1. J.J. Abrams
   Drew Goddard
2. Marti Noxon
   Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon was a producer on the film. He and Goddard worked together on "Buffy" and "Angel."

1. in a college dorm
   at the cabin
2. on the road
   in a windowless corporate environment

The movie starts with two executives discussing their mundane domestic lives at a coffee machine. Goddard and Whedon hoped people would wonder if they'd walked into the wrong movie.

1. Anthony Stewart Head and David Boreanaz
   Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins
2. Richard Jenkins and Woody Harrelson
   Woody Harrelson and Matthew Modine

These roles needed guys who were believable as upper-middle-managers, yet also likable and funny. Whitford and Jenkins filled the bill nicely.

1. Dana
   Marty
2. Jules
   Curt

Much of "Cabin" turns horror-movie stereotypes on their heads. Curt appears to be the "dumb jock" at first, but we learn he's a sociology major with a full ride on academic grounds.

1. Jamie Dornan
   Henry Cavill
2. Chris Hemsworth
   Liam Hemsworth

Joss Whedon has worked with Hemsworth on the "Avengers" movie as well. He often works more than once with favorite actors and writers.

1. economics
   pre-med
2. psychology
   fashion marketing

Jules, too, is implied to be brainy. Unfortunately, the secret facility's "chem department" is dumbing her down. Speaking of which ...

1. through Marty's marijuana
   through her sunscreen
2. through her hair bleach
   through her vitamins

The mind-weakening chemical agent will slowly soak in through her scalp. Sitterson and Hadley congratulate Lin, the chem representative, for playing into the classic stereotype: "the dumb blonde."

1. Amy Acker
   Lucy Liu
2. Alona Tal
   Kristen Bell

Acker is part of Joss Whedon's core stable. She appeared in "Angel," "Dollhouse," "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and his Shakespeare effort, "Much Ado About Nothing" before her turn in "Cabin."

1. Adam Driver
   Jensen Ackles
2. Teddy Dunn
   Jesse Williams

Williams was 30 when he took on the role. Fortunately, a youthful appearance helped him pass for a college student. (The same could be said of Chris Hemsworth).

1. Dana
   Holden
2. Marty
   none of these

Dana, though, is the group's "technical virgin," for the purposes of the ritual. As the Director will later say, "We work with what we've got."

1. a chemistry beaker
   a telescope
2. a flower vase
   a travel mug

Since the movie's opening plays on popular stereotypes, Marty pulls up in an old Volvo filled with smoke. Of course, we soon learn there's a lot more going on upstairs than he initially lets on.

1. for a reality TV show
   for the entertainment of a sadistic billionaire
2. to keep "Ancient Ones" from rising
   it's an elaborate revenge scheme

The audience will see the blood of the victims flowing into an underground chamber, which pretty much gets the point across. Making it clearer, Lin says apprehensively, "If the Ancient Ones rise ..."

1. Canada
   Japan
2. Sweden
   Mexico

Hadley and Sitterson watch on monitors as a classic white-faced, straggle-haired ghost menaces a group of Japanese schoolgirls. Evidently, every nation's ritual is based on its cultural ideas of horror.

1. Esau
   the Harbinger
2. the Deacon
   the Fool

The "Harbinger" is an old man working at a gas station who speaks in ominous terms about the kids' destination, the cabin. He doesn't literally tell them to turn back, but it's implied.

1. a well in the basement
   a one-way mirror between bedrooms
2. an altar in the living room
   a TV that works with no power source

The mirror is between Dana and Holden's rooms. Marty jokes that in pioneer days, "people had to make their own interrogation rooms."

1. Dana
   Marty
2. Jules
   Holden

There's a story behind this. Fran Kranz, the actor, was actually as well-muscled as the other two. The director didn't want his physique to undermine his stoner-geek character.

1. to go in the basement
   to jump in the lake naked
2. to make out with Dana
   to make out with the wolf head

Anna rises to the occasion, flirting one-sidedly with the wolf before kissing it. In filming, the wolf's tongue was coated with powdered sugar to make it more tolerable for the actress.

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
   The Evil Dead
2. Halloween
   Friday the 13th

More than any other film, "Cabin" seems to wink at "Evil Dead." On the "monster board," alert audience members will see "Deadites" and "Angry Molesting Tree" -- both horrors that were featured in Raimi's film.

