How are themes and Sub-texts raised in the film, and what is the film trying to say.

The use of teen punishment occurs after the five characters had been drinking and smoking which then led to two of them going to have sex (blond and the athlete). Because they were young and having pre-marital sex this meant the blonde one was the first to be murdered. Even though the focus of the film is that the girl who is the virgin has to be the last to die the ending of it suggest it wasn’t just about her being a virgin and ‘pure’ as in the final scene when they are being told about why they have to die the older woman says ‘the virgin’ looking at the female character who seems to which the older women replies ‘ we work with what we’ve got’ this suggest the ‘final girl’ isn’t pure and a virgin but is the less sexual or sexualised female out of the two. This also suggest that the film is trying to show that the world isn’t always black and white. The film was clever in surprising the audience of what they would assume would happen, as because horror films have become predictable and for the genre to grow and expand they’ve had to make changes. Cabin in the woods did this by letting the male character survive along with the virgin.  Knives, axes, guns, and wood is used to represent phallic imagery. These weapons are what kill the people use to kill the zombies and other monsters and other people like the scientist. The males mostly use them, this represents the masculinity and power as they are using their physical force to kill. The final scenes the final girl has the chance to kill her male friend as she knows it will save the world however she can’t do it and backs down, this shows her weakness as a female which is typical of female representations in horror films.