Cabin in the Woods

[deird1]

So, a few months ago, Australia's cinemas looked at the upcoming releases, thought "Horror movie by that Whedon guy? And starring that famous Aussie actor who's just been in some blockbusters? Eh - no-one'll watch that..." and decided that we could all wait for the dvd.

Guess how well that went down with the Browncoats?

...which is how I ended up in a packed cinema last night – the only cinema showing the movie in the whole of Victoria – watching Cabin in the Woods with a bunch of obsessed Joss Whedon fans.



It was really fun!

I'm not a horror movie fan at all, but I've apparently seen enough to get what tropes they were talking about. And, as a roleplayer, I am of course familiar with Cthulhu, so the end made perfect sense.

Things I must seen again include: the huge list of monsters that they were taking bets on, the huge boxes of monsters in the storage area, whatever was being written and held up to the security cameras near the end, any and all writing displayed on-screen. This is, I feel, a movie that will repay careful pausing.

And the stuff in Japan was hilarious!



I am now busily tracking down all the conversations I missed back in April...

Comments

[fenchurch]

I ended up reading the novelisation, rather than going to see the movie in the theater. I have a horrible time dealing with gore and, having read the book, I'm pretty glad I avoided seeing it on the big screen. That said, I may still watch it on DVD when it comes out.