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Everyone is actually the opposite of what they are portrayed by the facility. The virgin actually slept with her teacher, the blonde was a natural brunette who became blonde that day, the jock is actually smart and the smart guy is actually a jock. Marty is the wildcard who sees everything and plays by the rules. the gods are the audience who want to see every cliche expressed, because doing the opposite will upset them and destroy the movie.
Hair color wasn't the reason except as a cliche. What they failed at when choosing their 5 sacrifices was just that the virgin actually wasn't one, the athlete was smart (they all were), the scholar was the athlete, the fool was the virgin & the whore... well she slept with her boyfriend but didn't act like a whore but more as the bad/corrupted girl really and was just assumed to be portrayed that way because she went blond. They were all off &being pigeon holed into their cliches based on their looks & the team's & viewers' assumptions. But yeah as an entire entity the "audience" wants certain things as they expect them to be. Even though individually we are also not our cliches & some want to see things differently!!
They knew she wasnt a virgin remember? At the end sigourney weaver when dana told her she wasnt a virgin sigourney said we work with what we have. The ritual didnt work because the fool wasnt dead when they thought he was and the gods knew this hence the eaethquake.
@@msfeistybabe When we first meet Jules, she's giving mom friend energy. The bad girl stuff comes later, under the influence of chemicals and suggestion. I don't think she really fit any of the archetypes. We don't really know that Marty's a virgin, just that he didn't bring a partner on the trip or sleep with Jules. Also, Marty definitely fits the archetype of The Fool. The Fool is clever and insightful, he sees/speaks the truth couched in humor, he is courageous, sometimes recklessly so, and often saved by luck. The Fool is literally the wildcard.
I do feel they cast the wrong girl for their roles. The one who's in a devoted monogomous relationship with her boyfriend is picked for the slut while the one who had a relationship with her teacher and strolls around in her underwear in front of boys and open windows is the virgin? Really should be the other way around. So I agree with you and its probably why their ritual failed.
I like their shock about "but unicorns aren't mean", when in some older tales of unicorns they were said to run someone through if they weren't pure of heart. They were definitely regarded as dangerous beasts. Personally I absolutely adore the concept of savage unicorns
In the Discworld book "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Unicorns were the personal "pets" of the Queen Of The Elves (who are evil in this series). And one does indeed run a guy thru with its horn. also possibly carnivorous (the Elve's horses are, so the unicorns could be, too).
They probably used those old tales with this unicorn because despite the staff killing these people for the greater good its still an evil thing they’re doing nonetheless so it makes sense!
So fun fact? Sigourney Weaver agreed to do this movie in part because she got to have a scene with a werewolf. No, seriously. She kept asking to see the werewolf while they were shooting. There's behind the scenes footage of her just geeking out over the guy in costume.
Yeah, exactly. It seems SO strange that the workers wanted Jules to get topless before she died, but when you realize that they are basically trying to appease the audience, it makes a lot more sense.
@@cagglesnah, they just wanted to see her topless. Even the guy second in command running that floor tells the guys staring to leave and that their "bodily needs" disgust him.
@@TurntBucketand then 10 seconds later they waited for the “money shot” before the zombies went and killed her. They even said they have an audience to appease when the newbie said it’s messed up to go that far. It’s a dig at every slasher that has to show off topless women (Edit) but also, you’re not wrong, the workers were taking advantage of “being forced” to watch the girl get topless lol
Movie was a blast; came out to rave reviews. Everyone was told to go in blind, and the trailers just made it look like a traditional kids at a cabin horror movie. Everything else was meant to be a complete surprise. The moment the title card dropped I was cracking up.
@@sproductionsinc - I was initially going to say, "How in the hell did it give you Funny Games vibes?!" But that's actually a neat comparison, albeit a much darker movie (either version).
It's meant to be a commentary on movies and audiences: the old gods are us, the audience; the kids are the actors, the team is the crew; weaver is the director. The director has a vision, the team sets up an environment and completely manipulates it and the actors to give the audience what they want - entertainment.
I would also say it’s not as simple as that. Considering it’s about ancients which were around long before modern media. The old gods are the worst of our nature, IMO.
I'm sure plenty of people will come to the comments to say this, but my fave fun fact about this movie is why the character Marty is always fully covered. Its because his actor is in really good shape in real life, so to make him better fit the character they had to cover his muscles up with layers of clothing.
Thankfully i read some comments here first, because i was just going to say the same thing! Apparently he was so fit and muscular that he couldn't portray the "pothead" without having clothes all over him to cover it :P
You actually hit the nail on the head about your own criticism: the security guard mentions that the army had given him this post, which confirms that it actually is the government funding the whole operation. Oh, and fun fact: when they mention the one time America failed, it's a reference to The Faculty. In that movie (about aliens possessing the teachers in a high school), it ended with zero casualties because the stoner's drugs can kill the alien queen, and when she dies everyone just goes back to normal (hence why it was the chemistry department's fault they failed).
Fun Fact: this role got Chris Hemsworth the role of Thor. This was filmed before they casted Thor and Joss Whedon (who co-wrote this movie) was impressed by Chris and encouraged him to audition and Joss put in a good word for him.
I love that they said Japan is undefeated, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happy ending to a Japanese horror movie. They never have a Final Girl or guy. It’s usually a curse, and there’s no way to stop it. It’s supposed to be because Japan has always had more natural disasters than any other country in the world, which gave their culture a pessimistic outlook.
@@lunacouer Their entire national history of over 2,000 years is full of traumatic disasters they were powerless to stop. Their nihilistic culture was formed over an extremely long time frame. Those two bombs were just an unfortunate coincidence. They might have even had Godzilla if they weren't nuked, but he would represent earthquakes instead of bombs.
Huh, just realised that when Marty's blood was offered the Gods shook the earth - because it was the zombies blood, not Marty's. Such a small thing but really adds to the depth of the movie!
I don't think it was the zombie's blood. The blood was collected before the ritual even began. They already have the blood in vials, and they break them when that victim dies. The ancient ones shook the earth because they knew Marty wasn't actually dead.
Try watching a stereotypical horror movie now and not imagine a control room or that this needs to happen to appease the ancients. The layers of this movie are great.
Fun fact the actress that plays Jules used to be a power ranger 😂😂 also one of my favorite things about this movie is that it could actually explain every horror movie ever by saying there were people behind the scenes doing all this making them dumb making them spilt up making them fall into classic horror movie tropes I love it
exactly! one of my favorite theories is, there's a mention of a failed attempt in 98 and people have pointed out why it's straight up just the 1998 movie The Faculty. Spoilers ahead for anyone who has never seen the faculty, but to quote tvtropes; "The chem department's failure in 1998 is attributed to the film The Faculty, in which none of the protagonists die, the supposed virgin is revealed as the monster, and said monster's undoing is triggered by the drugs another character makes. Damn chem department indeed."
