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The Cabin in the Woods

2011 Directed by Drew Goddard

If you hear a strange sound outside... have sex

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 Chris Hemsworth Anna Hutchison Fran Kranz Jesse Williams Richard Jenkins Bradley Whitford 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 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 ★★★★★ 4

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 CinemaClown ★★★½ 10

A little warm-up before I kick off my contribution to Cine's Hoop-Tober Challenge in a couple of days!

Surfacing as a fresh breathe of life in what is slowly becoming a dying genre with every passing year, The Cabin in the Woods is a smartly crafted satirical horror film that dares to do something different with its genre, is cleverly structured like a jigsaw puzzle that keeps dropping hints every now n then, and succeeds as a quality example of horror, comedy & mystery.

The story concerns five teenagers who head off for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods where they seem to be having a really good time until they discover a cellar door & decide to investigate.…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★★★ 15

Everyone said it just gets better with repeat viewings and this is where I give all of those people an enthusiastic fanboy high five because it's so, so true. I am almost certain I enjoyed The Cabin in the Woods more last night than when I originally watched it back in 2012.

Others have said that dissecting horror films has been done before and while I'm inclined to agree with that, I'm not sure it has ever been done as well as it has here. In taking the perspective of the "ancient ones" and those trying to please them, you can't help but see the parallels to genre fans. We know all about the tropes in horror films; the athlete,…
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 nolan_mcbride ★★★★

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is a movie that initially chafed against my impossible expectations, and each successive watch has been about finding more and more to appreciate. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is first and foremost a horror comedy, which might be part of why I initially bounced off the movie. While I didn't want just another EVIL DEAD movie, I definitely went in expecting something that was going to up the ante and scare the shit out of me. And this is simply not that movie. It is all about deconstructing the genre while using that deconstruction as a way to make a kitchen sink film--throwing every crazy idea into a blender and somehow making it all work…
Review by randelic ★★★★

Fun movie. Lots of chaos.
Review by kararadaygum ★★★½

Paar ganz fiese Szenen so
Review by Rachel Stuplich ★★★★

if you think this movie was anything short of amazing, i hate to break it to ya, but ur not valid
Review by Harrison Walter ★★★★½

Watched this and was told that I should learn as little about it going in. I don't normally care about spoilers, but this was great advice. Some good twists and had some funny parts.
Review by Levi ★★★★

Hooptober 12/32
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This is such a fun movie and Marty is easily my favourite stoner from any movie ever. Cabin in the Woods takes all the genre conventions and twists them and makes a joke out of them, but in a way that also celebrates them. It is a perfect combination and I'm glad I picked up the four dollar blu-ray so I could experience this wonderfully executed horror comedy again. I had forgotten how much I actually like this film.
Review by Vurk ★★★★½

Goddammit this is so great *immediately presses purge buttons to catch all the references*
Review by Jordan ★★

I am proposing an alternate working title: “The Truman Show - horror version”. The concept for this is actually pretty cool but the execution was just not good unfortunately. I mostly watched this for Chris Hemsworth and Jesse Williams and I was honestly not disappointed.
Review by JohnA ★★★

Clever idea. I thought they revealed too much about the bunker too soon, as more mystery would have led to a profoundly dizzying reorientation. I also thought the whole thing was too tidy, the system is completely closed and gives no room for real deliverance. But it was a fun ride, with plenty of homages (Sam Raimi's ground level tracking shot, anyone?) and a completely berserk conclusion.