Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, October the twenty third,
Speaker 1: and before he was saving the universe as an Avenger,
Speaker 1: he was appearing in number nine on our Horror hit
Speaker 1: List countdown. And with that, welcome to this episode of
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. We have made it into the top ten.
Speaker 1: This is number nine, and I'm talking about Thor in particular.
Speaker 1: And if you're a fan of those movies, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see something a little different in this one.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I absolutely forgot that Chris Hemsworth was in this movie.
Speaker 3: It'd been a long time since I had seen it.
Speaker 3: We rewatched it because we loved it and we knew
Speaker 3: it was going to be on the list, high up
Speaker 3: on the list, and I was I actually was a
Speaker 3: gat I was like, oh my god, Chris Hemsworth is
Speaker 3: in this I forgot.
Speaker 2: We are talking, of course, about the Cabin in the Woods,
Speaker 2: number nine on our list.
Speaker 1: Then perfect title, and it's perfect for a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons we'll get into. It's perfect because this is like
Speaker 1: when we go places and I see the name of
Speaker 1: a restaurant is just tacos and.
Speaker 2: Tequila, right, you know exactly what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: So this one says Cabin in the woods, and you
Speaker 1: would think you know what you're gonna get, and because
Speaker 1: you get something different. Even the title this movie is brilliant.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's intentional every step of the way. They want
Speaker 3: to lead you in a certain direction. They want to
Speaker 3: make you question and wonder what's actually happening, and then
Speaker 3: it's kind of like nothing you could.
Speaker 2: Ever have guessed. Yes, I would never in a million
Speaker 2: years with this.
Speaker 3: And there's even a surprise performance from one of our
Speaker 3: favorite actresses in this genre who shows up at the end.
Speaker 3: I mean, from start to finish, brilliant acting and just clever, clever,
Speaker 3: clever script writing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this comes in at number nine on our list.
Speaker 1: This came out in twenty twelve. I think I have
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Yeah, twenty twelve, twenty twelve, thirty five minutes,
Speaker 1: sah delicious already. It is a rated R movie. Horror,
Speaker 1: mystery and thriller is how it is described, and it
Speaker 1: has got more than one synopsis here, so you could
Speaker 1: take the.
Speaker 2: First one, all right. A group of kids go to
Speaker 2: a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is
Speaker 2: unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a worldwide conspiracy
Speaker 2: where all horror movie cliches are revealed to be part
Speaker 2: of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
Speaker 1: Right. They tell a lot there.
Speaker 3: See, And I didn't know that going into the movie.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that I didn't read a synopsis, so maybe
Speaker 3: we should have said spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is from the beginning.
Speaker 1: This is one they officially put out. But I'm surprised
Speaker 1: at even reading that. Still can't figure out. You still
Speaker 1: won't figure out what this movie is about.
Speaker 2: No, it's so bizarre.
Speaker 3: I'd actually love to talk to the creative mind who
Speaker 3: came up with it, that's how strange it is.
Speaker 1: Another synopsis here, When five college friends arrive at a
Speaker 1: remote for its cabin for a little vacation, little did
Speaker 1: they expect the horrors that await them. One by one,
Speaker 1: the youths fall victim to backwoods zombies. But there is
Speaker 1: another factor at play. Two scientists are manipulating the ghoulish
Speaker 1: goings on, but even as the body count rises, there
Speaker 1: as yet more at work than meets the eye. That's
Speaker 1: a go.
Speaker 2: That's a good one too.
Speaker 3: But again, when I watched this for the first time,
Speaker 3: I saw it once it started streaming. I didn't see
Speaker 3: it in the theaters, and I didn't really read the
Speaker 3: synopsis because the title got me the Cabin in the woods. Hello,
Speaker 3: this is right up my alley. I actually watched this
Speaker 3: by myself, and I remember being so taken aback at.
Speaker 2: What ended up happening. But it was so good and
Speaker 2: the box office. Wow, I don't know how I missed
Speaker 2: this in the theaters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it made seventy million dollars worldwide. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I didn't find the production. Uh, there were some estimates
Speaker 1: out there under twenty million. This was a movie that
Speaker 1: did well, made forty two million dollars domestically, but a
Speaker 1: total of seventy million world wide. We mentioned Chris Hemsworth,
Speaker 1: Jesse Williams, a lot of people. Which doctor show was it?
Speaker 2: Jesse Williams is in Oh, I will never be able
Speaker 2: to come up with I.
Speaker 1: Can't come up with that one. Kristin Connelly, Anna hutcheson
Speaker 1: to young ladies that play the leads who are fantastic?
Speaker 1: Is it without a doubt? Is Bradley Whitford at the
Speaker 1: star of this movie?
