The Cabin in the Woods: Difference between revisions

'''''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]].

 

 

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 in their own special section, just in case.) Anyone who wants to see the movie fresh should go watch the movie first instead of reading about it here.

 

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== "Safe" tropes ==

* [[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.

** 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 ==

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