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The Cabin in the Woods: hilarious blood-spattered escapism, Joss Whedon style

This 2011 horror comes with genre tropes galore but the joy lies in its tongue-in-cheek unpredictability
Kristen Connolly as Dana in The Cabin in the Woods. Photograph: Allstar/Lionsgate

Please don’t think there’s something wrong with me, but the film I find most comfort in is one in which a pain-worshipping zombie cuts off a young woman’s head, picks it up, then throws it into a house filled with her friends.

When The Cabin in the Woods first came out I had just moved to a new state. I had no friends to throw my decapitated head at, and so when

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