Nice attempt at deconstructing the genre and laughing at it at the same time. It could have been even nicer if it was a solo project for Whedon though.

I sat in the theater with a big dumb grin on my face and nearly killed myself driving home as I sent texts to everyone I know telling them to go see this movie. I can understand people liking it less than me, but I don't really see how anyone could hate it. Unless they think fun is bullshit.

to avoid patronising horror aficionados, metahorror needs to fully understand and evoke the empathy and terror of its sources, satirising from within rather than providing winking (& reductive) commentary from a superior remove. 'cabin...' holds itself up as quintessential, but it's too mediocre a horror movie to say anything about the love of *good* horror movies, devoting more energy to its deconstructive contextual framework than exemplifying the appeal of the genre it's supposedly skewering.

This gets high marks for the amazing dark comedy it turned into in the second half. Definitely not your standard horror movie, and all the better because of it!

Really great. I don't really want to describe it bc it'll be better to go in knowing nothing. Just watch and enjoy

Original, funny, and a fair amount of horror. The ending is pretty fantastic, I thought.

The movie makers have a deep and profound understanding of the horror genre. Manages to be fun while working as a powerful ethical critique of the emotions that such films gratify, voyeurism, resentment, envy, misogyny, fear and hatred of sexuality, the sadistic desire to see people punished.

The 'unleashing hell' scene is a fantastic example of gloriously OTT cinema at its best, but the rest of this half-arsed bizarre mess should've either been played straight throughout or gone for all-out silliness from the word go. The stereotypical slasher story is just boring; the juxtaposed 'humorous' scenes smug and unfunny. Nowhere near as original as it wants to think it is, but earns half-a-mark extra for at least kinda attempting to be different.

Twenty years ago a film like this would made me giddy, but I'm a little burnt out on this PoMo, meta-films. It doesn't help that I'm not a big fan of 80's horror, too. I am a fan of Joss Whedon, particularly his dialogue, but even that was a bit of disappointment.

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I just wish it was longer. Another hour or so would have been nice

Unfortunately, as this thing progresses, it becomes less frightening, less funny, and less interesting. It does become increasingly ludicrous and inane though.

A terrific deconstruction of the horror and genre and a great movie experience. This is what Scream should have been

Pretty fun but disappointing after the hype.

i didn't get it but it looked quite original

Really great spin on the sci-fi/horror genre, unlike anything I've seen.

I loved it! I truly recommend that anyone looking to see the film stay spoiler-free. I have an affinity for the horror genre & I was so happy to see a film that both respected & payed homage to it, while also deconstructing and subverting it. It managed to be both incredibly funny and actually a little scary. It had a lot of tension and once it got going, it didn’t let up. The film looked great and had some nice and not overused visual effects. All of the actors gave fantastic performances too.

All I heard about this movie was "no spoilers, twist, meta, gentre-twisting." I don't know about all that. It's a comedy, and as a comedy it works. I'm not a horror guy, but loads of horror movies try to similarly upend horror conventions. Tucker and Dale vs Evil did that a few years ago, Scream did it long before that, as did others, I'm sure. This movie is funnier and better than those two, but by no means does it transcend the genre or deserve the amount of hype it's been receiving.

A genre mashup with the gleeful earnestness of "Drag Me to Hell" and the dark inventiveness of "Cube", yet somehow is 91% at Rotten Tomatoes. Has this ever happened before? Don't believe those calling it a comedy. There is humor and satire that flow naturally from the situations, but it's very real to the protagonists. And the "twist" shown in the trailers is revealed in the first few minutes - it has so much more up its sleeve!

Criticize it all you will, the last 30 minutes alone earns this score

One of the coolest horror-movies I've ever seen. Great plot with a lot of unforeseen twists!

Very nice

Joss Whedon pulled it off again with the truly original Cabin in the Woods. A genre bending, thrill ride which doesn’t take itself too seriously, it will be used as a landmark in the study of contemporary teen-horror for many years. [Full Review]

The horror genre needed this movie SOOOO badly. I totally recommend it to anyone and don't let anyone spoil anything for you beforehand. Hell, don't even watch the trailer.

Thinks it's a clever and fresh commentary on the stagnancy of the horror genre. Sometimes it is, but it shouldn't think so highly of itself.

That was excellent, intelligent, funny and just plain damned fun to watch. The last 20-30 minutes had me on the edge of my seat and the cameo at the end blew me away as well. Check it out if you get the chance, it is well worth it!

I don't really care about horror as a genre, but this is a rare exception - it's energetic, funny, creative, and stands up well alongside other genre deconstructions such as Scream and Shaun of the Dead.

One of the most awesome, strange, subversive and outright crazy movies I've seen outside of Sundance in quite some time. How did a satire this awesome and clever get released by Lion's fucking Gate? Basically a much easier to enjoy funny games.

A cheaply clever film that thinks its cleverly clever. It seems quite popular these days for films to opt for being half-baked pastiches (that still retain cliches without subversion) rather than being full-blown, but amusing parodies. Just like the other Whedon flick with the flying people and aliens, it does get gratuitously entertaining in the last act -- certainly something to please gorror fans like myself.

Feel about this the same way I do Tucker & Dale vs. Evil: Great premise, but I wished they'd handed the reins with a greater respect for the horror genre. Too smug by half. Also, essentially a remake of Waxwork, with a hint of Lovecraft and The Truman Show.

If you know what to expect going in you're going to treat it differently. Stop reading this. Go see it. It's stupid. But it's fun. In response to RapeyVessey: I really don't think Goddard/Whedon are trying as hard as you think they are. In fact, I'm convinced they were high/drunk the entire time they wrote this movie and laughed their way to hollywood. Which is cool imo.

Nice idea and execution until it falls apart a bit near the end.

This film is nothing short of amazing and easily my favourite film of all-time! With twists & turns at every corner it was one hell of a ride to watch the first time and I'm still enjoying it now (3 times I've seen it). Lead by a great cast and with one heck of a storyline I would find it hard to find a Horror fan that didn't enjoy this film. The best thing about it is its such an original idea that hasn't been done and yes it had one hell of an ending! The best film there is, enough said!

Great fun, clever concept, well executed. I could watch a whole series with the comedy control room people and the meta riffs on the archetypes in the film are well done.

This film is absolutely incredible, if you're reading this you may be considering going to see it, if you are then DO there is no possibility of regretting it. Stop reading this and go right this second. Do it.

the holy grail of horror comedy. waiting for some prospecting film student to build a church to worship the ground this movie treads. divine supernatural poetry. 90

i love you whedon

A very clever, 95-minute way of saying that the horror genre has run out of ideas, and I mean that in a good way. It's film criticism that just happens to be a total blast. The concept becomes more and more intriguing as it goes on, culminating in a clusterf*** of awesomeness in Act 3.