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      The Cabin in the Woods

      R Released Apr 13, 2012 1 hr. 35 min. Horror Comedy Mystery & Thriller List
      92% 294 Reviews Tomatometer 74% 100,000+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered May 07 Buy Now

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      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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      Aidan B The ending was a bit over the top, but overall "The Cabin in the Woods" is a fairly enjoyable film that offers plenty of scares. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/22/24 Full Review Audience Member Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard collaborate to offer a familiar but modern spin on the average horror film This turns over so many of the familiar tropes with all kinds of glee The story focuses on a shady company involving many employees then we cut to a group of typical teenage stereotypes from the jock to the stoner to the virgin to the nerd to the loose girl They embark on a familiar scenario going to an abandoned cabin in the woods and unleash a supernatural evil killing them off But in secret they are part of a ritual sacrifice being offered to spare humanity being destroyed Once they find out the inter workings of the reason they're there they try to change things Still one of my favorite films of 2012 This has an amazing cast; Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, and Amy Acker Got amazing reviews but got lost in the shuffle box office wise It's got that same setup combing both horror and comedy since 'Scream' going over the usual tropes in the genre from the stereotypical characters to general scenarios and even being heavily influenced by the 'Hunger Games' providing entertainment and bloodshed as a voyeuristic game of control I loved how this movie manages to pull the rug from underneath and turning everything in on itself particularly the last half which is my favorite part and gets so crazy That cameo by I was so surprised as well It's clever, funny, and challenges filmmakers to think outside their creativity Quite the meta-feat blending so many things together and works as a cool love letter to many horror movies This should get more attention Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/14/24 Full Review Ash P I do see why everyone loves this and at the same time, not spoil ANYTHING at all with this movie. For a movie that feels mostly behind-the-scenes with almost every horror cliche that you see in any other horror film but made into a well-written parody with every actor having a damn good time, I say I had a good time watching his movie from start to finish. 9/10. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/04/24 Full Review Alyssa L The 92% critic score was very misleading. This was an average teenage scary movie/comedy with a Hunger Games twist. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/24 Full Review Leandro T This movie was very out of control. I loved it and it was just crazy Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/28/24 Full Review DAVID H What an awful film. That was so basic. The first half was a terrible rip-off of Evil Dead and to a lesser extent, Friday The 13th. The second half was stupid. Those "actors" involved with this trainwreck either were desperate or did not read the script, and that is if it ever had one. I think it goes lost. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/23/24 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review Bruce Diones 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 Full Review Don Shanahan Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast Too many unfulfilled angles from the heap of concept attempted. Jan 18, 2024 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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
      Executive Producer
      Jason Clark
      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
      Sound Mix
      Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital
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