Basically the organization was making real life horror movies for the beings called the ancients who are supposed to be us. That’s why Japan had the little ghost girl. That typically how Japanese horror is and America had the generic horror set up with the teens in the cabin in the woods. If you pay attention to the gambling board and all the monsters it’s implied that every other horror movie we have ever saw was a result of them doing a sacrifice. They even had Deadites from Evil Dead on it.
I think this movie is so great. It’s similar to Scream in the way that it plays on the tropes of horror movies while also making a meta-commentary on horror movies and their fans. Both of them do it so well, too. They both manage to be great horror movies while still being funny and being consistent on the meta commentary of the genre. Also, I like how the even used tropes of Japanese horror as well to fill out the world this takes place in and make it feel bigger. And if you’ve watched any Japanese horror movies, or even their American remakes, you’re likely to pick up on those tropes as well. It’s just good fun. This is one of those movies that I can watch at any time, pick it up halfway through and still enjoy the hell out of it. Same with Scream and Tucker and Dale vs Evil, which should definitely be next on your list as it dips its toes into that same meta pool as well, though to a lesser extent.
The movie is a masterclass in dissecting the horror movie genre, tropes, and present state of it. You have the stereotypical trope characters; the jock, the intellectual, the stoner (fool), the virgin, and the whore. The virgin is the final girl that can live or die based on the script for that movie; the rest are cannon fodder to die. You have the stereotypical setting; the remote location. You have the stereotypical monsters that can be "the monster(s)" for that movie. Every year, "the ritual" is performed by various cultures around the world. The ritual is the release of that year's horror movie. Only one ritual has to succeed, ie, one movie has to follow the tropes to the letter to placate the "ancient ones". The "ancient ones" are the movie audience. If the ritual fails, ie, if the audience doesn't get their satisfaction from the movie, then it's the "end of the world" and the ancient ones, the movie goers, rise up in anger. The line in the movie, "we aren't the only ones watching... gotta please the customer", is that every ritual... every horror movie... has to have the obligatory sex scene with nudity. The movie dissects the tropes. How did the horror happen? They "chose" because they (insert here)... like reading latin in the ancient book. Why did they act like they do? Because chemicals etc. Why the nudity and sex? Why did they split up? Why did they drop the knife? Why can't they get away? The movie even gets into things that aren't so apparent. The betting on what the horror/monster will be for that movie by the crew at the start of the production, or in the movie, start of the ritual. The red phone is the studio/producer/exec interference; the call to the director/crew that things aren't going in the movie as they should. That only one ritual, or one horror movie, has to "succeed" to placate the audience that year; the rest can fail or be duds of movies... as long as one follows the formula successfully and makes the audience happy. Sigourney Weaver is the producer, the studio, explaining the what, the why things have had to happen, the ritual, and fighting to make it happen; for their movie to succeed and keep movie goers happy, to fulfill their expectations. The movie then asks; what happens if they all fail, if all the rituals, ie movies, are duds? Well, the audience, ie movie goers, rise up in anger. That is the line, "maybe it's time to give someone else a chance". Time for new ideas, new directors, a new direction for the horror genre. Jules and Marty are self-aware that they failed the tropes in their movie, their ritual, and the audience will rise up in anger at not being placated.
The ending of the move was a conscious decision, specifically _to_ remove the temptation for a sequel if it performed well at the box office (although we should all know by now that Hollywood will find a way). "Unique" is probably the best single-word description of Cabin in the Woods that anybody can make. I think they did a wonderful job of both paying homage to the horror classics and of mocking all the horror tropes they contain. If anything, the film is even better on the second (and subsequent) watches, when you pick up all the little hints & foreshadowing they threw into the run time.
I love it when huge stars like S.W. can get any big role they wanted and she just pops up randomly for a small part in movies. She also has a small part in finding Dory.
I love this movie cause it single handedly gives a reason for all other horror movies to exist in a same and unique world : people trying to accomplish the ritual, here and there, to appease the ancient ones. It's a brilliant idea imo !
What I love about this movie is that it pokes fun a cliche movie tropes. And could potentially give a reason for so many random horror movies. So don't worry about it too hard, it's for fun.
Joss Whedon did bring us Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it's spin off Angel as well as Firefly and Dollhouse on TV prior to this. Also, I believe you may have reacted to Wall E before and Sigourney Weaver was the voice of the ship which I believe is kind of a call back to her talking/yelling at the ship in Alien.
BVS/Angel put him on the map, but he was already reasonably well-known in the SciFi community due to having written scripts for the original film, Toy Story, and Alien: Resurrection.
This movie is brilliant, but you definitely need to be in the right state of mind to truly enjoy it. First time I watched it I was also lukewarm about it, but then you realize just how brilliant it is.
You guys are the anicent ones. I am the ancient one. The "gods" being watchers of horror movies, the audience who expect punishment of these archetypes who's "sin" was just being young. The manipulators who make them commit stupid, cliché, and tropey horror movie mistakes were the writers. Sigourney Weaver's character is known as "The Director." That's why everything is recorded, that's why there were film reels in the basement. That's why if you look at the elevator scene, you can place every single monster to a real life classic or modern horror/horror adjacent movie, from The Shining to Hellraiser to IT. It's a metaphor for the making and often the unoriginality of horror movies. If you look at the trailers for this movie, it was even advertised and marketed as an actual horror movie. They named it the most bland, cliché horror name they could.
Love this movie, cabin is such a perfect honor to evil dead cabin even w the cellar door popping open. Oak said it perfect, just take every creepy thing & put it all in, which is exactly what they wanted to do. Its a love letter to horror fans!!
This is one of those movies where less talking and more paying attention to details really pays off and helps you catch what is going on sooner. It’s very clever, and is a great satire/ criticism of the horror genre as a whole.
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Rewatching this with y’all made me see things i didn’t put together during the first watch. Like how during Marty’s “death” the facility was shaking cause the monster blood was taken, not his
I really enjoyed y'alls reactions to this. Another great October Halloween horror comedy is "Tucker and Dale vs Evil." It's also a love letter to slasher movies and the different stereotypes of would be killers in horror movies.
This is such a great movie. I love how it’s a huge love letter to all horror/scary/thriller movies, but with its own twists. I dunno if any of you have played L4D or L4D2, but in the scene where they’re in the elevator, and they zoom out to show all the other monster cubes, there are Easter eggs. There are several special infected from L4D. If I remember correctly, the Tank is there, and I think… The Smoker and the Boomer? But it’s been a while since I’ve slowed it down to look!
