Ya sure. What about it do you want to talk about?

So is it actually scary or just full of pop ups and shit? I'm debating going to watch it but I'm a bit of a pussy.

op isn't wrong. it's good people if people were a movie.

>>22321403
It follows the basic horror trope until maybe a little halfway in. There's a part with a bike which is when everything just skyrockets and shit gets crazy.

>>22321403

There are some jump scares, but they're really well done and it doesn't feel cheesy. There is also good tension. It's an all around good scary movie.

But it's also funny, and cool, and a good movie by itself outside of the horror genre. You should see it.

Any streams up yet?

>>22321403
It's a horror story within a completely different story. The horror parts are extremely cliche if you've ever seen any Friday The 13th movie, but are meant to be that way. The scary parts are tempered by extremely well thought out funny parts (unlike most shitty modern horror movies trying to shoehorn comedy in). Over all, this is by far my favorite movie of the year, which is not saying much really because everything thats come out so far has been a pile of shit. This'll end up in my top 10 for the year though easily.

The only way they could have improved this movie is by having Cthulhu show up at the end.

>>22321589
THIS RIGHT HERE! Hit it right on the nail regarding the improvement/spoiler.

I fucking lost it when all the workers were dancing and cheering when the virgin was getting thrown around by the zombie

>>22321589
>>22321624
This needs to be on the DVD as an extra scene goddammitttttttttttttt

So guys, was that the Merman who killed the scientist at the end? I thought the merman who had the saw blades in his face, or did he transform into that thing?

>>22321818
Wut? A merman is a human/fish hybrid creature, like Creature from the Black Lagoon and yes, thats what killed him. The saw blade guy was a reference to Hellraiser

>See list of possible horrors
>Aww man, "so and so" would've bee much cooler
>Mfw all the horrors are shown

>>22321818
No, you're mistaking merman with Hellraiser reference man.

That begs the question though, which of all the artifacts was the merman artifact? I'm guessing the film.

>>22321893
Are you kidding? Did you ever watch the movie? The guy who was betting on Merman specifically reference Curt by saying "He had the fucking conch shell in his hand."

Did anyone else think the main cast was just an expy of Mystery Inc, minus Scooby?

This movie was really weird and cool and funny. If anyone ITT hasn't seen the movie, it's great if you're into strange meta-comedies.

>>22321967
The cast was an exact copy of your average horror-movie cast, that was the whole deal with the blood sacrifice, it implied that horror movies are so cliche and similar because they're all orchestrated as a sacrifice to appease the gods.

>>22321967
The brown guy was Scooby, since they're both the same color

The whole things reminds me a lot of Drag Me to Hell, in that it's self-aware that the premise is "been there, done that" and "silly/implausible," but still manages to remain fun and has plenty there for the gorehounds.

That being said, the actual reasoning behind it makes no sense and is a massive plot hole, but you honestly don't care by the end of it.

>>22322200
How does it not make sense? The 'Ancient Ones' demand an elaborate sacrifice.. more than "guys in cloaks with a dagger and an altar" and thats pretty much what the movie is about.

If they had forcefield technology, why didn't they try to contain the Old Ones behind it?

>>22322273
Where do all the monsters/horrors come from? How are they contained? Why NOT just cut out their hearts or throw them into a volcano?

Why does every country need to do this? What happens if their "guys" are not appeased? Hard to get a virgin, fool, athlete, brain, and whore from a bunch of schoolgirls.

>>22322313
If the Ancient Gods was able to smash through thousands of tons of dirt, rock and an entire cabin, what good is a measly little forcefield going to do?

>>22322366
>Why does every country need to do this?
Only countries with notable film industries are represented, it's a clever little nod.

>What happens if their "guys" are not appeased?
Uhhh, the end of the fucking movie?

>Hard to get a virgin, fool, athlete, brain, and whore from a bunch of schoolgirls.
That's just the American team applying their cultural precedents to their ritual. There's no reason to suggest that every one should be the exact same.

But it's dumb to ask such petty questions when the movie as a whole was so clever and invigorating.

>>22322366
The Director at the end said each culture does it differently. The Whore/Athelete/Scholar/Fool/Virgin thing is just how America does it. I'm not at all familiar with Japanese horror to know what the cliches are over there, though. Probably something to do with brutalizing the innocent rather than punishing the wicked.

>>22321919
Oh, sorry. I must have missed that. Man, I want to watch it again and try to figure out what the artifacts for all the other creatures are.

I wonder what the boomer artifact was...

>>22322484
What boomer?

>>22322366
If Ancient Gods exist in this universe then theres no reason why all the horror tropes contained in the movie shouldn't be able to exist as well.

How are they contained? Did you not see the part where the pothead and the girl got into the huge underground base with all the soldiers and the monsters in their glass cages?

