Review: "The Cabin in the Woods" R
Joss Whedon produced this creepy parody of the horror genre type where a band of horny teenagers gets off into the woods for the weekend only to be hacked up by some kind of ghouls. The idea has been around long before being popularized in the 80s, like in 'Friday the 13th' and 'Halloween', and takes the haunted house premise of many of these several steps beyond. The story delights in making fun of the tropes for such a movie, including having a slutty girl, a jock, a stoner, a nerd, and a virginal one, who in this case isn't really because she just doesn't count that one time. It also has elements of reality TV and of various underground classics, with nods to Raimi, Romero and others. The jokes are clever. The gore is splatter punk. It is the kind of thing that was put on screen and was thought about before, but here it is done freshly, coated in crimson. It is quite a messed up movie from an emotional standpoint, but because it is clearly a comedy it never gets as messed up a Rob Zombie's movies. And look for some hilarious cameos! I will not give away the comparisons and the obvious likenesses to other things as it would be giving too much away. It just came out. Since it actually was sitting on an MGM shelf for a year, it is technically from 2011. Ha. Go and see it or rent later. Maybe even own it.
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