What the Hell just happened? That's got to be one of the wildest movies I've seen in a long time. And it's witty and humorous. this is a five star romp and stomp. I actually enjoyed it.
I tend to resist bloody slasher movies and torture movies, just because that doesn't thrill me in a movie.
It's one thing when Shakespeare splatters the stage with blood because these is something in the story behind the bloodshed. Slasher movies are usually only written for shock value and buckets, gallons, barrels of blood are used to redden the screen. Blech...
HOWEVER, this is more than just 5 college kids go to a cabin in the woods and die bloody deaths.
I don't know how much I can spoil the movie's plot for anyone else. So I won't do really bad things.
Before the title sequence, the audience knows that some agency is in control of events. WE meet the STAFF first. It's downright horrific that Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins are the puppeteers of this affair. It is their job to stage manage and release the monsters.
This is this inventiveness of he movie -- it isn't just Jason Voorhees wandering the streets with a knife
It isn't Freddy Krueger sneaking into dreams and killing in new and inventive ways...
This is a company that stages the Cabin like a play. The STAFF is what is completely and utterly different. IT's one thing to have the monster be zombies or a chainsaw wielding lunatic, quite something else to have a sane staff of hundreds manipulating the scenery and monsters. Their normalcy is a new element of horror
The last fifteen minutes is breathtaking as the monsters (not all of them) are unveiled en-masse. The climactic battles are something new and as gory as they are funny. SO much it turned to pure evil in this movie and balanced with ass-kicking fun.
The cabin in the woods
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I also thought this movie was something special. It's wholly original, so far as I know. The sort of thing Philip K. Dick might have written, or perhaps H.P. Lovecraft. Extraordinary whimsy with a dash of paranoia.
And it's all true!
I saw it in a theater months ago. How did you see it?
And it's all true!
I saw it in a theater months ago. How did you see it?
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Pay per view on COMCAST. It apparently just came out on BLU RAY and DVD.
It's a 2 day rental ($5.99) and that stretches over weekends. I might watch it again tomorrow.
The "Old Gods" is very Lovecraft and THE MYTHOS that he created. Although human sacrifice to appease some god is not new or even Lovecraft's invention.
When it opens on Bradley Whitford's character complaining about kiddie locks on the cabinets in his house I was like "HUH?"
There's more going on than merely a psychotic killer and a few dozen special effects geeks with buckets of fake blood.
And more than once, I did the double-take as the audience and realized that what I thought was happening, wasn't happening and the situation was actually worse.
I hate studying a monster. The GODZILLA with Matthew Broderick is a prime example. As I was watching it the first time, I was studying how the monster's musculature moved over the skeleton to see if the movements were realistic. I'm really tough on creature features that way. Way too observant. Emmerich gives that Godzilla lots of screen time and I can see way more of it than I need to.
When the monsters are released in this, I'm having fun because they are faster than my thoughts as to how they are done. It's like my private contest each time I watch it of trying to figure out what's what that I missed earlier.
It's a 2 day rental ($5.99) and that stretches over weekends. I might watch it again tomorrow.
The "Old Gods" is very Lovecraft and THE MYTHOS that he created. Although human sacrifice to appease some god is not new or even Lovecraft's invention.
When it opens on Bradley Whitford's character complaining about kiddie locks on the cabinets in his house I was like "HUH?"
There's more going on than merely a psychotic killer and a few dozen special effects geeks with buckets of fake blood.
And more than once, I did the double-take as the audience and realized that what I thought was happening, wasn't happening and the situation was actually worse.
I hate studying a monster. The GODZILLA with Matthew Broderick is a prime example. As I was watching it the first time, I was studying how the monster's musculature moved over the skeleton to see if the movements were realistic. I'm really tough on creature features that way. Way too observant. Emmerich gives that Godzilla lots of screen time and I can see way more of it than I need to.
When the monsters are released in this, I'm having fun because they are faster than my thoughts as to how they are done. It's like my private contest each time I watch it of trying to figure out what's what that I missed earlier.
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Yes, very Lovecraft.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art they once had an exhibit of the art of the ancient South American empires. I remember my chill on entering a room with a 20-foot tall statue of the Turtle God of the Aztecs. Before the god was a stone slab that had been used for human sacrifices to the god. It looked smooth and well-worn. What a religion! No Presbyterians there.
Check out "Gojira," the original Japanese version of the movie released as "Godzilla" in the US. There's no Raymond Burr. It's a minor masterpiece by the director Ishiro Honda, starring the great actor Takashi Shimura. If you only know the Americanized Godzilla, released two years after the Japanese original, you'll be amazed at the improvement. I thought of this because the monster is obviously a guy in a costume, but it works in context.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art they once had an exhibit of the art of the ancient South American empires. I remember my chill on entering a room with a 20-foot tall statue of the Turtle God of the Aztecs. Before the god was a stone slab that had been used for human sacrifices to the god. It looked smooth and well-worn. What a religion! No Presbyterians there.
Check out "Gojira," the original Japanese version of the movie released as "Godzilla" in the US. There's no Raymond Burr. It's a minor masterpiece by the director Ishiro Honda, starring the great actor Takashi Shimura. If you only know the Americanized Godzilla, released two years after the Japanese original, you'll be amazed at the improvement. I thought of this because the monster is obviously a guy in a costume, but it works in context.
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I'll look for GOJIRA...
One of the delights of Japanese Monster movies is looking for the zippers and the nose and eye holes on the monster's rubber suit.
One of the delights of Japanese Monster movies is looking for the zippers and the nose and eye holes on the monster's rubber suit.
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SyFy channel is showing CABIN IN THE WOODS tonight, 22 Nov 2014.
It's a very clever horror movie.
It's a very clever horror movie.
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I don't get the SyFy channel as a matter of fact we don't get TV here, we can stream news and movies but not much more. I don't want you to give spoilers on this movie but could you send me the story line in a message. Years ago I read a story and don't remember the name, this rings a bell and I wonder if its the same one.
Does it involve a young girl who is a story teller and travelers who stop for the night.
River
Does it involve a young girl who is a story teller and travelers who stop for the night.
River
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I must be honest, I didn't enjoy that movie so much. I prefer movies like Nightmare on Elm Street end Poltergeist more. To me The Cabin in the Woods is just senseless bloody killing.
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YodaNell (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:52 am I must be honest, I didn't enjoy that movie so much. I prefer movies like Nightmare on Elm Street end Poltergeist more. To me The Cabin in the Woods is just senseless bloody killing.
It half of a comedy.
And it plays with the viewer. It winks and sneers at the entire genre of bloody horror movies in a way that can be uninviting.
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Dave (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:10 pm It half of a comedy.
And it plays with the viewer. It winks and sneers at the entire genre of bloody horror movies in a way that can be uninviting.
No, I understand exactly what you mean. I truly enjoy a good horror or thriller. I just don't understand what makes people enjoy seeing how somebody's brains splat against a wall, or their guts spill out and so on.
I'm not a dud, but I can say that Below, What Lies Beneath, Identity, The Ring, Children of the Corn, Cujo, The Mist etc scared the hell out of me. I just don't enjoy movies like The Cabin in the Woods, SAW, Chucky, Final Destination (with comedy elements) etc.
Just personal taste...that's all.
