In the 2011 film The Cabin in the Woods, the ancient underground operation is called the Facility.
The horror film, written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard and directed by Goddard, presents a modern organization that manipulates a group of young people through a ritual. Staff members monitor events from an underground complex and use technology, chemicals, and controlled environments to influence what happens at the cabin.
The film connects its ritual to a group of ancient beings known as the Ancient Ones. The organization’s purpose is to satisfy those beings through carefully arranged sacrifices, with different countries conducting related ceremonies. This structure turns familiar horror-film conventions into deliberate components of a larger system.
The Facility is sometimes informally described by viewers as a laboratory or control center, but the film’s proper designation is “the Facility.” Its role also helps distinguish the movie’s Pandora-related imagery from the ancient Greek myth itself: the film borrows mythic ideas while creating its own fictional mythology.