and everything in between, I'm curious on the splits of which people were already predisposed towards the horror genre and which people weren't.

I remember thinking during the movie "this is like 'Scream' for the next generation." I LOVED the original Scream because it was self-referential, tongue-in-cheek and willing to poke fun at the very genre it was paying homage too. And it was unabashed in doing so.

Some may interpret this style of movie as "trying to be too clever for its own good", but for horror aficionados that love jump scares, camp, slashers, monsters, cerebral, atmospheric, gore, psychological, torture, everything in between and nothing of the above... Cabin in the Woods (just like Scream) honors all those horror tropes that we've grown to love while being able to laugh at itself at the same time.

And that's why I fucking LOVE this movie.