Is it funny? Yes. Is it scary? No.

Rating: 7/10 (19 October 2014)

The Cabin in the Woods is a horror comedy that takes a very strange concept and manages to make it work. Judging from the trailers, one can pick up the basic premise of the movie: Several young adults going to a Cabin in the Woods that is being run by a testing facility that will try to control their decisions to play out horror movie tropes.
The interesting thing about The Cabin in the Woods is that it is surprisingly predictable. You pretty much know what's going to happen next. You can tell that certain characters that are fleshed out are going to survive and that the simplistic and "boring" characters will die. However, I will say that it is still a very entertaining movie.
The nice thing about this movie is that its premise is very outlandish and part of its humor comes from irony and the very "business" like aspects of the film. The movie literally reuses classic horror movie tropes and explains that the reason those tropes exist is because it is all run by the same organization that tries to play out specific scenarios.
It is hard to review this movie without revealing too much. The Cabin in the Woods is definitely an entertaining movie for horror movie fans and it has some clever ideas. However, the movie isn't ingenious by any means. It is simply a fun movie.