I had heard good things about this film for years, but never got around to watching it. I didn't really know what it was about till I started listening to the SinCast (the podcast for CinemanSins), and them talking about it. so I gave it a watch, and I loved it!
A very cleaver spoof of horror movies and their tropes, while also celebrating them at the same time and actually being a good horror/slasher film on it's own right. And it did it without feeling at all like Scream. It's funny, it's subversive, and very well written. I've heard some people don't like the ending, and sure there are a couple issues with it, but I loved how it ended. Felt like the perfect ending.
To give a summery of this movie would ruin some of the surprise, and I would advice going into this movie blind.
The Cabin in the Woods is a wild ride of a movie that celebrates-and criticizes-the horror genre, drawing inspiration from and poking gory fun at a multitude of films in a furious pace while telling the story of a group of young adults whose fun getaway becomes a slaughter as improbable things related to scientists monitoring the group torment them! If your idea of fun is to see parodies of horror and then watch everything run amok, this might be the film for you! Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and several Avengers films, among others) wrote and produced this dark comedy horror with enough restraint for it not to approach the silliness of the Scary Movie franchise while maintaining laughs and a grisly body count.
Continuity mistake: Just before Steve Hadley is killed by the Merman, his tie is wrapped around his neck. When the Merman attacks him, his tie is worn properly.(01:19:40)
Trivia: The movie pays tribute to many famous horror movie monsters. The creature with the Buzz-Saws in its head with the Puzzle Orb is based off PinHead. Once it's free, you can see a Chatterbox-influenced cenobyte standing next to it. The people with ceramic masks who tie up and torture the scientists are based off The Strangers. The psychotic clown with the knife can either be seen as a tribute to PennyWise or Killer Clowns from Other Space. The massive killer bat is obviously from the movie BATS. A chainsaw can be heard as the different monitors are showing the slaughter - indicating LeatherFace. The ghoul-doctors operating on a victim while staring into the camera is based off House on Haunted Hill. The Red-Neck zombies brought to life through an incantation from a book is a tribute from The Evil Dead. The Scare-Crow-like zombies who kill the black security guard are based off of the movie ScareCrow.
Question: Is there a reason, that a facility full of monsters would ever, under any circumstances have a System Purge button? Is it just to make satire of the fact that the antagonist is usually stupid?
Answer:As you said, it is a satire of the common Deus Ex Machina trope you find in such films.
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Answer: As you said, it is a satire of the common Deus Ex Machina trope you find in such films.