Image Credit: Bryan Sheffield/2009 Crown MediaMaybe it’s because summer in the city always makes me long for Weekend at Bernie’s, but when I got a press release this morning about Johnathan Silverman’s July 17 Hallmark Channel movie Jack’s Family Adventure, I read it. He plays an overworked, underappreciated ad man who takes his family on a month-long vacation to the cabin his late uncle just left him. From the promo below, you can tell that A) this man does not age and B) there’s a lot of screaming and at least one “bear” scene that will probably not live up to The Great Outdoors.
But let’s turn that negative into a positive: What are your favorite cabin scenes? The first one that came to my mind (after The Great Outdoors): Mark Harmon and Madeleine Stowe playing Mouse Olympics in Worth Winning. (Which then made me think of Madeleine Stowe and Kevin Costner in his cabin in Revenge. And then Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, and their families in The Bodyguard. Someone stop me.) Your turn.
For me, it’s a tie:
1.) The first time Ben took Locke to “Jacob’s” cabin on “Lost.” The whole trip ultimately ended up being relatively meaningless, but I remember being freaked out by the “Help me” and subsequent s—storm.
2.) The last 20 minutes of the “Justified” season finale.
when i saw this article title i immediately thought of the “help me” scene. well, that and the raccoons from the great outdoors.
Agree! Justified season finale was amazing. And actually my favorite cabin scene in LOST is when Ilana and others realize there’s a break in the ash (?) surrounding the cabin. That freaked me out.
the entire movie ‘cabin fever’. i just can’t shake it. that movie is so gross, and unfortunately it’s one of those things that sticks with you long after you watch it. ugh!
Seconded — I also came to post CABIN FEVER. It’s hilarious, then horrifying.
hello? black sheep?
yes.
First thing that comes to my mind is the Great Outdoors, too. Then shortly afterwards, What About Bob? I love that movie.
To quote Richard Dreyfuss in “What About Bob?”
“You think he’s gone. That’s the whole point. He’s never gone. YOU SEE!!!”
Baby steps to the elevator. DR.!!!! LEO!!!!!! MAAARRRRVIINNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
You know what hot dogs are made out of, right? Lips and a$$holes. (I still think of this every time I eat a hot dog, and yet, have not stopped eating them).
“The Evil Dead”.
Lisa, you’re right. The sequel even more.
Yup, Lisa. My first thought, too.
The end of “The Vanishing” with Kiefer Sutherland.
I just saw “The Vanishing” for the first time last week. What a piece of doody.
Marc, you’re right, the U.S> remake is doody — but watch the ORIGINAL European film, it is brilliant. Swear!
Every cabin scene on Lost.
That Cabin Fever thing with Shawn from Boy Meets World is probably my least favorite because it’s so gross.
The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills. When the girls totally f it that cabin with string and shaving cream, etc.
I watched that movie probably 3 times this weekend. It was always on and made me think of “It Takes Two”- which I then started thinking of how ridiculous it was that MK & Ash didn’t turn out to be even sisters @ the end. Hello- they’re identical! (Rant over)
Agree totally. They Hayley Mills version is, though before my time, the one I watched over and over growing up because my mom bought it for me on VHS (Lindsay who?). I love that scene – with the honey and the string and whatever else they were doing. “Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah”
To Ceballos – I praise you for bringing that up. RIP Lost. For me the best cabin scenes would have to be (1)- The shaving scene in Cabin Fever. (goosebumps) and the (2) would be the catching the bat scene/bunk bed scene from Black Sheep. That whole movie is HILARIOUS. . . .”Are you or are you not the Black Angel of Death?”.
DON’T EVEN MENTION THE CABIN FEVER SHAVING SCENE!!!!!!
Kramer burning down Susan’s father’s house on “Seinfeld.”
True, that is a good one!
The entire movie of “Meatballs” with Bill Murray. Who didn’t love it when they kept on moving Morty’s bed around and then finally leave it on a dock in the middle of the lake?
Remeber, IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER!
*sings*
Are you ready for the summer?
Are you ready for the good times?
Are you ready for the fireflies
And deep blue skies
And a whole lot of fooling around?
I am proud/ashamed that’s from memory…
Don’t forget where Baby loses her virginity in “Dirty Dancing.” All that she had to do was carry a watermelon.
Dirty Dancing was my first thought too!
The final scene of Shooter
Friday the 13th.
What’s the one that Johnny Depp was in? He’s a writer, he’s in the woods?…I dont think it was wicked scary, but it was in a cabin. And the show Coach; he lived in a cabin type house. Craig T. still does it for me!
Secret Window. That ending was so crazy.