Correct. There was meant to be a DLC coming where the survivors have to battle through the Facility. But Valve being Valve never got it out of development hell and it got cancelled.
The guys don't have near enough horror movies under their belt or they would have recognized a lot more of what was going on with the horror tropes of US and Japanese movies. Helps a lot with enjoying how amazing this movie is.
it's pretty funny that this came out and just about at that time the stereotypes it was making fun of basically ended for horror movies. I like this movie a lot. It sort of requires you to be familiar with the tropes of horror from the 90's to early 2010's, like those seen on the sci-fi channel.
Top 5 horror movie. I love it and watch it every year. I most like how it just plays into the tropes while explaining why the tropes exist in universe, while simultaneously paying homage to basically every horror movie and the genre itself.
Closest thing we have to a SCP Foundation movie with their casual Tuesdays stoping CK-Class End of the World scenario. I'm sure timeline will be patched up in no time :D
The first time I watched it, I was still really new to horror. I came in expecting to be terrified and was pissed at the “ridiculous” ending. I remember leaving my friend’s place too angry/annoyed to be scared 😆 after getting more horror under my belt, and recognizing as a horror comedy (I didn’t even realize that was a genre back then!) I love this movie! It’s very fun 😆
Omg, I thought I recognized the guy who discovered the first two-way mirror...He did the voice, motion capture, and looks for Marcus from Detroit: Become Human.❤❤
I actually own the coffee cup bong like they use in the movie. It was a prop made for the film but then a company took the idea and ran with it. It's a really cool device, the only downside is it's all plastic so it feels kinda cheap and typically you don't want to use plastic for bongs or pipes because they don't handle heat well and can melt or crack with overuse. You also don't want to mistake it for a real coffee cup because they inexplicably made it so that when it transforms into a cup there is actually a hole on top to drink from... which leads directly to the reservoir of bong water. Imagine sipping that by mistake in the morning.
The real bong-cup in the film is apparently massively heavy. I don’t partake but I told people if they got me one of those I would consider it. I do have a variant travel mug. :D
Honest to god genuine question here: do you still have the coffee cup bong and would you be willing to sell it lol The company that made these went out of business in late 2019 it looks like, and the website is down and there are quite literally NONE on any auction websites. Ive spent the last 3 years trying to find someone with one to sell lol
while several people already pointed out that the old ones represent the audience viewing the movie, it's interesting to note that it's somewhat strange that the ritual didn't succeed. think about it, the werewolf was right there. it injured dana, thus preventing her from completing the sacrifice, but it didn't actually kill her. nor did it try to attack marty at any point, because that would also have completed the sacrifice. it's almost like the ancient ones didn't want the ritual to succeed. maybe the reason so many rituals failed is that the old ones have grown tired of the same old, same old (mirroring the audiences growing bored of the same tropes and clichés being used all the time in horror movies), and simply didn't want to stay asleep any longer, so they manipulated things to make sure that the rituals couldn't succeed this time around. after all, all these monsters are creations of the ancient ones, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume they would be able to manipulate them to do their bidding. from that perspective, it also completely changes the entire narrative of the movie, making it more about a story of a bunch of guys trying to fulfil an, unbeknownst to them, impossible task and dying in the process one by one, instead of a story about a bunch of teens being killed in a cabin in the woods.
The Japanese girls' beating it was actually a problem, because the gods need their sacrifice and the Americans were the last chance. Their real mistake was not realizing that the virgin/final girl in this instance should actually be the stoner, not the ingenue.
This movie was my first exposure to a “breaking the fourth wall” kind of concept. The whole story was so meta, and I loved watching it when it first came out. Great review, gentlemen, thank you!!!
Two Fun Facts about this movie: 1) There are licensed characters from the "Left For Dead" franchise in the scene where you see all the cubes full of monsters. 2) In the script for the scene where they let all monsters out, for the part where you see all the television screens with all the different death scenes going on, Joss Whedon simply wrote "chaos on every screen".
Fun fact: You can see some Left 4 Dead characters in the cubes when Marty and Dana are in the cube chamber and the camera is zooming out to show all the other monsters in the cubes. You can see The Witch very early on and a Boomer.
Hearing an elevator ding triggered me for a while after this. Then after I'd recovered, I saw Parasite. Now, I know anytime a bell dings halfway through, or in the last 3rd of a movie, things are about to significantly get much more worse. 😂
So many horror tropes go into this that you lose count. I know it’s on purpose but sometimes I forget how many horror movies I have watched until someone lays out all of the monsters and villains in neat little boxes and checklists for me. And now there are so many more I need to be made!! This is easily one of the best horror movies because it is so younger in cheek about it and it captures the whimsy of horror classics like the Evil Dead movies. Simultaneously embracing and mocking any genre is my almost always favorite form of movie making. This movie makes it into my top 50- and that’s high praise- I adore movies.
On the commentary track they said that Marty was so paranoid that he had a secret stash and wasn’t smoking the laced weed they were trying to slip him. They couldn’t get it to fit in the movie though
cabin in the woods was 100% ahead of its time and super innovate and i still love how it didnt shy away from playing around with the horror genre. cult classic
Y3s guys a horror classic, let's see how many horror references you get. Hemsworth cemented his role as thor with this role. The same director for both movies and when he was looking for who would play Thor he already knew be wanted Hemsworth based from his role here. I love love love this movie
@@scarlettmi Yeah, Drew Goddard directed this, and did bring Hemsworth in for his next film, "Bad Times at the El Royale" but Kenneth Branagh directed the first "Thor" (which always makes me laugh.) AFAIK Branagh didn't have anything to do with "Cabin".
Joss Whedon co wrote and produced The Cabin in the Woods and later helped Hemsworth to be reconsidered for Thor by calling the director despite his previously unsuccessful audition for the part. (Edit: Whedon later went on to be the director for The Avengers)
When I first saw this I cracked up laughing when all the elevator doors opened up and the monsters came out. I don't know why but it was hilarious to me.
I saw this in the Cinema & I too thought with film title & the way it started, it'd be your typical teen horror movie, but not the case, the more the storyline progressed, it did keep ya guessing & wondering what was going on with all the plot twists, your comments in your reviews was enlightening for me, so thanks very much for this! 😎
Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, and Robert De Niro, play in a 2012 movie called Red Lights. Its a great play for this time of year with amazing actors!
When we saw this movie in theaters we thought we were in the wrong room the way that opening scene played out. Very nearly walked out before the screamer title popped up!
Chris did his best but you can definitely hear the accent lol but I didn’t kind lol this movie is so fun they hit so many of those classic horror movie tropes I know they had so much fun on set with this one.
Interesting fact: While this movie came out late 2011, it was all filmed in early 2009 and edited. It took some time for a studio to pick it up for release in theaters. They had given up on it being released but then Thor was released in Spring 2011 and this movie got picked up just because Chris Hemsworth was in it.
