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The Cabin in the Woods
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Five friends go to an isolated cabin in the woods for a weekend vacation. What could possibly go wrong?The Cabin in the Woods is a 2012 Sci-Fi Horror film that sets itself apart from other horror films by virtue of its co-writersnote Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (Cloverfield and The Martian), the latter of whom also directed the film and by deconstructing both the "cabin in the woods" setting and the horror genre. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Jesse Williams, Amy Acker, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. In 2013, Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights event featured a haunted attraction based on the film. A more permanent attraction based on the film is planned in South Korea, as part of the Jeju Shinhwa World resort's forthcoming Lionsgate Movie World theme park.Feel free to watch the trailer, but know that it spoils the film a bit.Speaking of spoilers, discussing tropes found within this work will spoil damn near the entire film. To put this in perspective, the DVD box blurb only describes the plot to the extent of "bad things happening" when the five college kids go to the cabin, and nothing else.Seriously. Watch the movie first, then come back. This cannot be repeated enough. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: The betting board for the betting pool has "witches" and "sexy witches." Apparently, there is a difference, though you never get to see the sexy version. | |
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Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl | |
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Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: What a classroom of Japanese students are shown contending with. | |
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Banishing Ritual | |
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Banishing Ritual: The college students encounter numerous Summoning Artifacts for the various monsters that could have descended on the cabin, but only one actual Sealing Ritual is shown in the film when the monitors observe a group of Japanese schoolgirls using a chant to contain the spirit of a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl inside a frog. The observers are livid when they see this, since a human sacrifice is necessary to stop the world from ending. | |
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Self-Plagiarism | |
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Self-Plagiarism: The entire controller's compound is reminiscent of The Initiative from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Which got wiped out when all the demons escaped from their cells. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: ... and everyone does. No, literally, EVERYONE. The whole ritual entails killing off the stereotyped characters one-by-one, invoking the trope as a plot point, but members of the organization are also wiped out once Dana and Marty release the monsters. The EVERYONE comes when Dana and Marty refuse to go through with the ritual, awakening the Ancient Ones and thus ending the Earth. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_127ebb74 | type |
A Sinister Clue | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_127ebb74 | comment |
A Sinister Clue: A downplayed example, but Patience mentions in her diary that she's writing with her "off" hand because the other one was eaten. When we meet her, she still has her right hand, which means she was lefthanded. And, obviously, a monster. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_129749df | type |
All Men Are Perverts | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_129749df | comment |
All Men Are Perverts: When Jules and Curt go off to fool around in the forest, the control room is packed to capacity with male staffers, all of whom are eager to see some action. They only leave (with plenty of awwws of disappointment) when Hadley shoos them out of the room. When Lin has to increase the drug dosage: | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_132d93f1 | type |
Human Shield | |
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Human Shield: An unintentional one when a mook can't shoot Marty as the Final Girl is in the way, and he can't risk killing her out of order. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_13838aa6 | type |
Circle of Friendship | |
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Circle of Friendship: The Japanese schoolgirls use one of these to cause their version of the ritual to fail. Thus doing their part to doom the entire world. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_13abce74 | type |
Misanthrope Supreme | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_13abce74 | comment |
Misanthrope Supreme: The Old Gods themselves qualify, as they despise humanity to such a point that they demand yearly sacrifices merely to keep them from destroying the Earth. By the end of the film, Marty and Dana have become so disillusioned with the human race by witnessing what the Organization is forced to do to appease the gods that they decide to let the ritual fail if it means letting some hopefully better species become dominant. | |
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One Last Smoke | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_13d6db18 | comment |
One Last Smoke: Marty shares a joint with Dana as they wait for death. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_143939c1 | type |
Trailers Always Spoil | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_143939c1 | comment |
Trailers Always Spoil: Played straight with Marty's apparent "death". The double-bluff structure of the film averts this trope; the trailers spoil that there's science behind the magic, but not the magic behind the science. Some characters (be monsters or troops) in the last half are also shown in brief glimpses. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_144ec68f | type |
Negated Moment of Awesome | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_144ec68f | comment |
Negated Moment of Awesome: Curt attempts to jump a canyon in a motorbike in order to get help, but only succeeds in smashing into the forcefield surrounding the cabin. | |
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Virgin Sacrifice | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_174b85df | comment |
Virgin Sacrifice: The controllers regret that they can no longer just toss a girl into a volcano as a sacrifice, referencing this trope. They now have to go by stock horror film cliches, which ironically often leaves the virgin Final Girl alive. There's also the problem of getting an actual virgin; they just work with what they can get. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_19ebe383 | comment |
Never Trust a Trailer: The film is a Deconstructive Parody of horror films, and it was advertised as a straight horror film. Ironically, this is one of the few films where it could be argued that this is exactly the mindset the viewer should have before watching the film. There's also a straight example: the trailer shows Marty rolling a joint in the RV over a clean table, but in the film proper the tabletop is covered by his stash of pot, rolling papers and finished blunts. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_19fd589b | type |
Deadly Road Trip | |
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Deadly Road Trip: Like many other tropes, deconstructed. The evil agency practically manufactures these. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_1c21e3fb | type |
The Place | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_1c21e3fb | comment |
The Place: The movie is named after the stock setting of the creepy cabin in the middle of the forest where spooky stuff happens. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: All of them. Special mention goes for Curt with his sudden death and a Negated Moment of Awesome. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: When the scientists start cracking open beers, Lin says that while Hadley and Sitterson are celebrating, she is drinking. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_1fcda164 | type |
Latin Is Magic | |
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Latin Is Magic: Reading some shoddy Latin in an old diary raises the dead. The Big Bad makes all her magical incantations in something Latinesque. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_2044af1 | type |
Faceless Goons | |
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Faceless Goons: The Facility's "Internal Security" are all human; they're just decked out with goggles, helmets and masks to hide their faces. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_20860a0e | type |
Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Every character responsible for operations (with exception to The Director) have shades of this. Bonus points for Truman, who makes a point of being aware of this. The fact that they're doing it to save the world each year explains why they're otherwise normal people. Only the Director seems to truly get a kick out of it; the others are said to be letting off steam. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_21bf4878 | type |
Decapitation Presentation | |
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Decapitation Presentation: Dana refuses to leave without Jules. Matthew Buckner obligingly tosses her head into Dana's arms. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_222dc873 | type |
Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Boy howdy. A huge amount of the humor is based on the characters making jokes about the increasingly escalating horrific situations in surprisingly casual ways, especially the Faculty members. Not even the end of the world can stop Marty from making a wisecrack about the giant evil gods that are about to destroy the world at the end. | |
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Paint the Town Red | |
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Paint the Town Red: The aftermath of "The Carnage". Oh man yes. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_237404cc | type |
Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Three times: by Curt, Dana, and Sitterson. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Sigourney Weaver as the head of the Organization. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Marty keeps asking questions about the situation, wondering what normal people are doing with all that creepy stuff in their basement. | |
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Genre Blindness | |
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Genre Blindness: Invoked in-universe on the young people. The soldiers that got killed by the monsters just after Dana pushed the Big Red Button could also count. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Of the horror or dark comedy variety. During the celebration, we continually see Dana getting brutally savaged in the background, while the operators are practically oblivious to it. When the monsters attack, one of the screens shows the intern frantically holding up signs to the camera, trying to deliver a message to the control room. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Hadley, the control room honcho who gripes a few times about never getting to see mermen kill the co-eds is himself killed by a merman. He even says, "Oh, come on!" when he realizes it. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_2a44899 | type |
Plot Armor | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2a44899 | comment |
Plot Armor: Discussed Trope. According to the ritual Dana, as the Virgin, is allowed a chance to live — as long as she's the last one left standing. As such, when Facility security guards are dispatched, they are ordered to make sure that Marty dies before her, which would fulfill the ritual. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_2aac0992 | type |
Subhuman Surfacing Shot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2aac0992 | comment |
Subhuman Surfacing Shot: Shortly after Dana is saved at the last minute by Marty, who turns out to have survived his clash with Judah Buckner, Matthew Buckner is knocked off the dock and into the lake below. However, as the two surviving teens flee the area, Matthew slowly rises from the lake until he's up to chest height, not only revealing that the zombie redneck is still active but also that he's within reach of the shore - forcing our heroes to keep moving. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: Matthew Buckner's Bear Trap-and-chain. It's plenty menacing and a decent snare, but it repeatedly fails to cause major injury to its victims, to the frustration of all killing and torture goals. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: The controllers are just doing what they feel is necessary, but some of them clearly enjoy murdering the victims a little too much... | |
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The Stars Are Going Out | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2d7c66d3 | comment |
The Stars Are Going Out: Marty steps out for a leak and is surprised he can't see any stars, even though they should be miles from any light pollution source, a possible hint the cabin is in an Eldritch Location. Given what happens at the end of the movie, the apocalyptic version of this trope also applies. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_2fdad845 | type |
Ensembles | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2fdad845 | comment |
Ensembles: While the five sacrifices are not ethnic or team-like enough for other tropes, they are made to fit five archetypes: The Virgin, The Fool, The Athlete, The Whore and The Scholar. | |
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Special Person, Normal Name | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_2ff4c09b | comment |
Special Person, Normal Name: Obviously Kevin. Also qualifies as Tom the Dark Lord. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_30c40e9a | type |
Deconstructor Fleet | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_30c40e9a | comment |
Deconstructor Fleet: Of horror films, from manipulation and parodying character stereotypes, to how horror films are produced and crafted, especially in narrative or development. | |
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Hollywood Healing | |
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Hollywood Healing: Holden recovers from his bear trap wound rather quickly. Not that it does him much good in the end. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_329a19a0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_32ae9544 | type |
Vertical Kidnapping | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_32ae9544 | comment |
Vertical Kidnapping: When Holden is in the Black Room, he gets yanked up to the trapdoor by Matthew Buckner's bear-trap thingy. Lin is snatched up and hauled out of view by tentacles dangling from the ceiling. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_32ae9544 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_32ae9544 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_32ae9544 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_340575a7 | type |
Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_340575a7 | comment |
Girl on Girl Is Hot: As Marty's about to announce Jules' dare to make out with the subject of his choice, Curt starts reciting "Please say Dana" over and over. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_340575a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_340575a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_340575a7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34082c59 | type |
Wolverine Publicity | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34082c59 | comment |
Wolverine Publicity: The cabin is referred to as "the old Buckner place" and they seem to have the greatest amount of history with the area as well as a portrait hanging in a bedroom. That said, it was only blind luck that Dana triggered the Buckner zombies before any of the others could activate their objects. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34082c59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34082c59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34082c59 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34579385 | type |
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34579385 | comment |
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Dana presses the button "System Purge", and the guys intent on killing them are slaughtered by various monsters. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34579385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34579385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34579385 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34c6ed8 | type |
Don't Go in the Woods | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34c6ed8 | comment |
Don't Go in the Woods: Invoked with the Harbinger. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34c6ed8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34c6ed8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_34c6ed8 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35a858b3 | type |
Cluster F-Bomb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb: Sitterson's response to the Japan iteration failing. Made even more delightful in that it is targeted at a group of 9-year-olds. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35a858b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35a858b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35a858b3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35b241c0 | type |
