Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Going into Cabin in the Woods, I didn't know for the longest time, that this movie is a comedy. I mean yeah, it has horror elements in it, but it combines black comedy within the mass of creepy stuff. I saw on Rotten Tomatoes this movie got a 91% for a rating. I see where that comes from, the movie is really interesting, and has a twist ending. However, this movie has some parts that just seem so cliche for horror cinema. There is a scene where these kids find this diary type thing, it documents a young girl who has been tortured. Then, you guessed it, ghosts start coming into the house and messing with things. OK, so the movie revolves around these five friends who all go on this trip to a cabin in the woods. This movie title is literal, everything in this film is straightforward, until the end. I'm not really going to reveal how this movie ends, but I will say that it's worth watching a second time. This movie has some real scares in it, but it isn't always consistent throughout the story. There would be one really scary scene, and then it would switch over to an action sequence. Then so on and so forth, exc. The movie is basically just kids getting murdered one-by-one at this cabin. There is a whole other level of this movie, it leads to the spoiler, but this isn't your standard slasher film. Yeah, there is comedy in this movie, it's very dark. Humorous, kind of like the last two Evil Dead movies, there is horror mixed with some funny parts. This movie was really fun to watch because the scares were fun to be surprised by. They were scary, but sometimes it was fun to see what the next creature to emerge would be. I really liked that part, the acting in this movie is standard horror movie work. Nothing wrong with that, just people running around and panicking. Liam Hemsworth is in this movie, his role could have been way bigger in my mind, we are speaking of Thor here. He has a good rap. Overall, twists and turns make up this intricate horror movie, that is filled with mystery and suspense. Three stars.