"Better than Scooby Snacks"
The slasher movie that puts the MEAT back into META, Cabin is one of the highest brow 4th wall breaking horror/comedys yet made (sorry Rubber). Cabin is rife with surprises, mostly about how entertaining and amusing it all ends up being. Unlike what the trailer shows you the film isn't a "big twist movie", right from the get go it is a smart scifi fan service styl
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breakdown on the whats and whys of horror movies, from the original
Evil Dead to Cube to say, Freddy vs Jason. It climaxes in a horror
movie nerdgasm of gory spectacle and grand guignol that was simply a
delight and worth the ticket price by itself. However, in addition to
that you get intelligent writing, snappy dialogue, a high quotient of
tension and gore mixed in with some very funny moments, and the world's
first (I think?) fully functioning stoner hero. The few things I have
against the film are that it doesn't actually work as a horror film by
itself (probably due to the funny), and for a movie being all
"scriptwriting geek" smart and self aware about the conventions of the
modern horror movie its shallow and unfulfilling final act completely
cowtows to those same conventions and ends with a giant whimper instead
of the intelligent BiGBANG it deserves. I suppose they blew their wad,
er meager budget on those 5-10 minutes of geeking out on the absolute
joyful mayhem that is the film's centerpiece, a life time of horror
movie wish fulfillment that had my inner geeky teenager drooling out
loud.
8 Spams in a Can out of 10 (GOOD)
8 Spams in a Can out of 10 (GOOD)
