by Alli Kett
Straight up, I’m putting it out there; The Cabin in the Woods (2012) is one of those films that you have to see to get. Revealing too much will wreck your viewing of the film. The basic plot is that five teenagers take a break to a cabin in the woods owned by a distant relative. On the way to the cabin in the woods, they stop to get gas and are confronted by an old man, clearly a redneck hillbilly, the likes of which we’ve seen in a gazillion films. He warns of the coming dangers and ends by insulting the group. Then, as the group leave the gas station, said redneck-hillbilly makes a telephone call to office employees, Sitterson and Hadley, a most excellent pairing of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. This is not our first clue that something is off, but the comedic promise of this film really lifts off from here. As Sitterson and Hadley laugh at the redneck-hillbilly’s passion, the audience is sitting there, wondering what in the Alliance is going on.
Straight up, I’m putting it out there; The Cabin in the Woods (2012) is one of those films that you have to see to get. Revealing too much will wreck your viewing of the film. The basic plot is that five teenagers take a break to a cabin in the woods owned by a distant relative. On the way to the cabin in the woods, they stop to get gas and are confronted by an old man, clearly a redneck hillbilly, the likes of which we’ve seen in a gazillion films. He warns of the coming dangers and ends by insulting the group. Then, as the group leave the gas station, said redneck-hillbilly makes a telephone call to office employees, Sitterson and Hadley, a most excellent pairing of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. This is not our first clue that something is off, but the comedic promise of this film really lifts off from here. As Sitterson and Hadley laugh at the redneck-hillbilly’s passion, the audience is sitting there, wondering what in the Alliance is going on.
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