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{{quote|''"On another level it’s a serious critique of what we love and what we don’t about horror movies. I love being scared. I love that mixture of thrill, of horror, that objectification/identification thing of wanting definitely for the people to be alright but at the same time hoping they’ll go somewhere dark and face something awful. The things that I don’t like are kids acting like idiots, the devolution of the horror movie into [[Torture Porn]] and into a long series of sadistic comeuppances. Drew and I both felt that the pendulum had swung a little too far in that direction."''|'''[[Joss Whedon]]'''}}
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'''''The Cabin in the Woods''''', a 2012 horror movie, sets itself apart from other horror movies by virtue of its co-writers ([[Joss Whedon]] and ''[[Cloverfield]]'' writer Drew Goddard, who also directed this film) -- and by deconstructing both the cabin in the woods setting and horror movies in general. The film stars [[Thor (film)|Chris Hemsworth]], [[Dollhouse|Fran Kranz]], Kristen Connolly, [[Power Rangers Jungle Fury|Anna Hutchison]], Jesse Williams, [[Amy Acker]], Richard Jenkins and [[The West Wing|Bradley Whitford]].
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As a note: we can't really get into the tropes without '''''spoiling damn near the entire film'''''. We've tagged spoilers as normally as possible, but honestly, reading past this paragraph ''will'' blow most of the movie's surprise, since we can only preserve the real punch of the film with an entire page of white. (We placed ''really'' spoileriffic tropes
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== "Safe" tropes ==
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: When Jules and Curt go off to fool around in the forest, {{spoiler|the control room is packed to capacity with male staffers, all of whom (save Truman) are grinning ear to ear and eager to see some action
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: In addition to the usual expected horror movie deaths, {{spoiler|this trope is also openly invoked as a plot point.}}
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Patience's diary.
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** Or ''[[Resident Evil]]'' meets ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' for the zombie siege meets "escaping the cage"
* [[You Bastard]]: {{spoiler|The Ancient Ones are basically like horror movie viewers. They watch for people to die in horrific, troperiffic ways, and, when their world does not go as they wanted it to, want to make it go away. And it's hard to not see the scientists/puppeteers as a metaphor for Hollywood's current horror output, repeating the same formula ad infinitum to appease its target audience's appetite for sex and gore as religiously as any ancient ritual. And you can see the two main scientists as a metaphor for a writer and a director, forced to keep putting out the same dross and lamenting their inability to try anything creative. 'I'll never see a merman,' indeed.}}
== Spoiler Tropes ==
* {{spoiler|[[Cosmic Horror Story]]: The ''real'' story of the movie.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]: One of the only pieces of fiction where [[
* {{spoiler|[[The End of the World as We Know It]]: No hope for a sequel here, people.}}
** {{spoiler|Not necessarily. Why should we believe the assumption that the gods mean to destroy the world is accurate? Maybe they just want to give humanity the secret of space travel or immortality.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]: No, not just everyone in the movie. [[The End of the World as We Know It|EVE-RY-ONE]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Physical God]]: Judging from the giant fiery hand we see at the end, it can be inferred that the Ancient Ones are this.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Playing with a Trope]]: [[The Movie]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Stealth Parody]]: Though it's pretty obvious, [[Poe's Law|people still seemed to miss the point]] and decried it as [[Hate Dumb|"A disgrace to true horror"]]. It helps that it was [[Trailers Always Lie|advertised as a straight horror film.]]}}
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