In fact, I thought I was spoiled before watching "The Cabin in the Woods" because a friend of mine said that this movie was "the horror version of "The Hunger Games"." So soon after the movie started, I started to feel disappointed. I thought I had completely guessed the plot direction and felt that I was spoiled by spoilers. However, this is the great thing about "The Cabin in the Woods". Just when you think you are right, it slaps you immediately, making you dumbfounded and clapping your hands to make you hooked. I watched the second half of the film completely with my mouth open. It completely jumped out of the usual narrative logic of horror films and even science fiction thrillers, discarding the old routines of the audience's bad shoulders, and using wonderful imagination and creativity to completely subvert the abuse. The type of horror film; at the same time, it is also boldly innovating in the narrative structure of horror films. The whole film is actually wrapped in three different stories like an onion. The director starts from the innermost horror story. The film blends horror, thriller, science fiction, magic comedy and other types of elements. In addition to innovation, it also continues the experience of watching horror movies. From the suppression of abuse to the thrill of counterattack, the film finally uses a "party orgy" style climax scene. Realize the dream of almost all horror movies, and the excellent entertainment allows everyone to watch it heartily.
The horror film "House in the Woods", which is not terrible at all, is of course more than just "subverting for subversion". The film uses a humorous self-deprecating tone to ridicule that today's horror films can no longer frighten the audience and deceive the audience. The audience has seen too many repetitions and has long been vulgar. The story told in "The Cabin in the Woods" is such a metaphor. In the film, the "screenwriters", "directors" and even special effects technology departments are working hard to create a wonderful but clichéd "horror film". Those young men and women are like Controlled actors, or passive audiences, know that they can't fight in the gloomy woods, and they can't run around in danger but must gather together. Even Japanese elementary school students have their own way of facing female ghosts. In this way, "House in the Woods" satirized and deconstructed the killing and killing horror films, and at the same time successfully completed the self-transcendence and subversion, and threw those popular killing and killing films a few blocks away.
Many media say that this is the best deconstruction of a horror film since "Screaming". I'm not sure if it is the best, but this year there are still a few horror horrors that I can't guess what will happen next. Where's the film? Based on this alone, I felt no pressure to give Five Stars to "The Cabin in the Woods".
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