{"id":944,"date":"2014-06-25T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cumnockmediaclass.wordpress.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2014-06-25T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:26:51","slug":"cabin-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/2014\/06\/25\/cabin-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabin in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horror film clich\u00e9s evident in The Cabin in the Woods<\/p>\n

Five college students pile into a van and drive deep into the woods for a weekend in a borrowed cabin. Their last stop is of course a decrepit gas station populated by a demented creep who giggles at the fate in store for them. <\/p>\n

This is no ordinary cabin in the woods, but actually a set for a diabolical experiment. Beneath the cabin is a basement, and beneath that is a vast modern laboratory headed by technology geeks who turn dials, adjust levers and monitor every second on a bank of TV monitors. Their scheme is to offer the five guinea pigs a series of choices, which will reveal \u2014 something. There is some possibility that this expensive experiment is involved with security, and we get scenes showing similar victims in scenarios around the world.<\/p>\n

The script was apparently written in only three days. It explores some issues about horror:
\n* why horror is so potent
\n* what awful human need is being fed by seeing attractive young people in states of semi-undress who are suddenly, brutally slaughtered, almost as if they are being punished for being young and sexy
\n* why does the genre adhere so closely to the belief that young people in jeopardy have to be picked off singly, leaving that one character who had initially appeared to be so vulnerable and unworldly, but in whom the situation has uncovered extraordinary reserves of heroism and grit<\/p>\n

Character stereotypes teens<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe brain\u201d \u2013 mature and thoughtful
\n\u201cThe jock\u201d \u2013 action hero
\nThe \u201ceasy blonde\u201d \u2013 bad girl
\n\u201cThe joker\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe wiseman\u201d \u2013 comic relief
\n\u201cThe divergent\u201d \u2013 virginal good girl who will get away after suffering<\/p>\n

Character stereotypes middle aged<\/strong>
\nThe balding, bespectacled guy who resignedly shoots the breeze
\nThe middle aged friend who has made a mistake
\nWhite coated science\/technician types surrounded by screens, dials, buttons and metal fixtures
\nThe woman who is the \u201cbrains\u201d while the men are the bosses<\/p>\n

Situation stereotypes<\/strong>
\nRemote location
\nCreepy old man who gives out warnings to be ignored
\nReligion as a counterpoint to evil \u2013 Latin, bible quotations
\nSlasher
\nZombie
\nArtefacts which wreak havoc
\nDark key-lighting \u2013 almost impossible to see at various points
\nScreams
\nGore
\nDead animals
\nMorbid humour<\/p>\n

Nods to other film classics in horror genre include:<\/strong>
\nHellraiser
\nThe Ring (originally from Japan)
\nThe Shining (elevator)
\n\"cabin-in-the-woods\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Could there be some anthropological answer to the ritualist behaviour in horror?<\/p>\n

Underlying theme \u2013 we\u2019re all being controlled by sinister forces and those in Government are willing to sacrifice a few citizens in order to keep equilibrium for everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Horror film clich\u00e9s evident in The Cabin in the Woods Five college students pile into a van and drive deep into the woods for a weekend in a borrowed cabin. Their last stop is of course a decrepit gas station populated by a demented creep who giggles at the fate in store for them. This … <\/p>\n

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