Cabin In The Woods.

The Cabin in the woods is an American Horror film made in 2012. The film is about a group of people who decide to go away for a weekend to a derelict cabin in the middle of the woods. They start to find things out about the cabin, such as the mirror in one of the rooms, is not a normal mirror and you can see straight through it into the other room. After a while more unusual things happen and they find out the cabin is different. The cabin is actually being watched and controlled by people, where they send zombies into the woods to kill people.

This part of the film is where some of our ideas came from, to include a cabin in our film. Having a cabin automatically makes the scene tense and makes the audience unaware of what may happen, which makes the film more interesting and more of a horror. Having a cabin in our film could also make the audience relate back to this film,and therefore think something familiar may occur in this film. Our location is very similar to the cabin in the woods setting. The cabin we have is surrounded by trees, bushed, leaves and is muddy. However inside our cabin it is empty, with some broken window and an old bed frame, which suggests to the audience that someone used to live there but is now abandoned. This makes it even more creepier and tense as you don't know what happened to them. You can also tell that people have been there recently as there are empty bottles around,but as our film is based on a zombie Apocalypse, people may of just used it to hide for a little while, although they would probably still be there. This implies that there may be something out there and something has happened to them. In our film the one of the main characters Richard is the guy getting chased by a zombie and uses the cabin to try and protect himself, after seeing the cabin the audience will know he is not safe and this will create a build up of tension.

The rest of the film doesn't have much to do with ours, but in part of the film  'cabin in the woods' you see two characters find their way into the main part of the cabin where its all being controlled and where all the monsters and animals are kept to use in the cabin. This gave us some ideas on what we could of base our film on by seeing all these different types of creatures. In the end we chose zombies as the boys knew a lot about them, due to the zombie films they have watched. We also agreed it would be easier to do as we can do the makeup and costumes easily, and it will make a good horror.

'The cabin in the woods' is obviously based in a cabin, in the woods and the whole film is based on the cabin.Whereas our film is based around different parts in the film and not focused on the cabin.We only have a few scenes that are focused on the cabin as it changes the location a little and makes the film look more interesting.