The Cabin in the Woods

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The Cabin in the Woods

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Released Apr 13, 2012

1h 35m

Horror

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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When five college friends (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams) arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that await them. One by one, the youths fall victim to backwoods zombies, but there is another factor at play. Two scientists (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford) are manipulating the ghoulish goings-on, but even as the body count rises, there is yet more at work than meets the eye.

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Critics Consensus

The Cabin in the Woods is an astonishing meta-feat, capable of being funny, strange, and scary -- frequently all at the same time.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

This is, I know, a self-aware film: its clichés are parodies of horror clichés generally, but to subvert a form, it should, first and foremost, work as an entertainment, and it most surely does not.

Aug 31, 2018

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Eric Kohn

IndieWire

Ranks among one of the most wryly self-aware works of American pop culture entertainment in years.

Rated: B+

Sep 27, 2015

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Bruce Diones

The New Yorker

The filmmakers are less interested in providing a slow buildup to their frights than in splattering the clichés of the form in funny, spirited ways.

Oct 6, 2014

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Don Shanahan

Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast

Too many unfulfilled angles from the heap of concept attempted.

Jan 18, 2024

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Savina Petkova

A Good Movie To Watch

It still carries the whiff of the late 2000s' misogyny in the way it portrays women and it certainly doesn't try hard enough to disrupt the genre's opposition to female sexuality.

Rated: 71

Nov 7, 2023

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Feels like a greatest hits of the best horror-comedies of the last few decades, while also injecting plenty of originality.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 24, 2023

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Audience Member

It was somehow worse than what it was mocking.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/19/25

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Tonya K

This was a great film and the twist at the end was just awesome as hell. Proving once again why Joss Whedon is a great writer

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/14/25

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Lloyd S

Mixed feelings about this one. It was a bit stupid but also funny. Not enough nudity and deaths, all those CGI monsters felt stupid.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/07/25

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Ryan P.

A topless Whoopi Goldberg should have been in this movie. That is scary and would have been 5 stars or one because then I would have had to see that and who would want to

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/29/25

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Jed I

4.0/10 — "Pretty Bad" -(Seen on 6/21/25)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/22/25

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Kris K

Has to be the best horror movie ever

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/31/25

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Synopsis

When five college friends (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams) arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that await them. One by one, the youths fall victim to backwoods zombies, but there is another factor at play. Two scientists (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford) are manipulating the ghoulish goings-on, but even as the body count rises, there is yet more at work than meets the eye.

Director: Drew Goddard
Producer: Joss Whedon
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Mutant Enemy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lions Gate Films
Rating: R (Gore|Drug Use|Strong Horror Violence|Language|Some Sexuality/Nudity|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 13, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $42.0M
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital

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