@deanduncan63Saw #CabinintheWoods. Landmark, they say, & I’d not seen it. While teaching a horror class! I watch then, dutiful, studious …
… in the interests of film literacy …
… Presently my up-late, paper-finishing, film-overhearing teen calls down from the other room. “Nice movie, Dad!” He’s right/I’m wrong!
#CabinintheWoods. Is an unfair, practically bigoted meta-caricature of religious conservatives (the gas station guy) no longer bigoted?
#CabinintheWoods. Does the meta-objectification of young womanhood still qualify as objectification?
#CabinintheWoods. The layers do raise interesting questions about surface/substance, choice/accountability, the Author, divinity, etc. …
… questions are interesting. Corresponding answers less so, if they’re even offered at all.
#CabinintheWoods does have a very impressive monster menagerie. A humdinger of a mass annihilation at the end, too. Hmm …
… That doesn’t sound like such a signal accomplishment either!
#CabinintheWoods. Mind, they do manage to effectively evoke Lovecraft, which films have generally found hard to do. So that’s cool.