Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods can be seen as a supernatural movie.  The movie in general does not appear supernatural because the audience knows why and how the events are occurring while the sacrifices are unaware until later on when two of them slowly piece together the “puppetry” of the event.  What really makes this movie supernatural is the idea that the events around us we have no control over and that others can choose what will happen and even make us change how we are, unknowing of their presence they have that makes this supernatural.  This is what is uncomfortable for the viewers that we may be being watched right now and be influenced without even knowing there is someone else pulling the strings. This idea of puppet and puppet master separates those in control from our world and makes them seem other worldly by their ability to extort complete control.  Even though the puppet masters are human in the movie their ability to have complete control over the event and their normality towards the event makes it supernatural.  Beside the control the fact that those who have control over these events for them this is a normal day at the office is what separates them and places them in another world.  That the sacrifice of five people is normal for them and they can still be sane viewing and controlling these events makes them appear to the viewers other worldly as if they are not human.  The movie through this pokes at the idea of what actually makes us human and what is humanity.  Are the puppet masters, that appear as normal humans going about their job, still human as they can sit and control the deaths of five unknowing sacrifices.