the coolest movie I've ever seen!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2012)

One would think walking into a film that's been shelved for 3 years that the result wouldn't be very positive. But you'd be wrong because the reasoning behind this films delay is due to the bankruptcy of MGM the releasing company. What stands is one of the cleverest, freshest genre films ever made. If you've seen any of the trailers of TV spots you can pretty much tell that the film takes the clichéd set up of teens visiting a cabin in the woods and flips it on its head. To say anything else would spoil too much for you but Cabin in the Woods is so smart in the way it tacles it's material not pandering down to the clichés up engaging and expoliting the material and twisting it unforeseen and energetic ways. The film clocks in at about 98 mins and there's not a drawn out spot in the films entire running time. it's filled with inspired direction from Drew Goddard of "Let me In" fame showing off his talents in a more efficient way here strong self aware performances from a good cast most notably Franz Kranz as the films fool and sexy Chris Hemsworth in the "alpha male" role as well as an extremely seductive Jesse williams as "the scholar" my new obsession lol. The film also employs some very missed old school horror movie feats like classic monsters and gory makeup effects. The result is simplistic in it's entertainment value but as complex a film a stheyc ome. It's entertaining, funny, a little scary and wonderfully inventive. Without a doubt one of the if not the coolest film I've ever seen and definitely one of the best movie s ever!!!