Inventive but missing something.

Rating: 7/10 (12 October 2012)

The Cabin in the Woods... If I was looking for a weekend away this would not be on my list of places to go! However it befits the films nature, poking fun at the horror flick, and with some success.
Although the parody was successfully encaptured by the Scream franchise The Cabin in the Woods manages to spruce up the formula with an original twist and a modicum of present day insight.
The Cabin in the Woods, we soon learn, is a 'Truman Show' set watched by the masses and for what specific purpose - it is not first revealed. Goddard and Whedon have melded a horror story around the populous reality TV format and to a satirical degree probes at our human passivity to violence/death in the twenty-first century.
There are some nice moments in The Cabin in the Woods, and although it works to a degree it seems rather benign. It would be unfair to say that it lacked horror because it seeks a more comical stride, but it lacks that vital punch. Kudos where it is due The Cabin in the Woods is inventive enough to not feel like a Scream-replica but its original setup does not have the matching narrative.