i mean a lot of horror fans are idiots, but that's because…
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 Daniel S ★★

This movie started out great. It is a cheeky little flick that has something to say about the genre, and says it very loudly. However, the ending left a bad taste in my mouth that ruins the experience entirely.
Review by WesleyBout ★★★½

This movie felt like an overly long College Humor sketch, but then the last 30 minutes came in and blew me away. It was worth sitting through the generic horror movie bits to get to that. So much fun. I might even call it brilliant.
Review by Dalton Johnson ★★★★½

Love the originality of this movie while it isn’t particularly scary, it does sort of have an interesting commentary on our collective bloodlust when we watch horror movies.
Review by thefrq ★★½

Spooktober 2016 - Day Twenty-Eight:

The only reason people like this movie is because it has an attachable robot arm that jacks them off every time they feel smug watching this bloated whale corpse disguised as a horror satire
Review by VoodooSan ★

This cabin is not in the woods. It’s clearly floating in the sky. This movie is a damn lie.
Review by mads ★★★★★

I just want to see every variation of this movie with every single different monster in use is that too much to ask
Review by Steven Flores

An absolutely what-the-fuck horror satire film that plays with the premise of five college kids going into a cabin in the woods where all sorts of bad shit happens like in every other horror film but it's with a twist as it relates to the forces controlling the fate of these characters with bloody results as it is definitely a top-tier horror film that breaks a lot of rules and then some.
Review by Nicola ★★★

Well, that went the total opposite of what I was expecting.
Review by Gioniku ★★★½

ZOINKS!