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35b241c0 | comment |
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Being a Fake American, Chris Hemsworth's Australian slips through in more than a few moments. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35b241c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35b241c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_35b241c0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_38317f87 | type |
Evil Is One Big, Happy Family | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_38317f87 | comment |
Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: It's notable that the monsters somehow manage to share the bevy of fresh victims they're presented without so much as a hint of conflict between them, with some even shown to be working together. So much so that a gigantic bat thing blatantly ignores a helpless person right in front of it because a Creepy Child has him in its sights. And a zombie actually drags a victim to the edge of a catwalk and tosses him over into the waiting maws of a giant cobra. To a more literal extent, the Buckners. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_38317f87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_38317f87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_38317f87 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: Amy Acker gets attacked by tentacles. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_392372f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_392372f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_392372f9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_396e1c2a | type |
Face Death with Dignity | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_396e1c2a | comment |
Face Death with Dignity: Dana and Marty calmly smoke a joint together as the evil gods start to destroy the world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_396e1c2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_396e1c2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_396e1c2a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_39de5d91 | type |
TheCuckooLanderWasRight | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_39de5d91 | comment |
The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: Marty was surprisingly on the money about a lot of things even before they started to go to hell. Apparently, his pot has made him mostly immune to the controller's attempts to control him. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_39de5d91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_39de5d91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_39de5d91 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3a10b632 | type |
Playing Against Type | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3a10b632 | comment |
Playing Against Type: In-universe. The characters are all forced into neat little brackets. Even worse, almost all of them are forced into the wrong brackets. Jules, "The Whore," is pre-med, and criticizes the "virginal" Dana for sleeping with her professor. Holden, "The Scholar," is more athletically-inclined, described as a Big Man On Campus, while Curt, "The Athlete," is an academically-minded Sociology major. Only Marty gets typecast correctly... and he still manages to be a Spanner in the Works. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3a10b632 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3a10b632 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3a10b632 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b5fcbb7 | type |
Artifact of Doom | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b5fcbb7 | comment |
Artifact of Doom: The cabin basement contains a huge amount of these by design—each item will trigger how the ritual's scenario will play out. It's Patience's diary that Dana picks up. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b5fcbb7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b5fcbb7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b5fcbb7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b63ecb6 | type |
Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b63ecb6 | comment |
Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: According to the Director, all the victims have to be young and be punished for various transgressions. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b63ecb6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b63ecb6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3b63ecb6 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Monitors show the results of failed operations around the world, including a house burning down in Berlin and a giant monster in downtown Buenos Aires. Not much context is provided. The US branch has a nigh-spotless record marred only by whatever happened in 1998. We only know that the Chemical Department screwed up the sacrifice somehow. (In the real world, The Faculty was released that year, leading some fans to hypothesize that the line is a jab at it.) The Faculty wasn't the only monster movie that failed to live up to its hopes that year... | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3c0a4666 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3d1f2cae | type |
Barrier-Busting Blow | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3d1f2cae | comment |
Barrier-Busting Blow: One of the zombies busts with his fist through the wooden wall of the cabin. Later on, a giant Vampire Bat smashes an agency employee into and through a wall, giving Marty and Dana an escape route. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3d1f2cae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3d1f2cae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3d1f2cae | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3fcfdefd | type |
Hillbilly Horrors | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3fcfdefd | comment |
Hillbilly Horrors: "They may be zombified pain-worshipping backwoods idiots ..." "But they're our zombified pain-worshipping backwoods idiots." | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3fcfdefd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3fcfdefd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_3fcfdefd | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_401fc6b9 | type |
Targeted Human Sacrifice | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_401fc6b9 | comment |
Targeted Human Sacrifice: The sacrifices have to fit certain archetypes for the ritual to work. This is aided artificially and doesn't need to fully match, however. The Whore, for instance, is being secretly drugged. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_401fc6b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_401fc6b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_401fc6b9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42215dce | type |
Ambiguous Ending | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42215dce | comment |
Ambiguous Ending: The ending sees mankind plunged into war with the Hellgods, which they may not win, but Joss Whedon once stated that he liked the world and characters he created, so he would "never say never" for a sequel. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42215dce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42215dce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42215dce | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_423f5a19 | type |
Killed Offscreen | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_423f5a19 | comment |
Killed Offscreen: Subverted. The stoner Marty is wounded and dragged offscreen by one of the Buckners to be killed, and the Controllers assume he died a gruesome death. It turns out that they really should have made sure, because during that time he dispatched the zombie, found an entrance to the Organization's HQ, and went back to save Dana from Pa Buckner. No offscreen inertia here, folks. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_423f5a19 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_423f5a19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_423f5a19 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42d7e070 | type |
Face-Revealing Turn | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42d7e070 | comment |
Face-Revealing Turn: The ballerina girl/"Sugarplum Fairy". Though it would be generous to call it a "face". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42d7e070 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42d7e070 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_42d7e070 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_430ae566 | type |
Ankle Drag | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_430ae566 | comment |
And cunningly used to obscure Marty's failure to die after being Ankle Dragged off by one of the Buckners. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_430ae566 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_430ae566 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_430ae566 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4583a262 | type |
Shirtless Scene | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Holden. Dana is impressed. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4583a262 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4583a262 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4583a262 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Not even kids are exempt from these rituals as one scene shows that the staffers in Japan summon a wraith-like entity to kill a room full of Japanese grades-schoolers. Surprisingly, these nine-year-olds manage to defeat it with The Power of Friendship, with zero fatalities. At least until the world ends. Sitterson drives this trope home with his line "How hard is it to kill nine-year-olds?" | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_479d4e5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_479d4e5a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_47e9e5c6 | type |
Smart People Know Latin | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_47e9e5c6 | comment |
Smart People Know Latin: Played very deliberately. There is literally nothing to establish Holden as the Smart Guy except that glasses suddenly appear on his face in the basement and and he suddenly remembers enough high school Latin to decipher the incantation. The only reason he's The Scholar is because the controllers decided he is. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_47e9e5c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_47e9e5c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_47e9e5c6 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4856ac40 | type |
Stock Footage | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: Footage from Dante's Peak and Godzilla (1998) are used to represent scenes in Stockholm and Rangoon respectively, both of which are seen from the monitors. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4856ac40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4856ac40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4856ac40 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: Played Straight, then exaggerated, then subverted. It's made clear early on that the facility has a stockpile of Nightmare Fuel. Eventually, it is revealed that their stockpile is a well organized collection of every type of horror movie monster one can think of, including a few one would never have expected (e.g. unicorns, mermen, treesnote unless you've seen an Evil Dead film, of course). But it's then revealed that even this encyclopedia of terror is just a part of a bigger can that holds back even bigger evils. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_485eb589 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_485eb589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_485eb589 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_494d83c8 | type |
Helping Hands | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_494d83c8 | comment |
Helping Hands: The zombie arm, which is what remains from Marty's dismemberment of Judah. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_494d83c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_494d83c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_494d83c8 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: Rather severely averted for the first wave of "The Carnage", then played surprisingly straight for wave two. And cunningly used to obscure Marty's failure to die after being Ankle Dragged off by one of the Buckners. Zigzagged. The men got the most brutal ways to die shown on screen while the women were mostly seen being menaced by the monsters. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_49f20c6a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_49f20c6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_49f20c6a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Truman objects to manipulating Curt and Jules to have sex in the woods, just so the cameras can capture Jules' nudity, the controllers respond, "Gotta keep the customers satisfied." When The Director mentions "Eight minutes to sunrise" when talking about the gods destroying the Earth, there are eight minutes left until the lights come up in the movie theater. When the Doctors are seen about to operate on a worker, he screams, "Please don't cut," but the camera cuts away. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4a3e547f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4a3e547f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Dana. As to be expected. It's even said that she has to suffer. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b316d47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b316d47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b316d47 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b7364d | type |
Dead Man Honking | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b7364d | comment |
Dead Man Honking: When the zombie hiding in the back of the camper stabs Holden, Holden falls forward on to the horn, which beeps as the camper drives off the road into the lake. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b7364d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b7364d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4b7364d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4de1a4f7 | type |
Improvised Weapon | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: Marty's bong. It actually isn't particularly good as a club, but he later uses it to great effect by snagging the chain when Matthew Buckner is swinging his bear trap. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4de1a4f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4de1a4f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4de1a4f7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Marty and Dana survive The Facility's advances on them, but by doing so, they cause America's ritual to fail. As a result, because every single worldwide ritual flopped (especially since the States' ritual was the last one standing when Marty and Dana are hunted down), the enraged Ancient Ones finally go on the warpath, causing The End of the World as We Know It. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4e3d253b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4e3d253b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_4e3d253b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_500ecfb7 | type |
The Big Guy | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_500ecfb7 | comment |
The Big Guy: Curt is forced into this role by the controllers. In reality he's a sociology major and not much of a Jerk Jock. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_500ecfb7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_500ecfb7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_500ecfb7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_506bf16a | type |
Sex Signals Death | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_506bf16a | comment |
Sex Signals Death: Invoked, lampshaded, discussed, and justified, not all in that order. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_506bf16a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_506bf16a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_506bf16a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Let's get this party started.", said by Dana promptly before hitting a Big Red Button to sic the facility's monsters on their security forces. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_508d91a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_508d91a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_508d91a2 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: The "transgressions" which supposedly justify the Targeted Human Sacrifice dying in painful and terrifying ways. One can't help thinking it's more the Ancient Ones envy those who are young, beautiful and carefree. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50b05d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50b05d30 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50f17484 | type |
Fake-Out Opening | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50f17484 | comment |
Fake-Out Opening: The opening scene is a deliberately misleading Work Com-like moment on the Facility. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50f17484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50f17484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_50f17484 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_524f397c | type |
Madden Into Misanthropy | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_524f397c | comment |
Madden Into Misanthropy: After enduring the Trauma Conga Line of watching their friends get killed by zombies, and learning about the whole conspiracy, Dana and Marty decide that the world is beyond saving, and allow the Ancient Ones to destroy it. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_524f397c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_524f397c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_524f397c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_53136954 | type |
