Rack Focus Review: Cabin in the Woods

Cabin in the Woods is as smart as it thinks it is. The only reason it isn’t smarter is because its tongue is so self-satisfyingly planted in its cheek that you can practically see the smirks of producer/co-writer Joss Whedon and director/co-writer Drew Goddard on every frame. Horror films are perhaps the easiest to lampoon, but I don’t think the genre has ever quite been skewered this good. Continue reading “Rack Focus Review: Cabin in the Woods”

Paraboring Activity

“I couldn’t use the bathroom with the door closed for a week after watching it.”

“I needed a night light in my room.”

“I stopped watching it halfway, and I still can’t sleep with my door open anymore.”

These are all actual testimonials from some people I know after they watched Paranormal Activity. Well, I finally summoned the courage to see what the hype was. I wanted to be traumatized for life. Instead, I got one man’s idiotic journey to provoke the supernatural, and the world’s most pansy demon. Continue reading “Paraboring Activity”