quite amusing ;-)

Rating: 7/10 (2 May 2012)

let's open up the blender and put in some of the following: - every stereotype for slasher/horror-movies we can find - a dash of Natali's Cube - a little bit of Clive Barker... including Midnight Meat Train... and the let us all hope the Joss Whedon is the one pulling the strings...
So, what about the outcome of this experiment? very enjoyable, stuffed with everything you could want to see in a horror-movie plus lots of extras... an evil unicorn? :-)
what did I miss? Surprises and the proper time to really enjoy everything... it felt like a roller coaster ride, rather than a horror movie... things happen predictably and fast. Furthermore the two parallel layers spoil each other a little too much. Think of something like the French one "martyrs". Its strength was that it felt like two different movies in one with a painful twist in the very last moment. If CabinInTheWoods would have been able to achieve something like that, it would have certainly blown me away. That's why it's for me only a 7 and not an 8.5 ;-)
I want to apologize to Drew Goddard for not being able to praise him enough for this one, since I cannot relate to his work (yet?)... maybe his connection to the total randomness in his collaborations with J.J. Abrams in the past have spoiled my image of this movie. Changing the rules of a universe to keep the audience watching AND CONFUSED is like cheating... On the other hand: CabinInTheWoods sticks to it's own rules from the first to the very last moment. Thank you for that.