Well Halloween is here, which means the week long Halloween edition of Netflix Flick Pick is coming to an end. While my picks haven’t been done in any particular order I did put some thought into what film should end this list. What I came up with is a film that has also been a Netflix Flick Pick previously but deserves to be revisited here on this list, Cabin in the Woods. On my previous post I was purposefully vague, in order to not give away anything important but now on Halloween night I think I can describe it in more detail.
Cabin in the Woods is not just a horror movie, it’s every horror movie. Both a love note to the legendary horror films that define the genre and a shot across the bow at its inability to do anything but remake the same movies (both actual remakes and films that just use the same plot). The film is an allegory that brilliantly makes the audience question why it continues to crave the same movie with the same rituals and even offering up characters who stand in for the audiences and the films producers who make sure we get the same movie.
As the title suggests Cabin in the Woods uses the genre’s most cliched plot but somehow uses it to tell a frighteningly original story. This becomes less surprising when you realize that Joss Whedon cowrote the script, he has literally made a career of subverting genre conventions. This is the guy who made Buffy, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible after all. There is so much going on here that you might just glance over the horror as you try to figure out what the hell is going on but horror is there in all its cliched original glory. Best enjoyed if you’ve seen every horror movie ever made, even the god awful remakes that include unicorns for reasons beyond my comprehension skills. I mean c’mon, UNICORNS, in a freaking horror movie! If you don’t know what I’m talking about then you won’t get the funniest shot fired at horror remakes but that’s okay, if you’re a fan of the genre there will be more than enough for you to enjoy.
Happy streaming and Happy Halloween!
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