The Cabin in the Woods is a movie that came out in 2011, got all kinds of critical attention and had a lot of people talking. Despite that, I didn't see it until last night when I found it on Netflix. Pretty much all of the rumors came to be true.
The Cabin in the Woods tells you everything you need to know right in the title. It's the classic Evil Dead inspired flick (In fact, I'm fairly certain that it's the exact same cabin). A bunch of kids go out into the woods and die. Despite how clear cut it's deceptively simple title may sound, The Cabin in the Woods is anything but your run-of-the-mill horror film.
It's hard to talk about this movie without giving it away, which is why this review is so brief. It's gotten a lot of positive rave reviews from critics and it made an insane $66.5 billion off of it's $30 million budget. What I can say is that this praise is not unfounded. The Cabin in the Woods seeks to turn the entire horror genre on it's head and takes wild turns while boasting enough dark humor to keep any twisted mind satisfied. While the movie plays on classic horror cliches, it's so incredibly different that it comes off like nothing I've ever seen before. Mandatory for any horror fan, you'll certainly never watch a horror movie the same way again.
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