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

[wildpaletz.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the ending.

There's two big plot holes, but not enough for me to enjoy the movie less.

However, folks who don't ordinarily watch horror movies (like me) should be warned that it IS a horror movie. It probably has more comedy than a normal one, and is more clever than your average one, but it still is a horror movie with all the death and gore and pain that entails.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should probably have been more explicit about that, and in fact much of my enjoyment comes from familiarity with horror movies and their memes and how the crew tinkered with them.

[wildpaletz.livejournal.com]

It's cool. I probably would have seen it anyway (I think I saw it around when you did) even if someone had warned me, but with all the focus on its uniqueness, sometimes reviewers have left out that important fact :)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And I've been heads-down in this project for a couple of years, so I'm all "Of *course* it's a horror film!" Because I get like that and make assumptions. (:

[reluctantgenius.livejournal.com]

I usually find this kind of thing quite icky, but the frame kept it from being quite so, um, visceral, for me and I kind of enjoyed it.