Cabin in the Woods (( Possible Spoilers ))

[Deizibug]

Going to be heading off with the family to check this out soon- should be interesting! I don't really know what to expect...I get a "horror flick" vibe, but I've heard it's pretty funny..and apparently there's some big twists too. Oh well, should be good!

[Deizibug]

Ayup. It was pretty darned good. Definitely not what I was expecting, for the most part. I quite enjoyed it. Some things were sorta expected, some things I was really not happy to see...I thought this would be different, and hoped said things wouldn't be in the movie because of that...but overall, it was good.
I laughed..nothing really surprised me or made me jump (though my fiance jumped twice that I counted. One REALLY good. ). I highly recommend this.

By the way....am I on speaker phone?

[Deizibug]

Saw this on an io9.com page. Thread? Thought this sounded really interesting...makes sense to me!

Am I alone in thinking that the "Ancient Gods" were the audience in the theater?
To me, it explains everything--why the different countries were failing (their horror movies weren't living up to the American tropes), why the guys in the lab were "not the only ones watching," etc. The director is LITERALLY the director. But the most compelling piece of evidence was the "sunrise in 8 minutes." Eight minutes later, what happens? The lights of the theater come up, the world of the film is over.

To me, the film was so meta-horror that it actually implicated the audience. We wanted them to fit the stereotypical molds. We wanted to root for the heroes. We wanted to see a bloodbath. We wouldn't be happy unless we got exactly what we were asking for and expecting.

At least, that's how I understood it.