Speaker 3: He has to be. I mean he's among them. I
Speaker 3: mean he's the most memorable. I didn't forget he was
Speaker 3: in the movie. Not that Chris Hemsworth is forgettable. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: But Bradley Whitford is so brilliant in this movie, and
Speaker 3: he's so clever and just despicable at the same time.
Speaker 3: You're laughing with him, but you also are hating him.
Speaker 1: But it's chilling to the end.
Speaker 2: Yes he is.
Speaker 1: He is charming.
Speaker 3: His last everything, Yes, yeah, mine in the movie is amazing.
Speaker 1: But yes, Bradley wi for a lot of you all
Speaker 1: know that West Wing fame. He was so the Jordan
Speaker 1: peele Reson Will Get Out. Yes, he was in that,
Speaker 1: but he is brilliant in this movie. This was directed
Speaker 1: by Drew Goddard. Look at this. Rotten Tomato score surprised me.
Speaker 2: Ninety two percent. It is that good.
Speaker 3: Now the audience score surprises me that it's lower at
Speaker 3: seventy four percent. Because this was such an enjoyable film.
Speaker 3: Maybe people felt shook, like they were annoyed that they
Speaker 3: were getting taken in too many different directions, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Think, and we're going to go through the critics here.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of critics found depth and meaning
Speaker 1: in a lot of the foolishness. But I think maybe
Speaker 1: a lot of people looking at this just saw foolishness,
Speaker 1: weren't trying to look for anything deeper, got it, and
Speaker 1: more of a meaning. Oh, this is such a good movie.
Speaker 1: The critic consensus Herobes says, this movie is an astonishing
Speaker 1: meta feat capable of being funny, strange, and scary frequently
Speaker 1: all at the same time.
Speaker 2: That's fair. Yes, that is totally fair.
Speaker 3: And here are some of the critic reviews to give
Speaker 3: you a taste of what the experts thought of this movie.
Speaker 3: The Cabin in the Woods is smart, savage fun written
Speaker 3: by fans for fans.
Speaker 2: That is so true.
Speaker 3: Playing on the cliches of the genre, the film avoids
Speaker 3: being a straight out spoof by building to a satisfying,
Speaker 3: over the top climax, good.
Speaker 1: Way to put it, that is not an over statement
Speaker 1: of any kind. The ending is.
Speaker 3: Just you know, in a fireworks display, when you get
Speaker 3: the finale and it's just like, holy moly, Yeah that's
Speaker 3: this movie, and you.
Speaker 1: Know what's happening. You can't mistake what's happening, and you
Speaker 1: know this is going to be the end. It's so good.
Speaker 1: Also another one here, look an instant classic endlessly clever
Speaker 1: and thrilling, someone else saying the most maniacal monster movie
Speaker 1: ever created, also saying another is perfectly enjoyable without ever
Speaker 1: quite feeling like there's anything at stake.
Speaker 2: Huh. I hadn't considered that. Yeah, I wasn't. I knew
Speaker 2: people were going to die.
Speaker 1: You weren't that kind of invested, right. I didn't feel
Speaker 1: like it took much of an emotional journey on this,
Speaker 1: But I just took a fun ride.
Speaker 3: You know, I do They even open this film with
Speaker 3: a massive cliche in horror movies. You know what, should
Speaker 3: you never do if you don't want to die in
Speaker 3: a horror movie?
Speaker 2: Should never have sex.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I just started remembering all the fun
Speaker 3: cliches that they went after.
Speaker 2: But they did them so so well. It was amazing.
Speaker 3: One of the most creative and thoroughly entertaining experiences the
Speaker 3: horror genre has given us in quite some time. That's
Speaker 3: a very true statement, and this one a surprisingly entertaining
Speaker 3: effort that works because it strikes a smart balance embracing
Speaker 3: as well as rejecting viewer expectations and knowledge of the
Speaker 3: horror genre.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's smart. One negative one here from Again, this
Speaker 1: was ninety two percent from the critics, so it was
Speaker 1: hard to find a lot of negative ones, with one
Speaker 1: mentioned here that the director may have intended his film
Speaker 1: as a post modern discourse on fear, free will, and
Speaker 1: corporate religion, but instead he serves up a ridiculously campy
Speaker 1: hodgepodge of horror classics and nihilistic violence. I agree with
Speaker 1: it all, and I appreciate it fun Okay.
Speaker 2: That negative is still a positive in your corner.
Speaker 1: Art right. I like that it was ridiculously campy here.
Speaker 2: Yes, and this is funny from the audience. Not your
Speaker 2: usual horror, that's for sure. Yes, great movie.
