Blood, mayhem, and plot twists as shocking as its imagery explode
across the screen in The Cabin in the Woods (2011), a horror film that
manages to be complex and thought-provoking even as it gushes at the
seams with gore, pain, and hideous death. Joss Whedon and his fellow
director wanted to satirize the horror genre and restore it from a
slough of pointless torture porn, and largely succeeded.
The
opening shot of the movie shows two professional men talking about
which "facility" is most likely to "succeed", with the Japanese likely
coming in first and the Americans second, with no further details given.
The film then continues as an apparently "ordinary" horror flick, with
five teenagers heading off for a weekend at a remote woodland cabin. The
party consists of two girls and three boys, one of whom, Marty, appears
on the scene smoking marijuana (which is important to the plot later).
The
action cuts back and forth between the teenagers and the facility as
the film develops. The workers at the facility reveal that the teenagers
have been drugged by various means, without offering more details. The
teen vacationers encounter a stock character "redneck gas station
attendant" who warns/threatens them with their impending fate. They
drive on nevertheless and start a game of "truth or dare" at the cabin,
while the facility workers watch with great interest.
One of the
girls triggers the release of a family of "redneck zombies" by reading
the Latin inscription from a diary in the basement, though they do not
realize this immediately. The teenagers also start acting oddly and very
lustfully, with exception of the pot-smoking Marty, who remains his
usual self. The zombies attack one couple as they start to have sex in
the woods, and after one teen is killed, the others try to escape.
However, they are blocked by obviously high-tech means - explosives
collapsing a road tunnel, a force field, and so on.
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