got to be future classic material

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2013)

Can't really give it a 10 but hey...
So some people won't like this much, not totally sure why unless you just purely like gore. This has a little more depth though and actually makes me happy in a "wow, that was really cool" kind of way that I don't experience much anymore, because you know what its like, you got your access to films 24/7 on the box via paid services or the normal network guys, your BBC and ITV and all the young upstarts on the block. You go to work, you know your stuff, you've got a Tesco club-card and you likely don't get that excited by many films anymore because there are only so many ways to tell the same story. You certainly know that a creepy teen slasher is exactly that...right?
Nah mate, bets are off with this total out of nowhere oh-my-god-athon.
I love some of the characterisations, the jock is there, but hey, notice at the start of the film, he's actually a nice guy as is his mate (the room swap for example). These people get manipulated into what the media normally tries to chuck at us, not normal people but what they want us to be in order to sell us rubbish and they do it sneakily.
Yeah totally this treads the same path of parody to its source as did Scream, but just like that film, it does it very well and with a tongue firmly in cheek.
The final half hour is just completely bonkers - the nightmare prison, that was the muts nuts. Not enjoyed anything quite so much since Braindead (dead-alive).
oh yeah, sorry, its a film about a cabin in the woods and 5 bods go there for the weekend, ahh you know the story....