The film was actually shot in 2009, but has been skulking on the shelves of MGM since the studio folded. Now its release couldn\u2019t be timelier, with Whedon\u2019s\u00a0Avengers Assemble<\/em> out this April\u00a0 and Goddard penning Spielberg\u2019s Robopocalypse<\/em>. The pair are clearly exorcising their issues with the horror genre here, as The Cabin\u2026 <\/em>is a sharp slash in the gut to all that\u2019s wrong with it. This movie flies in the face of conventions, just as Buffy<\/a><\/em> did for television.<\/p>\n To reap the most rewards you need to go in blind; ignore the trailer that struggles to match up to the movie it\u2019s promoting, thrashing against a straightjacket of secrecy. The plot synopsis won\u2019t help you either, pandering to the expectations that this is just another stomach turner in the vein of The<\/em> Evil Dead<\/em>, simply saying, \u201cFive friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen.\u201d It rightly omits the eye-popping surprises and the dual plot between white-collar workers and the hapless teens that keeps the audience in the know without sacrificing the suspense.<\/p>\n The characters who are left in the dark are extremely likeable and their vernacular is straight from the Whedonverse. Lines like, \u201cI\u2019m going to go home and liberate my cabinets,\u201d are tinged with surreal humour and when a horny high schooler discovers a two-way mirror to a girl\u2019s bedroom, he admits to enduring \u201can internal battle, blood shed on both sides.\u201d Some of the group even resemble well-known members of Whedon\u2019s world, as stoner Marty (Kranz) plays Xander to Kristen Connolly\u2019s Willow-esque Dana. You wind up rooting for the victims instead of wishing them dead – a rarity in this genre – and the script helpfully offers hilarity in between moments of the tripwire tension.<\/p>\n The Cabin In The Woods\u00a0<\/em>serves up something utterly unique to a genre that\u2019s been done to, well, death. The Eli Roths<\/a> of the industry have come up with thousands of hideous ways to exit this world in rigorous torture porn sessions, but The Cabin In The Woods<\/em>\u00a0doesn\u2019t need to rely on gore to put the frighteners on. Sure, limbs don\u2019t always stay attached and the camera lens doesn\u2019t always dodge the blood splatters, but the idea behind it is so refreshingly new that it will appeal to horror fans and those that hate it in equal measure.<\/p>\n Meet the new killer of the horror genre, he\u2019s smart, calculated, and has a GSOH.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-Cabin-In-The-Woods-Joss-Whedon.jpg\" "\\"The")
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