What's it about? Taking its cue from countless slasher and torture porn movies, The Cabin In The Woods in, on the surface at least, a prototypical horror movie. Four college students set out to the titular location for a weekend of drunkenness and sex, but after they discover a cornucopia of mysterious objects in the cabin's cellar the holiday turns into a fight for survival. What makes it groundbreaking? If Wes Craven single-handedly kickstarted the postmodern horror movie era in the early 1990s, Joss Whedon and co-writer Drew Goddard brought the idea of the "meta-horror" movie into the twenty-first century in style. A lot of modern movies like to throw in the occasional Easter egg for fans to keep an eye out for - The Cabin In The Woods is ostensibly one long, entertaining Easter egg from start to finish.