The actor who plays Marty (The Fool) is also in one of the best episodes of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. He plays a fecalphiliac economics major. Which is a sentence I never thought I'd say.
Ms Weaver is listed in the credits as "The Director." I can't recall who but one reactor thought that meant she directed the movie. As to the film itself, think of every horror move ever made, you'll find a bit of it in this. The guy with the saw blades in his face is a take off of Pinhead. I LOVE this movie!
Damn. You guys are frickin clairvoyant! You nailed everything before it happened! 😆 when I saw this in the theater it was a brilliant and surprising Rollercoaster ride of pure awesome!
Some of the poses in that clothing ad was top tier stuff haha 😄 Got me curious what a Marge size is like though so i'll have to pick one up. Always looking for a good T-shirt, cheers 👍
Before this, Joss Whedon was known for the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, and Firefly, as well as Firefly's followup movie Serenity. And of course Avengers was a year after this.
i love this movie! i remember not liking it the first time i watched it, but then i watched more of the specific type of horror movies that it's satirizing, then i came back to this, and realized just how GOOD it is.
This is such a " what the fuck am I watching" movie. I went in thinking it was going to be a basic "cabin in the woods " horror movie. The ending explains everything, it's like a horror movie making fun of the same style . It's so dumb it's good. When Kurt hit the invisible wall, I shot coffee out my nose I was laughing so hard because I had forgotten about the bird. I couldn't stop laughing . Thank God I was alone in the theater.
22:45 I think the reason why everything started going to shit right here is because Marty was "The Virgin/Final Girl" and Dana was "The Fool". That's why he didn't die right away when he was supposed to, the Virgin is always the last to die or the lone survivor in horror movies.
It’s a five for me. It may not be what I would qualify as the most masterful horrour film but it’s the one that’s the most fun for me. Lot of people have clued you all in about the movie being a metaphor for RL audiences wanting the same entertainment in and out, how much nation was performing the ritual based off of their style of horrour films, etc. Couple other fun tidbits if I may add: *Theres a strong theory - and the novelization hints further at it - that there was another big mistake made by the Undercabin: Marty was the Virgin - check his comments when Jules is in his face - and Dana is the Fool making poor decisions like her professor, so that also hurt the ritual. *The funding and people are covered: the monsters and resources are supplied by the ancient powers and really, if you see the creatures in the “zoo” you aren’t going to have trouble buying into things in future years (regarding the amount of staff). This was the first year for Truman - a possible nod to the Truman Show - and he had all the same questions you did but was quickly converting. *Marty’s actour is more buff than Hemsworth (or was back then) as a semi-pro boxer. It’s why he is kept layered in clothing. No influence on the movie; just fun trivia. *While Whedon’s name comes up as the big one because of his fame, this was more of a Drew Goddard finalization (and I recommend checking out “Bad Times at the El Royale” to see more of his style shown here). *I always wonder if the drawing of the Professor is based off of Stephen King. *It’s always cooler with a merman.
Joss was doing the underground lab controlling demons thing back in the late 90s/early 2000s with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tv series. Cabin in the Woods came put on 2011, written in 2010, I beleive. Hunger Games came out in 2012.
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@eh3630nah...everything but not that movie 😂😂😂
We need more movies with these monsters
I guess you all missed that it's all supposed to be a metaphor about studios appeasing audiences by making formulaic horror movies.
Everyone is actually the opposite of what they are portrayed by the facility. The virgin actually slept with her teacher, the blonde was a natural brunette who became blonde that day, the jock is actually smart and the smart guy is actually a jock. Marty is the wildcard who sees everything and plays by the rules. the gods are the audience who want to see every cliche expressed, because doing the opposite will upset them and destroy the movie.
Hair color wasn't the reason except as a cliche. What they failed at when choosing their 5 sacrifices was just that the virgin actually wasn't one, the athlete was smart (they all were), the scholar was the athlete, the fool was the virgin & the whore... well she slept with her boyfriend but didn't act like a whore but more as the bad/corrupted girl really and was just assumed to be portrayed that way because she went blond. They were all off &being pigeon holed into their cliches based on their looks & the team's & viewers' assumptions. But yeah as an entire entity the "audience" wants certain things as they expect them to be. Even though individually we are also not our cliches & some want to see things differently!!
Yep,
Dana: Whore
Jules: Fool
Holden: Jock
Kurt: Scholar
Marty: Virgin
They knew she wasnt a virgin remember? At the end sigourney weaver when dana told her she wasnt a virgin sigourney said we work with what we have.
The ritual didnt work because the fool wasnt dead when they thought he was and the gods knew this hence the eaethquake.
@@msfeistybabe When we first meet Jules, she's giving mom friend energy. The bad girl stuff comes later, under the influence of chemicals and suggestion. I don't think she really fit any of the archetypes. We don't really know that Marty's a virgin, just that he didn't bring a partner on the trip or sleep with Jules. Also, Marty definitely fits the archetype of The Fool. The Fool is clever and insightful, he sees/speaks the truth couched in humor, he is courageous, sometimes recklessly so, and often saved by luck. The Fool is literally the wildcard.
I do feel they cast the wrong girl for their roles. The one who's in a devoted monogomous relationship with her boyfriend is picked for the slut while the one who had a relationship with her teacher and strolls around in her underwear in front of boys and open windows is the virgin? Really should be the other way around. So I agree with you and its probably why their ritual failed.
I like their shock about "but unicorns aren't mean", when in some older tales of unicorns they were said to run someone through if they weren't pure of heart. They were definitely regarded as dangerous beasts. Personally I absolutely adore the concept of savage unicorns
watch Shazam 2
In the Discworld book "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Unicorns were the personal "pets" of the Queen Of The Elves (who are evil in this series). And one does indeed run a guy thru with its horn. also possibly carnivorous (the Elve's horses are, so the unicorns could be, too).
I always thought unicorns are for pure maidens and bucorns for the unpure.
Guess i was right.
They probably used those old tales with this unicorn because despite the staff killing these people for the greater good its still an evil thing they’re doing nonetheless so it makes sense!
So fun fact? Sigourney Weaver agreed to do this movie in part because she got to have a scene with a werewolf. No, seriously. She kept asking to see the werewolf while they were shooting. There's behind the scenes footage of her just geeking out over the guy in costume.
I would happily pay for a movie with Sigourney battling werewolves.
@@sproductionsinc A female werewolf to make "Get away from her, you bitch!" literal.
I would happily pay for a movie with Sigourney Weaver...
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@@sproductionsinc YE GODS YES!
@@sproductionsinc Alien, but it’s a Canadian longshoreman in the depth of winter vs a werewolf instead.
