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Cabin in The Woods - April 13th - Best horror film in years?
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Oh dear lord.
spot on
TheKaeptain
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This that shit I don't like. Scream 4 did the cliche/deconstruction thing better.
I like this film despite already knowing the premise beforehand (thanks to IMDB spoiler that I read long ago before the movie was even shot). I'm mostly fascinated with the last half or so hour of the film. Makes me wish there's a prequel or something showing how it all came together. Is it too early to post gifs related to this film? Would it be considered spoiler?
Anyway, the Steelbook is so mine:
Anyway, the Steelbook is so mine:
DarkLordMalik
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Kristen Connolly was hot. Definitely my favorite horror movie of this year. I have re-watched it a couple of times and it never gets old.
Same here, the idea of showing how they subdued the old gods and captured all the creatures is far more interesting to me.
It's a tenuous metaphor that barely survives in the film itself. I can't imagine the messy shambles that'll ensue if they tried to expand on it.
A glorious shambles it will be, besides, I hold that rather than a metaphor Whedon was just using the budget to remake Buffy Season 4's finale the way he wanted it to look.
I've never seen Buffy, does this movie make more sense if you're familiar with this dude's work? I've only seen Alien: Resurrection, which is horrible, and that Sing-Along-Blog, which is all right.
I wouldn't go as far to say it makes more sense, but (as I have mentioned earlier in the thread) the parrallels to Season 4 of Buffy are pretty obvious if you have seen it:
- Govt underground lab
- Govt conspiracy to "deal" with evil
- Capturing different types of monsters for experiments (in this case, make supersolidiers)
- Season ends when the "monsters" get loose, you only glimpse it and the budget is far lower but the scene is pretty much the same in theme (soldiers being killed by demons, pretty sure you see a giant tentacle at one point).
The whole "Hell Mouth" thing is similar, the idea of old "pure" demons who once lived here destroying the earth.
Some things my buddy said about the movie were pretty interesting. Basically all the conversations about "why don't they just shoot them" and "there needs to be a transgression" and so on, are a horror movie writer's meeting. While its pretty clear that all the scientists n stuff are designing how the cabin works and so on, a lot of their dialogue is 100% from the perspective of a script writer, so its interesting for anyone who wants to know what goes through a writer's head or is writing their own horror movie. That's basically why its a great movie imo, they have reasons for hitting all the tropes and have characters who are constantly questioning why things are done the way they're done, both in the lab and in the cabin.
faceless007
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well the witch, boomer and tank make sense now.
this may be just me,
but i dont think they were captured, but created by the people working there. i assume that they keep these monsters locked until they need to be used, and with human monsters like the dolls and the klan, i dont see how they could just be kept there without making a stink, and not being fed or defecating all over the place. it would make sense for them to be artificial than real. that, and some are straight from video games of apocalyptice scenarios or the future, so that would be a bit impossible when it comes to capture.
Aw man this needs to still happen. Would of loved this.
Revolutionary
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Holy shit @ the L4D2 Cabin in the Woods DLC
Damn you, MGM!
Damn you, MGM!
Came here to post this. That would have been great.
Incendiary
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I want this so bad now. That would have been amazing.
Good Job Bob
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Dr. Feel Good
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Just saw it. What the fuck did I just watch.
Literally went in thinking it was going to be like the movie with Sean from Boy Meets World and ended up with a fucked up version of the Truman Show.
Not that I'm complaining.
Literally went in thinking it was going to be like the movie with Sean from Boy Meets World and ended up with a fucked up version of the Truman Show.
Not that I'm complaining.
Laughing Banana
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Why would anyone who
That's the most WTF part of the movie that bugged me the most :\
build a massive structure to house horde of nightmare creatures would even build the PURGE button that open all of their cages, allowing them to rampage free, and moreover put it in a room with NO SECURITY whatsoever, in the middle of nowhere, with NO supervision? Why not put such a button, if its really necessary which I think is don't, at the Director's room? At the very least put some sort of Keycard Identification Machine on the door for crying out loud!
That's the most WTF part of the movie that bugged me the most :\
You expected cabin fever?