Speaker 3: I expected something close to every other horror film I
Speaker 3: have seen. I was pleasantly surprised that this was like
Speaker 3: no other film I had ever seen.
Speaker 2: That is so true. It stays with you. You remember this one.
Speaker 3: It's a good watch with someone that doesn't have a
Speaker 3: love for horror movies. It's silly enough to be fun
Speaker 3: and gory enough to be enjoyed by horror fans.
Speaker 1: That's a good line, that is it right there? There's
Speaker 1: something in there for everybody. Someone here. I didn't love
Speaker 1: it that much, saying kind of fun, not really my
Speaker 1: kind of film, but it's good for what it is,
Speaker 1: very creative and original, that's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I mean aha, I'm surprised you did find
Speaker 2: some of the negative ones.
Speaker 3: Mixed feelings about this one. It was a bit stupid,
Speaker 3: but also funny. Not enough nudity and deaths. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I understand.
Speaker 2: I can see who wrote that right now, high school
Speaker 2: junior exactly how did you know?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: And this one from an audience member, an interesting concept
Speaker 2: with very cheesy execution. It is definitely worth the watch,
Speaker 2: but it wouldn't blow anyone away. That's so funny, fairly
Speaker 2: honest to.
Speaker 3: Me, they didn't realize that the film wasn't actually taking
Speaker 3: itself that seriously like. It was intentionally campy, It was
Speaker 3: intentionally silly.
Speaker 2: It was intentionally over the top.
Speaker 3: If you didn't recognize that, then maybe that's why you
Speaker 3: didn't enjoy it as much.
Speaker 2: That this was all cleverly designed.
Speaker 1: Didn't you know from before the opening that the film
Speaker 1: name even was flashed on screen? There was some stuff happening,
Speaker 1: some action happening, singing with Bradley Whitford and the guy
Speaker 1: who plays opposite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I know it from every movie, and I
Speaker 3: could never tell you his name.
Speaker 1: Yes, their opening scene, their se makes you think you're
Speaker 1: about to watch a horror comedy. They are slapstick, goofy.
Speaker 1: It's a bizarre They.
Speaker 2: Sing, what am I watching?
Speaker 1: They seem to be talking about something very serious, but
Speaker 1: in a casual way, like you would talk about it
Speaker 1: if you worked at any office in the country. Bradley Whiffer.
Speaker 1: They said a tone in the movie at the bear
Speaker 1: beginning that how could you be about to take this seriously?
Speaker 3: Exactly? This is what it is? Enjoy Yes, that's kind
Speaker 3: of what I felt like the beginning was.
Speaker 1: So why is this on the list few and in
Speaker 1: the top ten?
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, because I've because of what someone
Speaker 3: actually said, I've never seen another horror movie like this
Speaker 3: that is so enjoyable. I love that I can laugh
Speaker 3: and also jump at the same time. Not many movies
Speaker 3: can pull that off. The acting is incredible. I just
Speaker 3: I love this movie.
Speaker 1: The cabin stuff like, we know what's going on, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of stood alone in Nailing the Cabin in
Speaker 1: the wood genre, there's a mystery and kids start dying
Speaker 1: and what's happening in Running for Our Lives and it's
Speaker 1: dark and don't go in there. All that stuff was
Speaker 1: in there, and I appreciate it. But I think the
Speaker 1: movie for us as horror fans, we have pretty much
Speaker 1: seen it all. We don't see that much that we
Speaker 1: find that necessarily original, and that's fine. But even though
Speaker 1: we know every move for the most part they're gonna make.
Speaker 1: This is gonna happen, that is gonna happen, this one
Speaker 1: threw us. And if you can have us guessing what's
Speaker 1: going on the horror movie fans we are, that's a
Speaker 1: good click.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: Yes, So when we come back, we'll tell you who
Speaker 3: it's for, who it's not for, what you should pair
Speaker 3: it with, and a hint for what is going to
Speaker 3: be our number eight on our Halloween Horror hit List.
Speaker 3: Continuing our conversation about the Cabin in the Woods are
Speaker 3: number nine on our Halloween Horror hit List. We absolutely
Speaker 3: loved this movie because of its wit, its humor, it's horror.
Speaker 3: It just combined the things we love to do the most,
Speaker 3: get a little scared and have a lot of laughs.
Speaker 3: And this one was so clever in how they did it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't when it was silly.
Speaker 3: It was deliberate, So it wasn't it wasn't upsetting to watch.
Speaker 2: It was actually cleverly designed.
Speaker 1: It was funny. I don't remember right in the blackening
Speaker 1: and some of them whatever, I can't think of it.
