"You think you know the story"

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2012)

Horror films - Clichéd, stupid, poorly-acted, teenage-produced, campy, torture porn, lame twist, and contrived.
This is what I passed this film of as, because every film nowadays has never done anything new. But who could go wrong with a film written by Josh Whedon? I took my chances and went, totally oblivious of what I was getting myself into... The Cabin in the Woods takes all the modernized clichés of these overdone films and presents them just as they are. We have stereotypical characters, the clichéd plot devices, and even the setting of the cabin in the woods. The movie uses these, yes, but then shreds the clichés all to pieces. It's going to be hard doing a review for this film, because everything about it is a twist. Even the beginning twists the story into something new, and it was just simply brilliant... The acting was surprisingly pretty good. It was sometimes hard to rate the teenager's acting because they were trying to be so clichéd and stereotypical as possible as any other teenager in any other horror film, so in that case they did wonderful. I loved the "behind- the-scenes" look and the duo of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. They added wit and something newer to the film... That reminds me, the movie is hilarious. The movie combines comedy + horror as good as Shaun of the Dead did, but better. Believe it or not, the film is a satirical comedy envisioned the truth behind these horror films, and it works brilliantly. I found the stoner good as comic relief, but honestly I thought they did too much with him... The plot. This was the best part. The movie did not just create a good horror, it broke the bar and created an underlying message about the truth of horror films. It was insanely cleverly done, and it was possibly the most entertaining and smart film this year. I really don't want to spoil the twist, but let me just say it is the best twist I could ever think of, and it was also really true...
Should you see it? The movie is way better than I thought it would be, and it deserves it critical praise. If your expecting what I thought the film would turn out to be, then you'll surely find it unbelievable. And horror fans will be treated to the greatest new twist of the genre, and it surely shatters it to pieces. The movie was one of the best of the year, and it proves horror films need to be digested by our society, or else the world will end. Oops. 10/10.