A Dour Cliché Breaking Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2019)

22 February 2016. A very dark and genre breaking horror/sci fi fusion movie. From Buffy: The Vampire Slayer fame, Josh Whedon, comes this cliché aversion thriller that begins as a college prat party and transforms into a hard science fiction movie devolving into a horror drenched movie into a fusion of sci-fi and horror without the redeeming values of Buffy. The script and plot seem to have been patched together in rather sterile hotel rooms where the creators were allowed to go wild and break the traditional story lines of sci fi and horror. The end result is surprising, twisting, and is swallowed whole like Planet of the Apes (1968).
Cabin has fewer elements from Buffy than it's an adult version of Cube Zero (2004) along with the horror elements borrowed from Thir13teen Ghosts (2001) and Cell (2000). Overall, it's a fun but creepy and rather dour film experience. For perhaps an even more elevated sci-fi, horror experience check out:
THX-1138 (1971) Brazil (1985) Silent Hill (2006) 1408 (2007) Black Death (2010) The Awakening (2010) The Host (2013)