movie review - The Cabin in the Woods
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2014.11.17
This is a horror movie within a sci-fi movie about a world-wide effort by humanity to appease the old gods using a systematic approach to sacrifice. In this system, things are somewhat left to chance and there's the possibility that the victims can escape their fate. It's just unlikely.
But when the various would-be victims in different locations beat the odds the gods will demand their due, and that's when all hell breaks loose at the US location - with all of the various monsters and killers assembled for the sacrifice scenarios getting loose at once.
Recommended. It's absurd fun, if a bit strained in places as people work with an over-the-top script.