They explained in the movie that the Ancient Ones wanted elaborate sacrifices, not boring "girls tossed into volcanoes". Some people like vanilla ice cream, some people like chocolate ice cream with hot fudge, nuts and caramel.

Every country needs to do this because they don't want the Ancient Ones to get pissed and kill them? They also explained through out the movie how they were able to engineer this particular group of people into going out to the cabin.

>>22322539
When they pan out in the scene where they show all the monsters in clear cubes there's a boomer in one of them.

is the pothead really called the fool? really?

>>22322484
>Whiteboard
>"Deadites"

Lol Evil Dead

>>22322562
I'm a bit thick, was the part with all the moving cells a reference to Cube?

>>22322592
What do else do you call a stereotypical pothead? The Fucking Genius?

You must be high to even ask such a dumb question.

>>22322592
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_fool

>>22322592
>Implying potheads aren't fools

>>22322587
Shit, I'm going to have to wait for a high-res screen of that, then.

>>22321589
The actual design of the 'ancient ones' such as it was, was much better than Cthulu. Since they'd kind of been setting it up as that as the movie wound on. Then BAM it was more Titan-esque than tentacly.

Stoner guy reminded me so much of Shaggy that I was waiting for him to drop a "LIKE ZOINKS" when shit hit the fan.

Oh and the movie completely rules. I hope the Blu-Ray has a feature that shows all the monsters they had locked up in those cubes. There were so god damn many I couldn't keep track.

>>22322623
Yeah, no. That dude was just a fool. Plain and simple.

>>22322646
I remember renting 13 Ghosts on DVD and the only part I liked was the bios for each ghost in the extras.

>>22322667
Sure, buddy.

>[Shakespeare's Fool] became a counter-point to the themes of the play and the power relationships between the theatre and the role of the fool--he manipulates the extra dimension between play and reality to interact with the audience all the while using the themes of the play as his source material.

Unfortunately, no one can be told how good Cabin in the Woods is. You have to see it for yourself.

>>22322724
You can't deny that he still exhibited characteristics of a modern day fool though.

>>22322685

Yeah, I want that for this movie. Most bizarre one to me was the yellow robot with the buzzsaw. How the hell would that relate to anything in an old torn down basement? I don't mean that negatively, I just find hilariously out of place. With how intricate this film was, I assume they wrote a corresponding artifact for each monster.

>>22322724
That might be a fine addendum to the character but it is absolutely guaranteed they were parodying the cliched, stereotypical dopey drugged out hippy/stoner as seen in numerous horror movies.

>>22322758
Well yeah, definitely, but he has a very clear and defined role in the narrative as being the one dude who doesn't fall for the antagonists' bullshit, and the one dude who interacts most directly with the audience by providing most of the self-aware comments throughout. He's very cleverly written and a huge part of why the movie is what it is.

I really liked when "Dana and Marty go down the glass elevator and see all the different kinds of monsters that could've possibly been used on them" I thought that was really awesome and I was sitting there thinking, "I really wish they would show us more of this." So then when "all the monsters got released and started killing all the scientists and soldiers, I went nuts. It was fucking awesome seeing giant snakes, zombies, clowns, spiders, werewolves and other creepy as fuck monsters."

I had so much fun with this movie and to be completely honest, I was sad when it was over.

What was the bit where jules yells "I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!" referencing? I feel like that was an obvious reference to something I haven't seen

>>22322833
Old propaganda antidrug films/commericals

>>22322833
You must be a very young child.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

>>22322833
Not a clear reference to anything, it's just a overbearing parenting cliche.

>>22322828

This is exactly how I feel. When the elevator doors all opened up, the entire theater lost their shit. I want a gif of that as soon as possible.

>>22322787
those doll-faced thugs didn't exactly fit the motif of folk lore horroreither. The buzz saw robot probably represented sci-fi horror. Terminator, Maximum Overdrive, some other example I can't name because I'm a philistine...

>>22322904
You are dumb and under aged. See
>>22322885

It is a direct reference to this commercial.

>>22322828
I absolutely fucking died when that fucking unicorn gored the dude with its horn out of goddamn nowhere

Fuck I can't wait to see it a second time.

>>22322758

Jesus Christ just admit you're wrong for once in your fucking life, internet.

>>22322936
I am 22, of course I don't remember that shit. What I DO remember, is that exact line being done in so many comedies to the point where it's just a generic cliche, so kindly fuck yourself you smarmy cunt.

>>22322933
From IMDB:

Doll Faces (Possibly summoned by matching doll face masks in basement)- Specific reference to The Strangers.

Killbot - Generic reference to Killer Machine/Robots films (ex. Hardware).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/faq#.2.1.6

>>22322933

Oh I got the reference, I just wanna know how it worked with all the old decrepit shit in the basement. Also, the doll face people are a reference to The Strangers, a horror movie a few years back with Liv Tyler.

