Cabin In The Woods review

By the looks of the first trailer released for the genre melding frightener The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon and director Drew Goddard have had a whale of a time putting together a film that subverts every horror cliché imaginable.

This film tells the tale of a bunch of young professionals taking a booze fuelled weekend getaway in a isolated cabin in the country. This cabin invariably turns out to be a helluva lot scarier that they had bargained for. Our young protagonists have a typically blasé approach to the location and from them to the menacing local at the run down rest stop we have all the points of a traditional scary movie all present and correct.

Things do, however, take a bizarre turn, and this becomes evident when a bird flies into a force field. This is the point when when Whedon’s script turns off the beaten track, and our luckless trippers seemingly become pawns in relentless game concocted by unseen antagonists.

Despite this digression, there are many traditional horror film elements that have been thrown in for good measure. The appearance of the cabin, for example, is clearly a homage to The Evil Dead, from the windows that look like eyes to the animal heads that are mounted on the walls within.