The Ancients are a metaphor for horror movie fans. The rest of the movie falls into place satirically trying to appease horror movie fans.
I love the idea that all horror movies exist in the same universe.
Yeah, exactly. It seems SO strange that the workers wanted Jules to get topless before she died, but when you realize that they are basically trying to appease the audience, it makes a lot more sense.
@@cagglesnah, they just wanted to see her topless. Even the guy second in command running that floor tells the guys staring to leave and that their "bodily needs" disgust him.
@@caggles Yeah, that was kind of a key scene to drive the ancients-audience metaphor home. They literally say “we’re not the only ones watching.”
@@TurntBucketand then 10 seconds later they waited for the “money shot” before the zombies went and killed her. They even said they have an audience to appease when the newbie said it’s messed up to go that far. It’s a dig at every slasher that has to show off topless women
(Edit) but also, you’re not wrong, the workers were taking advantage of “being forced” to watch the girl get topless lol
Movie was a blast; came out to rave reviews. Everyone was told to go in blind, and the trailers just made it look like a traditional kids at a cabin horror movie. Everything else was meant to be a complete surprise. The moment the title card dropped I was cracking up.
It gave me Funny Games vibes
@@sproductionsinc - I was initially going to say, "How in the hell did it give you Funny Games vibes?!" But that's actually a neat comparison, albeit a much darker movie (either version).
@@maximillianosaben The title card is a direct reference of the Funny Games title card.
@@palpat8431Yeah I had the same reaction to the title card although Funny Games is more obscure but everyone I’ve let borrow the DVD has liked it
It's meant to be a commentary on movies and audiences: the old gods are us, the audience; the kids are the actors, the team is the crew; weaver is the director. The director has a vision, the team sets up an environment and completely manipulates it and the actors to give the audience what they want - entertainment.
I agree, except I would say Sigourney Weaver is the producer, or studio exec. She only gets intervened when the directors fail to deliver.
I would also say it’s not as simple as that. Considering it’s about ancients which were around long before modern media. The old gods are the worst of our nature, IMO.
I'm sure plenty of people will come to the comments to say this, but my fave fun fact about this movie is why the character Marty is always fully covered. Its because his actor is in really good shape in real life, so to make him better fit the character they had to cover his muscles up with layers of clothing.
Damn who doesn't aspire to be so jacked that you need stylists and costumers to come and sleeper your build?
Thankfully i read some comments here first, because i was just going to say the same thing! Apparently he was so fit and muscular that he couldn't portray the "pothead" without having clothes all over him to cover it :P
And he was all hunching over too, gotta hide the booba
I remember a scene where you could see his biceps under bud shirt and they were pretty massive.
its because he was in 300. He's the guy with the eyepatch telling the story. Basically the narrator of 300. So he had to be super jacked for that
You actually hit the nail on the head about your own criticism: the security guard mentions that the army had given him this post, which confirms that it actually is the government funding the whole operation. Oh, and fun fact: when they mention the one time America failed, it's a reference to The Faculty. In that movie (about aliens possessing the teachers in a high school), it ended with zero casualties because the stoner's drugs can kill the alien queen, and when she dies everyone just goes back to normal (hence why it was the chemistry department's fault they failed).
Didn't the principal die, though? Thought she died in the gym.
@@w1975b Ahh yeah. Still, she wasn't any of the archetypes that the gods demand for sacrifice.
@@wjhull quoting you "ended with zero casualties", which is not true.
isn't that a spoiler?
@@w1975b And I acknowledged the error. Sorry, I don't know how to give you a sticker in UA-cam comments.
29:54 The classic horror trope of "No on-screen death= Still alive"
Fun Fact: this role got Chris Hemsworth the role of Thor. This was filmed before they casted Thor and Joss Whedon (who co-wrote this movie) was impressed by Chris and encouraged him to audition and Joss put in a good word for him.
Yeah it's hilarious that this is how he got the role of Thor but the movie came out like a year or two after Thor
I love that they said Japan is undefeated, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happy ending to a Japanese horror movie. They never have a Final Girl or guy. It’s usually a curse, and there’s no way to stop it. It’s supposed to be because Japan has always had more natural disasters than any other country in the world, which gave their culture a pessimistic outlook.
Well, that and being the only country in the world to have nuclear bombs dropped on them.
@@lunacouer Most of Japan's horror stories far pre-date WW2...
@@lunacouer Their entire national history of over 2,000 years is full of traumatic disasters they were powerless to stop. Their nihilistic culture was formed over an extremely long time frame. Those two bombs were just an unfortunate coincidence. They might have even had Godzilla if they weren't nuked, but he would represent earthquakes instead of bombs.
Huh, just realised that when Marty's blood was offered the Gods shook the earth - because it was the zombies blood, not Marty's. Such a small thing but really adds to the depth of the movie!
I don't think it was the zombie's blood. The blood was collected before the ritual even began. They already have the blood in vials, and they break them when that victim dies. The ancient ones shook the earth because they knew Marty wasn't actually dead.
@@HolyPhlebotinumYeah, the claimed sacrifice was invalid. It made them restless.
Try watching a stereotypical horror movie now and not imagine a control room or that this needs to happen to appease the ancients. The layers of this movie are great.
A movie made specifically for horror fans as a commentary on horror film - while still being entertaining.
Fun fact the actress that plays Jules used to be a power ranger 😂😂 also one of my favorite things about this movie is that it could actually explain every horror movie ever by saying there were people behind the scenes doing all this making them dumb making them spilt up making them fall into classic horror movie tropes I love it
exactly! one of my favorite theories is, there's a mention of a failed attempt in 98 and people have pointed out why it's straight up just the 1998 movie The Faculty. Spoilers ahead for anyone who has never seen the faculty, but to quote tvtropes;
"The chem department's failure in 1998 is attributed to the film The Faculty, in which none of the protagonists die, the supposed virgin is revealed as the monster, and said monster's undoing is triggered by the drugs another character makes. Damn chem department indeed."
Basically the organization was making real life horror movies for the beings called the ancients who are supposed to be us. That’s why Japan had the little ghost girl. That typically how Japanese horror is and America had the generic horror set up with the teens in the cabin in the woods. If you pay attention to the gambling board and all the monsters it’s implied that every other horror movie we have ever saw was a result of them doing a sacrifice. They even had Deadites from Evil Dead on it.
I think this movie is so great. It’s similar to Scream in the way that it plays on the tropes of horror movies while also making a meta-commentary on horror movies and their fans. Both of them do it so well, too. They both manage to be great horror movies while still being funny and being consistent on the meta commentary of the genre. Also, I like how the even used tropes of Japanese horror as well to fill out the world this takes place in and make it feel bigger. And if you’ve watched any Japanese horror movies, or even their American remakes, you’re likely to pick up on those tropes as well. It’s just good fun. This is one of those movies that I can watch at any time, pick it up halfway through and still enjoy the hell out of it. Same with Scream and Tucker and Dale vs Evil, which should definitely be next on your list as it dips its toes into that same meta pool as well, though to a lesser extent.
