The Cabin in the Woods (8/10)

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2015)

Cabin in the Woods takes your typical campy horror plot, a bunch of kids, on a weekend getaway, to a remote cabin and flips everything you know about that, upside down. Joss Whedon and Drew Goodard wrote an incredibly creative horror script, well not according to Peter Gallagher, but in terms of the onslaught of prequels, sequels, and remakes, it does. The cast for this movie was near perfect. Richard Jenkins's and Bradley Whitford's characters were hilarious, yet ruthless. The five youthful campers are headlined by Kristen Connolly and Chris Hemsworth, a couple big catches, since some might consider these risky roles. Once the movie's plot turns away from its "Evil Dead" type feel, into its whacky rabbit hole, the movie starts to get extremely interesting. Horror generalizations, elements, monsters, one liner's and themes are poured into this zany film. Is Cabin in the Woods ridiculous, yes, is it absurd and deranged, yes. Is it also a fun thrilling ride completely original to anything recently, most definitely! There are a few questionable eye rolling moments but overall it's a great watch, perhaps one of the top films of the twenty-tens decade.