Stereotypes/ Political Agendas

In Drew Goddard's film Cabin in the Woods, he successfully draws all aspects of different horror films into one movie. His desire is to make this "horror" movie into a sort of comedy. It is making fun of the all of horror films that our society has been exposed to. He has the stereotypical zombie, the stereotypical ghost, and every stereotypical nightmare creature ever to have been thought of. He also has the stereotypical group of teens that fall prey to this nightmarish cabin...the blonde, the virgin, the pothead, the athlete, and the scholar. They of course all spend a night of hell in this cabin being chased by these creatures. Drew Goddard combines the horror genre and the comedy genre to make a perfect combination of a movie. Honestly, when I first watched this film, I thought that it was a stereotypical horror film that would be incredibly predicable and that it was not a very well made film. I was completely wrong however because there is such a deeper message to the movie. The whole film is so witty in its humor and in the way that it pokes fun at different genres of movies. Another aspect of the film that I found incredibly witty and clever was the political viewpoint. The people in the control room who are trying to control the teens represent the government. They hold such a tight grip on those teens, and they try to force them into making decisions that they want them to make. Although this "government" seems successful at first, it becomes very apparent by the end of the film that this leads to nothing but chaos. All of the creatures get out of their cages and end up eating and killing all of the people of this "government". Maybe Drew Goddard is trying make a point about our governments control over society. Sometimes it seems like they have such a tight grip on us as individuals, which according to the movie, will eventually end in total chaos and in the government's ruin. Throughout the movie, there is a revolutionary element in it that makes this film very unique. I enjoyed this film, and all of its witty and clever undertones.