10 MORE Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules
9. Straight Up Stealing - Cabin In The Woods
The Cabin in the Woods will long be remembered as one of the best and most subversive horror movies out there, taking all the best parts of the genre and distilling them into one big celebratory homage. But let's be real for a second - it does exactly what we would lambast any other horror movie of its kind for by straight up stealing the premise of the movies that came before it for the most part.
The Evil Dead looms like an eerie spectre over the set, copyrighted monsters are stolen and repurposed in the batsh*t final showdown, and director Joss Whedon unashamedly borrows scenes from The Shining and The Wicker Man to name but a couple. The Cabin in the Woods stands as the horror movie testament to respecting tropes and repurposing them into a new context whilst still pretty much ripping off what came before it, which would realistically earn any lesser film a giant black mark.
It also manages to comment on horror movie culture and how it functions in the 'real world' whilst still remaining entertaining - an anomaly of the genre if there ever was one.