Book Dumb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_53136954 | comment |
Holden (The Scholar): By no means Book Dumb, but is mentioned by Curt to be the "best hands on the team", proven by catching a thrown ball that was accidentally thrown out a second story window, that he had no way of knowing was coming, he also doesn't seem desperate to get into Danas pants, which usual horror tropes indicate the geeky ones will try, evidenced by later on when he discovers a two way mirror and doesn't try to sneak a peek. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_53136954 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_53136954 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_53136954 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_550754dc | type |
Improbable Infant Survival | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_550754dc | comment |
Improbable Infant Survival: We see a classroom of Japanese schoolgirls (all age nine) being terrorized by an angry spirit. Later, they are seen subduing the ghost with a ritual song. We are then told that there were zero fatalities. Later, the end implies that they're doomed anyway, as is the rest of humanity. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_550754dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_550754dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_550754dc | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_55cd4012 | type |
"Everybody Dies" Ending | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_55cd4012 | comment |
"Everybody Dies" Ending: No, not just everyone in the movie. EVE-RY-ONE. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_55cd4012 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_55cd4012 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_55cd4012 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5625538f | type |
Stupidity-Inducing Attack | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5625538f | comment |
Stupidity-Inducing Attack: The scientists spiked Jules's hair dye with toxins to gradually decrease her intelligence. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5625538f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5625538f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5625538f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5735378d | type |
Haunted House Historian | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5735378d | comment |
Haunted House Historian: The Creepy Gas-Station Attendant is quite knowledgeable about the location and history of the cabin. Justified, since it's literally his job. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5735378d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5735378d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5735378d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_581f6468 | type |
Hero of Another Story | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_581f6468 | comment |
Hero of Another Story: The Japanese girls, who go through the ritual at the same time as the main characters and manage to defeat their monster with zero fatalities. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_581f6468 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_581f6468 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_581f6468 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_59fe174d | type |
Devil, but No God | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_59fe174d | comment |
Devil, but No God: The Ancient Ones are seemingly the only divine beings of any consequence and they will go on an apocalyptic rampage the moment they fail to receive their full annual tribute. There are references to "upstairs", specifically that the demolition team was stymied by a problem from "upstairs". Given what "downstairs" referred to, it's possible that "upstairs" is God, who has intervened in the ritual in order to bring about the end of the world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_59fe174d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_59fe174d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_59fe174d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ad71806 | type |
"Truman Show" Plot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ad71806 | comment |
"Truman Show" Plot: Albeit the thing staged is not a reality show, but a slasher movie. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ad71806 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ad71806 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ad71806 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5b9925f7 | type |
Curiosity Killed the Cast | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5b9925f7 | comment |
Curiosity Killed the Cast: The controllers' job is to lead them to the cellar (and keep them contained in the staging site). But once the cellar is open, its various artifacts exposed to the group's curiosity, the controllers can't do anything. It's up to the (potential) victims themselves to actually pick one. Of course, they all find something that interests them personally, and it was just a matter of who would activate their artifact first. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5b9925f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5b9925f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5b9925f7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5c1ec068 | type |
Big Red Button | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5c1ec068 | comment |
The organization also has a Big Red Button, located in the lobby of all places, that releases all the monsters at once. There's a lot of debate as to why they would need this. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5c1ec068 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5c1ec068 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5c1ec068 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5d68a369 | type |
Horror Hates a Rulebreaker | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5d68a369 | comment |
Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: In order to ensure humanity's continued survival, every year The Organization must sacrifice a group of people to appease The Ancient Ones. By having five sacrifices act like horror stereotypes via drugging, disturb one of many artifacts which summon monsters from deep in The Organization's vaults and being hunted down. "The Virgin"'s death is entirely optional, but the other four must be killed off before sunrise the next day. Marty (their designated "Fool") ended up becoming immune to the drugs The Organization was using (thanks to his stash of marijuana) and survives with Dana. There are other scenarios playing out in other countries around the world that are meant to follow the tropes specific to the horror stories of those cultures. Only one of these scenarios is needed to succeed, but these all went Off the Rails too, causing The Ancient Ones to wake up and start the end of the world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5d68a369 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5d68a369 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5d68a369 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5f146203 | type |
Dissonant Serenity | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5f146203 | comment |
Dissonant Serenity: Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain, watches calmly from his cell as a hysterical Dana bangs her bloody hands on the glass. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5f146203 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5f146203 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5f146203 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ff56a1f | type |
Long List | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ff56a1f | comment |
The whiteboard has a Long List: Werewolf, Alien Beast, Mutants, Wraiths, Zombies, Reptilius, Clowns, Witches, Sexy Witches, Demons, Hell Lord (a.k.a. Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain), Angry Molesting Tree, Giant Snake, Deadites, Mummy, The Bride, The Scarecrow Folk, Snowman, Dragonbat, Vampires, Dismemberment Goblins, Sugarplum Fairy, Merman, The Reanimated, Unicorn, Huron, Sasquatch, Yeti, Wendigo, Dolls, The Doctors, Zombie Redneck Torture Family, Jack O'Lantern, Giant, Twins, and Kevin (who appears only in the novelization, a sweet, harmless looking guy who can exsanguinate a man in seconds; the name is possibly a reference to We Need to Talk About Kevin). | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ff56a1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ff56a1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_5ff56a1f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: After being designated as The Fool, Marty became this. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60194b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60194b82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60194b82 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6023a9bc | type |
Bloody Hilarious | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6023a9bc | comment |
Bloody Hilarious: One of the most popular scenes in the movie involves Marty and Dana pushing a big red button that leads to monsters coming out (complete with a ding! sound!) to slaughter armed guards in a super violent, yet absurd fashion. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6023a9bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6023a9bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6023a9bc | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60eac4ba | type |
Off the Rails | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60eac4ba | comment |
Off the Rails: Marty and Dana leave the boundaries of the intended kill-zone when they enter the underground facility. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60eac4ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60eac4ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60eac4ba | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain. Names To Run Away From: Titles: The Director running the covert program releasing the monsters, played by Sigourney Weaver. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60fa92ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60fa92ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_60fa92ac | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61356a74 | type |
Almost Dead Guy | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61356a74 | comment |
Almost Dead Guy: Dana at the very end. Of course, the world ends before she actually has time to expire. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61356a74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61356a74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61356a74 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61ef56f5 | type |
Inventional Wisdom | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61ef56f5 | comment |
Inventional Wisdom: Why does the facility from which the events are controlled have a Big Red Button that releases every single monster in holding into said facility? How baddies who kill using weaponized tropes could have been so Genre Blind to not expect that to end predictably is a true riddle for the ages. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61ef56f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61ef56f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_61ef56f5 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62c1f9a9 | type |
Evil Versus Oblivion | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62c1f9a9 | comment |
Evil Versus Oblivion: Inverted. Dana and Marty, after seeing how far the Controllers are going to prevent The End of the World as We Know It, decide that Oblivion, in the form of the Ancient Ones rising and destroying the world, is preferable, if only to give a species less amoral than humanity their own shot at building civilization. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62c1f9a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62c1f9a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62c1f9a9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Multiple, all overlapping. The myriad artifacts the cast finds in the basement, the board at the beginning showing the various and sundry ways the characters could choose the form of the destroyer, then the Monster Mash cameos during "The Carnage". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62f9d08e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62f9d08e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_62f9d08e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_649345a2 | type |
You Will Not Evade Me | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_649345a2 | comment |
You Will Not Evade Me: Matthew Buckner's bear-trap-on-a-chain weapon, used to clamp onto victims and drag them towards the redneck zombies. The Killer Robot drags a guard into saw-blade range from across the room during the opening act of The Carnage, although precisely how it yanks the man onto his knees and sets him sliding across the floor is unclear due to the Dragonbat and Werewolf being in the way. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_649345a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_649345a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_649345a2 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6562d25c | type |
Stingy Jack | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6562d25c | comment |
Stingy Jack: One of the many monsters locked away is a tall figure with a jack o'lantern for a head that breathes fire. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6562d25c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6562d25c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6562d25c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_68424916 | type |
Eating the Eye Candy | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_68424916 | comment |
Eating the Eye Candy: On finding a two-way mirror, Holden wrestles over whether to tell Dana, who is undressing on the other side of it. He decides to do the gentlemanly thing and they agree to switch rooms. The first thing she sees on the other side of the mirror is Holden taking off his shirt, which she clearly appreciates. When he starts unbuckling his pants though, she covers the mirror. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_68424916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_68424916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_68424916 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_685d06d | type |
Plot Parallel | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_685d06d | comment |
Plot Parallel: while the film explicitly draws attention to the fact that the 5 victims don't naturally fit the archetypes they've been cast into, it is much more subtle about the fact that the 5 staff members of the facility naturally match perfectly: Hadley: constant joking, is the Fool Sitterson: knowledgeable of history, procedures, and even how to hot wires an explosion, is the Scholar Truman: from security and armed to the teeth, is the Athlete The Director: stays out of the control room and so has no blood on her hands (ie purity is intact) is The Virgin Lin: while her lab coat and primness do not convey sexuality, she moral compromises in the face of Truman's disapproval - betting, drinking. And what word does the Director use to describe the Whore? "Compromised" variation: It's possible that Truman is the Virgin, this being his first time around, and the Director is the Athlete, being the most powerful in terms of authority if not physicality. This interpretation would make the staff's deaths invert the sacrificial pattern, with Truman the Virgin dying first | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_685d06d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_685d06d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_685d06d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6977c45e | type |
Purple Prose | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6977c45e | comment |
Purple Prose: Mordecai's phone call. "Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of—am I on speakerphone?" | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6977c45e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6977c45e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6977c45e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a1c2a6 | type |
Cosmic Horror Story | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a1c2a6 | comment |
Cosmic Horror Story: Turns out to be one of these instead of your standard slasher flick. Possibly on a much grander scale since Marty doesn't see stars in the sky. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a1c2a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a1c2a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a1c2a6 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a2ae11f | type |
Improbable Weapon User | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a2ae11f | comment |