In the beginning when the two lab geeks were talking they mentioned several times about a "failed" attempt that happened in 1998?

Does anyone know what that was in reference too?

BTW, The slut, jock, nerd, virgin and fool was a combination used because most horror movies use it and there was a reference point in the film (the slut showing her tits" that they record these because it is what the "audience" pays money for? I believe it was meant that they use the film to make a movie and push it out to the public. So thats how the labs are funded, the sacrifice is real and the general public thinks its just a movie.

Thats why the Japanese version showed young school girls and a generic girl ghost. Thats their version of a typical Japanese horror movie.

>>22322787

Nope. There wasn't an artifact for every creature they had in the facility in the cabin just about 24 or so.

You could see on the board there were only about two dozen, but obviously hundreds of creatures in cubes.

It's obvious that they only pick certain creatures for certain scenarios (for example zombie redneck family wouldn't be used in an inner-city horror scenario).

>>22322981
Lol, ok kiddo. I think its past your bed time.

>>22322939

hahaha I forgot about that.

Also, dat Mer-man

Shiiiiiiit I just want everyone in the world to see this movie.

>>22323038
They pick which creatures are eligible during the betting process.

Also the betting whiteboard was fucking hilarious. "Angry Molesting Tree"

>>22322200 That being said, the actual reasoning behind it makes no sense and is a massive plot hole, but you honestly don't care by the end of it.

Also, please don't start doing this, /tv/. I haven't seen anybody say this until today's episode of Half In The Bag. Don't just start parroting the opinions of it.

The plot does make sense. It's fantastical of course, but it makes sense within its world. It is not a plot hole.

>>22323089
Good Evil Dead 2 reference there. I know there was a Dario Argento reference but I can't exactly remember what it was.. anyone know?

>Too hipster and meta for its own good.

#1 movie of all time

>>22322951
But he wasn't completely wrong...

>>22323038

I assumed the board was only comprised of the choices that the staff made; as in there were more artifacts but nobody bet on them. Also, if they had summoned the giant snake, they would have all been dead in five minutes.

I'd bet on most of those monsters not having an artifact, at least not one the directors bothered to come up with. Some of them had their artifact in the cage with them (like Hellraiser) while others didn't.

They better have a bucket of features in the bluray going into detail each monster they had in the movie and what it was a reference for.

>>22323123
That critique absolutely baffles me when the alternative is another drab horror flick like The Woman in Black.

>>22322939
I was really happy they included that since Unicorns from Scottish lore were originally fearsome, bloodthirsty creatures.

Sorta reminded me of one of the better Dark Castle movies, like House on Haunted Hill, and Thirteen Ghosts.

>>22323131

He said he was a fool "plain and simple", then he got called out on his bullshit and back-pedaled like a faggot. Back-pedal hard enough and you're never wrong.

>>22323161
But that was actually a continuity error, as the Hellraiser sphere was also in the cabin (Curt was playing with it). They filmmakers probably didn't design a artifact for each creature but within the story universe there could very well have been one for each creature in the basement.

so let me get this right. it's a horror film that makes a lot of pop-culture references and /tv/ is fawning over it?

>OMG DID U GET THAT SIKRIT REFRENCE :D

sounds about right.

>>22323161
Well, the Hellraiser artifact was definitely in the cabin. And that basement was so covered in shit I wouldn't doubt they came up with an artifact for every creature!

>>22323262
Maybe you should stop being so cynical and actually watch the movie.

>>22323240
Just because the Hellraiser dude had an object in the cube doesn't mean it's a continuity error. He probably always has one of his own with him, where as it's pretty obvious something like the Merman isn't actually toting a conch shell around, and the directors just threw one into the cellar to represent him.

You will never see a merman

>>22323240

>They filmmakers probably didn't design a artifact for each creature but within the story universe there could very well have been one for each creature in the basement.

Exactly, which is why I want a Blu-Ray special feature for every monster and a little blurb about it's artifact. Just for the fun of it and to add even further scope to it all.

>>22323262
Horror isn't exactly pop-culture, it's sort of an underground genre almost. It makes sense that /tv/ is so taken with this movie.

>>22323262
It's not meant to have tons of secret reference. It's openly parodying every famous movie horror trope and almost all the references are in plain site. The neat thing is that they practically included just about every single one you can think of.

>>22323149

Yeah, I'm obviously not 100% but it seems obvious that the protocol is to create a scenario (in this case the cabin), fill it with a selection of thematically appropriate artifacts (and maybe some wildcards), and then let them choose their deaths.

I'll bet the Japanese schoolchildren just had thirty creepy-black-haired-girl artifacts.

Based on the credits, I'm assuming Hellraiser dude was named Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain.