Cabin in the woods

This film is very different from the rest as it includes various aspects from all types of horror , it includes gory content along with a unsuspecting plot however a very clever plot, with purposeful twists.

The film is about a group of  typical teenagers going on a camping
 trip, they were oblivious that this trip was indeed a set up where they were being watched from their journey from the town to the cabin .As the story unfolds as the teenagers  fates are decided for them and  they end up choosing their  way to die , while upholding the regular conventions of a  film , with the dark cabin and the classic  stereotypes , the jock, the cheerleader, the “nerd” , the hippie and the virgin. Later  in the film it is discovered that they are the sacrifice to the underworld.

This film is  unconventional, as the majority of horror films as the innocence of the “virgin” is apparent  from the very star t, she is deemed the weak one when she actually ends up outliving all the others. The film reveals the predicted timeline of the death of each of the students. Her death  was altered though as she was saved by an unsuspected  person who would have been predicted to be dead., “The Nerd”. 


Together they uncover the real agenda of  the camping trip, the contained horror characters that are released  kill , along with the leaders of the project. However towards the end , there is a final boy and a final girl which is unconventional, they fight and battle it out at first, but then decide to die together making them both the ’Heroes’.  This is seen in the first Hunger games.

According to the Clover’s theory of the final girl, she is typically unavailable, sexually, maybe socially, she is the only one within the house who isn’t dating or involved in any sexual activity. This is shown when one of the other male members of the group is undressing and she looks and shy's away in awe. 

The name Dana is also unisex .The final girl theory helps drive the narrative forward, with out this the audience will not know  the route of death within the narrative , along iwih the suspense and tension, for those who survive . This theory states that the audience will reject the final boy however that is  subverted towards the end of the film as they help each other.

Cabin in the woods uses this idea and subverts it, his leaves the audience confused and stunned as the ending is not what is expected  does not happen, they both die together by choice, her character is also subverted as she  smokes marijuana ,both pleased they din’t kill each other however frustrated that the world will have to suffer, just before the ground collapses.unsuspected