Curt Vaughan (portrayed by Chris Hemsworth) was one of the main characters of The Cabin in the Woods. He was a college student majoring in Sociology who invited his friends Marty Mikalski, Dana Polk and Holden McCrea, as well as his girlfriend Jules Louden to spend a weekend at a cabin in the woods owned by his cousin.
The group's entire trip had been secretly orchestrated by a mysterious organization as part of an annual ritual of blood sacrifice to appease the Ancient Ones: deities slumbering beneath the earth that will awake and destroy humanity if they are not continually satisfied.
For the purpose of the ritual, the Organization had labelled Curt as The Athlete. To make sure he fit the role, the Facility's chem department pumped pheromones into the cabin to make Curt behave more like a stereotypical jock. When he and Jules left the cabin to go have sex in the woods, they were attacked by the undead Buckner family and Jules was killed. Though wounded, Curt managed to escape from the Buckners and made it back to the cabin, warning his friends of the danger outside. They shut themselves inside and Curt advised that they stay together. However, the Facility then fed thorazine gas into the cabin that caused Curt to second-guess himself, then suggest that the group split off and hide in their own rooms.
After Marty was dragged off and supposedly killed, the surviving friends reconvened and fled from the cabin, attempting to escape in the RV they arrived in. Their escape was cut off when the Facility remotely caved in the mountainside tunnel, leaving them nowhere to go except back to the forest.
Death[]
Though the path was blocked by rock, there was a ravine between the two sides of the curving road. Determined to get out, Curt decided to get on his dirtbike and jump the gap, promising Dana and Holden he would come back with help. Holden mathematically determined that it was possible for Curt to make the jump so long as he maintained his acceleration all the way. However, when Curt made the jump, his bike crashed into the invisible forcefield that the Facility had established around the site of the cabin. Curt's head smashed against the barrier and his lifeless body fell along with his destroyed bike into the dark pit below.