Even though I had
The Cabin in the Woods earmarked to watch this week leading into Halloween, I wasn't really looking forward to watching it. I'm not what you would could a horror fan because 99% of everything out there is just a rehash of something that was done 30 years ago. The name alone pretty much tells you what the movie is about. When you see the words '
Cabin' and '
Woods' in the title and there is a 'lake' as well, what's the one lasting image that pops into your head?
Friday The 13th. So, you can see that my enthusiasm to watch another movie about stupid kids running around the woods being chased and slaughtered wasn't all that appealing.
The only reason why I gave
The Cabin in the Woods a shot is because of
Joss Whedon. Almost everything he has had is hands in has been entertaining one way or another. And knowing
Joss, there are bound to be alumni's from past TV series making cameos here. Sure enough, we get
Amy Acker and
Fran Kranz. As for the story itself, the best way to describe this to someone is '
The Truman Show Goes To Hell'. I actually couldn't look at this movie as a 'Horror' flick because of the outside influence that is controlling the environment in the woods. Sure, there are plenty of Zombies roaming around in typical fashion of the genre, which Joss is basically making fun of. But the control room is what fascinated me the most because I kept trying to figure out the end game and who the 'Puppeteer' could be.
For me the best part of the movie is of course the 3rd Act where sh*t hits the fan and everything literally goes to hell in a hand basket. This is where the movie really takes off and gives the viewer something new....something different within this B-Movie "horror" flick. Everything that plays out in the 3rd Act is vintage
Whedon and that's a good thing. And the ending itself is definitely one that you don't typically see in any movie.....the destruction of......Well, if you haven't seen it yet, that's all I'm gonna say. Definitely worth a
Rent and one that I can easily see becoming a 'Must-watch' every year during Halloween week. Also in the cast is
Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly and
Bradley Whitford.