15 Most Groundbreaking Movies Of The Decade (So Far)

11. The Cabin In The Woods

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.