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Cabin in the Woods - Non-Spoiler Review
Apr. 15th, 2012 05:22 pmSaw I decided to go see Cabin in the Woods after church today.
I will write a more lengthy review later, filled to the brim of spoilers. This is the spoiler free one.
Cabin in the Woods...
Back in the 1990s and 1980s...I used to venture into video stores, and have lengthy discussions about films with the film geek guy behind the desk. They were usually film students or people who had graduated with a film degree but couldn't get a job. Sort of like Quentin Taratino. True story - Taratino was video store clerk, just like Kevin Smith, who got discovered. He knew movies. I'm not entirely sure Taratino even went to film school - which may have been a good thing, since he skipped the indocintration or "memo".
At any rate, I remember those conversations fondly. Usually we'd discuss low-rent horror films, because video store guys rarely watch anything else. They'd give me underground vids on occasion, cult horror films - like Battle Royale. Once we had a really disturbing discussion with another geek about a French horror film entitled Irreversible.
The discussion was disturbing, because Geek1 who understood film, explained the plot, and with a bit of horror - stated there was a sequence that sent people out of room, ill.
Geek 2 was thrilled, he couldn't wait to see the movie - because that sequence sounded amazing. I remember exchanging a look with Geek1 and backing out of the room slowly.
Cabin in the Woods in many ways feels like the film that Geek 1 and Geek 2 would have made on the sly, and Geek1 handed me under the counter, with the statement - you'll appreciate this since it references all the films we were discussing and slyly makes fun of them. It's a horror geek's love-fest, trust me! You'll love it!!!
Was he right?
Yes and no. Or it is and it isn't. Depends on the horror geek, I guess. The theater was sparsely populated for a warm hazy Sunday in April. Most of the movie goers fat middle aged men with beards chewing popcorn loudly. I kid you not, they actually were. It was sort of funny. And at times, I felt as if I were watching a weird horror parody, cobbled together, by the cast of Community - except that may have had more heart and less blood.
( no real spoilers, or extremely vague ones )
I will write a more lengthy review later, filled to the brim of spoilers. This is the spoiler free one.
Cabin in the Woods...
Back in the 1990s and 1980s...I used to venture into video stores, and have lengthy discussions about films with the film geek guy behind the desk. They were usually film students or people who had graduated with a film degree but couldn't get a job. Sort of like Quentin Taratino. True story - Taratino was video store clerk, just like Kevin Smith, who got discovered. He knew movies. I'm not entirely sure Taratino even went to film school - which may have been a good thing, since he skipped the indocintration or "memo".
At any rate, I remember those conversations fondly. Usually we'd discuss low-rent horror films, because video store guys rarely watch anything else. They'd give me underground vids on occasion, cult horror films - like Battle Royale. Once we had a really disturbing discussion with another geek about a French horror film entitled Irreversible.
The discussion was disturbing, because Geek1 who understood film, explained the plot, and with a bit of horror - stated there was a sequence that sent people out of room, ill.
Geek 2 was thrilled, he couldn't wait to see the movie - because that sequence sounded amazing. I remember exchanging a look with Geek1 and backing out of the room slowly.
Cabin in the Woods in many ways feels like the film that Geek 1 and Geek 2 would have made on the sly, and Geek1 handed me under the counter, with the statement - you'll appreciate this since it references all the films we were discussing and slyly makes fun of them. It's a horror geek's love-fest, trust me! You'll love it!!!
Was he right?
Yes and no. Or it is and it isn't. Depends on the horror geek, I guess. The theater was sparsely populated for a warm hazy Sunday in April. Most of the movie goers fat middle aged men with beards chewing popcorn loudly. I kid you not, they actually were. It was sort of funny. And at times, I felt as if I were watching a weird horror parody, cobbled together, by the cast of Community - except that may have had more heart and less blood.
( no real spoilers, or extremely vague ones )