Cabin In the Woods

I felt like the movie, The Cabin In the Woods, was definitely meant less as an actual horror movie but more of a critique on the horror film industry and genre itself. It took overly used and abused plot points characteristic of all cliche horror movies and spun them into a satirical commentary. The use of traditional archetype characters in this movie (who all seemed to have come right out of the Scooby-Doo cartoon) underscored the utilization of the cliche horror movie mold. The "whore" dies first and the "virgin" is meant to survive plays upon the differences between the pure and corrupt, which usually does factor into who is essentially doomed to die early on in most horror movies. The movie starts out a cliche, but begins to evolve into a narrative of its own, taking a less tradional twist away from what one would normally expect from a movie like this, with the introduction of the control room. The control room seemed to be a commentary on people's need or desire to control the supernatural and basically control what they dont understand.