Mediocre and lacking

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2012)

What went trough my head at the end of the movie.
To bad they spent so much of the time portraying a standard slasher and had to rush trough the "good" part.
It's like someone came up with the idea for this movie and in one sentence told the studio what to make.
Because they rushed trough the end nothing got explained. Evil giant gods living inside the earth. Being satisfied with some rituals that keep them down. These "gods" must be huge couch potatoes watching TV (the rituals) and the idea is to just keep entertaining them so that they never get motivated to get up and do something else which would be destroying their own property for some reason?
If you have any idea how huge the universe is, it also makes no sense. On a universal scale the earth wouldn't even be as big as a single cell organism is to us. Putting gods inside something smaller than a bacteria is just nonsense.
Who created humanity? These same gods? Why did they let themselves be kept down there by some rituals? And why was that necessary in the first place? Or in other words, what was the point of humanity? Destroying humanity, and then what? The same deal with another species?
Was there a forcefield around the cabin in the woods? Or was it an invisible wall? Would seem to me that a forcefield would not consist of honeycomb segments as was the case. Where did they get this technology from everything else looks like regular tech except for maybe the monster cube structure.
Where is the sci-fi the trailer promised (except for the forcefield)? Never really a good idea to mix 'science (fiction)' and 'fantasy/magic'. Don't slap a sci-fi sticker on it if you don't even know the difference between a galaxy and the universe.
Seeing all those monsters in the cubes reminded me a lot of the door factory in monsters inc.
Still it was a somewhat decent movie. Now that I'm thinking about it: the biggest problem this movie had that they couldn't decide on the genre. It's not scary, it's not funny, it's not serious, it's not deep, it's not light. It's an 'in betweens' mess. But at least they tried something newish.