THE CABIN IN THE WOODS ***SPOILERS*** THREAD

[Steve Lilley]

I think he has the best written stuff in CABIN, to be sure. It's just that he was... I dunno, so *big*.

But it's something that will continue to bother me (if you can even call it that) for the rest of the weekend, then when I see it again I'll have gotten over it.

[ExpendablesFan]

It was surprisingly still really enjoyable, despite everyone over nerd hyping it and everything in it being ridiculously telegraphed. I can't think of moment in film history as telegraphed as that motor cycle jump. I'm really curious how that happened, totally ruined something that could have been awesome. But the whole movie was kind of like that even though it still sort of worked.  It seemed like they wanted to start the movie as a regular cabin in the woods horror movie and then slowly reveal it wasn't one. Instead it starts off showing us all the cards. I wonder if the studio made them change it after test audiences got antsy or something. I can't think of another reason it was delayed so long since they didn't convert it to 3D like they used as an excuse.

It seemed like a decent Buffy episode. I wonder if this was an idea they thought of during Buffy's run but never got to do.


Edit. Also I thought Fran Kranz started off horrible, but then got fine by the end.

[Luke Erik]

I can't think of moment in film history as telegraphed as that motor cycle jump.

I'm not sure what they were going for with the motorcycle jump either. I can't see how anyone would think he would make the jump and it seems it is telegraphed on purpose, but why? What's the payoff? 

[Steve Lilley]

I can't think of another reason it was delayed so long since they didn't convert it to 3D like they used as an excuse.

Well, the *first* excuse for why it was getting delayed (which I believe was a full year delay) was the "We're converting it to 3D" thing. It was supposed to come out in like January 2011 at that point. Then in the summer of 2010 MGM went bankrupt, which is what delayed it indefinitely.

EDIT: I think the Thor death motorbike thing seems telegraphed because it's technically his second death scene. The first version was the scary horror movie death, and the motorbike thing is the comedy death. So they seem to drag it out as long as possible because it's playing for laughs, not for scares.

It did go on for *so long* that, just before he hit the invisible wall thing I was like "Hmm, well, maybe he is going to make it..." and then he hit the invisible wall thing.

[Chris G]

I quite enjoyed this. How many times do you get to see a unicorn gore a guy? Also, the scene with Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins dancing in the control room made me laugh quite a bit. The guy playing the hellraiser seemed really familiar but I can't place him.

[ExpendablesFan]

It was sort of funny that I tried so hard for years to avoid spoilers only to have the movie spoil everything in the first five minutes.  There wasn't one surprising thing in the movie after that. They couldn't even let Sigorny Weaver be a surprise. Everything is telegraphed beforehand. It almost seems like they did this intentionally, but why would they do that?

[Steve Lilley]

I think because it's a comedy more than anything. It just has a horror theme, I guess. It's not necessarily supposed to be suspenseful or surprising - it's supposed to make you laugh.

As long as it did that, then win, right?

[ExpendablesFan]

Yeah it works as a comedy, but not as a suspenseful horror movie. I was a little disappointed that they didn't pull off both cause their concept was kind of perfect for it, but I'll take what I can get.

[BrianLynch]

Do you guys think a prequel set in the 80s or 70s would work?  Or no, because we all know the conceit?

[ExpendablesFan]

Do you guys think a prequel set in the 80s or 70s would work?  Or no, because we all know the conceit?

I think so. You kind of know the conceit within the first 5 minutes of this one and it doesn't seem to bother anyone else.

[BrianLynch]

Yeah agreed.  It would be fun to play with a different decade kind of horror.

[DerickA]

I think so. You kind of know the conceit within the first 5 minutes of this one and it doesn't seem to bother anyone else.

I thought the point was to show you what was behind it all, not that the events are engineered.

[Rich]

I loved this movie oh so very much.

[harry]

Just stopping by to say that the Hellraiser guy was credited as "Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain." This movie was great.

[Wolfe]

Just stopping by to say that the Hellraiser guy was credited as "Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain."

Was he? One of the things on the whiteboard just said "Kevin" and someone at the screening I went to asked Drew Goddard if Kevin was actually seen in the movie or if that was just a throwaway joke. He said Kevin was shown in the movie, but he didn't want to reveal which monster it was. I thought it was the Hellraiser guy because he seemed to be a Jason/Pinhead hybrid, and I thought calling him Kevin was a nod to how movie slashers always have very prosaic names like that. Now I'm wondering who Kevin was.