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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
eta: cabin in the woods? i might get cabin in the woods
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Cabin in the Woods is legitimately brilliant. I know you like Joss Whedon's Avengers, and I think you like Joss Whedon in general (?), but Cabin is a MUCH smarter and more interesting movie. It's, like, "real" Whedon, without the intervention of massive publishers and film studios. It's Whedon's story.
I went into it expecting to see a pretty good, but fairly straight-forward horror film, and ohmagod it's totally not that.
You might think it is, up to about the 30 minute mark, but then shit gets seriously cray-cray. And seriously stupid. Ad genuinely hilarious. And perhaps more amazing than anything else, pretty goddamn scary.
The premise is a little bit Evil Dead, a little bit Monster Squad, a little bit The Office (or Parks and Rec or whatever your poison is), plus a fair amount of Lovercraft > All mythology that made it extra special for me.
Cabin and Serenity are my favorite Whedon films. I strongly recommend it, but only if you see it through. It might feel like an Evil Dead meets Scary Movie kind of thing for the first bit, but push through.
incredibly sayisfying. Whedon is clearly a true film nerd, and he pulls from some obscure places as well as some very obvious ones.
Might be the best "horror" movie of the decade, really.