Cabin in the woods- How the film makes interesting use of conventions and sub-genres

Firstly, the conventions of all the character types makes it a typical horror film as it has, the dumb blonde (whore), athlete, scholar, the fool and the virgin. The use of these characters is interesting as they use it as a way of each character having a meaning and needing to be sacrificed. The other thing is the use of the convention of the final girl as the girl who is the virgin is left until last, the interesting twist that this film has put on is that even though at one point she seems to be the last one alive another is not dead. This means the conventional way that these horror films end has been distorted. However the blond in the film wasn't always blond as at the begging she says she had recently died it, this suggest she wasn't the "dumb blonde" character all along and even though the colour of her hair had changed to make it conventional she hadn't always been the "dumb" blonde. This film also has many conventions of different horror sub-genres for example the use of zombies as a way of killing puts this in a zombie category however there is also monsters, werewolves and there is also a lot of blood and violence which puts it in the slasher category, it is also a slasher as it has the final girl and the victims being teens. This then explains the use of teen punishment. These things make the film interesting as most films stick to one sub-genre with little bits of one or two element from other sub-genre, however The cabin in the woods isn’t clearly one sub-genre and plays with different aspects of all of them.