I’m especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn’t make sense to me and I figure there’s gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    591·
    22 hours ago

    Not exactly what you’re asking, but Cabin in the Woods is like a love letter to all horror movies. It drops references and homages left and right, making horror movie tropes actual plot points, including bizzare foreign horror movies that aren’t explained at all. The more you know about horror movies, folklore, and monster cinema, the more you will understand the movie.

    If you haven’t seen it, go see it now. I won’t say anything else.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      22 hours ago

      Have you seen Tucker & Dale vs Evil? It’s not quite the same but I think there’s probably a lot of overlap between people who enjoyed that movie and Cabin in the Woods.

      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Both are great movies, Cabin definitely is more of an “homage to the genre” while Tucker is a “comedy about the genre” but really good in its own right. Both still have a good horror theme to it but Cabin was more about touching all the tropes while still being a “standard horror”. Tucker and dale is just funny.

        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          36 minutes ago

          Part of why I associate the two movies is just the Joss Whedon* (who produced and co-wrote Cabin in the Woods) connection with Alan Tudyk (playing Tucker from T&DvE), Amy Acker, and Fran Kranz (playing Wendy Lin and Marty Mikalski, respectively, in Cabin). The three also appear together in a 2009 series created by Whedon called Dollhouse alongside several other familiar actors from some of his other shows like Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

          That’s all beside the point though, just something I find interesting (in spite of the asterisk). Tucker & Dale has some good genre-aware winks to the audience in the same way as Cabin but much more limited scope.

          * Obligatory mention that he’s a couple different kinds of asshole.