Red Box Review – The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabins in the Woods is surprisingly a really great movie. Overall the twist and turns made this movie amazing. The acting by the five in the cabin is a big reason why I say this movie is just really great and not spectacular. It definitely is a movie that you catches you wanting to guess what is going to happen like most horror movies, but I bet there isn’t a person out there that guessed how this movie ended. This movie also featured a young Chris Hemsworth. Spoiler alerts, the rest of the way so just a heads up. You think the athlete, or Chris Hemsworth would be one to prevail, especially after his girlfriend dies and you think he will prevail, and he doesn’t. Well technically nobody prevails in the end. The movie starts with five friends heading to a cabin in the woods in the middle of no where. Seriously what could go wrong? They make it there and the movie seems to take a turn as they are set up for some type of game so they can die for pleasure of all these people in a company because they are betting on how they will die. The five characters are pretty typical scary movie characters. One is the athlete, and is dating the slut. The other is the intelligent guy, who has a crush on the intelligent girl. Then the fifth wheel in all this, is the high guy, or as I like to call him, the stoner of the group. Well it continues the way you think a scary movie would, the slut dies first from a group of zombies that for some reason know how to use weapons, including throwing a bear trap on a chain at people. Followed by what you think is the athlete dying, but he later saves the stoner and runs back to tell the other two what happened. They all get separated and things go downhill quickly. The zombies come into the cabin and they find themselves trapped in separate rooms, you think the stoner dies after getting a spear thrown through his back. The rest bail on the cabin and return to the vehicle that brought them there. They try to leave when the tunnel explodes, leaving them one way out, jumping to the other side by motorcycle and running for help. It looks like the athlete is going to make it, but doesn’t when he hits an invisible wall and falls to his death. Now left with the smart guy and smart girl, they get back in the vehicle and drive off, where all of a sudden, the smart guy get’s stabbed by a zombie and they crash into a lake, where it looks like the girl will die too. But, she escapes, and is grabbed and thrown around by a zombie until stoner saves her live. They run to the grave of the zombies, which is an elevator shaft around the company’s building. They let out hundreds of different killer monsters, they make havoc on the company and kill everybody, even with a funny killing of one of the company’s main guy, by a mermaid monster. The movie sort of ends explaining that they need to do this to keep Earth and everybody alive, by sacrificing four of the five in the group. If she kills the stoner, Earth may be saved from the ancient evil God’s. She kills the girl telling her this information by throwing her off a ledge. They decide to stay to both stay alive and ruin Earth in a comedic ending where the stoner pulls out a joint and they smoke it until their death. Their death is a giant hand coming through the ground and grabbing the cabin and Earth and pulling it’s self down in the underworld. Scene. Overall this movie is 4.5 out 5 stars and I think if you haven’t seen it and my spoilers interested you. You should go see it. Very big twist and an interesting concept as a whole. Especially since the second movie is in production and is expected to come out in 2019. Not that scary for a horror movie, just makes you interested and kind of blows your mind at the end. Very gory. I would recommend it for sure.

1 thought on “Red Box Review – The Cabin in the Woods

  1. fuglsang

    Ok. I just gotta say: PARAGRAPHS.

    Don’t assume the reader has seen the movie, Hunter. (And chances are they won’t be interested once they know how it ends.) That’s sort of the point of doing the review in the first place. You’re assisting the movie-going public in spending their dollars wisely.

    Understand the difference between summary and synopsis.

    If you led with the first three sentences, then went to “The movie starts with…” you would have a decent beginning. Sketch out the characters. Then the plot in two sentences.

    Then: What’s wrong with the acting. You hint at something in the second graf. Now explain.

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