Cabin in the Woods (score: 8.5)

Believe the hype, Cabin in the Woods did turn the genre on its head with plenty of satisfying surprises waiting for Whedon and 80's horror fans. In order to trick us, the film spent a bit too much time in the middle pretending to be a movie it isn't (having scenes in the dark forest where we can barely see anything) before the awesome second half.

Headhunters (Hodejegerne) (score: 7)

Headhunters established very early that the flawed main character is his own worst enemy, and most of the problems are caused by him. But the movie sent him off to fight several crazy villains in a No Country for Old Men style chase (that resulted in a pretty cool scene in an outhouse), which begs the question: how will he learn anything when all the battle he fought took place on the outside?