The movie is a masterclass in dissecting the horror movie genre, tropes, and present state of it.
You have the stereotypical trope characters; the jock, the intellectual, the stoner (fool), the virgin, and the whore. The virgin is the final girl that can live or die based on the script for that movie; the rest are cannon fodder to die. You have the stereotypical setting; the remote location. You have the stereotypical monsters that can be "the monster(s)" for that movie.
Every year, "the ritual" is performed by various cultures around the world. The ritual is the release of that year's horror movie. Only one ritual has to succeed, ie, one movie has to follow the tropes to the letter to placate the "ancient ones".
The "ancient ones" are the movie audience. If the ritual fails, ie, if the audience doesn't get their satisfaction from the movie, then it's the "end of the world" and the ancient ones, the movie goers, rise up in anger. The line in the movie, "we aren't the only ones watching... gotta please the customer", is that every ritual... every horror movie... has to have the obligatory sex scene with nudity.
The movie dissects the tropes. How did the horror happen? They "chose" because they (insert here)... like reading latin in the ancient book. Why did they act like they do? Because chemicals etc. Why the nudity and sex? Why did they split up? Why did they drop the knife? Why can't they get away?
The movie even gets into things that aren't so apparent. The betting on what the horror/monster will be for that movie by the crew at the start of the production, or in the movie, start of the ritual. The red phone is the studio/producer/exec interference; the call to the director/crew that things aren't going in the movie as they should. That only one ritual, or one horror movie, has to "succeed" to placate the audience that year; the rest can fail or be duds of movies... as long as one follows the formula successfully and makes the audience happy. Sigourney Weaver is the producer, the studio, explaining the what, the why things have had to happen, the ritual, and fighting to make it happen; for their movie to succeed and keep movie goers happy, to fulfill their expectations.
The movie then asks; what happens if they all fail, if all the rituals, ie movies, are duds? Well, the audience, ie movie goers, rise up in anger. That is the line, "maybe it's time to give someone else a chance". Time for new ideas, new directors, a new direction for the horror genre. Jules and Marty are self-aware that they failed the tropes in their movie, their ritual, and the audience will rise up in anger at not being placated.
The ending of the move was a conscious decision, specifically _to_ remove the temptation for a sequel if it performed well at the box office (although we should all know by now that Hollywood will find a way).
"Unique" is probably the best single-word description of Cabin in the Woods that anybody can make. I think they did a wonderful job of both paying homage to the horror classics and of mocking all the horror tropes they contain. If anything, the film is even better on the second (and subsequent) watches, when you pick up all the little hints & foreshadowing they threw into the run time.
"Cabin in the Woods" took a few ideas from "The Midnight Meat Train" which was inspired by Clive Barker, and came out a bit earlier.
Such a fun movie that subverts expectations a lot
The allegory of "the customer" and the "the old ones" being us, the viewer is so smart as well
The simultaneous facepalming and reaction at 19:29 with the boobies line is why I watch this channel religiously lol
Didn’t you guys see the sign when he entered the store? “All grappling hooks: HALF OFF!”
One of my absolute favorite movies!! Now every time I see people being stupid in a horror movie I always think “those guys in the lab are at it again”
I love it when huge stars like S.W. can get any big role they wanted and she just pops up randomly for a small part in movies. She also has a small part in finding Dory.
Reminded me of her role in Paul, seems like something where she saw the script and was like “this seems interesting, I’m in!”
I love this movie cause it single handedly gives a reason for all other horror movies to exist in a same and unique world : people trying to accomplish the ritual, here and there, to appease the ancient ones. It's a brilliant idea imo !
What I love about this movie is that it pokes fun a cliche movie tropes. And could potentially give a reason for so many random horror movies.
So don't worry about it too hard, it's for fun.
When I watched this movie in theaters, the entire theater was roaring with laughter. The satire was on point for me as a horror fan. 😂
Dude, I love this fkin movie. It's so much fun. 😂
Watching you guys trying to figure it out was hilarious!
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Joss Whedon did bring us Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it's spin off Angel as well as Firefly and Dollhouse on TV prior to this.
Also, I believe you may have reacted to Wall E before and Sigourney Weaver was the voice of the ship which I believe is kind of a call back to her talking/yelling at the ship in Alien.
BVS/Angel put him on the map, but he was already reasonably well-known in the SciFi community due to having written scripts for the original film, Toy Story, and Alien: Resurrection.
I remember this movie came out of nowhere and was so different than what I was expecting. Good stuff 👌🏽
This movie is brilliant, but you definitely need to be in the right state of mind to truly enjoy it. First time I watched it I was also lukewarm about it, but then you realize just how brilliant it is.
You guys are the anicent ones. I am the ancient one. The "gods" being watchers of horror movies, the audience who expect punishment of these archetypes who's "sin" was just being young. The manipulators who make them commit stupid, cliché, and tropey horror movie mistakes were the writers. Sigourney Weaver's character is known as "The Director."
That's why everything is recorded, that's why there were film reels in the basement. That's why if you look at the elevator scene, you can place every single monster to a real life classic or modern horror/horror adjacent movie, from The Shining to Hellraiser to IT.
It's a metaphor for the making and often the unoriginality of horror movies. If you look at the trailers for this movie, it was even advertised and marketed as an actual horror movie. They named it the most bland, cliché horror name they could.
The most difficult line in the script for production to bring into reality was "there is chaos on every screen."
Love this movie, cabin is such a perfect honor to evil dead cabin even w the cellar door popping open. Oak said it perfect, just take every creepy thing & put it all in, which is exactly what they wanted to do. Its a love letter to horror fans!!
This movie is such a trip. It's hilarious and ridiculous but I love it 😂 great reaction guys!
This is one of those movies where less talking and more paying attention to details really pays off and helps you catch what is going on sooner. It’s very clever, and is a great satire/ criticism of the horror genre as a whole.
Yesss, Joss Whedon is a phenomenal writer. Looking forward to watching this, what a great Friday! Maybe some day you guys will react to Firefly ❤😊
I think they’d really like Firefly. It seems like a show that’s be right up their alley..
Joss was involved with The Nevers, which sadly only got 1 season.
I recently found your channel and have been binging videos, and I just had to comment. As someone who is a big fan of movies and TV shows as well as a semi casual wrestling fan, I really love your vibe. Hearing you describe characters as the baby face or heel and making Dave Meltzer references is just fantastic. Plus, you really seem like cool, wholesome dudes. I am definitely a fan.
