Standard slasher horror with a twist!

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2012)

I started out watching the film believing it would be a standard slasher horror film but I was surprised and didn't expect the sudden twist at the end. The film starts out with 5 students going to an "uncles" cabin for a fun weekend. But through clever foreshadowing we can see that it isn't the case. The man at the gas station warns them as well as them seeing various signs in the basement of the cabin that something was going to happen.
As they start to slowly get picked off 1 by 1 I thought it was just going to be a boring cliché horror film but when the two characters descend into the grave and discover the lifts full of "nightmare creatures" it put me on the edge of my seat! When they got released from the lifts it was great, so much action and interesting monsters it really flipped my perspective on the film upside down. I was really entertained by the use of a unicorn and how the scientist who wanted to see the merman so badly got killed by it! I thought the twist with the explanation of the gods to be rather far-fetched but hey it made a great film! Overall I think The Cabin In The Woods was definitely worth watching, it may have seemed boring at first but it really becomes interesting as it progresses into the later stages of the film.