The Cabin in the Woods: a dark and gripping psychological thriller with a twist you won’t see coming

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Sarah did a fantastic job of describing the cabin and the cold that it truly felt like I was there too!

The security team opens fire on them, and the two take shelter behind the control booths bulletproof glass. A cellar door pops open mysteriously (remote-controlled by the underground technicians), revealing a cellar where the group find various strange artifacts. Patience Buckner, who followed Marty and Dana from the surface down into the facility, arrives and kills the Director with a hatchet.

You'll have to see it, and you really have to see it if you love horror, hate horror, or have any interest in seeing how the genre can function as a playground for something completely fresh. Taking us on a wild ride, in alternating timelines from the present to the past, Rose’s story unfolds with a fantastic amount of twists. Despite Marty's objections, Dana reads the Latin aloud and thus unwittingly summons the zombified Buckners from a nearby grave. Possibly a reference to the snake creature in Season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), or the giant snake in Resident Evil (1996). I was completely engrossed in the story, which was cleverly done, jumping back and forth between now and then seamlessly.

It starts off as a pretty standard thriller but sound there were plenty of twists and turns I didn't see coming. In 1977, aged seventeen, Eustace Conway left his family’s comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains and be self-sufficient. The plot was nice, the characters were fleshed out but it was the pacing that was the real winner here.

I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Possible reference to Pan's Labyrinth (2006), but according to Drew Goddard, the creation was "pure Joss Whedon". Gremlin-looking creatures can be seen on the top right screen in the control room during the Purge for a couple of seconds at most. I loved Sarah Alderson's novel The Weekend Away and just watched the Netflix film adaptation which was amazing as well.

You feel like your walking this journey with Rose, feel her sacrifes, pain and determination to stay alive. I wanted to live how I really wanted, even if that meant turning against what everyone I knew was doing.

Some of these books are about cabins in the woods, but others are about mountains, Arctic tundra, and a broader sense of wilderness.