The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Directed by Drew Goddard
Starring Kristen Connolly and Chris Hemsworth
Five young friends decide to spend the weekend in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. However things don’t go as planned for anyone concerned.
The film was originally shot in 2009 but there were issues with the film studio so the film didn’t get released until 2012. If you have seen the trailer then you know what you are sort of getting. It appears to be just another Evil Dead style film, in fact pretty much exactly the same: Kids in a cabin, in the woods, being attacked by something supernatural. You think you know the story. However, then the sci-fi twist comes in. Why are there people watching them in what looks like a futuristic building? Is that a star trek-esque shield that is around the area?
The main plot to the story, once you find out, is pretty cool and a great fan boy kind of idea. There will be a point during the film where you have one single thought and I ask you to hold on to your hats because it will happen. It is pretty clever that they try there hardest to be as clichéd as possible. Five characters; 1 jock, 1 slut, 1 brainy person, 1 druggy and 1 virgin. You think you have seen this before. You haven’t.
There is a fair bit of blood and killing in the film. So if you are not a fan of that i would stay away. Any fans of Evil Dead and sci-fi this is definitely for you. Do not expect this film to win any awards but for what it offers you, you will love it.
Film Fact
Joss Whedon co-wrote the film along with director Drew Goddard. He can next be seen Directing Avengers Assemble
thefriedgold 
Pure frickin’ genius. Hard to say anything about this film without major SPOILERs so be warned before reading anything about it.
This film does for what I will call the ‘Supernatural Teen Horror Slasher’ genre what Scream did for the ‘Psycopath Teen Horror Slasher’ genre – it is full of self-awareness and examines all of the staples we have come to associate with movies such as Evil Dead, Hellraiser etc, and gives us reasons why, for example, the characters in these films always act so naively (“We should split up and search the area!”).
But what I’m actually most impressed about from this movie is that they marketed it as a straight up horror slasher – they kept out of all the trailers anything from the ‘other side’ of the film (even though I said spoilers I just cant bring myself to say more than that!).
I had no idea when I went in there what I was in for, so much so that during the opening scene I wasn’t sure I had walked into the right theatre screen.
Great fun, very clever, sharp dialogue and plenty of gore. What more could you want?
…Okay, maybe if you’re going in there to have the shit scared out of you, you may be dissapointed – it is not scary, but that’s not what it’s trying to do.