Cabin In The Woods

     Cabin in the woods? Does a title get any simpler? I suppose you could say Evil Cabin In The Woods, or college Kids Getting Maimed In A Cabin In The Woods, or Hey Stop Trying To Murder Me In A Cabin In The Woods. 

     If you ever want to know the key elemts of a cabin in the woods style story, look no furthur. This this frightening flick is well named and brilliantly plays into all that is horror while tuning the clasic cabin in the woods story on its head.

  
     We start off, unlike most horror movies, with laboratory workers, clean cut, talking about their pathetically mundane lives.

     Hey! I don't see a cabin or woods. And yet we have just spotted some our favorite actors from 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' and 'Doll House.' The usual Joss Whedon suspects. Will this play in later? Hmmm...
     
     In the meantime we follow your standard crew of happy go lucky college students with their bright futures ahead of them as they set out to a desolate cabin in the woods for relaxing weekend of disembodiment- I mean decompression.
     Ignoring the creeping Hills Have Eyes-esque hillbilly gas station attendant who warns them away from the cabin, 

     Our victims - I mean vacationers arrive at their obviously neglected destination.    

     Everything is going just great, minus all the hedonistic, sacrificial, and frighteningly taxidermyed decor of the cabin itself. Nothing like a portrait of someone having their guts removed from their still berating body to help one relax.

     Anybody figure out what our friends in the ominously innocent controll room are doing yet? 

     That night, during a bizarre game of truth or dare, a trap door suddenly blows open in he center of the cabins living room, greatly perplexing our wayward weekenders.

     Gee, I wonder whats down there? Puppies? Rainbows and fluffy clouds? Maybe even a merman? Who knows? I'm sure its nothing terrifyingly deadly. That would just be silly.
     
     From there on in the blood flows like water in strange, creative, and horrifying ways. Ways you may not see coming. Who will survive, bet you cant guess.  
     
     Final Fright - *Ding*

   A bloody brilliant pice of horror heaven that should be part of any horror hounds catastrophic collection. This is definately marked amongst my favorites for bing incredibly unique and yet encomasing everything we love about horror movies. 

     Five claws up!

     Until next time, unpleasant screams,

     XX Kidna Styx