THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

Rating: 9/10 (3 September 2019)

"THE CABIN IN THE WOODS" (2012, Goddard) satirises the horror industry by portraying studio executives as soulless, by-the-book engineers of predictable horror cliches. They have the means to do anything imaginable and yet they stick with the tried and true and only dream of something more imaginative.
The things that capture our imaginations are literally boxed up. Giant killer animals, mutants and freaks and demons, are all bewilderingly held back by the industry despite their popularity.
The same old cliched characters are wheeled out religiously, only this set manage to hear the cries of despair from desperate audience members and realise they're in a plastic storyline, being killed off wholesale, their personalities unrealistic and transparent.
The monsters eventually escape and flood the cold, stale, boring industry with its own blood and eventually everything is destroyed. Time for change?
Very good.