As a general rule, I’m not a huge fan of gristly and
gruesome horror movies; suspense is more my game. It’s not that I can’t handle
them; I just don’t enjoy seeing people as they are being tortured. I gave up
watching the TV show, The Shield, because
it just had too much violence, torture and rape—not my chosen ways of unwinding
after a long day at the office (strangely).
That said, I do appreciate the inventiveness and
unpredictability of the genre and can see why so many people are drawn to the
movies as a whole.
All of this is a roundabout way of talking about the movie, The Cabin in the Woods. The less you
know about the movie the better. It is still a gristly and gruesome movie, but
a truly original one. My one criticism is that it was too short—it left me
wanting more. But maybe that’s why there will inevitably be a “The Cabin in the Woods 2”.