Movie: Cabin in the Woods

[estepheia]

So. Hubby and I just watched Cabin in the Woods.
Memo to myself: never watch Joss's stuff in German. Somehow the German voices felt wrong. Unfortunately, the movie theatre only showed the German version.
Second memo to myself: do not watch slasher or zombie movies - even if Joss makes them.
I suppose the meta is more fun if one watches the iconic movies of the genre on a regular basis.... I certainly recognized a handful of the references (I watched Evil Dead ages ago, and back then it scared me so much, I actually looked away until friends said it was safe to watch again), but i guess you have to be a fan to enjoy them.
I fail to see the fun in buckets full of blood and I hate character death. Friends lent me their walking Dead DVD but it's still sitting on my shelf, because zombies = scary.
So, CitW was fun, often clever und sometimes surprising, sometimes predictable. I don't regret watching it - but I won't rush out to buy the Bluray. Avengers on the other hand....

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I'm still very glad I decided not to go see it in the theater and read the book instead. I might watch it on video someday, where I can easily turn it off or fast forward through the gory bits. I just can't handle gore.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

I am not keen on gore either. I didn't really find the film terribly scary or shocking, maybe that's because it left very little unexplained. I saw the trailer of that ghost story movie with D. Radcliffe - that looked a lot scarier, imho. But Cabin isn't really trying to be scary...