Five young people come to a hut by the woods to spend the weekend, not knowing that they have been monitored and controlled. They walked into the trap, triggered the trap, and attracted zombies to attack them. They tried to escape, but fell into the clutches and could only watch their companions die one by one. The people who manipulated it all got excited and gambled on their actions, while changing various environmental parameters and mechanisms to ensure they wouldn't escape.
In the end, only one of the five remained, but there was no hope of surviving, but one of her companions suddenly appeared and rescued her. It turned out that one of the remaining four did not die. The two escaped together and discovered the behind-the-scenes of all this. They went down the elevator through the entrance where the zombies were sent up, and found that there were countless and all kinds of terrifying creatures locked up there. Whichever mechanism they triggered would be released. They continued to go deeper and learned that all this was to sacrifice their blood for the former overlords of the earth, those ancient evil gods who had fallen asleep, otherwise they would wake up, rule the earth again, and replace humans. The staff here wanted to capture and kill them, and they had to release the terrifying creatures that were being held, causing a massacre and surviving the period. At the last moment, they did not kill each other, but waited for the sun to rise, they were still alive, and the ancient evil gods woke up.
The movie is called "The Cabin in the Woods". After reading it, I found that it has nothing to do with the wooden house. It just used the wooden house as an introduction to make five people come here and fall into the trap. The title is still very creative. First, Lionsgate appears in a blood-red scene of dismembering and sacrificing people, then two office workers complain about their work, and then suddenly, in the format of an old-fashioned horror movie, a big giant flashes in the center of the screen. Red title, let people know that the main film is about to start. The first half of the film is quite satisfactory, and it seems to have entered the cliché of countless horror films. It copied the format of classic horror films in terms of character images and environmental arrangements, but this is actually just a foreshadowing for the second half, which makes the following anti-routines even more. Conspicuous.
The characters are classic, a muscular man athlete with big breasts and no brains (although in this film because he was manipulated by Chemical India and once regained the IQ of a top student), a whore who is also brainless and dissolute and visible to the naked eye, a A fool who plays video games and smokes all day, a scholar with the best IQ in the team, a virgin who often lives to the end (the last one dies or lives to the end), a holy virgin who looks restrained and has a statue of the Virgin Mary. Whether each one actually corresponds to his character will be discussed later. The environment setting is a shabby wooden hut in a remote place in the dense woods and by the lake. The characters and environments of this film are set with classic templates. But the second half is not conventional. Horror movies that fall into the stereotype will kill her when the last virgin climbs on the pier and is followed by a zombie. Sacrifice, this is a classic. Or let the last virgin fight back against the zombies to escape, and the staff is desperate to get her back, which will pave the way for the sequel or leave an open ending.
However, in this film, virgin, who should have died, was rescued by fool. The two broke into the management and released a bunch of terrifying creatures. They all lived to the end, ushering in the destruction of the ancient evil spirits. World. The wonderful thing about the film is that it has innovation in addition to the classic template, rewrote the plot of the second half, and satirized the traditional horror film.
Speaking of the correspondence between characters and characters, the virgin who lived to the end was surprised when she faced the alien heroine and said that she was a virgin, indicating that she was not a virgin, and the previous dialogue about her relationship with the professor can also confirm that she should be whore. Whore is the virgin, and her prudence can be seen through her pre-death dialogue with athlete. Scholar has almost no sense of existence, so that I almost forgot this role, he did not become a think tank, but according to the title he caught the ball, athlete said he was in the school team or something, indicating that he is athlete, but a fool who has been smoking marijuana. With an IQ, it was surprising to see him "die" the second time, he should be a scholar. The original athlete was fool. He was a top student in sociology and took professional books on vacation, but he became fool because of the chemical control of the managers.
In short, in terms of the correspondence between characters and roles, I personally think that virgin is whore, whore is virgin, fool is scholar, scholar is athlete, and athlete is fool. Characters and characters do not correspond one by one, and it is also an unexpected anti-routine.
Speaking of which, I have to say that this film is satirical about those horror films that completely reproduce the template. This point probably needs to be read by the film critics to realize it. In the film, there are many shots of the management staff who manipulate them. They have a wide variety of departments. By changing the parameters, they can manipulate the IQ and behavior of the five people, arrange countless organs, and easily blow up the tunnel. This is a satire of the directors, screenwriters and crew behind the scenes of those cliché horror films, five of which are actors. Behind the scenes, they use the advanced film technology to control the direction of the film and do not allow any accidents to happen, so as to create a mediocre horror film on the assembly line. But the audience is even more excited after seeing the two break into them and release all kinds of terrifying creatures. This is the purpose of the anti-routine. The development of horror movies still needs innovative scripts to satisfy the audience, otherwise it will Like the crew in the movie.
There are a lot of Easter eggs in the movie. I wonder if they have bought the copyright like "Ready Player One", which is dazzling, dizzying, and has a popcorn movie flavor. It is a bit subversive to turn a pure unicorn into a murderer. This movie may help promote the legalization of marijuana. After all, smoking marijuana can be immune to chemical control, maintain self-will, and have the ability to synaesthesia.
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