The Cabin in the Woods Trailer is Intriguing, in a Good Way!

First things first, check out the trailer for The Cabin in the Woods as supplied by Yahoo! Movies:

Funny how we play up bigger than our heads in they actually are.

Case in point, yesterday evening, I began listening to the infamously, banned Criterion commentary tracks for the first three James Bond pictures Dr. No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. As a fan of that franchise, I knew of how after the initial run of laserdiscs were printed, Eon Productions balked at remarks made by commentary participants directors Terrence Young and Guy Hamilton, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and film editor Peter Hunt and had Criterion pull them from the market.

As a result, we the fans began building up in our minds just what they said that was so objectionable to Cubby Broccoli back in 1991. Having now heard the entirety of From Russia with Love while it was a good, brisk commentary there wasn't an instant where my jaw hit the floor as a result of an off-the-cuff quip. It would appear Eon are the thin-skinned type.

Fortunately, our first look at The Cabin in the Wood isn't a victim of heightened expectations courtesy of director Drew Goddard and writer/producer Joss Whedon. The duo kept quiet on exactly how their production played against the "young people out in the woods" sub-genre in the horror realm even as it sat on the shelf a victim of the financial struggles with original studio MGM (Lionsgate is now its distributor) and even this trailer keeps details closely vested to the chest, for the time being.

Consider me intrigued. I want to see what the deal is with that force field, if that's a big, bad corporation keeping a watchful on these college kids (including a pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth) or our government at work and the creatures hinted at. Well done, gentlemen.