Respuesta: The cabin in the Woods
- Story for CitW was written in three days with Drew Goddard. “Idea just came together and it came with a third act, and that’s happened to me twice in my life… the writer’s dream. You lock yourself in a hotel room for three days and you come out with a movie.”
- At one point JW wrote 26 pages in one day. “And that is exactly what we shot.” Says it made him giddy that the script ended up exactly the film.
- “We described this entire movie as our ids just walking around going ‘rarg.’ We did whatever we wanted to do. This movie contains a lot of that. We love horror movies and are curious about what makes them tick.”
- “We just threw everything against the wall, and it’s all in.” Cabin in the Woods – you ruin it by just talking about. “Why did you do that to yourself?”
- JW: “I’ve never heard it worded quite like that, but I am always going to be at odds with that particular part of American culture. I like stories. My favorite thing is to go into a movie not knowing what to expect, or even a TV show not knowing what to expect. … Usually, audiences are very ready to come along for the ride.”
Adam B. Vary: The cabin looks much like the cabin in Evil Dead.
JW: I’m not aware of that film. [Sheepish look.] Evil Dead 1 is really the influence. That’s a film that goes genuinely insane.
JW: We wanted to tell the story in an almost old-fashioned way. … Our base was really the “Nightmare on Elm Street,” the early, before it started eating itself. And “Nightmare on Elm Street 3,” which is a real classic. And, you know, the Halloweens, The Things, those were our sort of classics.
CitW: Written before Dr. Horrible (before the strike).
JW: Cabin (and not Dr Horrible) was the first time he felt he was doing his own thing, and not stuck in the studio system. .. “No coincidence” they came one after another because they are both “ridiculous.”
“The found footage thing seems to be based very much on classical horror. It’s about dread, it’s about the thing you almost see, it’s about waiting. ‘Let’s take people that you hate and inventively kill them for an hour and a half,’ that’s not horror. That’s something else entirely.”
“The found footage thing to me is really a step backwards in the right direction to classical horror.”