These were the original posters for The Cabin in the Woods:
The new poster is more visually engaging (brighter color scheme, the Rubik's cube puzzle cabin) than the originals and makes you question what the movie is really about, rather than presenting you with something that makes the premise more of a parody than it is by taking generic horror cliches (strange noises, being chased, creepy old guys with foresight) and making fun of them by telling you to do the complete opposite of what survival instincts would dictate (even though that's how most people die in a horror movie anyway).
Personally, I think they should have stuck with the originals (they're certainly memorable) but based on the Cabin trailer, I doubt Cabin will attempt to skew the scary movie genre like the last Scream movie did, which was released April of last year, bombed at the box office, and failed to even break even with its budget. While the tag-lines in the original movie posters might be more memorable, the new poster does a better job of presenting Cabin as a movie that recognizes existing horror movie tropes ("You think you know the story"), but also hints that there will be something different about this one.
The best poster for this movie by far however is, unfortunately, only on the official Cabin website, since it's a graphic. A very creepy graphic.
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