The Reel Rejects - THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

ZOMBIE REDNECK TORTURE FAMILY!! The Cabin in the Woods Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Fol...low Us On Socials: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Halloween may be over, but the Scream Queens are CONTINUING their journey through the Horror Genre as they give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the modern Cult Classic Co-Written & Directed by Drew Goddard (Daredevil, The Martian, World War Z, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)! Cabin takes a meta look at the classic tropes of horror cinema with an appealing cast that includes Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Avengers: Endgame), Kristen Connolly (As the World Turns, The Bay), Fran Kranz (Dollhouse, The Village), Anna Hutchison (Robert the Bruce), Jesse Williams (Grey's Anatomy), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water, The Visitor, Step Brothers), Bradley Whitford (Get Out, The West Wing), Brian White (Stomp the Yard), Amy Acker (Angel), & MORE! Roxy & Tara REACT to all the Best Scenes & Most Meta Moments including the Let's Get this Party Started Scene, Giant Evil Gods Scene, Down the Elevator Scene, Killer Klown and the Merman Scene, & Beyond! Follow Roxy Striar YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhirlGirls Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxystriar/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/roxystriar Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:12 You think we should go to the one in the woods? I'm ready. Or should we go to the one on the beach? In the forest. Cabin in the beach. Let's go to the woods. Cabin of the woods, baby. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Okay, so we just watched Cabin in the Woods. And if you guys liked watching with us, don't forget to like, comment. I read all things you guys have to say. So be kind in there. Pick up your shirt, rejectnation shop.com. If you're on Apple, Spotify, where you are, five stars, thumbs up. Make sure you show us that love. Dude, my dude.
Starting point is 00:01:49 Yeah, man. It's different than what we've been watching. It was a nice break and pace for us. Totally. Not like a big franchise movie, but just borrowing from, especially like I feel like if we had watched this movie one year ago, we wouldn't have understood as many of the references. Absolutely, I agree with you on that.
Starting point is 00:02:06 So it was really cool now that we are the scream queens of the channel to be able to be here and see like, oh, that kind of is like evil dead. That kind of, you know, like just different things. We know the tropes now. Yeah, yeah, or even purge, like the different stuff. There was some really cool things that just I'm way more appreciated. Me too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:29 I love this. freaking film man I had so much fun I am like yeah 10 out of 10 100% I loved it I get why it has a 92 on her on tomatoes or whatever I had it's like it's so good like how could you really find qualms with this right it did have some humor in it but the scares were really scary they did great job but the characters our main core five are really interesting agreed very different from one another um attractive people interesting premise, you know, like, yeah, just, it was cool. It was very cool, especially like being able to pump in fairmoans, making them the certain
Starting point is 00:03:12 characters highlight more of what they needed, like they needed a whore, they needed an athlete, they needed a virgin, like that's such a wild and very smart idea. What is the, it felt like hunger games, what you're saying? Totally. To be able to control the environment, that's exactly. It's like a mix of Hunger Games. You said Truman Show, a little bit of that. Yeah, and I just thought the writing was really, really good.
Starting point is 00:03:38 I mean, I'm still hooked on the line that's like time to give someone else a chance. I didn't expect that. I was expecting what you said, where it's like I thought maybe the fool part would start to fill up. The Scorni went down there. And then they flipped that, said that line. I was like, this movie's so smart. It was like a Romeo and Juliet ending in a way. Yes, that happened many times throughout the movie.
Starting point is 00:03:59 where I was like, this is what I think is going to happen. And it was not what I thought was going to happen. Agreed. It was better than what I had thought was going to happen. Exactly. Especially when the, the camper goes into the water crashes with her in it. What a great visual, but also didn't expect that. I mean, this movie's pacing, I didn't look at the time once. No.
Starting point is 00:04:20 I was like, wow, that movie flew by for me. I loved it all. That, to me, is what good pacing. and tone and knowing like what the F you're you're wanting to deliver to the audience that it just it flies right by you can only pick one who's your favorite character I really love some Bradley Whitford I love him so much he was your favorite character in the movie no I mean he wasn't a character um I don't I guess we'd go to with the weed guy I mean he was like I mean we got to right
Starting point is 00:04:59 And I also really, the stoner's great, but I also, I love what we did with Jesse Williams' character. Like that, from that moment where he decides to tell her, I can see you, to when he's like trying to keep her safe. You know, I love their chemistry, but yes, it is the stoner for me for sure. I thought that that was so cool. Because usually the tropes in these movies, stoner's always the dumb one, can't solve the day. But, like, he knew. He knew. He knew immediately.