Improbable Weapon User: Matthew Buckner's weapon of choice is a bear trap attached to a length of chain. Subverted because the weapon is intended to be scary and painful, but if the victim fights off the initial shock, it does little real harm on its own. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a2ae11f | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a2ae11f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6a2ae11f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: At the beginning of the movie, one of the more jaded Controllers teases that it was the chemistry department's fault last time they failed. Though other people arguably fell down on their jobs too, the chem department's screw up in this movie is responsible for Marty being able to retain his wits and catch on to whats going on around him. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b05b601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b05b601 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b05b601 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: Several, most of them relating to the biggest one: there's a massive worldwide yearly sacrifice of people in rituals to placate evil gods and our protagonists are in the thick of it! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6b2b3b59 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ba2b94f | type |
Trapped in TV Land | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ba2b94f | comment |
Trapped in TV Land: Borderline example. It's implied that the monsters that appear in the last third are inspired by movie monsters. . . or inspired movie monsters. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ba2b94f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ba2b94f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ba2b94f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6bf93fc7 | type |
FanService | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6bf93fc7 | comment |
When Truman objects to manipulating Curt and Jules to have sex in the woods, just so the cameras can capture Jules' nudity, the controllers respond, "Gotta keep the customers satisfied." | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6bf93fc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6bf93fc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6bf93fc7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: During the "Code Black," we briefly see one of the controllers shooting herself in the head when she realizes the monsters are coming for her. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d332aea | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d740dff | type |
Enforced Trope | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d740dff | comment |
Enforced Trope; the organization pipes what amounts to stupefying gas into the areas where the sacrifices are if they show signs of making sensible decisions (like not splitting up, not investigating the weird noise, not hitting Mr. Terrifying Thing more than once to make him stop moving, not making sure they're actually dead afterward, etc.). | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d740dff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d740dff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d740dff | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d892421 | type |
Teacher/Student Romance | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d892421 | comment |
Dana (The Virgin): The first time we see her she is dancing in front of her open windows with no pants on, without a care in the world, and Jules points out she is just out of an affair with her Professor, hardly the usual demure prudish behaviour that characterises "Virgin". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d892421 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d892421 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6d892421 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6db06839 | type |
The Stoner | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6db06839 | comment |
The Stoner: Marty. His introduction scene involves him rolling up in his car while smoking from a bong that he's able to collapse to become a "travel mug" and he literally rolls up some blunts on the way to the cabin. He also has a variety of quirky stoner mannerisms, which get used against him when he tries to convince the rest of his friends that something is up. The Faculty's failure to treat his stash means that he keeps his wits the entire time, which leads to their entire plan unraveling in the second half of the film where that travel mug bong gets weaponized when he goes to save Dana. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6db06839 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6db06839 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6db06839 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6dcbe9aa | type |
Deconstructive Parody | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6dcbe9aa | comment |
Deconstructive Parody: Parodies the slasher genre and deconstructs a lot of the tropes — Final Girl, Sex Signals Death, The Scourge of God, etc. It also deconstructs the production of said films in a way, too. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6dcbe9aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6dcbe9aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6dcbe9aa | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ea95fc4 | type |
Killer Game Master | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ea95fc4 | comment |
Killer Game Master: Hadley and Sitterson have this trope as their profession. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ea95fc4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ea95fc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6ea95fc4 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6f619fab | type |
Let's Split Up, Gang! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6f619fab | comment |
Let's Split Up, Gang!: When the zombies are attacking everyone in the cabin, Curt says they shouldn't split up under any circumstances. The controllers then release a stupidity-inducing gas into the room, causing him to turn around and say they should all split up as they can cover more ground that way, to which Holden and Dana immediately agree. Marty's response to all of this is a confused "Really?" | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6f619fab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6f619fab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_6f619fab | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_703fed94 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_703fed94 | comment |
Sound Track Dissonance: The big office party celebrates the ritual's success with cheerful REO Speedwagon music playing while Dana gets savaged by a zombie in the background. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_703fed94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_703fed94 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_703fed94 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_72856b70 | type |
Godzilla Threshold | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_72856b70 | comment |
Godzilla Threshold: Marty and Dana reach it when they are cornered by the security team. They respond by releasing things almost as bad as the Trope Namer. Also the entire reason for the plot. The staffers in the Cabin Facility and others internationally are willing to engineer the horrible deaths of random people once a year, regardless of age or background, because the alternative is giant evil gods destroying the world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_72856b70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_72856b70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_72856b70 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7286e96d | comment |
The controllers' entire job is to enforce standard horror movie cliches, mostly the Idiot Ball. Electrifying the handles of weapons so the protagonists drop them, making everyone split up and be easier targets, ensuring they can't escape, and so on. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7286e96d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7286e96d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7286e96d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_73f7975f | type |
Jerkass Gods | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_73f7975f | comment |
In order to ensure humanity's continued survival, every year The Organization must sacrifice a group of people to appease The Ancient Ones. By having five sacrifices act like horror stereotypes via drugging, disturb one of many artifacts which summon monsters from deep in The Organization's vaults and being hunted down. "The Virgin"'s death is entirely optional, but the other four must be killed off before sunrise the next day. Marty (their designated "Fool") ended up becoming immune to the drugs The Organization was using (thanks to his stash of marijuana) and survives with Dana. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_73f7975f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_73f7975f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_73f7975f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_74f57438 | type |
Cell Phones Are Useless | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_74f57438 | comment |
Cell Phones Are Useless: They know beforehand that the cabin will have no cell phone reception. Some see that as a plus, as it will make it easier to relax without distractions. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_74f57438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_74f57438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_74f57438 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_773b0523 | type |
Impaled Palm | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_773b0523 | comment |
Impaled Palm: Jules introduction to the Buckners. And let the slaughter commence! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_773b0523 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_773b0523 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_773b0523 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7bc90010 | type |
Hearing Voices | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7bc90010 | comment |
Hearing Voices: Marty hears them; implied to be a Compelling Voice, as despite his warnings people do what the voices say (reading the incantation, and going for a walk alone in the woods). | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7bc90010 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7bc90010 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7bc90010 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7d49d74a | type |
Cultural Translation | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7d49d74a | comment |
Cultural Translation: In-Universe; the Kyoto scenario invokes J-Horror tropes rather than American Horror Tropes. It's stated by the Director that all other locations also use specific local iterations of said horror tropes. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7d49d74a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7d49d74a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7d49d74a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Well, Holden and Dana do kiss, but as they're going in for a second go Marty walks past and notes his "husband bulge". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7eb49b31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7eb49b31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7eb49b31 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f152e56 | type |
Our Mermaids Are Different | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f152e56 | comment |
Our Mermaids Are Different: One of the optional monsters is a Merman, and Hadley is desperate to see one. He gets killed by it in the final rampage. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f152e56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f152e56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f152e56 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f390ebc | type |
Developing Doomed Characters | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f390ebc | comment |
Developing Doomed Characters: Played with in that it exists primarily to show how the controllers change them to fit their assigned roles, even when others in the group would naturally fit those roles. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f390ebc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f390ebc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f390ebc | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Assuming that Hadley and Sitterson can be called "heroes." Failing to check up on Marty after he was dragged off-camera resulted in the so-called "Fool" sabotaging the base, rescuing Dana and completely trashing the ritual- resulting in the extinction of the entire human race. Them not realizing Marty is still alive is also quite odd since at one point a screen is shown displaying all five's vital signs. More straightly played; the titular protagonists Dana and Marty, by "winning" against The Facility and their monsters just manage to doom the entire human race. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7fbb2a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7fbb2a3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: The four characters establish pretty quickly that they are not the usual stereotypes they are supposed to be: Dana (The Virgin): The first time we see her she is dancing in front of her open windows with no pants on, without a care in the world, and Jules points out she is just out of an affair with her Professor, hardly the usual demure prudish behaviour that characterises "Virgin". Jules (The Whore): She is Pre-med and in a stable, and clearly loving, relationship with Curt, also when she mentions Holden, she clarifies she isn't pushing Holden and Dana to get together, but see where it goes. Curt (The Athlete): While a member of his schools football team, his aim is apparently terrible judging by his throw, and he is on a full Academic scholarship rather than a sports one, he also picks out a book, judging from the others Dana was packing it seems to be a soviet psychology/history book, which is pretty heavy stuff. Holden (The Scholar): By no means Book Dumb, but is mentioned by Curt to be the "best hands on the team", proven by catching a thrown ball that was accidentally thrown out a second story window, that he had no way of knowing was coming, he also doesn't seem desperate to get into Danas pants, which usual horror tropes indicate the geeky ones will try, evidenced by later on when he discovers a two way mirror and doesn't try to sneak a peek. Marty (The Fool): He is shown to, while being quite a stoner, be very clever (the huge bong that collapses into a thermos mug), and has no romantic feelings towards either of the girls, clearly closer as friends than lust objects. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7febc23b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7febc23b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7febc23b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80a2c2de | type |
Monster Mash | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80a2c2de | comment |
Monster Mash: The whiteboard has a Long List: Werewolf, Alien Beast, Mutants, Wraiths, Zombies, Reptilius, Clowns, Witches, Sexy Witches, Demons, Hell Lord (a.k.a. Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain), Angry Molesting Tree, Giant Snake, Deadites, Mummy, The Bride, The Scarecrow Folk, Snowman, Dragonbat, Vampires, Dismemberment Goblins, Sugarplum Fairy, Merman, The Reanimated, Unicorn, Huron, Sasquatch, Yeti, Wendigo, Dolls, The Doctors, Zombie Redneck Torture Family, Jack O'Lantern, Giant, Twins, and Kevin (who appears only in the novelization, a sweet, harmless looking guy who can exsanguinate a man in seconds; the name is possibly a reference to We Need to Talk About Kevin). Other monsters seemingly not mentioned on the whiteboard, but spotted throughout the film, include a man-sized tarantula, some manner of giant cephalopod, a medieval torturer, a scorpion-like automaton with buzzsaws for stingers, The Suffocators, a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, a dead King Kong-esque Kaiju seen on a monitor, a Creepy Child whom a guard tries to escape by dragging himself along the floor, a Boomer, a Hunter, a Witch and a Tank, and three Ku Klux Klan members. And finally, there's The Ancient Ones. There are even more monsters not glimpsed in the film or named on the whiteboard, but who show up in behind-the-scenes features on the DVD. These include a Cyclops, the "Man in Transparent Tarp", a spook who peels his own face away, someone with a jellyfish-like head, a giant centipede, a Blob Monster, a Giantess to go with the whiteboard's Giant, vicious dogs, and a killer garden gnome played hilariously by an angry-looking little kid. Oh yes, and a Flying Face which is actually the CGI-disembodied head of makeup effects artist David Leroy Anderson. A comment on one of the "making of" features reveals that there were about a hundred monsters involved, not even counting the hordes of zombies and such (another seventy). The novelization features several monsters omitted from the film or DVD extras, including a blister-covered mutant whose welts burst and spray goo like a mist, a many-armed figure with weapons in place of its hands, a dog with the head of an alligator, and a woman with Volcanic Veins and fire dripping from her nose. It's implied that these particular creatures have never been selected for release before (the "unblooded"), explaining why they aren't classic horror tropes. Complete list and details on this wiki | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80a2c2de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80a2c2de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80a2c2de | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80eb641c | type |
Straw Nihilist | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80eb641c | comment |
Straw Nihilist: Marty is not pleased with the immorality of humanity and keeps pondering about what would happen if they went on as they were. Dana, by the end, is willing to have humanity be destroyed, determining their sacrifices at the expense of others was bad enough. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80eb641c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80eb641c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_80eb641c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_81b53a1a | type |
