The Cabin in the Woods Movie Review

The Cabin in the Woods
                                                           

The movie The Cabin in the Woods is a horror film released in 2012. Although, according to wikipedia, the film is a comedy horror one, I've failed to understand the 'comedy' part of it. I'd go with the IMDB's criteria, 'horror, mystery, thriller'. The Cabin In The Woods is directed and co-written by Drew Goddard and co-written and produced by Joss Whedon. The role of the main characters (5 friends) are played by  Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, and Jesse Williams. This movie has the use of dark humor, like what we saw in the movie Stitches. 

The Cabin In The Woods tells the story of five friends who go to a cabin in the jungle for camping without knowing about the horrific events they are going to face and about the big plot they are becoming a part of.

A scene from the movie The Cabin in The Woods

Plot:

5 college students go to a vacation trip to a forest cabin. From the beginning of the movie, some technicians are seen to be working at a control room, preparing for an event. When the students start for their trip, someone waiting at a rooftop, updates another about their journey through wireless. On the way to the cabin, the students stop at a gas station and meets a stranger who behaves with them very rudely. As they take a turn on the road, it is shown that they are entering inside an almost invisible protective border.

When they reach the cabin, they like it and very soon, one of them discover a two way mirror, showing the activities of another room. In the meantime, the technologists from the control room starts some kind of bet with their colleagues. All this time the people from the control room is observing and sometimes controlling the groups movements from there.

At the night they find the cellar filled with some strange items, including the diary of a girl. suddenly strange things starts to happen, like zombies appears and kill one of them. the zombies keep on haunting each of them and their game of survival. 

The next part of the movie is all about their fight, survival and finding the room.

My Review about The Cabin In The Woods:

First of all, I did not like the plot of The Cabin In The Woods. This is a mixture of science, ghosts and myth. And to me, they got mixed in a bad way, which doesn't make any sense. 

From the time when zombies appeared in The Cabin In The Woods, I kept on wondering where are they coming from and how come they are not dying after all those attempts. After seeing the control room with big equipments, the hidden camera etc, I was not ready to believe that they were actual zombies. And there came the ghosts. Every type of ghost you can imagine, every type of ghost you've seen or read about, all of them were there in The Cabin In The Woods. And they were locked in glass boxes. So how come you have those ghosts and still need electrical control system, lifts to carry them? How come you need cameras to see inside the cabin? Why not use magic globes to see them and use some teleporters to carry them? and about the Gods... and the very ending........ no comments.

So as I told ago, The Cabin In The Woods makes no sense to me. I know there are a lot of movies also which makes no sense (actually, most of the the movies) but still pleasant to watch, but to me, this movie is not one of them. Actually I don't understand what the producers or director was trying to do with The Cabin In The Woods. You need to have at least something you like in a movie, but here I haven't found any. 

The acting and the dialogues of The Cabin In The Woods are okay, but nothing extra ordinary. The make ups and the special effects were also good. The direction and the screenplay was good too.

For the nude scenes and the gore scenes, don't watch The Cabin In The Woods with children.

Seeing an IMDB rating of 7.2 indicates that most of the peoples' opinion about The Cabin In The Woods is opposite of mine, but here is me, writing my reviews. 

In the whole movie I've found nothing for which I may recommend The Cabin In The Woods to someone else. So I won't. 

Anyway, feel free to share your comments.

For those who are interested,

imdb link :  The Cabin In The Woods IMDB

wikipedia link : The Cabin In The Woods Wiki

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