Cabin in the Woods
Cabin in the Woods is an American horror comedy with its basis on the horrible encounter of five college friends with backwoods zombies at a forest cabin.
5 December 1976, Dallas, Texas, USA
1 June 1976, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
11 August 1983, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3 February 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
11 July 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
14 October 1972, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
11 December 1967, Sydney, Australia
10 October 1959, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
31 March 1974, Wrexham, North Wales, UK
20 January 1983, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7 April 1965, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
September 27, 2015
The target audience is clearly horror geeks with a clear knowledge of the genre and its cliches. But if you are one of those people, then you'll probably not enjoy a movie more this year.
October 06, 2014
The filmmakers are less interested in providing a slow buildup to their frights than in splattering the clichés of the form in funny, spirited ways.
January 04, 2013
By the time the ride is over, director Drew Goddard and co-writers Goddard and Joss Whedon will change course three or four times, nodding and winking but never losing momentum.
September 27, 2015
Certainly one of my favourite films of the year so far and a must-see for anyone wanting to be genuinely shocked by the places a walk in a dark, dark wood can take you.
October 29, 2016
The Cabin in the Woods will get you thinking about what it means to watch a horror movie, but it's not just a mischievous exercise in post-modern cleverness, it's also a giddily funny, gulpingly scary, enormously entertaining thrill ride.
September 27, 2015
Ranks among one of the most wryly self-aware works of American pop culture entertainment in years.
October 06, 2014
In order to subvert any popular form, entertainment first has to work on its own terms. Goddard and Whedon are too busy geeking out to bother with those requirements.
May 09, 2016
Crazy, totally, and deliriously fun.
September 27, 2015
[Whedon finds] an inventive way to subvert the genre with a re-twist of the dreaded knife of horror, and a very acute Big Brother eye.
January 04, 2013
One of the best movies of 2012 so far, in any genre.
September 27, 2015
Drew Goddard, with assistance from his cohort scenarist Joss Whedon, achieves an exemplary fusion of horror, humour and science-fiction while undermining genre conventions and audience expectations alike.
October 06, 2014
The setup is intriguing but the balance feels off. Goddard and Whedon overplay the winking postmodernism.
