Pandering to the Twilight crowd...?
I don’t really know how original and fresh Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s Cabin In The Woods will ultimately play all these years after it was completed and shuffled around, but it’s at least got an interesting poster and an intriguing trailer. Coming across as something like a horror Truman Show by way of Scream (there are probably better alchemic comparisons, so forgive me), it’s clearly a very meta horror flick trading on the humor of lampooning cliches filtered through Whedon’s trademark wit.
Does this trailer get you excited, or do you think times are moving too quickly for a meta-horror movie to still be relevant several years after it was made? Films like House of 1000 Corpses and Trick ‘r’ Treat didn’t recover from their various shelving particularly well, but perhaps a little of that Avengers buzz will crossover, since Whedon will have both this and his superhero epic hitting within a few weeks of each other next April/May.
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I kind of wish Whedon would’ve played it smart by marketing the trailer like the beginning and fucking with us, but even with the trailer pretty much being a spoiler, there’s still enough mind-fuckery to wonder what the hell is going on. So I’m still excited for this. And believe me, I’m sure Whedon and Goddard have some tricks up our sleeves.
Holy Shit, I’m there!
I’m down. Always good to hear that Screamin’ Jay Manson.
I’m not really a horror fan, but holy crap that looks good.
That’s a great looking trailer. I read the script for this one, and I think it’s pretty damn good for a post-modern horror – it subverts genre tropes way better than Scream did, and ends up being pretty original in its own right. That said, I do think the time for deconstructing the genre has passed, and it’s time to re-construct it again.
I’ll give this one a shot, though – between this and John Dies At The End, it’s gonna be a good year for bugnuts crazy horror flicks.
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