Crime House of Horrors: The Cabin in the Woods

Join us for the fifth and final episode of the Crime House of Horrors Limited Series, and Vanessa Richardson tells you all about the Cabin in the Woods, a 2012 horror film about five college students sent to a remote cabin...but the underground facility managing their deaths is built from real history. From Aztec human sacrifice and sleeping-god mythology to the CIA's MKUltra program and Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments, every gear in the film's machine has a true-world counterpart. This episode traces those connections and asks what it means that audiences keep demanding the same sacrificial story, told the...