"Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of... Am I on speakerphone?"
- Mordecai, The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Dir. Drew Goddard; Horror/Comedy, 95 Min
And our final films of the semester roll in with our next piece, Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. Watch the opening lecture (there's a little tag at the end about it being the "end of the semester", don't pay attention to that. Rather than rebuild the lecture again - it's a long one - I just left that in there from last semester.)
Click the link below to take the general information quiz on The Cabin in the Woods.
Does Horror - or for that matter any genre - follow a pattern? What are our expectations of a Horror film? Click the link below to complete the assignment on making (and breaking) the "Rules of Horror."
Click the link below to take part in the discussion on The Cabin in the Woods and the critiquing of the Horror film.
Summary
When five college friends (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams) arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that await them. One by one, the youths fall victim to backwoods monsters, but there is another factor at play. Two scientists (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford) are manipulating the ghoulish goings-on, but even as the body count rises, there is yet more at work than meets the eye.