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MaddenIntoMisanthropy: After enduring the TraumaCongaLine of watching their friends get killed by zombies, [[spoiler:and learning about the whole conspiracy, Dana and Marty decide that the world is [[ItIsBeyondSaving beyond saving]], and allow the Ancient Ones to destroy it.]]

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* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: After enduring the TraumaCongaLine of watching their friends get killed by zombies, [[spoiler:and learning about the whole conspiracy, Dana and Marty decide that the world is [[ItIsBeyondSaving beyond saving]], and allow the Ancient Ones to destroy it.]]
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MaddenIntoMisanthropy: After enduring the TraumaCongaLine of watching their friends get killed by zombies, and learning about the whole conspiracy, Dana and Marty decide that the world is [[ItIsBeyondSaving beyond saving]], and allow the Ancient Ones to destroy it.

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MaddenIntoMisanthropy: After enduring the TraumaCongaLine of watching their friends get killed by zombies, and [[spoiler:and learning about the whole conspiracy, Dana and Marty decide that the world is [[ItIsBeyondSaving beyond saving]], and allow the Ancient Ones to destroy it.]]
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MaddenIntoMisanthropy: After enduring the TraumaCongaLine of watching their friends get killed by zombies, and learning about the whole conspiracy, Dana and Marty decide that the world is [[ItIsBeyondSaving beyond saving]], and allow the Ancient Ones to destroy it.

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''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a 2012 SciFiHorror film that sets itself apart from ''other'' horror films by virtue of its co-writers[[note]]Creator/JossWhedon and Drew Goddard (''{{Film/Cloverfield}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''), who also directed the film[[/note]] and by [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructing]] both the "cabin in the woods" setting and the {{horror}} genre. The film stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/FranKranz, Creator/KristenConnolly, [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Anna]] [[Series/{{Underbelly}} Hutchison]], Creator/JesseWilliams, Creator/AmyAcker, Creator/RichardJenkins and Creator/BradleyWhitford. In 2013, Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando's ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' event featured a haunted attraction based on the film. A more permanent attraction based on the film is planned in South Korea, as part of the Jeju Shinhwa World resort's forthcoming Creator/{{Lionsgate}} Movie World theme park.

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''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a 2012 SciFiHorror film that sets itself apart from ''other'' horror films by virtue of its co-writers[[note]]Creator/JossWhedon and Drew Goddard (''{{Film/Cloverfield}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''), who the latter of whom also directed the film[[/note]] and by [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructing]] both the "cabin in the woods" setting and the {{horror}} genre. The film stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/FranKranz, Creator/KristenConnolly, [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Anna]] [[Series/{{Underbelly}} Hutchison]], Creator/JesseWilliams, Creator/AmyAcker, Creator/RichardJenkins and Creator/BradleyWhitford. In 2013, Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando's ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' event featured a haunted attraction based on the film. A more permanent attraction based on the film is planned in South Korea, as part of the Jeju Shinhwa World resort's forthcoming Creator/{{Lionsgate}} Movie World theme park.


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* TeenHorror: Enforced. As [[spoiler:the Director]] explains, the ritual requires the sacrifices to be young people, a meta-reference to the popularity of teenage and college-age protagonists in the horror genre.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Werewolves, robots, ghosts, zombies, giant snakes...and a bloodthirsty unicorn. Interesting subversion, perhaps, in that unicorns were traditonally said to attack and kill anyone who was not a virgin.
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* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:The Old Gods themselves qualify, as they despise humanity to such a point that they demand yearly sacrifices merely to keep them for destroying the Earth. By the end of the film, Marty and Dana have become so disillusioned with the human race by witnessing what the Organization is forced to do to appease the gods that they decide to let the ritual fail if it means letting some hopefully better species become dominant.]]

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* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:The Old Gods themselves qualify, as they despise humanity to such a point that they demand yearly sacrifices merely to keep them for from destroying the Earth. By the end of the film, Marty and Dana have become so disillusioned with the human race by witnessing what the Organization is forced to do to appease the gods that they decide to let the ritual fail if it means letting some hopefully better species become dominant.]]
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* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:The Old Gods themselves qualify, as they despise humanity to such a point that they demand yearly sacrifices merely to keep them for destroying the Earth. By the end of the film, Marty and Dana have become so disillusioned with the human race by witnessing what the Organization is forced to do to appease the gods that they decide to let the ritual fail if it means letting some hopefully better species become dominant.]]
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** Some of the other objects in the cabin, such as the wolf head and the one-way mirror, end up irrelevant.

