In fact, there's at least one shot I'd say looked like a deliberate call-back.

Huh. Which? I'm seeing it again in four hours.

There was one bit shortly after the monsters were let loose and everyone was being eaten, that reminded me a lot of a shot in "Primeval" down into the big pit in the Initiative, with, again, a pitched battle between monsters and soldiers.

But again, that whole sequence reminded me of the episode, so I may have been projecting.

chrismg, I JUST got back from Cabin and I had that SAME thought! I was like, Did they re-use a set?

I thought it was great fun!! I assiduously kept myself unspoiled, and was VERY satisfied that I had.

Also? Fran Kranz' character's "accessory?" I am old and staid, but I would FREAKING love one of those things! For the sheer AWESOMENESS factor, if not for usage...I laughed and laughed and laughed when he got out of the car at the beginning.

Also — MORE STUFF IN THE AVENGERS THEATRE TRAILER THAN IN ON-LINE TRAILER! I was...a bad movie-goer. I made some sounds. I was clapping softly and bouncing in nergasmic glee through the whole thing.

I didn't get an Avengers trailer! No fair!

Just came back from seeing The Cabin in the Woods. It's not particularly deep, but I found it very entertaining indeed. And it most assuredly is a Mutant Enemy Production in its tone. (There must have been a decent Whedon/Goddard fan contingent in my movie theater, because there was some enthusiastic clapping when "Mutant Enemy Production" came up in the title sequence.)

For those who are worried about the fright element: I'm a wimp when it comes to slasher movies, and I didn't have a huge problem with it. There is gore, and plenty of it, but I did not find the movie itself particularly scary.

Favourite bits: the demise of Bradley Whitford's character. Classic! Actually, that entire insane climax was... I don't even know what to say! Also, the phone call from the redneck dude from the gas station, hilariously named "Mordecai" -- freakin' GOLD. And anything and everything to do with Fran Kranz's Marty the Stoner.

Vonnie, yes, yes and YES!!!

I haven't seen a movie in a theatre in 3 years. It was Wolverine, on D and I's 3rd date. And now Avengers in a couple of weeks, and D was geebly about the Statham movie trailer.

(There must have been a decent Whedon/Goddard fan contingent in my movie theater, because there was some enthusiastic clapping when "Mutant Enemy Production" came up in the title sequence.)

Oh yeah, mine too. Not to the point of actually clapping, but with the speaking Latin in front of the books, for one bit.

Jesse, D and I both chortled good and hard on that one. (It was a medium audience, and you could DEFINITELY tell the Jossites from who laughed at what.)

Oh! And before there was the Weaver reveal -- at which almost the whole theatre let out a collective GASP -- when we got the hints that the scientists were keeping back the Ancient Ones, i was CONVINCED there would be some kind of Wolfram & Hart reference.

Wishful thinking, I know.

And that freaking coffee mug/bong is a thing of joy forever!

Joss said in an Avengers interview that he's not a fan of mixing properties, so there aren't going to be any Buffy references there either.