Q 01/05

Which creature does one technician long to see all night, only to be killed by it?

A) A wendigo

B) A merman

C) A sasquatch

D) A kraken

Answer · why

B) A merman

A merman. He sighs 'I'm never gonna see a merman' early in the night, and gets his wish in the worst possible way in the final act.

Q 02/05

Goddard and Whedon wrote The Cabin in the Woods screenplay in about how long?

A) Three days

B) Three weeks

C) Three months

D) Three years

Answer · why

A) Three days

Three days. The two shut themselves in a hotel room and challenged each other to finish a full draft before the weekend was over.

Q 03/05

Which party game are the friends playing when the cabin's cellar door bursts open?

A) Spin the Bottle

B) Never Have I Ever

C) Truth or Dare

D) Strip poker

Answer · why

C) Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare. The control room pops the cellar hatch mid-game, and the others promptly dare Dana to climb down and look.

Q 04/05

In The Cabin in the Woods, Marty is slotted into which archetype?

A) The Virgin

B) The Athlete

C) The Scholar

D) The Fool

Answer · why

D) The Fool

The Fool. At the gas station he mouths off to the creepy attendant, who later grumbles that 'the Fool nearly derailed the invocation'.

Q 05/05

One student shocks her friends by making out with which piece of cabin decor?

A) A bearskin rug

B) A mounted wolf's head

C) A stuffed owl

D) A carved totem pole

Answer · why

B) A mounted wolf's head

A mounted wolf's head. Marty picks it out as 'that moose' and has to be corrected, and the prop's tongue was dusted with powdered sugar for the actres...