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]

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.