History Headscratchers / TheCabinInTheWoods

* "Humans are more important than Humanity" that's the movie team's explanation for the clusterfuck that is the final few minutes?!? Two scared, pathetic little teens are worth more than all the other '''Seven Billion''' people in the world!?!? We are supposed to see that asshole pothead's actions as a triumph?!? There are men and women and children, with beautiful, fulfilling lives, only possible because someone has the duty to keep the wolves out of the sheepfold, and Marty and Dana are right to let them all die?!? They're both gonna die anyway if the EldritchAbomination gets out, so the two "humans", if they even deserve to be called that at the end, don't even win, they drag the world down with them out of spite. (My problem with the ending, in case I'm not being clear, is that Dana and Marty, as well as the directive team, act as though people are the problem, Dana even says "give someone else a chance". Who else, bitch? Once the Ancients finish slaughtering humanity, they'll just go and torture the next group of Sapients. The evil gods are what makes this necessary, not their victims, and they aren't gonna give '''anyone''' else "a chance". And I don't see how WordOfGod can justify their claim those two selfish, hateful monsters' prides are more valuable than all life on Earth. If they hadn't said that, I wouldn't even be making this outburst, I would just take the DownerEnding at face value, but they did say that, they said that Marty and Dana had a triumph in killing themselves and the rest of Humanity, and that they as individuals are worth more than the human race as a whole, and that statement makes me sick. A pair of self-righteous {{Nietzsche Wannabe}}s decide that the entire world should die if they have to, and were expected to accept that as a good, disgusting.

** I guess the cabin having belonged to Buckners is ''the reason why it was chosen by the controllers in the first place''. Like, most of the monsters are not tied to any specific place other than pretty generic "wild forest, ominous lake thing", but in this case you have to go with the place where they lived, died and were buried. Given this, [[FridgeBrilliance it actually makes total sense why maintenance keeps choosing Buckners every year.]]

* It's also possible that in this verse human serial killers, or at least some of them, are actually particular manifestations of the supernatural forces, a la one of the episodes of ''Star Trek'' written by Robert Bloch where it turns out that Jack the Ripper is just one of incarnations of the interplanetary "Redjack" demon.

*** While there ''are'' certainly many variants of werewolves who are human most of the time save the full moon, there's also the lycanthrope subgenre of "Wolf Man", which is a man-wolf hybrid which stays monstrous 24/7, and in some scenarios can infect others with their affliction via bites in the same way a werewolf classic can. Some works of fiction will use the term "werewolf" interchangably, even on monsters who more clearly fall into the "Wolf Man" category, as the Old English origin of the word "werwulf" can be translated in modern word to "man-wolf".

** I think horror films are simply part of the warning signs given to the victims. Horror stories have always basically been cautionary tales, if they are told sitting around a campfire or in a theater, it is no consequence, the purpose is tha same.

** Alternately, it could contribute to the victims having to chose to ignore the warnings.

*** Alternatively, or as part of a [[DesperationAttack back-up ritual]] it may be that there is another ritual: the Death of the {{MadScientist}}s at the hands of their monsters, and ''that'' ritual required the BigRedButton

*** Actually, considering a mummy was one of the monsters on the [[Main/MonsterMash betting board]], I would imagine there would be some sort of artifact that would awaken the mummy if disturbed or taken out of the cellar, a la King Tut's Curse.

** If the Old Gods are capable of creating a variety of outwardly horrific monsters like the DragonBat, the obviously supernatural Evil Clown, and a Unicorn, then by all means it's not impossible for them to create more normal looking humanoid monsters like The Dolls or even Kevin. Humans have always been afraid of the Uncanny Valley (things which appear superficially human-like but which have something fundamentally ''wrong'' with their appearance which makes them uncomfortable or frightening to look at, like the Dolls porcelain masks) and people with aberrant behavioral tendencies (people with certain personalities, behaviors, or neurological conditions which makes interacting with them uncomfortable or even potentially dangerous, such as the traditional horror movie image of a psycopath or sociopath). The Dolls fit both of these categories in that they look mostly human save for their eerie porcelain doll-like faces, and the cold, calculated, and unfeeling manner in which one might expect them to hunt down their victims without so much as a flinch away from the carnage they leave in their path. There ''are'' those who consider humanity to be the greatest monster of all. So why wouldn't the Old Gods take a few liberties in their monster creation?

** The whiteboard lists a department called "Zoology". My guess is that they take car of this sort of thing - presumably they have tech more dealing with specific monster types (otherwise how would they contain ghosts and such?) but were overwhelmed/surprised by the purge.

* How was the Japanese ritual meant to end? If the technicians consider it a failure because the spirit was channeled into a frog and no-one died, how many had to die?

* How was the Japanese ritual meant to end? If the technicians consider it a failure because the spirit was channeled into a frog and no-one died.

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint They would have had to split the pool multiple ways.]]

** Could be it's an indication of how fed-up Marty is with being manipulated and deceived. After going though so many ShockingSwerve twists, he suspects that even the existence of Curt's cousin (who probably ''was'' real, just uninvolved with the sacrifice plot) may be a ruse. Marty doesn't guess right about ''everything'' ("[[WrongGenreSavvy I'm on a reality TV show!]]"), just more than the controllers had allowed for.

** Best guess? The puppeteers are extremely GenreSavvy, but they're also really damn ''arrogant''. Look at how they handle the whole scenario: they barely take their work seriously and only narrowly avert disaster with the uncollapsed tunnel because they weren't paying attention. It's likely that while they were constructing the facility, it never occurred to them to set up redundant defenses against the monsters because, [[FamousLastWords come on, how can]] ''[[FamousLastWords that]]'' [[FamousLastWords possibly happen?]]

* At about the midpoint, Curt, Holden, and Dana are outside trying to escape. Dana asks where Marty is and Curt says "they got him". How does Curt know? From the earlier seen when Marty says Holden has a "husband bulge" he's walking in from what seems like the far back of the cabin, so his room seems pretty isolated. Curt's been barricading the doors the whole time and is explicitly outside Dana and Holden's rooms when they find the black room.He had basically no time to go to Marty's room, and even if he did, all he'd see is a broken window. Was he just guessing? Him and Marty seem like pretty close friends, so even drugged up it seems kind of callous to just "assume" Marty is dead and bail