Cabin In The Woods

I am personally just really curious on the state of other horror industries.

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Wow. So when did we all start talking about this movie again huh?

Ah well. I hope there's a sequel. Even if the ending means that'd make no sense.

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But where can they go from there? With everyone being killed by the eldtrich abominations, where can they take it? And will it be a commentary on sequels?

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They could always do a prequel-sequel commentary.

Well, they don't refer to other horror departments probably because America and Japan are the best known for making horror movies and not many other countries have a cinema studio with the budget to get their name out there let alone quality or other things. I mean, I've heard of some films from Northern Europe (Let The Right One In) and I'm sure Bollywood has done one, but they're not known at all. Thus, they don't exist in this universe's world because they 'failed'.

Chem department is responsible for the mind-altering gases that we see get pumped into the cabin. For instance, the group decides to stick together and then they pump the gases in and they suddenly go, "No, wait, we should split up. We can cover more ground that way." They also had other chemicals to make the cast generally stupid and malleable to the genre hidden in places like Jules's hair dye.

During The Faculty, nobody was making the classic horror dumbf*ck decisions which - by Cabin's assertion - means nobody was getting the mind-altering chemicals that are supposed to make you act like an idiot and get stupidly killed. Thus, chem department f*cked up in '98.

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Also, in The Faculty, they use drugs themselves to kill the aliens. In Cabin in the Woods, the way that Marty was able to resist the gas was because he was pretty much high all the time (and in a deleted scene, the Chem department say that they dosed his weed, but he's been using a secret stash of weed that's not dosed).

Also, fun fact: Cabin in the Woods began its life as a Left 4 Dead adaptation. The secret facility and monster delivery system, I assume, were intended to explain the Director.

The Director is an AI programmed into the game that monitors your progression through the game and spawns zombies, Special Infected, and supplies as needed. He makes the game feel like a different experience every time you play, because none of the enemies are preset.

He's also notoriously impatient and prone to throwing hordes of zombies at you if you waste too much time in one area to encourage you to hurry up and get moving again. And if a player wanders off and tries to make it on their own, the Director singles out that player for murder because it's supposed to be a co-op game. Notably, he tends to put a Special Infected in the safe room if you try to abandon your squad and run for the door. He despises poor teamwork.

While the film ultimately went in a much broader direction, observant audience members can still see a Boomer and a Witch in the monster containment cubes.

edited 24th Aug '16 9:05:42 AM by TobiasDrake

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yo, those are TINY.

I can't see shit

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Actually, it started out as a movie idea that Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard had, but as promotion, the Left 4 Dead 2 almost had a Cabin in the Woods DLC. Which is why those specific monsters were created.

edited 24th Aug '16 9:22:00 AM by alliterator

The sequel to Cabin In The Woods is Firefly — as the Eldritch Abomination, a small population (a couple thousand) fled the planet in generation ships. Hence the "Earth the was". They're vague on details because the Alliance wants future generations in the dark.

Chemicals that turned people into Reavers were leftover research chemicals from the facility.

Ooh, I've heard that one. It's part of the Whedon Shared Universe theory.

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Isn't that the theory where every Whedon show shares the same universe? Buffy and Angel is obvious but Firefly and Cabin In the woods seems far-fetched to me.

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Eh. I think its more of a 'for fun' theory than anything.

And, technically, if you really think about it, the whole of human history has shifted so dramatically over its life time that its really not too much different. To a Celtic Druid, the gods and magic were very real, while the western cowboy wrangled steer for their daily bread, and we today have a wildly different narrative full of social media and fantastic new technologies.

They're so vastly different that I doubt many would put them in the same 'story' if it weren't for the fact that its actual history.

Basically the idea is that the sinister organization from Cabin in the Woods is related to The Initiative, the secret government program that was capturing and imprisoning a variety of demons in Buffy's fourth season.

After the events of Cabin in the Woods, the world was destroyed by the ancient god entities in the film, forcing a mass evacuation of the planet. The loss of "Earth That Was" resulted in the interstellar civilization of Firefly.

Also something something Dollhouse something something.

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Didn't Cracked do a video on that in their After Hours sketch thingy a few years ago?

Necroing this thread:

A few days back, something hit me about the ending:

If the Ancient Ones just plain kill all humans, what would they end up doing for entertainment later? They can't just recreate Earth, can they? I can imagine them raging about wrecking their one source of entertainment. Maybe cuss a storm in some weird chthulian language?

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 8th 2021 at 11:43:56 AM

Maybe they'll just set the zombies and mermaids and killer clowns to attacking each other.

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I don't know this for sure and it's been a long time since I saw the movie, but with the cosmic horror setup I wouldn't really be surprised if Earth is just one channel among many. Other planets or dimensions or something.

They could hire new management.

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