As M. Night Shyamalan confronts us with Knock at the Cabin, annarosemary gives us a history of the cabin in movies, and how it evolved from a bastion of frontier safety to an isolating horror staple:
The dark wood of the cabin embodies the familiar and imposing, the warm and eerie. This visual duplicity makes for imagery that filmmakers have stretched across various genres. Hollywood has taken advantage of it in every decade, refitting it to suit the contours of our primal desires and fears. With, one of horror’s best-known auteurs, M. Night Shyamalan, has projected a new set of existential fears onto the emotional expanse of the cabin.
used it to advance the plot and build out otherwise sparse scenery. As the gang of robbers flees from their attempted murder of the switchman’s daughter, they seek out a wooden hut which hides the handcar, brazenly crowding around it in search of an escape.
Horror films in the ‘70s started capitalizing on sacrilegious imagery, slipping under the skin of an American culture newly uncomfortable with traditionalism and conservatism. With this switch it became clear that the cabin was no longer a symbol of white American independence, it was something unnerving, stuffed with rotting conservative ideals.
As with all cinematic tropes, the cabin has been defined and redefined by the socio-political circumstances surrounding it. Audiences are no longer seeking the warm, sandy hues of the cabin making a stand in the American West. They are drawn to the creeping terror and shadowy corners of the cabin in the woods.
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