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Storyline
It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, "The Woodsboro Murders," which has been turned into the film, "Stab," starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film's play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his "surrogate sister." But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up! |
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The Director
Wes Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the Scream films, alongside The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn, Red Eye, and My Soul to Take.
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User Reviews
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Cabin in the Woods – Not The Best Meta Horror Ever (Spoilers)
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! I was excited for this movie in the weeks leading up to its release. I mean really really excited. I gorged myself on any preview I could find online that did not spoil the movie at all. These only helped to fuel my excitement as I braced myself to watch the Meta Horror to beat all Meta Horrors. Reviewers talked about the genius plotline, the intricate surprises and layering and the unique breaking down of the fourth wall. Some even went so far as to claim this to be the horror movie to end all horror movies.
So I went to see the movie the day it came out and….I don’t think I’ve been as disappointed about a movie experience since Transformers 2. Actually this is worse than that because at least reviews agreed that Transformers was crap yet Cabin in The Woods continues to be praised as a genius movie and it doesn’t deserve such accolades.
The past 10-15 years has seen the horror movie genre evolve. Audiences aren’t satisfied with a few jumpy moments and a bit of blood and seek something more intellectually stimulating. Hence the birth of meta and reality horror movies. CITW has been compared a great deal to the Scream movies but it’s nothing like them. The Scream franchise was a meta horror in a semi reality environment. There were no creatures with powers, no supernatural goings on. It was a group of kids trying to survive the onslaught of the killer using the rules of a horror movie as their guide. Going back and watching them again they were very clever especially Scream 2 which goes further by with the ‘Stab’ movies that have been created on the back of the killings in Scream 1. Wes Cravens knowledge and respect of the horror genre is paramount a...
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reviewed by dmayerl (Filmaster.com) on the 25th of April 2012
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Better than I expected. There are many cringe-worthy lines and the acting isn't all that, but the plot is reasonably good and the self-referentiality and meta-horror work... every now and then. It isn't good, but it could've been worse.