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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Film
DirectorDrew Goddard
Meta takes2

Figures

Form & technique
  • The film's self-reflexive narrative structure
  • The film's thematic preoccupations and dialogue style → The Auteurial Signature
Tropes
  • The Facility technicians' mundane work environment
  • The Ancient Ones
  • The film's cosmic mythology and the Ancient Ones
  • The subversion of the "Final Girl" trope
  • The underground Facility as a system of control
  • The juxtaposition of office humor and extreme violence → The Banality of Evil

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