Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
9 October 1994, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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October 29, 2016
The Cabin in the Woods will get you thinking about what it means to watch a horror movie, but it's not just a mischievous exercise in post-modern cleverness, it's also a giddily funny, gulpingly scary, enormously entertaining thrill ride.October 06, 2014
In order to subvert any popular form, entertainment first has to work on its own terms. Goddard and Whedon are too busy geeking out to bother with those requirements.October 06, 2014
The setup is intriguing but the balance feels off. Goddard and Whedon overplay the winking postmodernism.September 27, 2015
Ranks among one of the most wryly self-aware works of American pop culture entertainment in years.January 04, 2013
One of the best movies of 2012 so far, in any genre.September 27, 2015
Certainly one of my favourite films of the year so far and a must-see for anyone wanting to be genuinely shocked by the places a walk in a dark, dark wood can take you.September 27, 2015
Drew Goddard, with assistance from his cohort scenarist Joss Whedon, achieves an exemplary fusion of horror, humour and science-fiction while undermining genre conventions and audience expectations alike.September 27, 2015
The target audience is clearly horror geeks with a clear knowledge of the genre and its cliches. But if you are one of those people, then you'll probably not enjoy a movie more this year.May 09, 2016
Crazy, totally, and deliriously fun.September 27, 2015
[Whedon finds] an inventive way to subvert the genre with a re-twist of the dreaded knife of horror, and a very acute Big Brother eye.October 06, 2014
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.January 04, 2013
By the time the ride is over, director Drew Goddard and co-writers Goddard and Joss Whedon will change course three or four times, nodding and winking but never losing momentum.