10 Horror Movies That Could Have Ended After 10 Minutes

The Cabin in the Woods pokes fun at everything fans both love and hate about horror movies, and does so in spectacular fashion. Its strikes the perfect balance between horror and comedy, resulting in a fitting homage to a genre that can be riddled with clichés at times.

The main cast each fit the archetype for cliché horror protagonists. There's the jock, the stoner, the final girl, each all ripped straight from the Horror Movies for Dummies handbook, but that's the point. They're taking a trip to (you guessed it) an isolated cabin supposedly owned by one of the groups cousin's, but that's of course a ruse and its run by the shadowy organisation that's orchestrating the group's demise.

The first warning bells should have been ringing when the group are told that they won't have enough gas to get back from the cabin. You'd think that'd be reason enough to take a step back and plan things out a little better, but nope. In classic dumb horror decision fashion, they press on. A cellar door swinging open by itself leading to a room filled with occult artefacts should be the next red flag, and instead of vacating immediately, the group tamper with anything and everything in sight.

Yes, the organisation seems to have backup plans for their backup plans, but using a fraction of common sense and listening to Marty could have saved them from the horrors they experience. Of course, this would mean that the Ancient One would simply rise up and destroy the world while the opening credits are still rolling, but at least that's a quicker, less painful death for everyone involved.