Kranz on Whedon's CABIN IN THE WOODS

More info is slowly trickling out about Cabin in the Woods, the upcoming horror comedy from Buffy creator Joss Whedon and his frequent collaborator Drew Goddard. Dollhouse star Fran Kranz has a role in the film, and in an interview with SCI FI Wire he dropped a few hints, calling the film "basically Evil Dead meets The Truman Show." Asked what the film is about, he says it's about "the order in which these people kind of die."

"That's kind of the fun of the movie. We're not hiding that we are so aware of the kind of context that we're in. We make fun of it, and we have a lot of fun with it. The movie is extremely ambitious, lot of different stuff going."

The Evil Dead part is easy enough to figure out: there's a cabin in the woods, and people are attacked by some sort of boogieman or boogiemen. But The Truman Show part is more puzzling. Are the people in the cabin being killed as part of some reality show they don't even know about, or is that taking Kranz's description too literally?

"They want to go party out in the woods. One of them has a cabin. That's that," Kranz said. "Then bad things happen. Woods are scary. They've always been scary to us, going back to [Nathaniel] Hawthorne or something. We're afraid of the woods, so that's where all the monsters are. It was a natural setting, and also Vancouver's gorgeous, so it was an opportunity to go hang out there in the woods."

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