Knight’s boyhood and adolescence had been ordinary his most outstanding traits were his shyness and penchant for solitude. Fascinated, the author sought out the “North Pond hermit” to learn why he had turned his back on society and understand the challenges he now faced with reintegration. Police officers had arrested Knight for burglary, but when they questioned him further, they discovered that their suspect had been living alone in the wild for 27 years. While scanning the news online, Finkel ( True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, 2005) came across the story of Christopher Knight. Everything is blended together well by director Goddard, who gets us primed and ready for the 'all hell breaks loose' final act.A journalist’s account of a Massachusetts man who went deep into the Maine woods to live a life of solitude and self-sufficiency. The script provides plenty of scares and gore but, also gives us some tension-relieving laughs with Whedon's trademark sly humor. The FX are top notch and the performances from his cast, especially leading heroine Kristen Connolly, are good and help make the scenario work. And, in turn, providing a clever and inventive blood soaked horror for us. And what a clever and cruel fate Whedon and Goddard have in store for their victims. We like this bunch of characters and it adds to the film's effect that we don't want to see them suffer the fate that has befallen them. We are only scared when we care what happens to the antagonists and here we do. This is very important to make a horror flick work and so many films today makes their leads unlikable jerks who we could care less about. Aside from a really clever script and the fact that Drew Goddard knows how to craft suspense and scares, despite letting us in early on what is going on, we also get a bunch of likable characters (including Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth) to root and care for. So, I'll simply say that it starts out with the classic young partiers heading up to an isolated cabin scenario and then turns this horror sub-genre into something quite different and deviously fun. Cabin is a movie where the less you know going in, the better.
And we are happily along for the bloody fun ride. If anyone knows how to have fun with pop culture horror conventions, it's Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Avengers) and he and Director Drew Goddard craft a funhouse of a horror movie by doing just that.
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