Coyote Cinema: Cabin in the Woods

[cyrano]

I'm gonna try to do this pretty spoiler free, but if you plan to see it soon then skip this for now. And I do recommend you see it before somebody spoils it for you.
Yes, you can tell by the cast alone that this is a Joss Whedon project, but the dialogue and the weird ass plot will also do it. It's kind of a horror movie, but it's really about the horrific things going on behind a horror movie. And I laughed a lot, although of the dozen or so people in the house I think I was the only one. There were a couple of male gaze moments that made me uncomfortable, although it's pretty much an omnipresent trope of american horror films.

This film has a great premise, and it went some places I really didn't expect. I remember at least once looking at the screen, deflating a little, and thinking "well hell, what now?" And then they said "THAT! THAT'S WHAT!" And I was wowed.

Four wags, I paid five bucks but would not have felt cheated at ten.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

The ending is one of those places I did not expect them to go. But given the premise, I'm not sure what *would* have been more satisfying, he said, carefully stepping around the spoilers. But yeah, the meta was kind of the whole movie, so I'm glad that it was done well, and with obvious fondness.