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The Cabin in the Woods

2011

Drew Goddard

Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, Richard Jenkins ...

6.1

34,771

Horror. Sci-Fi. Fantasy Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics and curios but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a book she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers. There's far more going on however than ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Not since Scream has a horror movie subverted the expectations that accompany the genre to such wicked effect as 'The Cabin in the Woods'"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'The Cabin in the Woods' does have some genuine scares, but they're not really the point. This is like a final exam for fanboys (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Can you laugh and shriek at the same time? Yeah, baby. Scream proved that back in 1996. But Cabin goes deeper (...) Every cliché Cabin pitches is likely to come back and bite you in the ass (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"However smart and sophisticated this film is, it may disappoint those who, in their hearts, would still like to be genuinely scared (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"The laughs come easily, the screams not so much. It's as if the filmmakers got so wrapped up in the satire they forgot to include the intense sensation of rising dread that creates all the thrills and chills that are part of the attraction"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Whedon and Goddard bake their cake and eat it too. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Novelty and genre traditionalism often fight to a draw (...) And despite the evident ingenuity and strenuous labor that went into it, 'The Cabin in the Woods' does not quite work."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Effects work is slick (...) It's just too bad the movie is never much more than a hollow exercise in self-reflexive cleverness that's not nearly as ingenious as it seems to think."

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