Simply the best comedy I have seen in a long time

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2012)

The Cabin in the Woods is simply the best comedy I have seen in a long time. Far from a horror film, this movie plays on common stereotypes in the horror genre in order to deliver a witty and original experience. The best joke in the whole movie is the advertising -- it's advertised as a standard teenagers-in-the-woods horror movie, while it's actually a great comedy. This movie has everything -- from Lovecraftian end-of-the-world scenarios to Romero zombies to "modern" zombies, and a whole slew of other things. Characters are represented as stereotypical horror movie characters, the monsters are stereotypes, and the film overall is filled with wonderful references to horror movies including Hellraiser, Evil Dead, and the J-horror genre in general. Anything in this film that is sub-par is intentionally sub-par, so to satirize the horror genre.
10/10.