(aka
Geek-gasm!: The Motion Picture.)
Release Date: In theaters now.
Written by: Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard.
Directed by: Drew Goddard.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.
Here there be no spoilers.
There's honestly not a lot we can say about this movie without ruining the experience for you, so we are going to keep plot discussion to a minimum.
Cabin is such a good, fun, and unique movie, that spoiling it is almost a sin; even certain single words would spoil the fun, and that would really suck. Aside from the first trailer, we avoided all info on Cabin, and that's a near impossible for us. We're glad we did though. Really glad. The trailers give a lot away, including a lot of the characters deaths... just avoid them.
Here's what we will say:
Cabin in the Woods is the story of 5 college students that head to a cabin deep in the woods for some partying, and things go terribly wrong. Sounds familiar, right? Well it's not... and that's all you need to know. Trust us, just go see the movie and let it unfold.
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| The Puppeteers. |
It's hard to find a horror movie these days (especially in a theater, mind you) that inspires so much excitement and fun.
Cabin in the Woods is to the 2010's what
Scream was to the 90's, though
Cabin was far less tongue in cheek about things. It's definitely got tons of humor, which works well, but the movie itself operates on a darker level.
There are tons of nods to other movies and myth's that
fan-boys everywhere will love. Again we can't really spoil it, but it's like a crazy melting pot full of horror, sci-fi and fantasy, with a liberal dose of "breaking the 4th wall" thrown in for good measure. There's even an appearance by an all-time genre great thrown into the mix (avoid reading the cast list on to
IMDB, because it was a fun surprise.)
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| Those crazy kids! |
The script and its story were superb, and had our minds racing to imagine the scope of it all.
Joss Whedon definitely knows how to make we movie geeks froth at the mouth, and we cant wait to see what he did with
The Avengers.
Drew Goddard is no slouch either; the long time
Whedon collaborator delivers the goods with his first directorial effort, and he's going to go on to do more great things, we just know it. They've given us one of the best conceptualized and most sharply written movies of this decade, and there's no end to the praise they deserve for this little genre gem.
Let's take a second to talk about the cast; everyone involved did a great job, but for us it was
Bradley Whitford and
Richard Jenkins that stole the show.We're long time fans of
Whitford's since his
West Wing days, and he really delivers some of the movies best (and funniest) lines.
Jenkins is one of the best character actors ever, and he delivers the comic goods too, though a bit more dryly that
Whitford. Everyone here was aces.
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| Boner in the woods. |
It ended. We wanted more, more, more, but we were robbed! We are seriously hoping that when it hits
Blu-ray that it's loaded with tons of special features and deleted scenes, because we'll eat them up like people who are real, real hungry! Seriously, we really wish it had run for about 2 hours; the "big" scene near the end could have been 30 minutes by itself and we would have loved it. Also, we need more of
Fornicus... maybe lets give him his own movie, right
Joss?
Drew? Whoever! Just make it happen.
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| The Strangers? |
Stabbing, decapitation, impaling, bear traps, vomiting, bleeding, blood spraying, blood smearing, dismembered corpses, zombie gut-munching, gun violence, and one scene of awesomeness that we won't spoil, that happens during a bigger scene which we wont ruin either, that involves a... horn. That's all you get. There's blood and gore everywhere in this one. It's bloody heaven.
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| Ooh, a zombie movie... but not. |
We actually get to see some titties! There's also some sexy dancing and general whoring by the blond chick, but nothing too crazy. One scene involving said whorish blond kissing a wolfs head was... oddly hot. It made us feel creepy and ashamed. And hot.
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| She is a bad, bad girl. |
"More than anything, I just want this moment to end."
"Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck You!"
All of the crazy mayhem at the end.
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| The A-Team. |
A+ (5 of 5 Pleased Masters) I know this review makes it sound like we're fellating this movie, and maybe we are, but it was way too good and far too much fun to be coy about it. As genre fans, you owe it to yourself, and the filmmakers, to go to the theater and experience this movie. It's the kind that doesn't come around too often, and deserves our love.
Cabin in the Woods is destined to land at the top of many a "best of" list come the end of the year. It's already at the top of ours. For now.
Joss Whedon sure knows how to fill his movies with hot chicks, and that's the truth!Now if only he got
Scarlett to go topless in
The Avengers...