The Great Serpent | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_81b53a1a | comment |
The Great Serpent: One of the monsters released in the Purge scene in is a giant cobra that is seen eating a facility employee whole. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_81b53a1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_81b53a1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_81b53a1a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83ca946 | type |
Hellraiser (Franchise) | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83ca946 | comment |
Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain, is an obvious riff on Pinhead, with his puzzle box, bondage outfit, and head full of sharp objects. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83ca946 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83ca946 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83ca946 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83f3983b | type |
Necessarily Evil | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83f3983b | comment |
Necessarily Evil: The Controllers and the Director are this, especially the latter (the former have grown desensitized over time). But as long as their program is successful, the Ancient Ones stay dormant, and the world is saved for a little bit longer. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83f3983b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83f3983b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_83f3983b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84249fbc | type |
Nerd Glasses | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84249fbc | comment |
Nerd Glasses: Holden is wearing them only when he needs to be smart. See Smart People Know Latin below. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84249fbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84249fbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84249fbc | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84ce3b0b | type |
Creepy Ballet | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84ce3b0b | comment |
Creepy Ballet: The "Sugarplum Fairy" looks like a Dainty Little Ballet Dancer from behind...before she turns around and reveals a face comprised of nothing but a Lamprey Mouth. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84ce3b0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84ce3b0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_84ce3b0b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_859bbabc | type |
The Cassandra | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_859bbabc | comment |
The Cassandra: Nobody pays attention to Marty's warnings, because he's always smoking pot. It's actually his pot — coupled with the Chem Department's failure to treat his current stash with intelligence-reducing drugs — that negates the effect of the chemicals the Nebulous Evil Organization is pumping in to alter their behavior, so that he's the only one able to notice that things aren't as they should be. Also Mordecai and his unnoticed warnings - pay careful attention to his phone conversation with the Controllers. He is the Harbinger for them as well, but they laugh him off, even more oblivious to his dire warnings than the kids are! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_859bbabc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_859bbabc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_859bbabc | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_863fac26 | type |
Jerk Jock | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_863fac26 | comment |
Jerk Jock: Subverted by Curt, who is pushed into this role via pheromone manipulation. Up to that point, he was shown to be a Lovable Jock and an intelligent sociology major on a full scholarship who never acted like an alpha male douchebag. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_863fac26 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_863fac26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_863fac26 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_864aa9 | type |
Hellevator | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_864aa9 | comment |
Hellevator: The elevator of horror, which brings the monsters into the upper world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_864aa9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_864aa9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_864aa9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The Ancient Ones, a bunch of sadistic god-like beings who want the humans being sacrificed to die in fascinating, troperiffic ways to be appeased. Just like a horror-movie viewer. Fittingly, they're human-shaped. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8774fb47 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ace85ef | type |
Audience Surrogate | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ace85ef | comment |
Audience Surrogate: Truman, the new recruit on the team of the controllers who has to have most of the concepts explained to him. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ace85ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ace85ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ace85ef | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8b1a664 | type |
Kill All Humans | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8b1a664 | comment |
Kill All Humans: Once the monsters are released, they clearly don't want to fight each other, only kill normal humans, be the Facility workers or Marty and Dana. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8b1a664 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8b1a664 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8b1a664 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ba9512b | type |
Our Zombies Are Different | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ba9512b | comment |
Our Zombies Are Different: We see two varieties, the traditional shambling version that eat flesh and the "Zombie Redneck Torture Family" Buckners who use weapons, show enjoyment in causing pain and can plan ahead. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ba9512b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ba9512b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ba9512b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e4a0f15 | type |
Dumb Blonde | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e4a0f15 | comment |
Dumb Blonde: Yet another Invoked Trope. Jules is neither naturally blonde nor dumb (she's pre-med), but her hair dye has been treated with a slow-acting toxin that retards cognitive ability. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e4a0f15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e4a0f15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e4a0f15 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e5c862 | type |
Ancient Conspiracy | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e5c862 | comment |
Ancient Conspiracy: Implied in the Title Sequence — this has been going on for a long time. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e5c862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e5c862 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8e5c862 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: The staffers might be working to prevent the end of the world, but they're also taking their job of killing innocent people with at least a little enjoyment, even taking bets about how it will play out. They all end up killed by the end. Being the Jerk Jock means Curt fills this role as well, but he was much nicer before coming to the cabin and being exposed to its mind-dumbing chemicals and such. He also dies risking his life to save Holden and Dana, so he really only becomes this trope for a few minutes. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9068397a | type |
Rise from Your Grave | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9068397a | comment |
Rise from Your Grave: The undead Buckner family when Dana inadvertently summons them, and the Ancient Ones at the end of the movie when a huge hand smashes through the eponymous cabin and comes down on the camera. Smash to Black. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9068397a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9068397a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9068397a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Hadley finally gets to see what a merman looks like. Emphasis on finally. The deaths of almost everyone in the control complex are generally more sadistic and far more on-screen graphic than what happens to the five at the cabin. Sitterson dies by the hand of one of the people he was trying to kill. A few of the cabin mates also die in accordance with their sacrificial roles: Jules the whore was attacked during sex, Curt the jock dies during a not-so-death-defying stunt, and if Marty had died when the audience expected him to, he would have been ambushed making jokes. Played with though in that they are being pushed into these roles. It's actually one of the requirements of the ritual. The participants must on some level have done something to deserve their deaths, whether it's playing with things they're meant to leave alone or having a disagreeable lifestyle. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_90d44f44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_90d44f44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_90d44f44 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: Presumed Class X with the Ancient Ones destroying the planet after the ritual has failed. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_91e894b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_91e894b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_91e894b4 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9315c635 | type |
Lovable Jock | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9315c635 | comment |
Lovable Jock: Curt and Holden. At first, anyway. The controllers use mind-altering chemicals to turn Curt into a Jerk Jock, and Holden into a nerd to fulfill their roles in the ritual. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9315c635 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9315c635 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9315c635 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_932da128 | type |
Monster Clown | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_932da128 | comment |
The Monster Clown that appears near the end is based either on Pennywise or Killer Klowns from Outer Space. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_932da128 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_932da128 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_932da128 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_94680696 | comment |
Shaped Like Itself: "Streets, paved with actual street!" | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_94680696 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_94680696 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_94680696 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_947ac4b0 | type |
White Mask of Doom | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_947ac4b0 | comment |
White Mask of Doom: Briefly seen in the basement, then again on some of the participants in "The Carnage". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_947ac4b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_947ac4b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_947ac4b0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_95be648c | type |
Creepy Basement | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_95be648c | comment |
Creepy Basement: Two of them in the same small cabin — the Schmuck Bait room and the Black Room. And that's not including what's under the Elaborate Underground Base. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_95be648c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_95be648c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_95be648c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_96b89043 | type |
Not So Above It All | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_96b89043 | comment |
Not So Above It All: Lin tries to present herself as distanced from the "clowning" behavior of Sitterson and Hadley. But she falls to their level of accepting it soon enough. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_96b89043 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_96b89043 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_96b89043 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_970c790a | comment |
The Big Bad makes all her magical incantations in something Latinesque. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_970c790a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9766cac3 | type |
Curious as a Monkey | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9766cac3 | comment |
Curious as a Monkey: The cellar is designed to play off the characters invoking the trope. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9766cac3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9766cac3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9766cac3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9788e2b1 | type |
Black Dude Dies First | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9788e2b1 | comment |
Black Dude Dies First: Holden the only person of color in the group subverts this by being the last of Dana's friends to die...until Marty shows up alive. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9788e2b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9788e2b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9788e2b1 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9902398a | type |
Beehive Barrier | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9902398a | comment |
Beehive Barrier: It surrounds the site. And it doesn't just deflect contact, it electrocutes whatever touches it. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9902398a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9902398a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9902398a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99298c71 | type |
Better to Die than Be Killed | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: One of the controllers does it during the carnage. Maybe. She might be under the control of something. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99298c71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99298c71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99298c71 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99db72ee | type |
Immune to Bullets | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99db72ee | comment |
Immune to Bullets: The killer clown, as evidenced by it appearing ticklish to gunshots as it closes in on its victim. Though several other monsters are shown to shrug off bullets, but without as much emphasis. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99db72ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99db72ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_99db72ee | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9a03fce0 | type |
The Day the Music Lied | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9a03fce0 | comment |
The Day the Music Lied: In the run-up to Curt's jump over the canyon on the motorbike, triumphant music swells... and then he hits the force field. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9a03fce0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9a03fce0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9a03fce0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9aeabf25 | type |
The Family That Slays Together | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9aeabf25 | comment |
The Family That Slays Together: The Buckners, a family of redneck torturers. Who are now zombies. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9aeabf25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9aeabf25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9aeabf25 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9b06e314 | type |
Greater-Scope Villain | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: The Big Bad only tries to kill the protagonists in order to placate The Ancient Ones, who will otherwise cause The End of the World as We Know It. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9b06e314 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9b06e314 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9b06e314 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bca83eb | type |
Death by Irony | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bca83eb | comment |
Death by Irony: Hadley, the control room honcho who gripes a few times about never getting to see mermen kill the co-eds is himself killed by a merman. He even says, "Oh, come on!" when he realizes it. The workers in the organization that manipulates the sacrifices and controls the monsters all die horrible deaths when they finally lose control of the monsters. It's ironic in that they manipulated the sacrifice that was the Virgin ("purest") to the point she no longer cared about their lives. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bca83eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bca83eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bca83eb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bd8f6c8 | type |
Nested Mouths | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bd8f6c8 | comment |
