Going To The Cabin And We're Gonna Get Buried

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I think they ought to use this post's title for the film's tag-line. And I want my credit when they do!

Ahem. These don't exactly give much away besides perhaps the tone we might eventually see from the film (and it's not an entirely surprising one, given the folks behind this flick and the little dribble of info they've handed out so far) but from ComiCon here are the first three pieces of marketing for The Cabin in the Woods, the "horror film to end all horror films" written by Joss Whedon and directed by Buffy and Lost and Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard (via BD):

They weren't different enough from each other or exciting enough visually for me to post them separately so I threw them into one image there, so you can click on that to embiggen it to see them better. The three separate tag-lines are as follows:

"If an old man warns you not to go there...
make fun of him."

"If something is chasing you...
split up."

"If you hear a strange noise outside...
have sex."

That said, anybody else immediately think of this:

Although Cabin Fever's poster's much better. "Catch It!" is a great fucking tagline. And all of this recalls the cabin in The Evil Dead series, obviously.


And is meant to. This is self-referentialism (that oughta be a word if it ain't) in a prism (or perhaps a vacuum) we're working with here. There's something very Scream about the lines on the Cabin in the Woods posters too, right? And that's pretty much what I was and am expecting from the film. Something that riffs on our expectations of the genre while trying to use and undermine those expectations at the same time. Hmm. We will see.

And did we know this thing's due on February 5th, 2010 or is that news? I can't remember.
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