I mean...

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2020)

I waited forever to see this. I won't pay extra for movies. I have to wait until they become available on my subscription services of which I already pay a monthly fee. Finally this became available on HULU and I was so excited. Started watching it immediately. I was getting into it thinking it was gonna be so epic and then it turned into the unexpected which could have been ok BUT I didn't like the campiness of it. It had potential to be really scary if they could've found a way to keep it serious.
Basically this movie is about the "gods" ruling the world. They have to be appeased in order for the world to be saved. The way they accomplish this is...5 people ("whore"; "jock"; "scholar"; "stoner/loser" and "virgin") get lured somehow to a cabin in the woods where their every move is influenced by a control group underground below the cabin. These unsuspecting people come to their grisly end depending on what items they pick up/"choose" from the basement of the cabin. There is a corresponding monster to each item in the basement and there are endless horrors to pick from. All the monsters come from every horror film/legend/fairytale etc...you can imagine. Ghosts, werewolves, merman, zombies, dragons, people who set fires, killer clowns...and they are really hard to kill. The victims can't just be killed...the gods require lots of gore and suffering to be part of the kill or they won't be appeased. Oh and Sigourney Weaver shows up for 5 minutes at the end and is completely wooden the whole time. What was she thinking doing this?! Must've wanted to remodel her house and thought this would be an easy payday.
A few things...how did they get to the cabin in the first place? I was thinking Chris Hemsworth must've been in on it but then he died so was there really a cousin? Did this organization somehow put it into their minds that they had to drive to a random cabin and CH just thought it was his cousin's? If so then essentially there would be no free will. The control room made it out that these people had free will but not really if they were pushed/heavily influenced to go to the cabin in the first place.
Also something stuck out to me as really unrealistic. When the "virgin" character is getting beat up on the dock by the large zombie-she should've died from her injuries the way he was throwing her into the posts etc...in fact she's crawling away from him and looks weak as heck BUT when the "stoner" saves her she gets up and runs off and is able to fight off people until the end. Then she gets attacked by a werewolf and still manages to sit up and be ok. Look I can get into things as long as there's an element of being somewhat realistic BUT when things are that over the top I just can't with that.
This isn't the worst but I have to say I was pretty disappointed at the end. If you go into this thinking it's gonna be your typical horror film you will be thrown for a loop. This isn't scary. It's dark humor and really goes off the rails towards the end.