Cabin in the Woods

I felt like the movie, Cabin in the Woods is more of a commentary on traditional horror films than it is supposed to be a horror film in and of itself. For example, the characterizations of the jock, whore, scholar, fool and virgin, are the ones often used in scary movies. However, at the beginning of the movie the characters had more depth than their stereotypical portrayals. For example, before they went to the cabin, the jock was giving Dana advice on school, and he seemed like he had much more substance than what the average jock is portrayed as. After only a few hours in the house, they began losing all of their other inhibitions and simply embodied the characteristics that they were supposed to. The control room needed to set the people up this way in order to complete the ritual, but I saw it more of a way to almost satirize the characters typically seen in horror movies.