Mini Review #4

Cabin in the Woods (2012)

I thought that this movie was terrible. The Cabin In The Woods starts off as, what seemed to be a horror comedy - the cliché college students (a jock, a blonde girl, a stoner, a nerd and a virgin) meet up to spend the weekend in a cabin together. 'Fair enough', I thought. But that thought didn't last long. Here is a list of things that bugged me about this film:

1) The acting ranged from bad right down to laughable.

2) The characters were annoying and two dimensional. I could not wait for them to be killed and was actually rooting for the zombie family, which had more of a background story than any of the main characters.

3) The big red button that releases every monster. WHY WOULD YOU INVENT THIS BUTTON?! In what possible scenario would you need this button?! The mere existence of this button was the best plot twist in the movie.

4) During the entire time of me watching this movie, I was not sure whether the movie was parodying the horror genre or actually wanted to be taken seriously. Either way it failed.

Even though it is a terrible movie it still has quite a few references in it that go with other horror movies and is ultimately making fun of them as a whole.

Monsters in Cabin in the Woods

• Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain
• The Ancient Ones
• Killer Clown!
• Vine-Covered Bull Demon
• The Kraken
• The Blob
• The Doctors
• Angry Molesting Tree
• Snowman
• Toxic Mutants!
• The Mummy
• Merman
• Giant Snake
• Giant Tarantula
• Kinda King Kong
• The Twins
• The Yeti
• Dragonbat
• Plantopus
• Jack O’Lantern
• Sugarplum Fairy
• Unicorn
• The Ku Klux Klan
• Zombie Redneck Torture Family
• Werewolf
• Dolls
• Samara II
• The Huron
• Dismemberment Goblins

To see what movies these monsters are from click here