Movie : Cabin in the woods ( 2012 )

Genre : Sci-fi | Thriller | Horror

Our Rating : 7/10


Cabin in the woods directed by Drew Goddard is a Sci fi thriller with a different touch. Plot is same old routine story where five friends ( Dana , Curt , Jules , Marty and Holden ) travel to a isolated land in a forest few miles drive from the city to spend their summer in Curt's Cousin owned Cabin without even realizing the horrific events which are gonna come by next. They party , the drink and they have fun and things go smoothly until they discover a basement filled with so many artifacts and strange things , pictures of human sacrifices dumped in there. They are terrified after visiting the basement and they have found a diary written by some girl in 90's with Latin inscription. , Though Marty refuse his friend not to read the Latin phrases , they continue to read the diary only to realize that they have woke up Zombies beneath the earth just like in Evil Dead. Then we know its same old fashioned kill , zombies break-into house and start killing one by one.

With all these events happening simultaneously , director gives a twist that everything whatever is happening been covered live as a reality show by group of scientists who are continuously monitoring these five people from many thousand feet below the cabin just like in Resident evil. They control everything happening in the woods and the cabin. They have hundreds of employees working there were each taking care of specific functions like Chemical department , maintenance department etc.. !! We might say wow..whats going on in there. Is this some joke going around and why would people love to watch the people in cabin being killed and you would feel as if you are watching Hostel movie. There is no way out of that place as all the entrance to the land been trapped and sealed by the scientist who are working below. Things would go confusing and only Marty , Dana alone survive these attempts. Director gives another big twist that the killings need to be real and the scientist who work there are no psychopaths rather they want to give a ritual sacrifice of Five young people to keep the Dark matter and ancient evil gods to keep them below the earth. These sacrifice are seems must to keep them under and protect the earth from them. Dana and marthy while trying to escape from the zombies find way to a graveyard which is connected to a lift which travels deep down the earth to the place where the scientists work and manage the system above. As no way around the woods to escape , they decide to travel in the same lift in which zombies are been sent to the surface to kill them. While they travel , they discover that its not just Zombies , they have so many other evil spirits , ghosts , killers , ware-wolfs etc etc looked down below in different chambers and that they themselves unknowingly made their own choise on how they should die when they choose to read the zombie diary instead of other things lying on the basement.

Scientists track them on their monitoring camera and they send a army of security guards to get them alive. Dana and Marthy somehow found their way out of that lift , but to see themselves been surrounded by armed guards . As no where to go , they hide up inside a Bullet proof control room nearby , which the guards notice and start to fire at the control room. Dana turns off all the switches in the control room to unlock all the dark elements and evil spirits out of their locked chambers. Things gets totally messed up when these locked up creatures start killing up the guards and its total blood bath gruesome violence and killing from then on. From the control room , they both travel further down in a safe passage which leads them to a secret chamber with ancient drawings on the walls. That is when they realize they are chosen one and that they are needed to complete the ritual as it needs a whore , a athlete , a scholar , a fool and a virgin. Three are already dead and only the fool ( Marthy ) and Virgin ( Dana ) are still alive. The killing should be in a correct sequence and that the fool needs to be scarified before the virgin death . If this doesn't happen correctly , the ritual will remain incomplete. They killings should happen before sun rise which is just going to be in another 8 minutes. Marthy and dana decide to kill themselves at one point for the sake of humanity but later they drop the idea just so to give equal chance to all humanity to share the pain and suffering as they made them to go through all this . Its now Sun rise and earth shatters , the underground structure collapses and something very big with a gaint hand pops out of the center of earth and director ends the closing shot there..

Drew goddard did a perfect job and he devised the script very well at-least for the first half. Initial thirty minutes were really chilling and you would think as if expecting some alien movie out of it. But instead we are let down and all we see is yet another zombie movie .The later part is filled with ware-wolf ,zombies and all other creatures in recent horror films coming live and killing the people beneath the earth. At first it may look creepy but later you would laugh it out as its nor more trilling and horrifying. Picturization was cool with some nice closeup shots and CG works at some places were excellent. But screenplay is a real let down atleast at the later half. Saying that its never a bad attempt from the director and it can be definitely be watched once , unless if you are not a zombie liker.

FAM Punch Line : Same routine movie with five friends in woods and zombies killing spree . Expected more , Outcome is less. But that said its a decent thriller movie released in recent time , which definitely deserves a one time watch