A Patchwork of Recycled Story lines

Rating: 5/10 (8 March 2013)

The athletic Curt (Chris Hemsworth) invites his girlfriend, the slut Jules (Anna Hutchison), and his friends Dana (Kristen Connolly) that has a few sex experiences; the fool pothead Marty (Fran Kranz); and Holden (Jesse Williams), to spend the weekend in his cousin's cabin in the woods. They travel in a trailer and find that the place is not located in the GPS and cell phones do not work.
Soon they find an open cellar door and see weird objects in the basement. Dana reads a journal from the beginning of the Twentieth Century and when she reads words in Latin, she awakes zombie killers. Meanwhile they are observed by a team in a control room that manipulates the environment. What is the secret of the cabin in the woods?
"The Cabin in the Woods" is a patchwork of recycled story lines with a silly story. The formula is basically the following: (a) it begins like most of the teen horror movies, with a group of friends traveling to an isolated location in the woods without means of communication. (b) Then there is the "Evil Dead" rip-off, with five friends in a cabin reading a book and unleashing "The Walking Dead". (c) Then there is "The Truman Show" environment, with their deaths monitored by a team on televisions. (d) Last, there are moments of "Cube" and "Resident Evil", when Dana and Marty learn what is happening.
The lame conclusion with ancient gods in the underground is ridiculous and without a reasonable explanation. If they need to be killed in that spot in a sequence, why not sending the army hidden in the underground to kill each of them the way it is necessary? Do the ancient gods like to watch reality shows? My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "O Segredo da Cabana" ("The Secret of the Cabin")