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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 fartbutt69 ★ 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."
Review by DirkH ★★ 23

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…

Recent reviews

Review by maizie ★★★½

MY garbage <3
Review by Lukas Ridge ★★★★½

I love this movie.
Review by Emily Housel ★★ 2

“You think you know the story”
i- ... umm i actually called just about everything
Review by Noah ★★★★

If you're a fan of horror films than this movie is a great watch. The film saterizes the genre while remaining an actual interesting narrative with some great gore and wonderful creature designs.

My only complaint about this movie: I wish they had used a more interesting thing to actually haunt them rather than going with generic zombies.
Review by pacmanistrans ★★★★

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

Wonderful parody of horror cliches, and remarkably self aware. There were a couple of choices i disagreed with, such as the spoiler about the electric fence near the beginning with the hawk, and having Marty know how to hotwire the cult/office's elevator. They set up Holden as being the main love interest, but rip him away and bring back Marty(Fran kranz), who was the best actor out of the five main characters. Otherwise this movie follows normal horror movie structure in a perfect parody.
Review by joshmiller0 ★★★★

Entertaining, funny and just scary enough to be a triple threat.
Review by Ethan Cooper ★★★★

The Cabin in the Woods retells an age old story of x amount of young people go into the woods and a killed off one by one by monsters in gruesome ways. For the most part this is true as this obviously happens in the film but there's an unexpected turn for our characters finding out they're playing a key part in something much bigger, think global catastrophe instead of losing a few friends to a mixture of modern horrors. Like most films that fit these tropes, you don't care for the characters in any way at all and you're just expecting them to die anyway and the characters we do see are fairly dumb and again fit to our…
Review by Ethan Wells ★★★½

Lots of fun just doesn’t really nail the landing.
Review by Chris Allen ★★★★★

I LOVE THIS FILM.

Want to know if you should see it? Answer these questions:

Do you like Friday the 13th movies?
Do you like werewolf movies?
Do you like zombies?
Do you like ghost stories?
Do you like Evil Dead, vampires, anacondas, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Freddy, Pinhead, Hannibal Lechter, Chucky, Candyman, etc.?

In other words: do you like horror films? Thirty years of watching and loving horror films led to this. If you are a lifelong horror fan, this film was made for you. A love letter to the genre, drenched in blood.