Starting point is 00:05:27 And I thought that was really, really. really well done and cool. But I honestly like every single character. And I like watching their turn. Like you knew immediately when we keep talking about the hair dye that that was going to be relevant for something. Yeah. But she was a really cool character.
Starting point is 00:05:42 This is probably the earliest Chris thing, right? Like. I think so. I think that this movie probably really up to their trajectory to become stars for all of them. But some of them I haven't seen since. So that's strange to me. Yeah. It's been a minute, but I think the red-headed girl is still, I don't know, but the blood, excuse me, is still working.
Starting point is 00:06:07 And then obviously Chris, and I think the weak guy, he's been in and out of, he's been in and out of stuff. So after this, he got Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012. Oh, before this Star Trek. Chris? Yes. Before this was Star Trek. So, okay, let's see. The earliest thing from Chris.
Starting point is 00:06:27 Oh, okay, so he did a ton of TV movie stuff And then he got Star Trek Where he played George Kirk in 2009 And then he was in a movie called Perfect Getaway A movie called Cash And then, oh, in 2011 Thor came out right before this Holy Junk He did Thor and then did this
Starting point is 00:06:50 I bet he did this and then did Thor Before I would have to guess Still, that's great That is great What a great year. 2011, Thor came out right before. Imagine seeing him as Thor and then going to see this. That would be crazy.
Starting point is 00:07:03 Let's look at what a couple of the... We're good? They were good. I don't know what it's doing. Anna Hutchinson, who is the one who played the blonde girl, the horny blonde girl. She's been in Robert the Bruce Encounter, Vengeance, a Love Story. I haven't seen any of these things. 41 different credits.
Starting point is 00:07:25 It seems like she's still constantly working, but I, yeah, I have not seen her. Yeah, I don't know. The other girl who is the redhead, Kristen Connolly, she was in, again, things that I don't know, or the happening, but that was before this. She was in an episode of accused, two episodes of FBI International, a bunch of TV stuff, five episodes of evil. I don't know. Okay, so a lot of television. stuff. And then we know Jesse Williams because I'm in love with him.
Starting point is 00:07:59 Yep. Fron Kranz, who is the stoner. Okay. Yeah. He has been in I recognize his name. He's been, he was in 16 episodes of a show called Julia, 18 episodes of Journey Quest,
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Starting point is 00:10:49 Oh, yeah. That's a great film. That was in 2018. He directed a few episodes of The Good Place. Oh. And actually, those are the only things. He is a writer. He created the series High Potential, which is on right now.
Starting point is 00:11:03 He developed Daredevil and 39 episodes of that. The Defenders. A lot of Marvel stuff. World War Z. He wrote the screenplay for nine episodes of Lost. Wow. Lost is great. He wrote 22 episodes of Angel, 22 episodes of Buffy.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Oh, my God. I bet. And now I have to watch High Potential. If he wrote that, a lot of those credits, I think are really, it's great writing. And I am hearing really good things who wrote this, though, was Joss Whedon with Drew Goddard. We obviously know who he is. Yeah. Richard Jenkins is the name of the guy who's in Fricking Everything, who was stepbrothers was the movie that I was thinking he was the dad in.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Oh, yeah. Brian White, who is the guy who I thought was going to save the day, who didn't save the day. I know him from Ray Donovan. Okay, so a lot of working actors. A lot of working actors, which is why they were all good. Like, all so great. I agree. Not one of them stood out like a sore thumb.
Starting point is 00:12:04 They all did their jobs. Really, really good job. You want to hear a little bit of trivia? Let's do it. This movie must be very loved because usually when you go to trivia on IMDB, it has like a couple hundred likes per trivia effect. Yeah. These have thousands.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Wow. Let's see what they had to say. Cool. The thermal coffee mug bong was a fully functional. mug and bong as portrayed in the film the prototype cost five thousand dollars to make oh my god i wonder if it's in like a museum who owns that now who owns it during the no wonder that has over a thousand likes totally during the lake scene the only student not to jump into the lake is marty who remains fully clothed on the dock this is partially due to fran kron's noticeably being in as good if not
Starting point is 00:12:48 better shape than the other male students. In the commentary for the film, the writer's joke that he was ripped like muscular Jesus and asserted that if Marty were shown being that fit, it would ruin the character. This is also why Marty wears baggyer clothes. Great freaking trivia.
