For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Night 16 prompt is Everybody Dies.We watched the movie The Cabin in the Woods on Peacock.
Storyline
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. However, there’s far more going on than meets the eye.
Our Thoughts on The Cabin in the Woods
This was awful. I cant belive I watched this hot garbage and especially on the dumpster fire of Peacock. What a lame streaming platform.
Two stars because I did finish it (regrettably). I understood “the point” loud and clear, but to regard this film as some kind of intricate, genre-straddling masterpiece of cinematic renaissance is insulting on so many levels. The Cabin In The Woods is pure convoluted junk. It’s as if they couldn’t come up with one good solid plot with which to drive the movie. So they utilize a caterwaul of plots which are half-baked and mostly stolen. Worse yet, the subplots that they actually came up with on their own reach a level of cheesiness that surpasses all but the guiltiest of cheesy 80’s horror. Aside from the story, the script is fundamentally generic and blatantly melodramatic. The special effects look great, but everything else about this film is a God-awful mess
2 out of 10 stars
Trivia
The thermal coffee mug/bong was a fully functional mug and bong as portrayed in the film, the prototype of which cost $5000 to make.
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard wrote the script in just 3 days.
The failed rituals from other countries are references to various classic movies and monsters. The Kyoto ritual is a reference to Ringu (The Ring). Buenos Aires ritual is a reference to King Kong. The Stockholm ritual is a reference to John Carpenter’s The Thing. The Madrid ritual appears to reference Dracula.
