10 Things You Didn't Know About The Cabin In The Woods

4. Goddard's Influences Included Growing Up Around Nuclear Weapons And Watching The Breakfast Club As An Adult

The Cabin In The Woods obviously draws heavily on previous examples of the remote murder cabin horror sub-genre, but its creators also drew on some more esoteric influences. Goddard, in particular, has highlighted two elements of inspiration for the perspective of the Facility workers in the film.

The director cited his childhood growing up in the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico as a major touchstone for the film's ideas and aesthetic. The town is a place that only exists to serve as a base for research and development of the US nuclear weapons programme.

That everybody lives under the constant shadow of working on weapons which could destroy the world, but still go about their lives like any old office job (only perhaps with a little added gallows humour), provided the inspiration for the way the Facility characters behave. Meanwhile, the retro appearance of a 1950s-era weapons plant provided the look of the location,

On top of that, the idea that, in Goddard's words, "at the end of the day, both sides are right" came from watching The Breakfast Club as an adult and realising that you can still sympathise with the teen protagonists even while seeing why the adults put them in that situation.