When i first watched this film, i was ignorant, pig-headed, and i was blind. But then, i saw!
I initially dismissed CITW as another dumb horror flick and at most had good words for the CGI, but years later, i saw a video called "Everything Wrong with Everything Wrong With Cabin In The Woods" and i admit, it opened my eyes.
Like the creators of the original video that, the one above, criticizes mercilessly, i absolutely did not understand this film at all. The EWWEWWCITW video showed me what i was missing.
Turns out, CITW is a clever deconstruction of the classic tropes of horror film, and if you, like me, have not been paying attention, you'll probably miss most of the references and a good portion of the story, if not the more on-the-nose bits.
It's like the .. cryptic? Abysmal ? Fantastic? Film Prisoners Of Ghostland, which you will love if you know enough about cinema, to understand that it's referencing old tropes, instead of taking itself seriously. Yeah, that sounds like a good test.
While CITW is a product designed for a very specific audience, i would say it's worth some time to go through the references, through the fan-made websites, to see just how much detail and content is hidden beneath the surface.
I would have initially voted this 5.5/10, but once i understood *what* i was looking at, i would vote it 7.5/10.
Hey, for once, i'm happy to say i was wrong.
I initially dismissed CITW as another dumb horror flick and at most had good words for the CGI, but years later, i saw a video called "Everything Wrong with Everything Wrong With Cabin In The Woods" and i admit, it opened my eyes.
Like the creators of the original video that, the one above, criticizes mercilessly, i absolutely did not understand this film at all. The EWWEWWCITW video showed me what i was missing.
Turns out, CITW is a clever deconstruction of the classic tropes of horror film, and if you, like me, have not been paying attention, you'll probably miss most of the references and a good portion of the story, if not the more on-the-nose bits.
It's like the .. cryptic? Abysmal ? Fantastic? Film Prisoners Of Ghostland, which you will love if you know enough about cinema, to understand that it's referencing old tropes, instead of taking itself seriously. Yeah, that sounds like a good test.
While CITW is a product designed for a very specific audience, i would say it's worth some time to go through the references, through the fan-made websites, to see just how much detail and content is hidden beneath the surface.
I would have initially voted this 5.5/10, but once i understood *what* i was looking at, i would vote it 7.5/10.
Hey, for once, i'm happy to say i was wrong.