The Cabin in the Woods: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/
The Cabin in the Woods is rated Worth It
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I was honestly not expecting much when I went in to watch this. The only thing that piqued my interest is when I saw that it was written and produced by Joss Whedon. I will admit, the beginning was so stereotypical for a slasher movie that I just about wrote it off as a "Paying the Bills" movie for Joss. The only thing keeping my interest was the weird agency watching the 5 slasher movie characters.
Note: the next part has MAJOR spoilers - they might actually spoil the movie.
As it turns out, the reason why the 5 slasher characters were acting so stereotypical is because the agency was using pheromones and other chemicals to mind control into being that way. The stoner guy actually points out that they do not normally act the way they do during the movie. In addition, the agency also finds random groups of people and puts them in horror movie scenarios that are under their control. The mind control is to keep the people from going to far off script. The reason the agency is doing this is because there are ancient gods that require blood sacrifices to keep from destroying the Earth. Every time they kill somebody in one of their "horror movies" they feed the blood down to their ritual chamber, to appease these gods. They also imply that they sell footage from this to movie studios as a way of funding their operation.
In other words, every horror movie that you have ever seen is actually a snuff film that this agency has recorded, and the reason that everybody acts so stupid in horror movies is because the agency has to control them. And they control them for an additional reason: the people in horror movies have to die in a specific order, otherwise the ritual doesn't work.
There were some other interesting concepts that this movie explores: for instance when the 5 characters go down into the cellar, they find a room full of weird objects, and depending on which one gets activated first is what type of horror monster that they get. The agency even had a BETTING POOL on which one the 5 got!
Unfortunately for the agency, something goes wrong. The stoner guy got his hands on some weed that somehow nullified the chemicals that they use to control the people, allowing his to figure out what was going on enough to keep from being killed. After all the other characters except one of the girls dies in typical zombie redneck torture family style (that is the monster option they activated, by the way), he and she get into the hidden elevator that brings the monsters to the cabin, end up in the facility that is under the cabin. They end up unleashing to monsters into the facility, killing most ofthe agency members.
The ending for this is kind of a twist, so rather than revealing it I recommend going and seeing it for yourself.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie. It isn't without its flaws - you can figure them out if you think about it for a few minutes. However, if you want a good horror movie with a unique concept, than this is your movie. Worth the money I paid to see it.