1. who will die first
   who will survive
2. what kind of monster will attack the kids
   the exact hour and minute the mayhem starts

What kind of monster attacks depends on which artifact in the basement the young people activate. It's Dana who reads from the diary of "Patience Buckner," thus awakening the Buckner family of killer zombies.

1. a kappa
   a merman
2. a vampire bride
   a werepanther

Hadley's perpetual bet is a merman, but he's disappointed. Sitterson consoles him: "The clean-up on 'em is a nightmare."

1. conch shell
   music box
2. puzzle box
   abacus

The conch shell would have summoned a merman, the puzzle box a "Pinhead"-like figure, and the music box a killer ballerina. We would have liked to see some of these in action!

1. Hadley
   Sitterson
   Ronald the intern
2. the maintenance department
   both #3 and #4

Tom Lenk played "Ronald the Intern." Some viewers will remember him from late seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as a nerdy would-be supervillain.

1. Lin
   Truman
2. Hadley
   Sitterson

Truman watches the events on the screen with detached distaste. But he never rebels against his role, and in the end, he dies trying to defend the facility from all the unleashed monsters.

1. Marty
   Jules
2. Holden
   Curt

Jules has to die first because, according to America's version of the ritual, she's the "whore." She's not, of course: Marty has noticed that her flirtatious, sexy behavior is out of character.

1. Curt
   Dana
2. Holden
   Marty

Hadley and Sitterson panic at the sight of him peering directly into the camera lens. His chemically-enhanced marijuana was supposed to keep him stupid and docile, but it didn't.

1. stabbed through the throat
   dragged off by a Buckner
2. drowns in the lake
   he survives to the end

Marty is dragged off by a Buckner, but triumphantly returns to rescue Dana at a critical moment. Given the film's ending, though, this is only a delay of the inevitable.

1. the force field fails
   the tunnel isn't caved in
2. they find a hiking trail leading out
   they find a hatch into the underground facility

The "hatch" idea isn't too far off -- later, Marty will discover the elevator that brought the Buckners to the surface. But that's after the three nearly make it through the tunnel that Demolitions failed to cave in.

1. decapitated by a Buckner
   he drowns in the lake
2. he rides his motorbike into the force field
   he dies in the tunnel collapse

This was a heroic moment turned comic. Curt is preparing to jump the river gorge and go for help, only to unceremoniously hit the invisible wall. It's this moment that causes Dana to realize that Marty was right: they're in a giant trap.

1. stabbed through the throat by a Buckner
   dragged underground by a Buckner
2. he falls in the river gorge
   Dana accidentally shoots him

Holden's is the third death, representing "the scholar." We'll have to take the filmmaker's word for it -- he doesn't seem any brainier than Curt the sociology major.

1. in the operations command center
   in the Director's office
2. in a maze of cubicles holding all the unused monsters
   in the maintenance workshop

Marty and Dana eventually unleash all the monsters on the security forces. This helps them evade capture -- for a while.

1. he's eaten by the monster ballerina
   he's attacked by a merman
2. he's strangled by the Angry Molesting Tree
   he's killed by the cenobite-like figure

Hadley always wanted to see the merman in action. Now he gets to do so, up close!

1. Gene Hackman
   Angelina Jolie
2. Bill Pullman
   Sigourney Weaver

The Director appears near the end to encourage Dana to kill Marty, thus saving humanity. She also explains the five archetypes the friends represented: The Whore, the Athlete, the Scholar, the Fool and The Virgin.

1. Dana shoots her
   Marty shoots her
2. a werewolf attacks her
   she falls into the abyss and Ancient Ones eat her

In a more conventional movie, the Director would be the final sacrifice, and Marty and Dana would go free. That's not what this dark comedy has in mind, though.

1. make love
   smoke a joint
2. fight monsters
   try to prevent the rise of the Ancient Ones

Frankly, if we were were Dana, we would've shot Marty and saved eight billion people. Heck, we would've done it for four billion.

1. Angel
   Buffy
2. Dollhouse
   Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Kranz played tech guru Topher Brink, a poignant and flawed bad guy. The character was quite popular with fans.