The Cabin in the Woods Reviews

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• this is a hugely entertaining, brilliantly crafted entertainment that's witty, ground-breaking and-most important of all-fun

  by Christopher Tookey [Daily Mail [UK] ]

• there is a lot of blood-in fact it's hard to think of many scenes that don't have a lot of blood

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• the movie balances nicely on the edge of meta-horror

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• the honest terror of real horror is never a threat

  Review rate : B- by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• the filmmakers unmanage their climactic revelation with far more zest than finesse

  by Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal ]

• the film manages not only to present the genre with knowing winks and give it a few necessary nudges but also treats it with undeniable respect

  by Mark Dujsik [Sci-Fi Movie Page ]

• the film is sometimes a little too cocky about deconstructing a genre that has long since had a chainsaw taken to it

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• the devilishly clever script tries a lot of things

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• takes special delight in the mechanics of its own artifice

  by A.O. Scott [New York Times ]

• some dialogue will remind audiences of the sassy sarcasm tossed off in the face of monstrous creatures in Whedon's cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• really, these five are less characters than game pieces, both for the team in that mysterious control room and for the audience

  by Dana Stevens [Slate ]

• it's all ghoulish good fun

  Review rate : B by Frank Swietek [One Guy's Opinion ]

• full of surprises-so the less you know about it, the better

  by Scott A. Mantz [Access Hollywood ]

• enjoyable, blackly comic horror with strong performances, a decent balance of gore and gags and a script that's both witty and inventive

  by Matthew Turner [ViewLondon ]

• does present a fresh narrative twist on it, and it intriguingly forces the audience to wonder if they should be rooting for the slayed or the slayers

  by Peter Canavese [Groucho Reviews ]

• all the major players fit the classic horror-movie archetypes

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

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