Nested Mouths / Lamprey Mouth: The Sugarplum Fairy's face is... well, one that only has a mouth with lots of teeth and a mouth inside that mouth. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bd8f6c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bd8f6c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9bd8f6c8 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9be7c205 | type |
Giant Spider | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9be7c205 | comment |
Other monsters seemingly not mentioned on the whiteboard, but spotted throughout the film, include a man-sized tarantula, some manner of giant cephalopod, a medieval torturer, a scorpion-like automaton with buzzsaws for stingers, The Suffocators, a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, a dead King Kong-esque Kaiju seen on a monitor, a Creepy Child whom a guard tries to escape by dragging himself along the floor, a Boomer, a Hunter, a Witch and a Tank, and three Ku Klux Klan members. And finally, there's The Ancient Ones. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9be7c205 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9be7c205 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9be7c205 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The whole house and the area in general has items that potentially foreshadow almost every monster that could be used, even though most of them never are. There's even a huge wolf's head on the wall... while there's a werewolf in storage. That said, when a monster is eventually selected, most of those items become Red Herrings. Marty's comment about how society should crumble, but we're all too afraid to let it, foreshadows the end. Lampshaded with Mordecai, "the harbinger," whose job it is to let the co-eds know that they're going into danger. In the process, he calls Jules a whore, referring to her part in the ritual and later mentions to the controllers how Marty came close to ruining the whole setup by "nearly derailing the invocation with his insolence". There's a second level to this, as the controllers mention that the kids doomed themselves by ignoring the Harbinger's warnings, seconds after laughing at and ignoring him themselves. In the end, they find themselves equally doomed. The opening credits have unmistakable illustrations of Human Sacrifice. The creepy painting in the cabin shows five people in the woods, presumably the Buckners (note the missing left arm of one of the hunters in the painting), tearing a lamb to pieces as a mysterious figure in the background watches referencing the Ancient Ones watching as hunters savagely kill the sacrifice—lambs often being thought of as the go-to sacrifice. The Ancient Ones make the facility tremble when the Fool "dies". The controllers think that they're just getting excited, but they're probably pissed off that the sacrifice is going wrong and the controllers haven't noticed. One of the video screens from the array seen immediately after The Carnage shows an overhead view of something creeping steadily down a hallway on its belly. It's the Merman, on its way to Control where it'll kill Hadley. Early in the film, two of the facility staff lay the blame for their last failure on the department responsible for the chemicals used to keep the sacrifices in their defined roles. This time around, the same department fails to properly account for how much they give to the designated "Fool", leaving him clear-headed enough to question the scenario and fight back. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d12bbc1 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Dana. The motor home she was in crashes into a lake. Then she gets stabbed, clawed and otherwise beat up by Matthew Buckner, and mauled by a werewolf. She's still together enough to philosophize with Marty at the end. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d17b859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d17b859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9d17b859 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9dfb8296 | type |
This Is Gonna Suck | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: Moments before the elevators containing all of the facility's monsters open, a soldier realizes what's about to happen and just goes, "Oh, shit." | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9dfb8296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9dfb8296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9dfb8296 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9e224dd5 | type |
Object-Tracking Shot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9e224dd5 | comment |
Object-Tracking Shot: Near the start we follow an eagle as the "kids" head up the to titular cabin tracking it long enough to see it crash into the force-field surrounding the area. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9e224dd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9e224dd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_9e224dd5 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: The movie is exceedingly fond of making hilarious jokes instants before gruesome events, and vice-versa. It's Joss Whedon, this trope is pretty much a given. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a4c37cbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a4c37cbe | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6bd04e0 | type |
Rule of Scary | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6bd04e0 | comment |
Rule of Scary: Critiqued by the film. The controllers' entire job is to enforce standard horror movie cliches, mostly the Idiot Ball. Electrifying the handles of weapons so the protagonists drop them, making everyone split up and be easier targets, ensuring they can't escape, and so on. Hadley's disappointment at never getting to see a merman reads as a critique of the lack of new, different, unusual horror monsters, instead relying on variations of a few stock archetypes: slashers, vampires, zombies, and such. The facility has a very large stock of very creative and different monsters. . . who have apparently never been selected to take part in the sacrifice. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6bd04e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6bd04e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6bd04e0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6e8221e | type |
Status Quo Is God | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: Despite the facility's attempts to maintain it, it's ultimately subverted. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6e8221e | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6e8221e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a6e8221e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a74bd88e | type |
Taxidermy Terror | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a74bd88e | comment |
Taxidermy Terror: Beautifully played with. The cabin that the college kids go to has a mounted wolf's head on one of the walls, which creeps them out. In the evening, when they're playing "truth or dare", Jules has to make out with it on her dare. She does so, and then nothing happens. It was never alive. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a74bd88e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a74bd88e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a74bd88e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a9de87d2 | type |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Marty. They do a good job on the actor of concealing it beneath multiple layers of loose clothing, but there's a few scenes where it's apparent that Marty has a boxer's build. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a9de87d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a9de87d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_a9de87d2 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_abd29ad8 | type |
No-Sell | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_abd29ad8 | comment |
No-Sell: Marty proves immune to the mind-altering chemicals being pumped into the cabin because of his fresh marijuana stash. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_abd29ad8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_abd29ad8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_abd29ad8 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The SWAT team versus the monsters. Twice. Sitterson and Hadley both have one in quick succession. The former when Demolition tells him about the power re-route from 'upstairs'. The latter when he's told that Marty is still alive. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad1db87c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad22fa80 | type |
Apocalyptic Log | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: Patience's diary explains the torture she had dealt to others and experienced living with her Big, Screwed-Up Family. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad22fa80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad22fa80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad22fa80 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad4c74ed | type |
Final Girl | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad4c74ed | comment |
Dana is cast as the Final Girl and Jules as The Whore by the Controllers. At the beginning of the film, Dana has just gotten out of an affair with her professor while Jules is the Team Mom in a stable, loving relationship with her boyfriend. Dana likewise opens the film providing more overt Fanservice in her underwear, while Jules provides the tamer variety by just wearing short shorts. This proves ironic when the Controllers have to use pheromones to get Jules to show her breasts in the first place. Further irony if you go meta - Kristen Connolly (Dana) is a natural blonde portraying a redhead Final Girl, while Anna Hutchinson is a natural blonde portraying someone who has just dyed her hair. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad4c74ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad4c74ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ad4c74ed | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Marty, presumably for being stoned for most of the movie. Sitterson and Hadley also have their moments. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ae3d6438 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_afc52a86 | type |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A Zombie Redneck Torture Family is described as an "entirely different species" from the more traditional zombies. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_afc52a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_afc52a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_afc52a86 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b06bbf4b | type |
Be Careful What You Wish For | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: Hadley wishes to see a Merman. During the climax, he finally gets to see one... and then it kills him. He curses his ironic luck before he dies. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b06bbf4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b06bbf4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b06bbf4b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b097493c | type |
Madonna-Whore Complex | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b097493c | comment |
Madonna-Whore Complex: Invoked, considering that the Controllers are manipulating the students into following genre conventions. The two girls in the group are given the roles of and manipulated into becoming the virginal Final Girl and the "whore". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b097493c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b097493c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b097493c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b0ad6a1e | type |
Wrestler in All of Us | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b0ad6a1e | comment |
Wrestler in All of Us: Curt clotheslines one of the zombies. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b0ad6a1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b0ad6a1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b0ad6a1e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b352279a | type |
Attack of the Killer Whatever | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b352279a | comment |
Attack of the Killer Whatever: The Monster Mash at the climax involves multiple horror creatures slaughtering the Facility's staff; among the monsters are a "Molesting Tree", a giant snake, a killer robot, a Bulletproof Clown, some twins, a floating poltergeist face, the "Sugar Plum Fairy", some Deadly Doctors and a Dragonbat. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b352279a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b352279a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b352279a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b3c0ed0c | type |
Spoof Aesop | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b3c0ed0c | comment |
Spoof Aesop: In the commentary, it is mentioned that "Pot saves lives." | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b3c0ed0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b3c0ed0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b3c0ed0c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b4eff8a8 | type |
Epic Fail | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b4eff8a8 | comment |
Epic Fail: We know early on/from the trailers that there's an invisible grid blocking off the cabin area. Curt does not. Curt jumps his dirtbike right into it, it stops him mid-jump and he falls down to the bottom of the canyon. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b4eff8a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b4eff8a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b4eff8a8 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Enforced Trope; the organization pipes what amounts to stupefying gas into the areas where the sacrifices are if they show signs of making sensible decisions (like not splitting up, not investigating the weird noise, not hitting Mr. Terrifying Thing more than once to make him stop moving, not making sure they're actually dead afterward, etc.). The organization also has a Big Red Button, located in the lobby of all places, that releases all the monsters at once. There's a lot of debate as to why they would need this. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b58b4e3c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b8499e1c | type |
Hypno Trinket | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b8499e1c | comment |
Hypno Trinket: Presumably, the necklace that Jules almost put on before being interrupted by Dana in the cellar. In fact, all the trinkets seem to have a hypnotic lure to the people interested in them. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b8499e1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b8499e1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_b8499e1c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ba0ff694 | type |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ba0ff694 | comment |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Hadley has wanted to see a Merman in action for years. When he's attacked by one after the monsters are set loose, his last words are a disbelieving: "Oh, come on!" | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ba0ff694 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ba0ff694 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ba0ff694 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bb30b9e9 | type |
Danger Takes a Backseat | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bb30b9e9 | comment |
Danger Takes a Backseat: That zombie in the camper. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bb30b9e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bb30b9e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bb30b9e9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bce16d24 | type |
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bce16d24 | comment |
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: It's not really explained why, with only minutes left to complete the ritual, The Director doesn't just bring a gun to the ritual room and kill Marty herself. Though, given the scenario (and the metaphor) that the film presents, she may have thought that The Ancient Ones would get angry about that and destroy the world anyway. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bce16d24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bce16d24 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bce16d24 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf1255fa | type |
Really Gets Around | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Subverted with Jules, who gets pushed into the role of "the whore" by the villains with drugs and pheromones. Apparently dyeing your hair blonde makes you a whore nowadays. And what's more, the only person she has sex with in the film is her long term boyfriend. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf1255fa | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf1255fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf1255fa | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf798be | type |
Dangerous Windows | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf798be | comment |
Dangerous Windows: A zombie pulls Marty through a window out of the cabin. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf798be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf798be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_bf798be | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c04b1231 | type |
Jump Scare | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c04b1231 | comment |
Jump Scare: One happens when the title appears. Lessened by the pop music that occurs afterwards. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c04b1231 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c04b1231 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c04b1231 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c145f69b | type |
