Damn fine idea

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2013)

Just when you thought horror script writers had run out of ideas along comes The cabin the woods. While borrowing plots and characters from other horrors (Jock, Tart, Geek, Virgin, party dude) and playing out familiar scenarios it's just a splendid notion that all this could be controlled from an laboratory/office environment.To then have the office staff bet on the victims likely killers genre (zombies,werewolf,unicorn!,, etc) again, superb. There's a good sprinkling of humour throughout the movie, and the killings are suitably gross. When things go belly up at the office late in the film, and the large stock of baddies run riot. This scene is a must see. I don't consider myself a big horror fan, but I do consider myself a fan of this. Switch of the lights, ramp up the volume,and enjoy.