>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.

I think the key difference between Scream and Cabin in the Woods is that Scream was actually a scary movie. Cabin was clever but it wasn't really scary at all. The scariest moment was the jokey/great jump scare at the very beginning.

After a friend asked me, "Is it scarier than Insidious?", I've warned everyone who I've recommended it to that they should expect a horror-based comedy and not an actual frightening horror flick.