Playing with horror conventions deep in the woods.

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2012)

Five college friends head to the cabin in the woods for the weekend of drinking,smoking and sexual debauchery.Unbeknowst to them the evil is lurking in the boonies.Evil which is controlled by the staff of underground research lab for an enigmatic concern.The fight for survival begins as the bodies begin to pile up...Very fresh and vastly enjoyable horror flick with surprising deconstruction of horror clichés.It's filled with tongue-in-cheek humor,plenty of hysterical gore and dismemberment,backwoods redneck family of zombies,hordes of monsters,two-way mirrors and mysterious force-fields.The special effects are excellent,the acting is solid and there are obvious nods to several genre movies including "The Evil Dead","The Texas Chainsaw Massacre","Friday the 13th","Hellraiser","Ringu","The Strangers" or "Deliverance".A small addition of Lovecraftian darkness is also a nice touch.8 cabin-dwellers out of 10.