if you read the premise of the cabin in the woods to me i would absolutely say i
have no interest in seeing that it doesn't sound good i'm not going to
bother however i have watched it quite a quite
a while ago now i think for the first time
and i was so blown away by how they took what is an overdone concept and turned
it into something incredible there won't be any spoilers here so
you're free to listen if you have not seen the film i definitely
recommend that you see the film it's well imdb is in front of me and it says
it's rated r i'm not sure if that's an 18 in the uk
or a 15. but this one was released in 2011. i saw
it a few years ago for the first time and
just fell so in love and i think the reason i wanted to give
it a chance is because the poster art and you know the
promotional material just looks so gorgeous but i just thought fine i'll
give it a go let's see what happens what's the worst that can happen well to
me nothing to the characters absolutely everything
so the description from imdb is as follows
five friends go for a break at a remote cabin where they get more than they
bargained for discovering the truth behind the cabin
in the woods yawn boring sounds traditional there are
so many films about friends young friends young attractive
just out of college or on a summer vacation friends going to a remote
location and then you know horrible things
happening to them but this one while it starts out kind of
feeling like the rest once the horror elements kick in it
quickly becomes something else the cabin is its own
entity the cabin is a character in this and it
is beautiful and it has done so well i'm not going to tell you
how the horror threats come about i will say there are jump scares
but it doesn't entirely rely on jump scares it's got a lot more kind of
intricate fear to it there are a lot more clever
well thought out moments that i personally don't think you could
predict and then the ending which i won't
don't worry i'm not going to actually say what the ending was
but when i saw the ending i was like that is not
what i expected from this film at all it's directed by drew goddard and
written by joss whedon and it's just so well executed as a narrative the way
as i said it did start out a little traditional
but very quickly we realize that this is not your traditional remote location
horror film it takes on a completely different
identity and the cabin itself as i said really
has its own person it really is epitomized
uh epitomizing the entire kind of fear of everything that's going on
and then the ending as i was about to say just
it blew me away it really blew me away and i wasn't expecting
it it is fantastic i do not want to say any more than that
i do not want to spoil it the characters the characters themselves
i i didn't really care too much for but i tend to find that that is the case for
me with horrors when you have a bunch of
people in the same place and you know they're
all going to get either picked off one by one
or you know i can't say too much but i tend to find that the characters i
never really care too much for i just i'm more about how how much will
this film scare me rather than will the characters i love
make it out okay maybe that's uh maybe that's selfish of
me but i'd rather they all suffered a
bloody death and i got scared then they all made it okay
but they're all very well acted i had no issues with the acting the characters i
thought were reasonably well developed no issues there just no standouts the
soundtrack i can't really remember the soundtrack too much but i remember we
had some really good sound effects i have no complaints with this film
whatsoever considering i thought i was going to really be bored by it and
that i thought it would be really cliche i hold my hand up and i say that i 100
could not have been more wrong cabin in the woods
is exemplary in its genre but when it comes to its sub-genre i
think it's in a league of its own very clever very spooky very well done