Laughing banana,
there was a guard, he was killed by marty and dana. However, open elevators that empty into the facility, and having all those creatures with no sort of backup plan for such an occasion other than a saferoom(although I understand it plotwise) is nonsensical
Dr. Feel Good
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I figured kids in cabin, in middle of no where, and cliche story but pulled off right somehow. Literally came IMO this movie blind and was mind fucked at the story.
Laughing Banana
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Oh right.
Still, it doesn't explain my complain about
the necessity of a single button that literally opens all the cage of those nightmarish creature in the first place. And why such button is guarded by just a random security guard and not placed in example in the Director's room or even the control room?
TheChewyWaffles
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It's so we can have the last 15 minutes of the film!
The corridor is a deus ex machina.
there's no common sense for it to be placed the way it is. There are cameras watching each of th elevator doors, and a switch to activate each elevator. it makes me think there was an attack on the facility before, and that's the reason for the purge button. Although, like you said, why the button in right next to the doors(when the monsters will kill whoever presses the button) is beyond me.
adamsappel
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I thought this was another horror movie trope they were satirizing.
Here are two shots with Boomer, Tank and Witch visible among other monsters:
http://imgur.com/a/bnEfr
http://imgur.com/a/bnEfr
The Giant
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Cool.
Saw it last night and it was great movie, I really liked the whole modern day sacrifice idea. Horror elements were rather poor and first half of the movie wasn't all that interesting, there was little to non suspense. Soon as we got into later half the movie really turns great.
Just saw this the day before. Went in blind with a bit of a scowl, but felt like I needed to try it for the hell of it, and GAF's interest in it made me slightly intrigued.
Came out loving it. And far better and greater satire on horror movie tropes than Scream ever was or wanted to be. Showed it to my wife last night and she loved it. Granted, she's a fan of most everything Mutant Enemy, but still, she's not a horror fan.
Its not really much of a horror movie, and I found it not scary almost at all, but damn if I didn't find it funny and entertaining. Loved the callouts to L4D (saw the Boomer, missed the Witch and Tank) and all the other monster designs. I think I also liked it because you could have played this movie completely straight and still had a decent movie, but I agree that playing it as satire (smart satire) makes it far better.
Came out loving it. And far better and greater satire on horror movie tropes than Scream ever was or wanted to be. Showed it to my wife last night and she loved it. Granted, she's a fan of most everything Mutant Enemy, but still, she's not a horror fan.
Its not really much of a horror movie, and I found it not scary almost at all, but damn if I didn't find it funny and entertaining. Loved the callouts to L4D (saw the Boomer, missed the Witch and Tank) and all the other monster designs. I think I also liked it because you could have played this movie completely straight and still had a decent movie, but I agree that playing it as satire (smart satire) makes it far better.
zephervack
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Mind blown
outunderthestars
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just finished watching it, and have a question:
Who is sabotaging the crews' efforts?
Who is sabotaging the crews' efforts?
WordAssassin
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The pothead Marty, but not on purpose (initially)
outunderthestars
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But someone was able to alter the systems so the tunnel wouldn't explode as well, and someone altered the chemicals in his pot, etc...
It seemed like someone with a great deal of power was actively trying to ensure failure..
I think the tunnel was a legit mechanical malfunction, and they eventually realized that
he wasn't smoking the dosed pot, he was smoking a stash they hadn't found when they were drugging his drugs. Being regular-stoned was making him immune to their suggestion techniques
The Killbot. Gets a lot of screen time actually. Has two scenes and is recognisable by the fireworks-sounding buzzsaws.
Marty's tampering "upstairs" caused the demolition failure. The Writer finding out about this is the leadup to the realisation that he wasn't killed. And they state about as clearly as possible that they missed one of his stashes.
The wiki of this movie sugests that the :
Shell : Merman
Dress : Bride (only seen on the board)
Film : Werewolf
Cube : Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain
Music Box : Ballerina
Notebook : The Buckner Family
Dress : Bride (only seen on the board)
Film : Werewolf
Cube : Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain
Music Box : Ballerina
Notebook : The Buckner Family
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