Cabin in the Woods

The film we watched in class, Cabin In the Woods is about six young travelers visiting a cabin to have fun for few days, but end up getting killed as a sacrifice to ancient old gods. It depicts the horror that comes from people not being able to have control of their own body, but being played by others as puppets do. It is a movie that references a various horror films. The creepy old man that warns the death of six young travelers is a reference of the film The Harbinger. The film The Evil Dead is clearly referenced by setting where the horror happens as a cabin in the middle of the woods. The directors use many methods to highlight the scenes such as use of metafiction and different lightings. It is a combination between horror and comedy and this is to make the gory and scary scenes more sudden and apparent. However, personally I could not take the film seriously because of this mix between genres. It just felt like it is neither comedy or thriller.