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** Some of the other objects in the cabin, such as the wolf head and the one-way two-way mirror, end up irrelevant.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: On finding a one-way mirror, Holden wrestles over whether to tell Dana, who is undressing on the other side of it. He decides to do the gentlemanly thing and they agree to switch rooms. The first thing she sees on the other side of the mirror is Holden [[ShirtlessScene taking off his shirt]], which she clearly appreciates. When he starts unbuckling his pants though, she covers the mirror.

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* EatingTheEyeCandy: On finding a one-way two-way mirror, Holden wrestles over whether to tell Dana, who is undressing on the other side of it. He decides to do the gentlemanly thing and they agree to switch rooms. The first thing she sees on the other side of the mirror is Holden [[ShirtlessScene taking off his shirt]], which she clearly appreciates. When he starts unbuckling his pants though, she covers the mirror.
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* SubhumanSurfacingShot: Shortly after Dana is saved at the last minute by [[spoiler: Marty, who turns out to have survived his clash with Judah Buckner]], Matthew Buckner is knocked off the dock and into the lake below. However, as the two surviving teens flee the area, Matthew slowly rises from the lake until he's up to chest height, not only revealing that the zombie redneck is still active but also that he's within reach of the shore - forcing our heroes to keep moving.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:Justified since the Ancient Gods the ritual is made to appease literally operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality, but each culture has its own rules on how to appease them, usually involving "punishing" some group of youths for no other reason than they dared indulge in petty frivolities such as drugs and sex, as if the Gods are some twisted {{Moral Crusader}}s who see merely being young as a hubris worthy of death.]]

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* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:Justified since the Ancient Gods the ritual is made to appease literally operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality, but each culture has its own rules on how to appease them, usually involving "punishing" some group of youths for no other reason than they dared indulge in petty frivolities such as drugs and sex, as if the Gods are some twisted {{Moral Crusader}}s MoralGuardians who see merely being young as a hubris worthy of death.]]
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* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:Justified since the Ancient Gods the ritual is made to appease literally operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality, but each culture has its own rules on how to appease them, usually involving "punishing" some group of youths for no other reason than they dared indulge in petty frivolities such as drugs and sex, as if the Gods are some twisted {{Moral Crusader}}s who see merely being young as a hubris worthy of death.]]
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* ThePlace: The movie is named after the stock setting of the creepy cabin in the middle of the forest where spooky stuff happens.
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''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a 2012 horror film that sets itself apart from ''other'' horror films by virtue of its co-writers[[note]]Creator/JossWhedon and Drew Goddard (''{{Film/Cloverfield}}''), who also directed the film[[/note]] and by [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructing]] both the "cabin in the woods" setting and the {{horror}} genre. The film stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/FranKranz, Creator/KristenConnolly, [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Anna]] [[Series/{{Underbelly}} Hutchison]], Creator/JesseWilliams, Creator/AmyAcker, Creator/RichardJenkins and Creator/BradleyWhitford. In 2013, Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando's ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' event featured a haunted attraction based on the film. A more permanent attraction based on the film is planned in South Korea, as part of the Jeju Shinhwa World resort's forthcoming Creator/{{Lionsgate}} Movie World theme park.

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''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a 2012 horror SciFiHorror film that sets itself apart from ''other'' horror films by virtue of its co-writers[[note]]Creator/JossWhedon and Drew Goddard (''{{Film/Cloverfield}}''), (''{{Film/Cloverfield}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''), who also directed the film[[/note]] and by [[DeconstructorFleet deconstructing]] both the "cabin in the woods" setting and the {{horror}} genre. The film stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/FranKranz, Creator/KristenConnolly, [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Anna]] [[Series/{{Underbelly}} Hutchison]], Creator/JesseWilliams, Creator/AmyAcker, Creator/RichardJenkins and Creator/BradleyWhitford. In 2013, Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando's ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' event featured a haunted attraction based on the film. A more permanent attraction based on the film is planned in South Korea, as part of the Jeju Shinhwa World resort's forthcoming Creator/{{Lionsgate}} Movie World theme park.

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