Believe me, you don't
want to know. But this is a movie people are going to need to talk
about, so if you're at all invested in horror movies -- what they are,
what they're for, what they can be -- you best see this one quick, and
steer clear of Tumblr until you have.
What can I tell you
without saying too much?
For starters, you have to
know that this is the first feature directed by Drew Goddard, a writer
from the "Buffy," "Angel," "Lost" school, based on a screenplay he
co-wrote with the considerably famous "Buffy", "Firefly", "Angel"
creator Joss Whedon. Fans of those shows won't be disappointed by these
horror hipsters' acidic, postmodern designs on one of the movie
industry's hoariest, least respected staples. Whedon also wrote "Toy
Story" of course -- which may be why the wild, nutso finale seems to owe
a debt to another Pixar movie ... but let's not go there.
The outline is as crude
as the title suggests: Hollywood has been telling us to be afraid of the
backwoods at least since "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and
"Deliverance" (before that, it was the old dark manse on the hill). By
now the homespun log cabin is more likely to evoke the evil undead than
Honest Abe. But just as the clever poster image puts its own twist on
the familiar picture, transforming the house into a kind of spinning
Rubik's Cube, Goddard's movie quickly puts its own distinctive kink on
horror clichés.
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