Don't do it. That's the warning.

[louie]

Watched Cabin the Woods, I shoulda just stayed here, what happened?

[SimonMac]

Watched Cabin the Woods, I shoulda just stayed here, what happened?

Well....

Two technicians in a sophisticated industrial facility—Richard Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Steve Hadley (Bradley Whitford)—are getting ready for an unknown operation, one of several taking place around the world, while joking to fellow technician Wendy Lin (Amy Acker).

Elsewhere, college students, Dana (Kristen Connolly), Jules (Anna Hutchison) and her boyfriend Curt (Chris Hemsworth), Holden (Jesse Williams), and Marty (Fran Kranz) travel for a vacation to a remote cabin in the woods. At a gas station on the way, they encounter Mordecai, who directs the students to the cabin. At the cabin, the observing technicians use their control of the local environment and mood-altering drugs to manipulate the group into following a scenario. The drugs also gradually affect the personalities of the group, lowering intelligence and wariness of danger and increasing sexual libido. The technicians remotely open the cellar door, enticing the group into the cellar. There, the group discovers a large assortment of items including a diary by Patience Buckner. Dana recites an incantation from the diary, unwittingly triggering the Buckner family scenario—a family of redneck zombies which rise from the grave outside.

Curt and Jules go outside at night to have sex; encouraged by more mood-altering drugs. The Buckners attack the lovers and kill Jules, but Curt escapes. In the cabin, Marty, who frequently smokes marijuana, becomes paranoid and believes they are being manipulated. Curt returns to the cabin and informs the group of Jules murder. Marty is attacked through the window by one of the Buckners and dragged away. Holden, Dana, and Curt flee in their RV and are about to escape the area, but the technicians detonate charges that create an avalanche blocking the exit tunnel. Curt tries to jump a ravine to escape, but crashes into an invisible forcefield and falls to his death. Curt's death reveals to Dana that something is unusual about the environment, and she becomes convinced that Marty's worries about the environment being controlled were correct. As they drive back to the cabin, Holden is killed by one of the Buckners that had hidden in the vehicle. The RV falls into the lake and Dana manages to swim away, only to be attacked by another Buckner on the dock.

The technicians celebrate the completion of the "ritual". The party stops when a phone call from "upstairs" informs them that Marty is still alive. Marty arrives at the dock and saves Dana. After being dragged away, Marty managed to dismember his assailant and later came across a hidden control box hidden in the Buckners' graves from which he was able to access an underground elevator. The technicians realize that Marty is immune to their drugs because of his marijuana habit. Marty and Dana take the elevator down, passing by a large variety of imprisoned monsters. Some of the monsters remind Dana of items from the cabin's cellar and she realizes that the items select which monster will be released. Their elevator arrives at the facility where the pair are cornered by a security team. Dana used a control station to release all of the monsters, who begin massacring the facility staff. Hadley is killed by a merman (which he had bet on), Lin is pulled above by tentacles and Sitterson is accidentally stabbed by Dana while escaping into the lower levels of the facility.

Dana and Marty find a large temple adorned with large stone tablets. They meet the Director (Sigourney Weaver), who informs them that the ritual is to appease beings called "Ancient Ones" who live beneath the facility and are kept in perpetual slumber through an annual, ritual sacrifice of five young people who embody certain archetypes—the Whore (Jules), the Athlete (Curt), the Scholar (Holden), the Fool (Marty), and the Virgin (Dana). All must die in a specific order until only the Virgin remains, whose death is optional. Should the Ancient Ones awake they will rise and destroy the world. The Director explains rituals around the world have been taking place for the same purpose, but they have all failed. She urges Dana to kill Marty before sunrise to complete the ritual and save all of humanity. Dana points a gun at Marty, but she is attacked by a Werewolf, while the Director attacks Marty. The zombified Patience Buckner arrives and kills the Director before Marty pushes her and the Director into the Ancient Ones' pit.

Marty sits with Dana and forgives her for threatening to shoot him. The pair agree that it might be better for another species to take humanity's place if this is the price of its continued existence. Marty and Dana hold each other as the gigantic hand of an Ancient One rises up through the facility and explodes out of the Earth's surface.

Not the film I was expecting from Josh Whedon, but was ok

[fullyautomatix]

So nobody was here and no one knows what happened.

So who was mean to who ?

[SimonMac]

So nobody was here and no one knows what happened.

So who was mean to who ?

TestMangler was nasty to Gentile which was condoned

Gentile was nasty to MF which was applauded

Everyone was then in turn nasty to MF which is par for the course

[NickFitz]

Nick complained. He said a joke is a joke, but it was too far for him.

For the record, I couldn't give a stuff.

[SimonMac]

For the record, I couldn't give a stuff.

To be honest, as much as I respect you Nick, I think she would give you another heart attack

[mudskipper]

For the record, I couldn't give a stuff.

At least the parrot costume will be equally suitable for most other occasions - would be a shame to have to send it back.

[TestMangler]

TestMangler was nasty to Gentile which was condoned

Gentile was nasty to MF which was applauded

Everyone was then in turn nasty to MF which is par for the course

Hardly Although I expect you mean 'condemned'

[MarillionFan]

Hardly Although I expect you mean 'condemned'

Here I've got Simon a t-shirt like mine.