Speaker 1: The other horror, what we just did. The comedy horror
Speaker 1: might have been ready or not or what. There's certain
Speaker 1: things that happen, and you know, that's a comedic line
Speaker 1: that was delivered. All right, it's supposed to be funny,
Speaker 1: and they're making jokes. I don't find them making jokes
Speaker 1: necessarily in this movie, even though there's so much that
Speaker 1: is funny, like the energy, the banter, the back and
Speaker 1: forth between Bradley Whitford and it's amazing. They are amazing
Speaker 1: and they're not and just his mannerisms, right, it's not necessary.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like a comedy to me, even though.
Speaker 3: You were laughing fun you know what you were in
Speaker 3: on it? Yeah, I think that's what it was. They
Speaker 3: weren't trying to make you laugh. You were just in
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: There's a voyeuristic element to this.
Speaker 3: You were with them and you were kind of appalled
Speaker 3: and laughing at the same time. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: that the whole time I was appalled by what they
Speaker 3: were saying, which was making it funny, because I was
Speaker 3: in on the conversation.
Speaker 2: So I think that's what it was anyway. So who
Speaker 2: it's for?
Speaker 3: We think it's for everybody, because I can't imagine even
Speaker 3: if you love horror movies, you're gonna love this. And
Speaker 3: if you don't love horror movies, I think you're gonna
Speaker 3: love this because it's almost poking fun at horror movies
Speaker 3: while being a horror movie.
Speaker 1: And if nothing else, Chris Hymnsworth is in it.
Speaker 3: There's that. There is that too. That's a very good point. Now,
Speaker 3: who is it not? For people who take it too seriously?
Speaker 3: You have to recognize this movie. It's not just it's
Speaker 3: because I don't think it's fair to say it's deliberately campy.
Speaker 2: It's more than that.
Speaker 3: But I do think that, yes, the few people who
Speaker 3: he saw didn't like it, and what they wrote it
Speaker 3: certainly seems like they did take it a little too seriously.
Speaker 1: That's that's where I would leave it. And you have
Speaker 1: to be and maybe you're hear in a bad mood.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should watch it and put you in a
Speaker 1: better mood. But you gotta be ready for a ride
Speaker 1: like this is almost an event film to where oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, what's about to happen next? So yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a good time.
Speaker 3: Yes, And so I was going to suggest with food
Speaker 3: and drink pairing that because it is the cabin in
Speaker 3: the woods, why not go ahead and kind of create
Speaker 3: that feeling. So I was thinking s'mores, some Irish coffee,
Speaker 3: maybe some moose crunch popcorn?
Speaker 1: What that last?
Speaker 2: I knew you were going to ask.
Speaker 3: You could google it, but I will tell you I
Speaker 3: already did, so I could give you the exact definition you.
Speaker 3: I love moose crunch pop I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like the animal moose crunch popcorn.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like something you eat in a cabin.
Speaker 1: Like crunching munch a little bit. Oh, we'll just call
Speaker 1: it crunching much the coffee stuff with the peanuts in it.
Speaker 3: Shoves in the box too, so decadent caramel corn mixed
Speaker 3: with peanuts, pretzels and drizzled with milk, chocolate.
Speaker 2: And peanut butter.
Speaker 1: We called it what moose?
Speaker 2: What it's moose crunch popcorn.
Speaker 3: You kind of take cracker jacks and you like elevate it.
Speaker 1: But so it's more than popcorn. It's not just popcorn.
Speaker 2: No, it's more than popcorn.
Speaker 1: Are there equal parts of the other things.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just it's mostly popcorn.
Speaker 1: So it's dominated by the popfind.
Speaker 3: Yes, So I was thinking that that would be fun
Speaker 3: and a whole cabin motif to watch this movie, and
Speaker 3: I will say it's funny. I have been caught a
Speaker 3: couple of times during the over the course of the
Speaker 3: years when it's been streaming.
Speaker 2: All forget.
Speaker 3: I'll forget that this is that movie, and I'll say, oh,
Speaker 3: Cabin in the Woods and just think it's another because
Speaker 3: there are so many like Last House on the Left.
Speaker 2: There are certain.
Speaker 3: Movies that have a similar artwork on the graphic and
Speaker 3: have a similar title, and then I, oh.
Speaker 2: It's that movie. I love it.
Speaker 3: So I always forget sometimes, so just go for the
Speaker 3: cabin theme. All right, our next movie, number eight on
Speaker 3: the list. Do you want to give yes, our listeners
Speaker 3: a tease?
Speaker 1: It will change the way you feel about people smiling
Speaker 1: at you. How about that? I like that.
Speaker 3: This is a great film. We can't wait to share
Speaker 3: it with you. But thank you so much for listening
Speaker 3: to us. We will talk to you soon.