Starting point is 00:13:04 I bet you he was like, yeah. That's amazing. That's cool. Much of Drew Goddard's inspiration for this movie came from his own upbringing in the Los Alamos, New Mexico, a place filled with scientists, co-workers, all going about their business and their living their seemingly routine in ordinary lives,
Starting point is 00:13:23 even though they were building nuclear weapons and could potentially destroy the entire world. It talks about this in the DVD special features, interviews, and commentary. Cool. Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard wrote this script in how many days, Tara? Oh. You know what? It's such a fun idea that once you get the hang of it and you're like, oh, all the things and they come and get them. 17 days.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Three. Wah ha ha ha ha, bam, baby. Cool. Jules kisses the wolf head on the wall. So gross. The wolf's tongue is covered in powdered sugar to give it a dusty look to make the scene tolerable for Anna Hodgson. Thank God. That was disgusting.
Starting point is 00:14:11 God, that's gross. Okay. The failed rituals from the other countries are references to various classic movies. and monsters. The Kyoto ritual is a reference to Ringu, which is the ring. Buenos Aires ritual is a reference to King Kong. The Stockholm Reference, ritual is a reference to John Carpenter's The Thing. Oh.
Starting point is 00:14:33 Madrid ritual appears to reference Dracula. Oh, okay. Cool. During production, MGM saw the dailies of a scene where Chris Hemsworth instructs his friends. On the basis of his performance, they signed him on for red, Dawn. Two days later, Hemsworth was also chosen to play the lead in Thor. Wow. Both Red Dawn and the
Starting point is 00:14:54 Cabin in the Woods would eventually be delayed for several years when MGM went bankrupt and were finally released a year after Thor. Wow. Okay. Cool. I was going to say he doesn't look like this in Thor. No, he does not. So, it makes sense. Yeah. After the film was shelved due to the studio's bankruptcy,
Starting point is 00:15:13 even director Drew Goddard and producer Joss Whedon had little faith in it until Lionsgate saw the finished film, loved it, and picked it up for release. Good job, Lionsgate. I like what you do. Yep, for sure. And it works perfectly because Saw was one of the first Lionsgate films. And once the first Saw came out, that's how Lionsgate became big. And I didn't know that until I started watching Saw.
Starting point is 00:15:36 So it works imperfectly with the franchise that they've built. So that's awesome. A lot of these are very specific. I'll just read you a couple. But this one says, Kevin, one of the monsters in the whiteboard. is a tribute to the Elijah Wood character of the same name from the movie Sin City and the original Frank Miller graphic novel. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:15:56 That's kind of cool. Yeah. Okay, Drew Goddard's directorial debut, his first day as director was the scene at the gas station, which proved to be an immediate challenge since the set was unexpectedly covered in snow. Oh, wow, really. Wait, was that Drew Goddard, the gas station guy? No, no, his first direction. Oh, got it.
Starting point is 00:16:21 I was like, wait. Okay, got it. So there's a lot more. Feel free to look them up, but that's pretty cool stuff. I get why this movie is so loved. Thank you guys for recommending that Taryn and I watch this. I was a blast. I love that movie.
Starting point is 00:16:34 That's going on my list of like, yo, if you haven't seen Cabin in the Woods, great, great horror film, lots of fun. I would rewatch it. I think Taryn I would really love you guys to recommend more movies like this. Yeah. Absolutely. And I think you guys actually did if you joined our live, but we obviously, we weren't. It's not like we were writing stuff down. So maybe leave it in the comments here. We would love to see them. Yeah. Yeah. Because I actually pitched this one to Greg because some of you guys had been saying it to us. And he said, yeah. Yeah. I love that. So do that. Terrell. Do it. Do it. Any other words, my girl.
Starting point is 00:17:09 No, love you guys. Love this movie. Much love. And we'll see you guys next time. Later. Thank you.

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