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It was the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th that first set Whedon’s mind racing on what would become The Cabin in the Woods. “I did walk out, but I found it fascinating that the movie opens with a group of expendable teens, which Jason kills – not, by the way, very inventively – and then the movie starts, and an even more expendable group of teens shows up. It was as hateful as anything I’ve seen. There’s an element of this ‘torture porn’ promulgation that’s made me as angry as I can remember being.”

If torture porn is Whedon’s kryptonite, then Hollywood must be his super-villain, for the continued adventures of fictional serial killers like Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Jigsaw have kept studio balance sheets ticking over healthily. He can’t subscribe to such amoral filmmaking.

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Originally posted by Storymark: Cabin didn't do great at the boxoffice

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Originally posted by Storymark: Cabin didn't do great at the boxoffice

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People keep saying this. I guess I don't understand what it means to do well at the box office, because I thought that holding steady between rank three and five was pretty good. (Cabin in the Woods is currently number four on the "daily" section of boxofficemojo; it was ranked number five a few days ago, and number three its opening weekend.) What, exactly, would be "doing great" at the box office? Beating a PG-13 tweenfest based on a best-selling trilogy of YA novels? I don't think anyone would expect that. It is beating the uber-hyped 3D-spectacular re-release of Titanic, and it seems like everyone I know went to see that for whatever reason. Does that count for anything, I wonder?

Facts are stubborn things.

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