The Cabin in the Woods

In “The Cabin in the Woods”, the film is directed around two locations in the movie, the “control room and the “cabin area”. The control room is visually brighter because that is where everything is being caused. It’s the work area to some therefore needs to be brighter than the cabin. With the “cabin area” being visually darker, you get a sense of danger and evil lurking within the woods. This is proven true when the “zombie redneck torture family” is released from their “grave” after the latin was spoken. These two areas have their own reason to being light or dark. These two areas are distinguished through the lighting. If it was dim, you knew you were in the woods with the cabin. If it was bright, you knew you were in the control room watching the cabin. Mise-en-scene is telling a story throughout the whole movie. Even though you don’t know the time, it is clearly figured out with the sky being dark only to assume its night time. The majority of the characters are introduced within the first ten minutes of the movie. They are given a title to themselves later on in the movie to show the type of people the control room needed to sacrifice to satisfy the Gods. Mise-en-scene also shapes the audience’s attention and feelings when everyone starts to die. Once you grow attached to a certain character and they die, you’re not sure how to feel. Mise-en-scene helps the story plenty. You are given all these elements and once you put them all together, you have a reasonable storyline that is easy to follow. The scene where all five characters are in the basement admiring the artifacts, you get a sense that something is wrong. Marty is the only one to figure everything out. A theme to this movie could be that nothing is what it seems. These five friends thought they were going to have a great weekend getaway but instead end up playing a cat and mouse game to save their