'Joss' the Way We Like It

Whedonesque.com is a unique way for director and producer Joss Whedon and his team to promote and discuss upcoming productions, like Cabin in the Woods, as well as discuss current Hollywood topics. Will close to 10,000 followers on his blog Whedon has the capability to give potential viewers an inside look to his works and get them pumped up and informed. Just a few days ago there was a post about Cabin in the Woods opening a month early at the SXSW film festival.

Cabin in the Woods fans strike back with their own posters.

Ironically, around one year ago, fans created their own posters to push distributors to finally release "Cabin in the Woods." Not only were the posters created, but a twitter was also made for fans to push MGM to finally release the film, a new website had been launched at www. enterthecabin.com, which, when you try and enter the "cabin," the site directs you towards a Facebook page where you can petition to get the film distributed. Talk about fans using media platforms to assemble together to get a huge film released! Now, the film will hit theaters in April of 2012.

Here are the comical posters from 2011.

Twisted Trope: Original Posters for 'Cabin' Put a Spin on Horror Cliches

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.  

A Twisted New Poster

Since our class will be talking about The Cabin in the Woods I found this article on the 'twisted' new poster for the marketing of the film. This poster is so interesting. The colors, dynamics and image are reason enough to continue into researching further what the film is.