So much awesome, where do I even begin?

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2019)

It's been said (by some fairly reliable and scholarly sources) that if you watch "The Shining" as a parody of the horror genre, it's an uproariously funny movie. Personally, I've never been able to lift myself out of Kubrik's stunningly horrific classic to see the humor, and I'm not sure I really want to taint the perfection I've always perceived from that masterpiece.
With "Cabin in the Woods," I can have my cake and eat it too. Not only are there plenty of great scares to appease the horror masses, not to mention enough supernatural spooks to stock your nightmares for the next several years and blood and gore galore, but the entire movie is one epic satire of everything horror. One minute you're white knuckled and trying not to pee your pants, the next you're laughing so hard that you run an even higher risk of peeing your pants.
It's a smart and funny, captivating and terrifying, and with a plot trajectory that totally blindsides you. This is always on my list of annual Halloween favorites, nestled right next to "The Shining," right where it belongs.