Subverted Trope | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c145f69b | comment |
Subverted Trope: All five of the main protagonists are immediately introduced doing something that completely undoes their perceived "role" in the movie, to the point of requiring the organization to heavily alter and manipulate them in order to have them play it straight. The only one who seems to play his role straight is Marty, who is later revealed to be The Hero. To whit: Dana (the Virgin) is introduced dancing around in a T-shirt and panties, and is quickly revealed to have just gotten out of a torrid (or at least highly unethical) affair with one of her professors, Jules (the Whore) chastises her for it and is revealed to be a pre-med student, Curtis (the Athlete) actually recommends to Dana a better book to read for a specific class to impress that professor and is later revealed to be a sociology major, Holden (the Scholar) knows Latin but is the more stereotypically jock-type, and Marty (the Fool), while indeed a stoner, is shown to be rather intelligent and very philosophical in his initial appearance (and could be a downright genius if he built the massive collapsing coffee-mug bong himself). | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c145f69b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c145f69b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c145f69b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c1fffb62 | type |
Industrialized Evil | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c1fffb62 | comment |
Industrialized Evil: The controllers have done this so long, they're completely desensitized to it and run a betting pool for fun. What's more, they've basically turned ritualistic murder into a factory assembly job. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c1fffb62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c1fffb62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c1fffb62 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Of the dramatic variety. We are conditioned to think of the people as sacrifices because they are referred to as such. But in actuality, they are the heroes and heroines of their respective stories. The irony, then, is that the world is ended by ancient horrors because this time around humanity managed to score a win against the forces of darkness. Is anyone aware of another example where winning every battle costs you the war? Dana is cast as the Final Girl and Jules as The Whore by the Controllers. At the beginning of the film, Dana has just gotten out of an affair with her professor while Jules is the Team Mom in a stable, loving relationship with her boyfriend. Dana likewise opens the film providing more overt Fanservice in her underwear, while Jules provides the tamer variety by just wearing short shorts. This proves ironic when the Controllers have to use pheromones to get Jules to show her breasts in the first place. Further irony if you go meta - Kristen Connolly (Dana) is a natural blonde portraying a redhead Final Girl, while Anna Hutchinson is a natural blonde portraying someone who has just dyed her hair. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c335b9ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c335b9ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c335b9ec | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Yet another deconstruction, because it's a Hope Spot for the villains. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c3c18143 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c3c18143 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c3c18143 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c515d358 | type |
America Saves the Day | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c515d358 | comment |
America Saves the Day: A decidedly grim version. All of the other scenarios fail (Meaning that the teenagers survived and the ritual failed), even in Japan - earlier stated to have a 100% success rate. It's down to the success of the American scenario to save the day! ... And ultimately subverted when Marty and Dana survive to the end. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c515d358 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c515d358 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c515d358 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5b47b36 | type |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: "I had to dismember that guy with a trowel." Every failed attempt at causing the horror movie scenario in every other part of the world means that most victims who were supposed to die didn't, leading to multiple non-stated examples of this. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5b47b36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5b47b36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5b47b36 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5dfd763 | type |
Volcanic Veins | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5dfd763 | comment |
The novelization features several monsters omitted from the film or DVD extras, including a blister-covered mutant whose welts burst and spray goo like a mist, a many-armed figure with weapons in place of its hands, a dog with the head of an alligator, and a woman with Volcanic Veins and fire dripping from her nose. It's implied that these particular creatures have never been selected for release before (the "unblooded"), explaining why they aren't classic horror tropes. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5dfd763 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5dfd763 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5dfd763 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5f0119c | type |
Insane Troll Logic | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: Justified since the Ancient Gods the ritual is made to appease literally operate on Blue-and-Orange Morality, but each culture has its own rules on how to appease them, usually involving "punishing" some group of youths for no other reason than they dared indulge in petty frivolities such as drugs and sex, as if the Gods are some twisted Moral Guardians who see merely being young as a hubris worthy of death. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5f0119c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5f0119c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c5f0119c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
Human Sacrifice: Necessary to appease the Ancient Ones, though they don't just want deaths, but suffering as well. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c66cb5a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c66cb5a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c66cb5a9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6c86cd | type |
Collapsing Lair | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6c86cd | comment |
Collapsing Lair: At the end when Marty and Dana share a last smoke, the facility's compound starts to crumble around them because the Ancient Ones are angered over every single worldwide ritual has failed and will now cause The End of the World as We Know It. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6c86cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6c86cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6c86cd | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6e3125 | type |
SeriesEstablishingMoment | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6e3125 | comment |
Series Establishing Moment: For a while it plays out like a typical horror film except with a bunch weird scenes with two guys at some kind of workplace, then the two guys get a call from the Creepy Gas-Station Attendant and start Corpsing at his corny way of speaking until he drops the accent and tells them to take him off speakerphone. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6e3125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6e3125 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c6e3125 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: As a parody/satire/deconstruction of the horror genre itself, the movie has loads of these. Also see Expy above. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c75df49a | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c7f6bce3 | type |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_c7f6bce3 | comment |
"End Is Nigh" Ending: The film ends with the Ancient One's gigantic hand ripping its way out of the ground, as it emerges from below to destroy humanity... an event we don't get to see. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c7f6bce3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c7f6bce3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c7f6bce3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c89f0472 | type |
Troperiffic | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c89f0472 | comment |
Troperiffic: The entire point of the film. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c89f0472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c89f0472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c89f0472 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c93a6560 | type |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c93a6560 | comment |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The unicorn impales a scientist on its horn. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c93a6560 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c93a6560 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c93a6560 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c9561e8b | type |
Slashers Prefer Blondes | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c9561e8b | comment |
Slashers Prefer Blondes: Enforced as Jules dyes her hair blonde just before the trip. Ironically Anna Hutchison is a natural blonde, while Kristen Connolly dyed her hair red to play Dana. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c9561e8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c9561e8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_c9561e8b | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca81eae7 | type |
Hollywood Darkness | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca81eae7 | comment |
Hollywood Darkness: Exploited. Controllers tweak the moonlight in the woods so Jules and Curt will be more comfortable doing it outside. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca81eae7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca81eae7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca81eae7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca967579 | type |
Torture Cellar | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca967579 | comment |
Torture Cellar: The Black Room. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca967579 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca967579 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ca967579 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caadad0e | type |
Summoning Artifact | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caadad0e | comment |
Invoked with the Summoning Artifacts as when one is activated, the others are rendered useless for the rest of the ritual. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caadad0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caadad0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caadad0e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caf89e54 | type |
Taking You with Me | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: The new Security officer for the organization detonates a grenade to blow himself up along with a pack of zombies. In a less (or more?) heroic version, Marty and Dana elect to survive the organization's attempts to kill them, thus dooming themselves and everyone on Earth to die when the Ancient Ones awaken. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caf89e54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caf89e54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_caf89e54 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cb11543c | type |
Cosmic Horror Reveal | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cb11543c | comment |
Cosmic Horror Reveal: The film begins as a run-off-the-mill horror/slasher story which is revealed as a setup to please the Old Gods slumbering below us. They're not cosmic though, they just "ruled the earth before man". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cb11543c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cb11543c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cb11543c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ccc73c34 | type |
Spooky Painting | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ccc73c34 | comment |
Spooky Painting: The hunting scene portrayed in Holden's room is kinda.... visceral. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ccc73c34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ccc73c34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ccc73c34 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdb1c635 | type |
Side Bet | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdb1c635 | comment |
Side Bet: The scientists bet on what horror the protagonists will select. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdb1c635 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdb1c635 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdb1c635 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdfe12c3 | type |
Nothing Is Scarier | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Also, each and every single monster on the board (except Kevin and "Sexy Witches") is released and seen during the final act. Yes, including the Angry Molesting Tree. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdfe12c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdfe12c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cdfe12c3 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cf8335f6 | type |
Dye Hard | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cf8335f6 | comment |
Dye Hard: In-universe. Jules has just dyed her hair blonde at the start of the movie. Ironically she's played by the naturally blonde Anna Hutchinson. The hair dye contains chemicals allowing the Facility Controllers to influence Jules' behavior, making her more likely to follow their "suggestions." | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cf8335f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cf8335f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_cf8335f6 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d1b4f0ef | type |
Everybody Lives | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d1b4f0ef | comment |
Everybody Lives: The Japanese scenario has every single schoolgirl surviving the ghost girl's attack. At least until the failure of the US branch leads to the end of the world... | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d1b4f0ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d1b4f0ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d1b4f0ef | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: The cellar isn't just this, it's filled with artifacts that can summon a monster. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d2c0e2ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d2c0e2ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d2c0e2ed | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d355ba37 | type |
Turned Against Their Masters | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d355ba37 | comment |
Turned Against Their Masters: Well, the monsters and nightmares aren't actually all controlled or tamed by the Facility, but they quickly attack all of the folks involved once Dana releases all of them. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d355ba37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d355ba37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d355ba37 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: The controllers are set upon and killed by the various horrors they've sealed away to release on the subjects. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d397657d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d397657d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d397657d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d4c458c9 | type |
Teen Horror | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d4c458c9 | comment |
Teen Horror: Enforced. As the Director explains, the ritual requires the sacrifices to be young people, a meta-reference to the popularity of teenage and college-age protagonists in the horror genre. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d4c458c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d4c458c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d4c458c9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d6b5f05f | type |
Friendship Moment | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d6b5f05f | comment |
Friendship Moment: When creepy station attendant Mordecai snaps angrily at Jules, Marty steps in to snark right back at him. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d6b5f05f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d6b5f05f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d6b5f05f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: "Husband bulge". A possible reference to Whedon show Dollhouse in which Topher Brink, also played by Fran Kranz, is uncomfortable with the word "erection" and prefers the term "man reaction". | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d848560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d848560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d848560f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d8df3d27 | type |
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d8df3d27 | comment |
