All I can say after watching The Cabin in the Woods is, that was really quite strange. I love the idea of it, the concept. I was really hoping the zombies were going to be paid actors and that they were going to justify the film with some level of modern neo-realism, but, alas, the film dissented into satyr, nothing wrong with that. In talking to people afterwards, I found it really hard to describe the film to people who hadn’t seen it. What I was also amazed by was the production value of the film. For something that was so deliberately satyrical and ridiculous, the budget was astounding.

Here was the closest I got to summarising the film.

“Imagine the Truman show where the audience are actually all watching five college students on a trip to a cabin in the woods and they methodically murder them all one by one with zombies as a sacrifice to the ancient ones and then they escape and accidentally set every single monstrous thing in the universe free inside a massive subterranean complex and because the virgin girl wasn’t the last one to die, these massive God-like creatures are set free and they kill everyone. Credits.”

I think that was a great film to end on, the mother of all genre mashups. I think this film and Sukiyaki Western Django were the perfect bookends to a fantastic studio course. Thank you very much Dan. I look forward to seeing everyone’s final project briefs.