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| This is the most fun I have ever had watching a horror film. |
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| (Jeff Bayer, The Scorecard Review) |
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| It's a smart, nasty picture, reinvigorating stale screenwriting ingredients - a delirious valentine to slasher archetypes and monster mayhem. |
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| (Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com) |
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| To say that The Cabin in the Woods isn't your average horror movie is like observing that King Kong isn't your average ape. |
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| (Peter Howell, Toronto Star) |
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| One of those rare films that's just pulsing with energy on so many levels - as genre-loving comedy, as straight-up horror, and as something you've simply never seen before. The Cabin in the Woods is a great film. |
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| (Brian Tallerico, HollywoodChicago.com) |
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| An entertaining and wholly original genre hybrid film that has more than a few tricks up its sleeves. |
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| (Jason Zingale, Bullz-Eye.com) |
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| The Cabin in the Woods is continually smart, funny and surprising, reflecting horror films back at themselves in new and exciting ways. |
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| (Eric Goldman, IGN Movies) |
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| Cabin in the Woods is witty, scary and incredibly inventive. This is a must-see genre bending horror movie - miss it at your peril. |
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| (Simon Reynolds, Digital Spy) |
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| The audience will have so much fun that they'll leave the theater on a high rather than recognize that everything they like about horror has either been destroyed, or Goddard and Whedon think that it should be. |
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| (Todd Gilchrist, Chiller TV) |
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| Clever enough to make you reconsider how you look at horror flicks. And a ton of fun, too. |
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| (Scott Weinberg, FEARnet) |
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| Detention, which will come out this year... goes to the next level on meta movies. But Cabin isn't trying to be meta; it's focused on genre. Those are different types of satire so I can appreciate Cabin taking genre further than ever. |
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| (Fred Topel, Crave Online) |
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| You'll feel like horror is revitalized, like its importance is more obvious than ever. That might be Cabin's greatest achievement, reminding us why we love and need this genre. |
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| (Devin Faraci, Badass Digest) |
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| Drew Goddard's giddily brilliant The Cabin in the Woods has a lot on its twisted mind. |
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| (David Ehrlich, Boxoffice Magazine) |
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| The finest horror comedy in years, The Cabin in the Woods is a potent, hilarious apology for decades of generic horror fare. |
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| (Shaun Munro, What Culture) |
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| Intelligent, witty and cine-literate in a charmingly self-referential way, The Cabin in the Woods sets out to do something different and does it with bravado. |
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| (Martin Roberts, Fan The Fire) |
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| Whedon and Goddard aren't just having a fun little go at tired horror movie conventions - they're trying to nuke the entire genre. |
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| (Jen Yamato, Movieline) |
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| The most exciting shake-up in the slasher genre since Scream, 16 years ago. But where Scream went one direction, introducing self-awareness to a formula that desperately needed it, Cabin in the Woods takes another route. Instead of characters who have seen slasher movies before and know what the "rules" are, we get a whole new configuration altogether... It's worth noting that while the film is about horror, and has many terrific horror elements, it's not particularly scary - nor is it meant to be. The idea is to set up a movie we've seen a hundred times before, and then to rearrange it into something new and deliriously satisfying. What a fun, brilliant movie this is. |
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| (Eric D. Snider, ericdsnider.com) |
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| The Cabin In The Woods, the directorial debut of Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard, which was co-written by Buffy creator and all-round geek idol Joss Whedon, is great. It's genuinely fantastic. It's a thrilling, wildly inventive horror film that plays beautifully off genre cliches whilst also managing to make those cliches work in its own interests. It's a horror comedy which is both scary and uproariously funny, and I would be very surprised if there is a better mainstream American film released this year. If it isn't in my Top Ten at the end of this year, then there must be some damn great films ahead of us, because I can't imagine it being easily dislodged from that spot. |
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| (Edwin Davies, A Mighty Fine Blog) |
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| What makes the experience so terrifying isn't the sudden, blood-chilling stings on the soundtrack or the slow, nail-biting shots of ghouls creeping up on characters from behind. Instead, the petrifyingly unpredictable script flips the rules. Since anything can happen, witnessing it becomes an act of bravery, like feeling your way down a pitch-black alley; there's no telling what might be lurking in the dark. |
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| (Peter Debruge, Variety) |
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| Pure, giddy entertainment from start to finish, and that's what truly sticks with you. It's a rare occasion to leave a theater smiling from ear to ear and talking about how you can't wait to see a movie again, but CABIN absolutely has that effect. You won't want to miss it. |
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| (Eric Walkuski, Arrow in the Head) |
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| The strength of Cabin comes in the playful nature of the screenplay. Goddard and Whedon play everything tongue and cheek in a completely meta atmosphere. |
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| (Brad Miska, Bloody Disgusting) |
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| Cabin In The Woods is not just a great horror film, but also a thesis on why we need horror films and what role they serve in our diet. |
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| (Drew McWeeny, HitFix) |
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| A motion picture about the endurance of horror as a historical watermark, where it has been, and where it might be able to go from here, it's no less than an all-encompassing celebration of a too often spit-upon genre. |
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| (Dustin Putman, DustinPutman.com) |
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| A terrifying horror film, a cackle-worthy satire and a thought-provoking dissection of the genre. |
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| (Matt Patches, Hollywood.com) |
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| It works thrillingly for audiences, especially the pointy-headed kind who have been trained to predict the outcomes of every week's slasher. |
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| (Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York) |
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| It's remarkable to see a mainstream movie touch on so many fascinating, powerful ideas without losing sight of its prime directive: to scare the socks off its audience. |
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| (Tom Huddleston, Time Out) |
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| As Goddard and Whedon jump back and forth, the pieces snap into place; then just when you think you've got it all figured out, they throw something else at you. |
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| (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) |
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| A dazzling blend of scary movie cliches and self-referential callouts subverted by a mind-warping twist that the writers roll out slowly from the beginning rather than saving for a conventional 11th-hour gotcha! |
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| (Maitland McDonagh, Film Journal International) |
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| Absolutely genius movie. Totally brilliant... I don't know how anyone can possibly make a horror movie again. Cabin renders all past and future examples of the genre superfluous... |
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| (MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher) |
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| Whedon and Goddard (who penned horror film Cloverfield and here directs his first feature) have clearly had enough of the old cliches. But out of their dissatisfaction they have created a cool, crazy movie. |
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| (Alex Zane, Sun) |
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| A super-entertaining, super-slick love/hate letter to horror with a final 20 minutes that's stunningly bonkers. |
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| (Jamie Graham, Total Film)} |
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, Anna Hutchison 
