So, I love horror films, right? Right. Well, just a day or two ago, we watched the film The Cabin in the Woods in my Media class. I don't know whether I liked it or not. The part of me that is obsessed with horror films loved all of the references, but the part of me that appreciates horror films doesn't like what they did with the film. They obviously tried to re-write the horror formula, much like Scream, except they took a very different root, and I'm not sure whether I like the root they took. Now, I'm not making this post to review the film, I'm just throwing that out there. As I write this post, I'm in the process of doing my Media Homework, and whilst doing it I remembered Cabin. So, I decided to look for a list of all of the references to horror films. There are so many, I feel like a Link in a Pot Store (That's Pot, not Pot), like when I looked for all of the video game references in Wreck-it-Ralph. Now, this all seems normal, but the reason I'm suddenly making this post is that for some reason, I don't know why, but in the search for references I found my train of thought had brought me to a rather unfamiliar station. I've only just realised how one scene in particular greatly disturbs me. I don't know why it's this one scene in particular when there are so many others that it could be. I feel weird just thinking about it. It's the scene with the unicorn. When it gallops down the hallway when all of the monsters have broken free. When the sweet music plays as it impales a man against a wall with its horn. To me it's one of the most horrific scenes in the film. It's possibly the magical third scene. The third scene out of every horror film I have ever seen which I would not like to watch again. This scene doesn't make me want to vomit in disgust like the other two. This scene just upsets me. That's all. It almost brings a tear to my eye. I can't even...
That film is weird. I don't think I like it. I like the Evil Dead references and the Hellraiser-esque guy, but that's it.
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