Most fun I have ever had watching a movie

Rating: 9/10 (15 April 2012)

There is not a lot more that I can say about Cabin in the Woods that hasn't been said already. The movie has been praised by critics as being one of the best horror movies ever made and one of the best movies of the year. I love a good horror movie but the problem is the horror genre has fell flat in the last...20 years! I was incredibly excited for Cabin in the Woods to say the least. Cabin in the Woods is inventive, funny, scary, exciting, and a movie that seems tp draw from the horror genre while redefining it simultaneously. The trailer gives absolutely nothing away which seems to be its curse and its edge. Many people think this looks like just another mindless horror movie with teenagers getting slashed but wait! There's a twist...a force field is keeping them in. Stupid. I admit I felt the same way until the buzz around this movie was incredibly positive. The trailer doesn't let us see just how unreal this movie is because it is so different if it showed anything more we wouldn't be surprised and it wouldn't be as fun. That is so refreshing and I hope this movie finds large success from word of mouth because its so damn entertaining. Cabin in the Woods has the basic premise of a group of college students going on a vacation to, where else, the Cabin in the Woods of course. Without ruining anything like the trailer didn't, Ill just say they run into trouble unlike anything you have ever seen in a movie before. Cabin in the woods is fast paced with no drawn out sections like many scary movies. The movie has just as many scares as it has laughs from beginning to end. It feels like a sattire because the movie is funny and you can see many different movies in Cabin in the Woods but it is not. It just feels like a sattire because it is so different in such a great way. This movie isn't the scariest movie by any means but this is a game changer type of movie (I hope). Filmmakers of the past horror movies should feel ashamed and future ones should take note. There is no need to rely on blood and gore for scares, but suspense and a care for the character in the scene. Many horror movies must take themselves less seriously and learn to let the audience laugh a little bit and have fun. Unless of course another Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist comes along again, and the horror movies Hollywood has been putting out lately gives no indication of that. I have been praising this entire time with no real description of the movie because I want you all to just go and see it. Trust me. I watched the first showing played in the city and I am going again tomorrow morning. Do not read anything about the movie and if a commercial coms on about it change the channel. This is a public service announcement. This is one of the most entertaining movies I have ever seen and I cant remember a time I had more fun in a theatre.