Over the past decade or two (or perhaps since their inception), horror movies have been plagued by cliches. Few fright films can escape the trappings of the genre and make a lasting impression. The Cabin in the Woods not only embraces those cliches, it plays with them, twists them, spinning those cliches on their heads. The cliches are the movie. The result is quite possibly one of the most enjoyable... 

I’ve been looking forward to Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods for a while now. There’s just something about the old-fashioned “cabin in the woods” story that’s appealing (see: The Evil Dead, Cabin Fever, and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil for example), and I have been interested in seeing what that concept would be like in the hands of someone like Whedon – an artist who turned the... 

Matt Reeves may very well be my new hero. The director, who showed his skill as a director and love of genre film with his breakout picture, Cloverfield, is to be lauded for what his latest picture is, as much as he should receive credit for what it isn’t. In a market saturated with fans of Nuevo-vampire excrement, Let Me In is a breath of fresh air as well as a fantastic artistic achievement. An...