The Cabin In The Woods

It's time for drinking, debauchery and smoking doobies when two football players, Curt (Chris "Thor" Hemsworth) and Holden (Jesse Williams); two hot college co-eds, Dana (Kristen Connolly) and Jules (Anna Hutchinson); and some moron stoner, Marty (Fran Kranz), decide to ditch the city and head out to a secluded cabin in the woods (subtle title work there, dudes).

However, they don't realize they are being observed by a mysterious group led by Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford), and what these two guys have planned for them is too much for anyone to imagine.

What is the secret behind The Cabin In The Woods?

Are Jenkins and Whitford slumming it in an attempt to get in good with co-writer/producer Joss Whedon to score roles in Marvel's The Avengers or Iron Man 3?

The Cabin In The Woods may be the strangest, yet, oddly compelling movie you will ever see in your life. Co-writer/director Drew Goddard and Whedon have taken several genres, tossed them in a blender, and poured them out for fans to slurp up.

Before you think you are walking into yet another boring, predictable slasher film, just admit you are wrong. Sure, we get plenty of horror moments, but Whedon and Goddard also toss in an abundance of self-mockery, over-the-top campiness and an aloofness that sometimes works fantastically, but, at other times, makes the audience think everyone involved in the creative process is trying too hard to prove they are above it all and a bit too cool for the rest of us.

And, The Cabin In The Woods gets better and better as Whedon and Goddard slowly pull back the layers of the mystery behind this horrific exercise, which leads to the movie becoming funnier by the minute as it crescendos into a climax only rivaled by The Godfather or Goodfellas.

The ending is one of those that you either love or hate, but, even if you hate it, the rest of the movie will be enough to make you happy.

The Cabin in the Woods is rated R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, language, drug use and some sexuality/nudity.