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movie review - The Cabin in the Woods

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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.

rand()m quote

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.

—Jorge Luis Borges