Actors: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth
Director: Drew Goddard
Note: Minor Spoilers Ahead
I feel like the most ignored aspect of our age as it relates to art is just how many stories we are bombarded with. As a consequence of this irradiation, story-makers come up with new stories by nesting them in older stories, or relating them to process of creating stories. Cabin in the Woods's gimmick establishes that if we are familiar with the artifice of horror films, why not add an additional insane layer of artifice over and above that one?
There's all sorts of play with the idea of a horror film viewer as a cruel person - the implication of the Cabin gimmick is that by exposing ourselves to a story where youngsters are needlessly maimed or killed by a strange force, we need and/or want that death to happen. I give this film high marks for inventiveness, but it plays in a territory of cuteness that I have a difficult time loving.
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