There is a time for philosophizing about what the hell David Lynch tells us and there is a time for cinematic silliness. Like all good horror-comedies this film takes the horror (or better: the gore) seriously while downplaying any idea it transports profound socio-political analysis. The cabin-in-the-wood-genre is as ludicrous as the slasher genre in general, no matter how many clever-sounding hipster articles you write about it. So it is nice to have in this film a gory homage which does not deliver laughing-out-loud jokes but offers a nice absurd premise it never loses sight of: the stereotypical bunch of high school kids take the actually very sensitive hillbillies for serial killers, the hillbillies take the unluckily very clumsy teenagers for a suicide cult. It escalates nicely from here. Slasher fans get their gore and madness and at the same time an astoundingly heartfelt deconstruction of their genre of choice.
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