Cabin in the Woods

[skull_bearer]

Deserves all the praise it's getting and more, I can't remember the last time I had this much fun at the cinema. Helps that I brought Mirek and the very depressed Normandy crew over to cheer them up after ME3, and after the harbinger bit they couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the film.



It was about 2/3rds of the way through that something went click and I realised "Hang on, this is 'SCP Foundation, the Movie'." Which rapidly turned to 'SCP Foundation: Everything Goes Horribly Wrong, the Movie.' And it was. And it was awesome. If you're a fan of the SCP wiki and would want to see what would happen if every Keter class creature suddenly got loose... I have the film for you.

The film is hilarious, beautifully crafted, shows absolute mastery of Chekov's Gun, deeply human, and really only occasionally scary. It's over the top and enthusiastic in a ninja-pirates-zombie fashion (really more zombies-SAS-Chuthulu fashion) without requiring you to turn your brain off in order to enjoy it. Basically, It's Fun. Really, really fun. There were moments where you just had to laugh out loud at the sheer amount of perfectly awesome pure amazing being broadcast at you from the screen.

One thing that got me interested in this movie from the reviews is that Cabin in the Woods doesn't pull it's punches. There isn't a last minute cop-out when things start to get interesting. No, it happens. And you get to watch it happening. There are two moments which particularly come to mind. The first is awesome. The second is even more awesome, but for perfectly legitimate reasons most of it is left to our imagination.

Normally I do try and find something that didn't work for me, but the best I can come up with is the score of the first quarter or so of the movie. It was random cliche horror music TUM-TUM-TAAAM style which didn't work with the aura of slowly growing menace the rest of the film was trying to convey. But really, if that's the best I can come up with don't let it stop you watching the movie.



It's just that good.

Comments

[synecdoche-and.livejournal.com]

I actually thought I'd skip watching this because Joss W for some reason annoys me just by existing, and because I thought it was just another torture-horror-teen-flick. So I read the plot on Wiki and spoiled myself, because it's still the Josser and I didn't think I'd go see it. But you're one of the people whose judgement on films I actually trust, so now I'm thinking I might check it out after all :P

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

I'm very hit and miss on Whedon. Granted I haven't seen much of his stuff, but Buffy has always seemed just meh, and I never got into Firefly (it's one of those 'when you sit back for a minute you realise how fucked up this was' series). However, this is great fun, I had a blast, loved almost every minute.

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Did you see my review?
http://fatpie42.livejournal.com/152713.html

If you saw it then "I told you so!" :D