I never got to see The Cabin in the Woods in theaters.
It was one I had plans to see and never got to. I am a horror movie
fan, and I had heard it was a movie that changed up the formula a bit. I
had no idea that it mixed the formula up so much that
it literary combined every horror cliché and spits it right back in
your face.
The horror genre has a bad habit of going stale and running
formulas into the ground. They are similar to a drug. The
fans always come back looking to relive that first scare and adrenalin rush.
It is hard to do that now because so many boundaries have been broken
when it comes to horror films. We are use to the goriest and most
shocking images. It is refreshing to see Goddard taking a
different approach to the genre. He is making the movie itself over
saturated with monsters, and just a general overload of everything
horror. It is a perfect representation of how the genre has
become over saturated.
You can compare the organization pulling all the strings to
the government if you wanted to. They control the fate of the
group of teenagers similar to how the government does ours.
They answer to some shadowy figure, and I feel that is easily comparable
to the US government. The shadowy figure could be symbolism
for corporate control. The organization makes
"sacrifices" of teenagers in order to keep the "Ancient
Ones" at bay. They do what they must for the great good of mankind
in their eyes. Our own government does the same
thing in war. What do you call collateral damage?
Either way, it was a fun movie with a lot of layers; it takes you on more
of a comedy/sci-fi ride then a scary one.
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