Rewatching this with y’all made me see things i didn’t put together during the first watch. Like how during Marty’s “death” the facility was shaking cause the monster blood was taken, not his
I love this movie! You guys should also react to Tucker and Dale vs evil
I 2nd that 👌
I was about to reccomend that movie as well!
What a great follow up for this one!
I hadn't realized they hadn't done that yet! Definitely the most appropriate follow-up.
I really enjoyed y'alls reactions to this. Another great October Halloween horror comedy is "Tucker and Dale vs Evil." It's also a love letter to slasher movies and the different stereotypes of would be killers in horror movies.
Ah yes, as a horror fan...this was like seeing Evil Dead 2 for the first time again. All the nods to the old tropes...the comedy...loved it.
This movie is really a homage to the horror genre in many ways, I love that they embrace every cliched trope but completely turn it on it's head.
This is such a great movie. I love how it’s a huge love letter to all horror/scary/thriller movies, but with its own twists.
I dunno if any of you have played L4D or L4D2, but in the scene where they’re in the elevator, and they zoom out to show all the other monster cubes, there are Easter eggs. There are several special infected from L4D. If I remember correctly, the Tank is there, and I think… The Smoker and the Boomer? But it’s been a while since I’ve slowed it down to look!
Correct. There was meant to be a DLC coming where the survivors have to battle through the Facility. But Valve being Valve never got it out of development hell and it got cancelled.
The guys don't have near enough horror movies under their belt or they would have recognized a lot more of what was going on with the horror tropes of US and Japanese movies. Helps a lot with enjoying how amazing this movie is.
it's pretty funny that this came out and just about at that time the stereotypes it was making fun of basically ended for horror movies. I like this movie a lot. It sort of requires you to be familiar with the tropes of horror from the 90's to early 2010's, like those seen on the sci-fi channel.
Omg!! Cabin in the woods is one of my all-time favourite movies, I'm so excited to see you guys react to it
Top 5 horror movie. I love it and watch it every year. I most like how it just plays into the tropes while explaining why the tropes exist in universe, while simultaneously paying homage to basically every horror movie and the genre itself.
Closest thing we have to a SCP Foundation movie with their casual Tuesdays stoping CK-Class End of the World scenario. I'm sure timeline will be patched up in no time :D
The first time I watched it, I was still really new to horror. I came in expecting to be terrified and was pissed at the “ridiculous” ending. I remember leaving my friend’s place too angry/annoyed to be scared 😆 after getting more horror under my belt, and recognizing as a horror comedy (I didn’t even realize that was a genre back then!) I love this movie! It’s very fun 😆
Omg, I thought I recognized the guy who discovered the first two-way mirror...He did the voice, motion capture, and looks for Marcus from Detroit: Become Human.❤❤
THAT'S why he was so familiar! Thank you!!
I actually own the coffee cup bong like they use in the movie. It was a prop made for the film but then a company took the idea and ran with it. It's a really cool device, the only downside is it's all plastic so it feels kinda cheap and typically you don't want to use plastic for bongs or pipes because they don't handle heat well and can melt or crack with overuse. You also don't want to mistake it for a real coffee cup because they inexplicably made it so that when it transforms into a cup there is actually a hole on top to drink from... which leads directly to the reservoir of bong water. Imagine sipping that by mistake in the morning.
The real bong-cup in the film is apparently massively heavy. I don’t partake but I told people if they got me one of those I would consider it. I do have a variant travel mug. :D
Honest to god genuine question here: do you still have the coffee cup bong and would you be willing to sell it lol
The company that made these went out of business in late 2019 it looks like, and the website is down and there are quite literally NONE on any auction websites. Ive spent the last 3 years trying to find someone with one to sell lol
I Remember this movie....was so refreshing at the time....great movie!!
while several people already pointed out that the old ones represent the audience viewing the movie, it's interesting to note that it's somewhat strange that the ritual didn't succeed. think about it, the werewolf was right there. it injured dana, thus preventing her from completing the sacrifice, but it didn't actually kill her. nor did it try to attack marty at any point, because that would also have completed the sacrifice. it's almost like the ancient ones didn't want the ritual to succeed. maybe the reason so many rituals failed is that the old ones have grown tired of the same old, same old (mirroring the audiences growing bored of the same tropes and clichés being used all the time in horror movies), and simply didn't want to stay asleep any longer, so they manipulated things to make sure that the rituals couldn't succeed this time around. after all, all these monsters are creations of the ancient ones, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume they would be able to manipulate them to do their bidding.
from that perspective, it also completely changes the entire narrative of the movie, making it more about a story of a bunch of guys trying to fulfil an, unbeknownst to them, impossible task and dying in the process one by one, instead of a story about a bunch of teens being killed in a cabin in the woods.
"Let's take every creepy piece of everything from every horror movie and just throw it in this basement" - That's it, that's the film 🤣
The Japanese girls' beating it was actually a problem, because the gods need their sacrifice and the Americans were the last chance. Their real mistake was not realizing that the virgin/final girl in this instance should actually be the stoner, not the ingenue.
This movie was my first exposure to a “breaking the fourth wall” kind of concept. The whole story was so meta, and I loved watching it when it first came out. Great review, gentlemen, thank you!!!
This is quickly growing to be one of my favorite react channels
the way the three said “an unicorn!?” at the same time made me giggle so hard
Good reaction guys to a great film.
Mason, you may of been mostly confused but I thought you ‘got it’ the most 😂.
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Two Fun Facts about this movie:
1) There are licensed characters from the "Left For Dead" franchise in the scene where you see all the cubes full of monsters.
2) In the script for the scene where they let all monsters out, for the part where you see all the television screens with all the different death scenes going on, Joss Whedon simply wrote "chaos on every screen".
Fun fact: You can see some Left 4 Dead characters in the cubes when Marty and Dana are in the cube chamber and the camera is zooming out to show all the other monsters in the cubes. You can see The Witch very early on and a Boomer.
There was a reaver from Firefly in the movie as well.
Hearing an elevator ding triggered me for a while after this. Then after I'd recovered, I saw Parasite. Now, I know anytime a bell dings halfway through, or in the last 3rd of a movie, things are about to significantly get much more worse. 😂
Q: What sound does it make when you hit a zombie with a giant coffee cup?
A: Bong.
I love this movie! So much fun.
So many horror tropes go into this that you lose count. I know it’s on purpose but sometimes I forget how many horror movies I have watched until someone lays out all of the monsters and villains in neat little boxes and checklists for me. And now there are so many more I need to be made!! This is easily one of the best horror movies because it is so younger in cheek about it and it captures the whimsy of horror classics like the Evil Dead movies. Simultaneously embracing and mocking any genre is my almost always favorite form of movie making. This movie makes it into my top 50- and that’s high praise- I adore movies.
love this channel, am always whatin for new videos and reactions to come out, keep it up!!!!!!!
