Despite sitting on MGM's shelf for awhile, before Lionsgate stepped in to release it, Drew Goodard's directorial debut (which he co-wrote with Joss Whedon) paid homage to the horror movie genre while both satirizing and elevating the "final girl" tropes into one of the best, and most inventive, scary movies ever. Not bad for a film that they wrote a first draft of in three days.
10. Goddard's first day filming was kind of a crappy one, logistics-wise. When he showed up to set, it was covered in snow (that's what he gets for shooting in Vancouver.)
