Usually, the destruction of the world by an inhuman ancient evil wouldn't be a happy ending. It flexes and then rushes towards the camera, which goes black. The compound starts to shake, the music swells, the ground starts to heave apart, and then you shift to an outside view, where the woods around the cabin tremble and shake. Since the sacrifice isn't completed, the world ends. The two of them invade the bureaucratic compound and let loose all the monsters reserved for the horror rituals (including a Merman who vents blood through his blowhole, because why not?). Marty Mikalski (Fran Kranz), the stoner kid, manages to escape death along with the Final Girl, Dana Polk (Kristen Connolly), whose death isn't necessary for the ritual (the Final Girl just has to suffer). The twist on top of the twist, though, is that the ritual goes awry. The bureaucrats, meanwhile, are the filmmakers, setting up their characters for hideous death by (in this case) zombie hillbillies. The monstrous gods, then, are a kind of stand-in for the viewers, who want to see horror movie carnage. The Ancient Ones will annihilate the earth and feed on its human inhabitants unless they receive a regular blood sacrifice. The goal of the conspiracy is to appease terrible, monstrous, underground-dwelling, Lovecraftian gods known as the Ancient Ones. Instead, they're being manipulated by bored bureaucrats who are part of a shadowy government conspiracy. But you quickly learn that these young people's fate isn't random.
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