On the commentary track they said that Marty was so paranoid that he had a secret stash and wasn’t smoking the laced weed they were trying to slip him. They couldn’t get it to fit in the movie though
The one security guard was the first to respond because they only have one in the security booth
You guys as models really made me laugh. COngrats on your sponsor.
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cabin in the woods was 100% ahead of its time and super innovate and i still love how it didnt shy away from playing around with the horror genre. cult classic
Yes, I absolutely love this movie! It's up there together with Scream in my list of best horror satire
Y3s guys a horror classic, let's see how many horror references you get. Hemsworth cemented his role as thor with this role. The same director for both movies and when he was looking for who would play Thor he already knew be wanted Hemsworth based from his role here. I love love love this movie
Fun fact the bong is a fully functional bong cost 20,000 to make and was a very expensive prop
Both movies do not have the same director.
@@scarlettmi Yeah, Drew Goddard directed this, and did bring Hemsworth in for his next film, "Bad Times at the El Royale" but Kenneth Branagh directed the first "Thor" (which always makes me laugh.) AFAIK Branagh didn't have anything to do with "Cabin".
Joss Whedon co wrote and produced The Cabin in the Woods and later helped Hemsworth to be reconsidered for Thor by calling the director despite his previously unsuccessful audition for the part. (Edit: Whedon later went on to be the director for The Avengers)
Joss whedon was involved in making this movie and thor
When I first saw this I cracked up laughing when all the elevator doors opened up and the monsters came out. I don't know why but it was hilarious to me.
I saw this in the Cinema & I too thought with film title & the way it started, it'd be your typical teen horror movie, but not the case, the more the storyline progressed, it did keep ya guessing & wondering what was going on with all the plot twists, your comments in your reviews was enlightening for me, so thanks very much for this! 😎
That sponsorship bit at the beginning was AMAZING 😂 👌🏻
hahaha Glad you enjoyed!
Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, and Robert De Niro, play in a 2012 movie called Red Lights. Its a great play for this time of year with amazing actors!
I love this movie soooo much, but you asked the same question I always ask: Why would they even have a button like that? 😂
When we saw this movie in theaters we thought we were in the wrong room the way that opening scene played out. Very nearly walked out before the screamer title popped up!
Chris did his best but you can definitely hear the accent lol but I didn’t kind lol this movie is so fun they hit so many of those classic horror movie tropes I know they had so much fun on set with this one.
Interesting fact: While this movie came out late 2011, it was all filmed in early 2009 and edited. It took some time for a studio to pick it up for release in theaters. They had given up on it being released but then Thor was released in Spring 2011 and this movie got picked up just because Chris Hemsworth was in it.
So excited you guys reacted to this. One of most favourite movies ever!!
The actor who plays Marty (The Fool) is also in one of the best episodes of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. He plays a fecalphiliac economics major. Which is a sentence I never thought I'd say.
Hey man, everyone has to buckle down and study some shit now and then
Ms Weaver is listed in the credits as "The Director." I can't recall who but one reactor thought that meant she directed the movie. As to the film itself, think of every horror move ever made, you'll find a bit of it in this. The guy with the saw blades in his face is a take off of Pinhead. I LOVE this movie!
Damn. You guys are frickin clairvoyant! You nailed everything before it happened! 😆 when I saw this in the theater it was a brilliant and surprising Rollercoaster ride of pure awesome!
Nice reaction guys and you always have some of the best editing
Some of the poses in that clothing ad was top tier stuff haha 😄 Got me curious what a Marge size is like though so i'll have to pick one up. Always looking for a good T-shirt, cheers 👍
Before this, Joss Whedon was known for the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, and Firefly, as well as Firefly's followup movie Serenity.
And of course Avengers was a year after this.
I only discovered your channel last week. And damn I love all your videos
Gotta love the advertisements, hope 300k comes sooner for you guys
i love this movie! i remember not liking it the first time i watched it, but then i watched more of the specific type of horror movies that it's satirizing, then i came back to this, and realized just how GOOD it is.
I will say it right now: The cabin in the woods is a horror movie that was WAY ahead of its time!
I always assumed the single guard was in charge of the booth they later hid in, that's why he was alone and first to respond
This and Starship Troopers are like my lets have a drink and watch a fun flix, movies 🎉❤
This is such a " what the fuck am I watching" movie. I went in thinking it was going to be a basic "cabin in the woods " horror movie. The ending explains everything, it's like a horror movie making fun of the same style . It's so dumb it's good. When Kurt hit the invisible wall, I shot coffee out my nose I was laughing so hard because I had forgotten about the bird. I couldn't stop laughing . Thank God I was alone in the theater.
This is such a good horror comedy icon I love this movie so glad you're reacting to it!!
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I think the reason why everything started going to shit right here is because Marty was "The Virgin/Final Girl" and Dana was "The Fool".
That's why he didn't die right away when he was supposed to, the Virgin is always the last to die or the lone survivor in horror movies.
It’s a five for me. It may not be what I would qualify as the most masterful horrour film but it’s the one that’s the most fun for me.
Lot of people have clued you all in about the movie being a metaphor for RL audiences wanting the same entertainment in and out, how much nation was performing the ritual based off of their style of horrour films, etc. Couple other fun tidbits if I may add:
*Theres a strong theory - and the novelization hints further at it - that there was another big mistake made by the Undercabin: Marty was the Virgin - check his comments when Jules is in his face - and Dana is the Fool making poor decisions like her professor, so that also hurt the ritual.
*The funding and people are covered: the monsters and resources are supplied by the ancient powers and really, if you see the creatures in the “zoo” you aren’t going to have trouble buying into things in future years (regarding the amount of staff). This was the first year for Truman - a possible nod to the Truman Show - and he had all the same questions you did but was quickly converting.
*Marty’s actour is more buff than Hemsworth (or was back then) as a semi-pro boxer. It’s why he is kept layered in clothing. No influence on the movie; just fun trivia.
*While Whedon’s name comes up as the big one because of his fame, this was more of a Drew Goddard finalization (and I recommend checking out “Bad Times at the El Royale” to see more of his style shown here).
*I always wonder if the drawing of the Professor is based off of Stephen King.
*It’s always cooler with a merman.
Love that you said Zoltar from BIG should be in the cabins basement 😂
Joss was doing the underground lab controlling demons thing back in the late 90s/early 2000s with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tv series. Cabin in the Woods came put on 2011, written in 2010, I beleive. Hunger Games came out in 2012.
I love these stealth Sigourney movie appearances. There are a few more out there.