The Cabin in the Woods
2011 · Movie · R · 95 min · ★ 6.7 · 82% critics
Five friends head to a remote cabin in the woods for a weekend meant to be relaxing. But as night comes, they realize something far more disturbing is unfolding—and that their getaway isn’t what it seemed.
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Details
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2012-04-12
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (8,572 votes)
- Box office
- $70,038,838
- Budget
- $30,000,000
About
If you want a clever horror-comedy that mixes scares with playful disruption of familiar tropes, The Cabin in the Woods should hit; Not for you if you only want straightforward horror or you dislike meta satire like The Ring or Evil Dead II.
Pros: hilarious horror ride; clever genre play; memorable scares | Cons: mixed tension; polarizing ending; some find it lame
Themes
- giant snake
- school party
- motorcycle crash
- abandoned house
- woods
- marijuana
- cabin
- apocalypse
- zombie
- werewolf
- creature
- cabin in the woods
- +6 more
Cast & crew
Kristen Connolly
as Dana Polk
Fran Kranz
as Marty Mikalski
Chris Hemsworth
as Curt Vaughn
Jesse Williams
as Holden McCrea
Anna Hutchison
as Jules Louden
Richard Jenkins
as Richard Sitterson
Bradley Whitford
as Steve Hadley
Amy Acker
as Wendy Lin
Brian J. White
as Daniel Truman
Sigourney Weaver
as The Director
Directed by Drew Goddard