a monster(s) that wasnt a zombie. Theyre in every TV/movie. Want to see something different than I see all the time.
shareWell, the movie is making an homage to common horror tropes. Zombies are right near the top of the list.
Can't stop the signal.
They summoned something trite and cliche?? No, you don't say....
Are you not entertained?!
I was really hoping for Angry Molesting Tree. there's something you don't see in every horror movie!
shareBut we saw that in Evil Dead
shareBut we saw that in Evil Dead
And the Last Unicorn, but that really isn't a horror movie. Scary though.
All glory to the Hypnotoad
I was really hoping for Angry Molesting Tree. there's something you don't see in every horror movie!
Well, not that new. It is from the first Evil Dead movie.
Let's be bad guys.
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As a satire zombies makes sense. They're zombie torturers. They're playing on the two big genres being overdone at that time. Zombies and torture porn flick.
shareWell, Whedon/Goddard could make a bunch of prequels, each featuring different groups of kids summoning up different monsters. Of course, all of them would end the same approximate way (with the occasional virgin surviving) but that plays perfectly into the accepted subtext of this film -- repetitive horror tropes and cliches year after year, with the Ancient Ones/audience continuing to demand more of the same.
By "The Cabin in the Woods XXIII" or so, we could even get the Merman, since at least one group obviously summoned it (Hadley had never seen it, but Sitterson clearly has.) Then, just for a change of pace, "Cabin XXIV" would be a sort of "side-quel" about the life and times of the clean-up crew trying to scrub down all that blood the merman sprayed out of his blowhole.
They wanted Whedon's audience to have a character they could relate to in earnest, that's all.
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