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": Laughter is heard as the purge starts, presumably from the Monster Clown or Dismemberment Goblins. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d8df3d27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d8df3d27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d8df3d27 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d986d0ed | type |
Evil Only Has to Win Once | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d986d0ed | comment |
Evil Only Has to Win Once: Zig-zagged. There are sites all around the world to provide sacrifices, and every year at least one has to succeed. But if the Ancient Ones aren't placated properly just once, that's all she wrote. So good (in the form of Necessarily Evil) only has to win once each year, but they only have to lose completely once to doom the world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d986d0ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d986d0ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_d986d0ed | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: Invoked with the Summoning Artifacts as when one is activated, the others are rendered useless for the rest of the ritual. Some of the other objects in the cabin, such as the wolf head and the two-way mirror, end up irrelevant. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dbca2c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dbca2c99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dbca2c99 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Patience Buckner, the zombie girl in the white dress with one arm, isn't seen after Curt pushes her out of Marty's way until the Carnage where she is shown exiting an elevator. She then kills the Director, and saves Marty's life. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dcbe8a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dcbe8a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dcbe8a6e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dd46397e | type |
Just Desserts | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dd46397e | comment |
Just Desserts: The fate of several Organization members during the rampage, most notably an employee tossed into the maw of the giant cobra and Hadley at the teeth of his merman. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dd46397e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dd46397e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_dd46397e | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_df410b77 | type |
Decoy Protagonist | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_df410b77 | comment |
Decoy Protagonist: While Dana's status as the Final Girl is enforced by the movie itself, she spends most of the movie either completely oblivious to the events going on around her or having a mental breakdown, while it's Marty who throws the film Off the Rails, succeeds in (sort of) foiling the evil organization, and generally plays a more traditional hero. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_df410b77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_df410b77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_df410b77 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e135b3de | type |
Pass the Popcorn | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e135b3de | comment |
Pass the Popcorn: The entire premise, really. The controllers are not unlike a horror movie audience, watching and hoping (and ensuring) events play out strictly according to formula. And they do enjoy their jobs, throwing a big party with booze and snacks when they think that have it in the bag. And of course, the Ancient Ones are the real audience, who must be appeased by the sacrifice going exactly as planned, no deviations. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e135b3de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e135b3de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e135b3de | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e24d2d5c | type |
Reptiles Are Abhorrent | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e24d2d5c | comment |
And a zombie actually drags a victim to the edge of a catwalk and tosses him over into the waiting maws of a giant cobra. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e24d2d5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e24d2d5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e24d2d5c | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e256a235 | type |
Creepy Gas-Station Attendant | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e256a235 | comment |
Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: Mordecai. In this case he's not just set dressing, it's important that the sacrifices choose to continue to the Cabin of their own free will, despite the creepy old guy warning them that "gettin' back is your concern." He also provides the same service to the men running the secret program, and just like the college students, they ignore his warning and doom themselves. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e256a235 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e256a235 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e256a235 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e2a6ebc1 | type |
Closed Circle | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e2a6ebc1 | comment |
Closed Circle: The titular cabin. The controllers try very hard to keep it closed, especially when the tunnel back to civilization fails to conveniently blow up. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e2a6ebc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e2a6ebc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e2a6ebc1 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3cee2e7 | type |
Empathic Environment | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3cee2e7 | comment |
Empathic Environment: Invoked when Hadley and Sitterson fine-tune the weather to encourage Curt and Jules to fool around. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3cee2e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3cee2e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cabin in the Woods | hasFeature |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3cee2e7 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3d2f2 | type |
The Fool | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3d2f2 | comment |
The Fool: Marty is called this by many, but he surprisingly fits into the Tarot archetype beyond just being a hippie stoner; he manages to succeed where others fail, by pure luck but also by being sensible. Interestingly, this is foreshadowed itself by his actor. Fran Kranz' most notable role to American audiences is a similar "dorky" character who is fragile and inept in a life or death situation, while Fran himself is 5'10" and over 200 lbs of muscle.◊ | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e3d2f2 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e47e0eb | type |
Scary Scarecrows | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e47e0eb | comment |
Scary Scarecrows: "Scarecrows" are one of the available monsters. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e47e0eb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain, is an obvious riff on Pinhead, with his puzzle box, bondage outfit, and head full of sharp objects. The Monster Clown that appears near the end is based either on Pennywise or Killer Klowns from Outer Space. The list is almost too long to list (more on the Shout Out page). We have the molesting tree from The Evil Dead (1981), Alma from First Encounter Assault Recon, the Boomer and others from Left 4 Dead, and even the Nurses from Silent Hill. A lot of video game references in there. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5421161 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e542d889 | type |
Gorn | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: And loads of it, most of it relegated to the second half of the movie. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e54362ef | type |
Hunk | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e54362ef | comment |
Hunk: Curt and Holden are both conventionally attractive muscular athletes, one of which becomes part of a Fanservice sex scene and the other of which gets a Mr. Fanservice shirtless scene. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e54362ef | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5d8460d | type |
Unexplained Recovery | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: Marty is stabbed in the back and dragged off-screen by a monster. He shows up later, and except for being rather roughed up by the zombie, he is perfectly fine. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5d8460d | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5ffeb19 | type |
Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5ffeb19 | comment |
Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: The Organization put a chemical in Jules's blonde hair dye that makes her behave more stupid and slutty than she really is, as they force the various occupants of the cabin to fill their typical Slasher Movie roles. Jules is actually pretty intelligent, being pre-med. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e5ffeb19 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e663d3ef | type |
Only a Flesh Wound | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e663d3ef | comment |
Only a Flesh Wound: Several characters are beaten and stabbed yet manage to run and dart around just fine afterwards. Marty and Curtis are both stabbed in the back, yet show no effects from their injuries in later scenes. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e663d3ef | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e96e7845 | type |
Ramp Jump | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_e96e7845 | comment |
Ramp Jump: The motorbike jump starts with Curt going off a ramp to get to the other side. It doesn't end well. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_e96e7845 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb4ee9eb | type |
Guns Are Worthless | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb4ee9eb | comment |
Guns Are Worthless: The security people in the complex have guns, but it doesn't do them much good. It does fend off the werewolf, but the bullets clearly aren't silver, so it seems more like the werewolf is just inconvenienced enough to look for an easier target instead. Also, the killer clown gets shot at point blank range a few times. It doesn't even slow him down. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb4ee9eb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Marty when he saves Dana from being killed by Matthew Buckner. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb81c601 | featureApplicability |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_eb81c601 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ece6f910 | type |
Moment Killer | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: Marty's "husband bulge" remark puts the kibosh on Holden's and Dana's smooching. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ece6f910 | featureApplicability |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_ece6f910 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ed53cb67 | type |
Finding the Bug | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ed53cb67 | comment |
Finding the Bug: When Marty accidentally breaks a lamp, he discovers a camera wired into the wall. He comes to the conclusion he's on reality TV before thinking of what his parents will think of him. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_ed53cb67 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ed68bcc9 | type |
Dwindling Party | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ed68bcc9 | comment |
Dwindling Party: They started out as a group of five. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_ed68bcc9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f145674f | type |
Chance Activation | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f145674f | comment |
Chance Activation: Exaggerated, with the objects in the cellar. As it happens, Dana reads aloud from the diary first... | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f145674f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f2d51908 | type |
Evil Hand | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f2d51908 | comment |
Evil Hand: The zombie arm in the elevator which trips Marty, and is last seen crawling onto the face of the unconscious guard. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f2d51908 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f300ca44 | type |
Cliché Storm | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f300ca44 | comment |
Cliché Storm: invoked Intentionally invoked. The ritual pretty much has to be a Cliché Storm for it to work properly. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f300ca44 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f3d5d15f | type |
Creepy Child | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f3d5d15f | comment |
So much so that a gigantic bat thing blatantly ignores a helpless person right in front of it because a Creepy Child has him in its sights. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f3d5d15f | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f642b1f9 | type |
You Bastard! | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f642b1f9 | comment |
You Bastard!: The Ancient Ones are basically horror movie viewers. They watch people die in horrific, troperiffic ways, and, when their world does not go as they wanted it to, want to make it go away. And it's hard to not see the scientists/puppeteers as a metaphor for Hollywood's current horror output, repeating the same formula ad infinitum to appease its target audience's appetite for sex and gore as religiously as any ancient ritual. And you can see the two main scientists as a metaphor for a writer and a director, forced to keep putting out the same dross and lamenting their inability to try anything creative. 'I'll never see a merman,' indeed. The characters not fitting into the archetypes the Facility has decided they should be might also serve as a metaphor for bad casting, or the bad acting that tends to come with horror. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f642b1f9 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f6f6adeb | type |
Railroading | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f6f6adeb | comment |
Railroading: Hadley and Sitterson resort to this with pheromone mists and remote-control doors. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f6f6adeb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: In the third act there's the elevators opening over and over and letting out more and more monsters, finally culminating in Patience stepping out of the elevator into a room with literally every square inch covered in blood and gore and disappointed that everyone's already dead. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_f9f2c33 | featureApplicability |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_f9f2c33 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_faece9aa | type |
The Power of Friendship | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_faece9aa | comment |
The Power of Friendship: In the Japanese scenario, the children use this to defeat the monster. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_faece9aa | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fb0fa1ba | type |
Sinister Scraping Sound | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fb0fa1ba | comment |
Sinister Scraping Sound: Matthew Buckner drags his bear-trap-thingy along the wooden dock as he goes to finish off Dana. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fb0fa1ba | featureApplicability |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_fb0fa1ba | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fd4f8299 | type |
Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The scientists controlling everything are doing so as part of a ritual that prevents the "Ancient Ones" from rising and destroying the world. | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fd4f8299 | featureApplicability |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_fd4f8299 | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Possible when an employee places a bet early on. "I don't think we have one of those." "Zoology says we do." Later on, a unicorn appears. Hadley wishes to see a Merman in action. He gets his wish but ends up paying for it with his life. Also, each and every single monster on the board (except Kevin and "Sexy Witches") is released and seen during the final act. Yes, including the Angry Molesting Tree. The intern splits the pot with Maintenance. "You know... I don't even think Curt has a cousin". Patience lives up to her name in the end, where she finally goes up on The Director. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_fe0330fb | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fea27091 | type |
Buffy Speak | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fea27091 | comment |
Buffy Speak: Marty refers to Jules's weird behaviour as acting like "a celebutard". In the credits, even. "Japanese Floaty Girl." | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_fea27091 | featureApplicability |
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The Cabin in the Woods / int_ff7f34c5 | type |
Pet the Dog | |
The Cabin in the Woods / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Subverted Trope. When it seems like Curt might be able to escape to get help from the outside world, he finds out the hard way about the electric walls the audience already knows about, while Dana and Holden watch his demise.... | |
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ItemName | |
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