Comparing it to Scary Movie, Cabin comes out worse. Scary Movie KNOWS it's a spoof and has no pretensions to be more.

It's like trying to argue with Scott Pilgrim fans.

If it is to be classified as a horror movie, it is a bad horror movie. It's self referential commentary on horror tropes constantly undermines any suspense, unlike Scream which allows comedy and horror sequences to breath on their own, build up genuine fear and nightmarish images. Cabin is ALWAYS intruding on a horror…

I think the point is that Hostel makes a clear decision about balancing its genres. It is a disturbing horror film first. Inside that, it can have silly jokes. Cabin fails at balancing things that way so the film fails at being horror. It's a comedy with not really scary bits.

"without ever actually trying to be a horror movie." I think Scary Movie is better at knowing it's a spoof than Cabin In The Woods, which is a spoof but has pretensions of being so much more. Scary Movie doesn't try to be a horror anymore than Airplane tries to be a suspense thriller. Cabin however isn't content to…

Amazing! Very well put. The attempts to be both at the same time gives the comedy and horror a patronising tone. "Isn't this scary horror trope stupid?!? Also isn't it SCAAAARY?!?" I honestly felt insulted. Like the movie was pointing its finger at me and laughing. Fuck you Cabin In The Woods!

I don't think being scared is a good barometer for whether something is a horror. Horror can simply challenge you philosophically. I think it comes down to tone. Can it be classified as horror based on tone? For me, personally, the film spends so long winking at you while making fun of horror tropes, it slips…

The comedy undermines the horror unlike Scream which finds the right balance. For me, the film is so wrapped up in wink wink references and doesn't spend nearly enough time building genuine suspense and terror, it tips too far into being a horror spoof. The horror elements are there but they're always delivered with a…

It isn't horror. In lampooning horror and also trying to be a horror, it falls flat, the former undermining the latter. Unlike Scream which manages it well. Not that hard to deduce from what Becca said.

So you loved the last 20 minutes and hated everything else. Me too!

Jurassic Park is light years closer to horror than Cabin In The Woods. Tone is everything in genre. Jurassic Park is genuinely creepy and disturbing and suspenseful. Cabin is always jokey and essentially a spoof.

There are loadsa horror elements in the same way as there are loadsa horror elements in Scary Movie. But the tone is closer to dictating genre. The tone in Cabin is ALWAYS ironic and jokey and dare I say, spoofy.

Becca is 100% right. The Cabin In The Woods is not a horror movie, it is a goddam SPOOF. There are so many more reasons why it should be classified as spoof but that genre lacks credibility so the film can't even embrace its own lineage. It masquerades as black comedy horror. But it isn't horror. It doesn't disturb,…

A nightmare fuel list without this movie is inarguably incomplete.

Four words: The Grand High Witch

They are WAY more horror (disturbing atmosphere, creepy monsters) than Cabin In The Woods which is at heart more a spoof of horror movies.

Magnifique is delivering on the promise of "Get Lucky" that Daft Punk failed to deliver on with Random Access Memories.

I think the darker, bittersweet context you speak of is handed to us by the cocaine scene. That initial burst of simulated confidence informs all of Joan's final arc and nearly sucks Peggy into it. It's no coincidence that Don ends up selling coke to the country as well. If you ever need confirmation that the…

Appreciate your kind words. Spare a thought for the poor fools I found myself reading on forums saying "well, I just kept playing as a vampire, which is okay but sucks I can't go outside in the daytime :("

The world leveling up was ridiculous. I (stupidly) played the Shivering Isles expansion before starting the main quest. By the time I did, the very first monsters were IMPOSSIBLE and I had to lower the difficulty. Really killed my mojo. That's really insane about tagging the wrong skills!