The Cabin in the Woods (2012) or, All the Tricks in the Woods

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The totally constructed poster for Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods

QUICK REVIEW:

5 youngsters go to a cabin somewhere in desolate Nowheresville with only unpleasant hicks around. SPOILER Zombies attack. It turns out that everything they experience is orchestrated from a subterranean office that kill them as part of a sacrificial ritual.

It is unfathomable to me how this horror 'deconstruction' freak work became as lauded as it did, (it has a Metacritic score of 7.2 and an IMDb rating of 7.0.) Cabin is not funny, and it's not scary. - In fact its first 50 minutes (in which SPOILER no-one dies) are downright tedious.
It all ends SPOILER in a bizarrely action-packed monster extravaganza finale.
Cabin in the Woods is well-produced, obviously, but far from a good film.
It is written by Joss Whedon (The Avengers (2012)) and debuting director Drew Goddard (Cloverfield (2008), writer), who is in pre-production with his next film, Marvel's The Sinister Six (2016), a Spider-Man spinoff-type product.

Watch the trailer here

Cost: 30 mil. $
Box office: 66.5 mil. $
= Minor flop
[The movie was shot in the Spring of 2009, and its release was delayed by 2 years due to the bankruptcy of its production company MGM, who eventually, in their new form, decided to sell its distribution rights, which were acquired by Lionsgate. The film made 42 mil. $ (63 % of the gross) in the States, with the most important secondary countries being the UK (8.5 mil. $), France (2.4 mil. $) and Russia (2.3 mil. $). It has won a whopping 17 awards, although none major.]

What do you think of The Cabin in the Woods?
Should we be excited about Goddard's coming movie, and if so, why?

Blood Tide/Bloodtide/Demon Island/The Red Tide (1982) - Dubious island monster flick with James Earl Jones

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Scary, disfigured water-woman on the poster for Richard Jefferies' Blood Tide

QUICK REVIEW:

To a little, Greek island arrives a boat with a couple with bopped hair, who are looking for a missing, crazy sister. - But are virgin sacrifices being performed on the island? In any case, women go missing there on a large scale.
The scenes in which the girls are attacked by the sea monster are true horror, and the island also holds an uncomfortable atmosphere; in particular in the grotto scenes, in which a rambling James Earl Jones (Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)) fiddles with whisky and explosives.
The monster, however, is terribly ugly, in a bad sense that is, and the primary title of the film is pointless, (what blood tide?) Also, the young cast members 'act' more in the sense of merely being in the film with their bodies, and the British Blood Tide also doesn't steer clear of boring for considerable lengths of its playtime.
Its director Richard Jefferies has only directed one other film, the TV movie Living Hell (2008), but has written scripts for numerous films like Scarecrows (1988), Man of the House (1995) and Cold Creek Manor (2003).

James Earl Jones in Richard Jefferies' Blood Tide. - Is he really drunk? Really?

Watch a clip from this undistinguished movie here

Budget: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
= Unknown

What do you think of Blood Tide?
Have you seen other films with James Earl Jones that you think count as low-points in the man's in any case impressive career?