Film Review – The Cabin in the Woods

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: dopey college kids, off on a trip to a remote forest getaway for the weekend, encounter a force of evil that picks them off one by one while the barely sober unit makes pathetic survival choices during a hellacious night. Turns out, screenwriters Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard have grown tired of the horror routine, cooking up “The Cabin in the Woods,” a delicious satire of the genre that takes the art of cinematic deconstruction seriously, fusing black comedy and formula into a thoroughly satisfying terror experience. It’s funny, occasionally too silly, but also wildly committed to the bloodshed and jolts gorehounds have come to expect. It’s a smart, nasty picture, reinvigorating stale screenwriting ingredients — a delirious valentine to slasher archetypes and monster mayhem. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com