Cabin in The Woods

The Cabin in the Woods
(2012)

Director: Drew Goddard

Starring: Kristen Connolly
Chris Hemsworth
Jesse Williams
Bradley Witford
Richard Jenkins

Production Companies:
Lionsgate (presents)
Mutant Enemy (production)

Working from a hidden underground facility,
senior technicians Gary Sitterson and Steve
Hadley initiate plans for a mysterious ritual -
reportedly one of several others taking place
around the world. Also present is specialist
Wendy Lin, who discloses that a similar
operation undertaken by their Swedish
counterparts has just ended in failure.

Meanwhile, American college students Dana Polk, Holden McCrea, Marty Mikalski, Jules Louden, and Curt
Vaughan are spending their summer vacation at a seemingly deserted cabin in the forest. It soon becomes
clear that Sitterson and Hadley are manipulating this setting from afar, even intoxicating the teenagers with
psychotropic drugs that gradually hinder rational thinking while increasing libido. After the door to the
cabin's darkened cellar swings open on its own during a tipsy game of Truth or Dare, both technicians coerce
their charges into investigating the contents within.

The group soon uncovers a plentiful assortment of bizarre articles, including an old diary once maintained by
Patience Buckner, a former cabin resident abused by her sadistic family. Dana, who takes an interest in
Patience, subsequently recites incantations from the journal and inadvertently summons the zombified
Buckner clan. Leaving Dana, Holden, and Marty behind with the book, Curt and Jules retire outside - where
Hadley successfully induces them to have sex. Set upon by marauding Buckners, Jules is decapitated but Curt
escapes, sounding the alarm. Marty, a frequent marijuana smoker, becomes justifiably paranoid, declaring
that unseen figureheads have been toying with their crisis. Locating concealed surveillance equipment, he
theorizes that the predicament may be a gimmick for reality television before being dragged off to be killed
by Judah Buckner.
Sitterson and Hadley weren't pleased when they learn that their counterparts in Japan, Argentina, and Spain
have failed to pull off their ritual. A terrified Curt, Holden, and Dana attempt escape in their RV, though
Sitterson triggers a tunnel collapse, rendering the highway impassable. Curt jumps a ravine on his
motorcycle in a desperate bid to reach an adjoining road, but is killed crashing into a camouflaged force
shield - apparently erected by the technicians. His demise convinces Dana that Marty's concerns may have
been founded.

Veering off the tarmac, the RV plummets into a nearby lake after Father Buckner surfaces inside and stabs
Holden. Dana survives the impact, but is confronted by Matthew Buckner when she swims ashore. As he
delivers his final blow, the Facility staff celebrate the completion of their ritual. Sitterson receives a phone
call informing him that Marty is still alive. Rescuing Dana, Marty reveals that he was able to overpower his
assailant upon being taken into an obscured elevator. They infiltrate the Facility, where a menagerie of
monsters are imprisoned. Dana observes a cenobite-like creature clutching a globe she observed in the
cabin's cellar, indicating that the items there dictate which monster will be unleashed on its concurrent
occupants. She and Marty are cornered by a private security team after hearing the Director's voice, yet
manage to release the monsters which slaughter the Facility's staff. Sitterson manages to escape, but is
accidentally stabbed by Dana in the lower levels of the building.

Upon entering an underground temple, the two survivors meet the project Director who explains that every
year worldwide rituals commence to appease malevolent beings identified only as "Ancient Ones"; living
beneath the Facility, they are kept in perpetual slumber through an annual pars pro toto sacrifice of five
young people embodying certain archetypes: the Whore (Jules), the Athlete (Curt), the Scholar (Holden), the
Fool (Marty), and the Virgin (Dana). The order in which intended victims perish is flexible, as long as the
Whore is first and the Virgin is last. The Director urges Dana to shoot Marty, completing the ritual, but they
are interrupted by a werewolf which Marty fends off after it attacked Dana. Patience Buckner arrives killing
the Director and Marty knocks them into the Ancient One's chasm.

Dana and Marty accept that it might be better for another species to take humanity's place if this is the price
of its continued existence. They share a final joint as an Ancient One finally stirs, destroying the Facility.

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