![]() It shouldn’t come as a spoiler alert, but things don’t go too well, and I may be giving the movie too much credit here, but it is somewhat funny social commentary on some strange people that for whatever reason, feel they are mentally and physically equipped to own a gun and use it with deadly precision like some professional soldier. The brief moments of Cabin Fever I did enjoy (also, forgive me if these jokes were also in the original) involved Bert using his time away from video games to pick up an assault rifle and put his virtual reality combat training to the test by wandering around the woods. Much like in the original, it is genuinely disturbing (and when a certain character begs for a mercy killing, you probably will feel sympathetic), but when the same movie is being redone scene for scene, the point does have to be asked of just what the fucking purpose is to this endeavor. I caught on fairly early as to what was causing the flesh-deteriorating disease, and even started to recall moments from the original as this new film played them out exactly the same (most specifically, the infamous shaving scene in the bathtub).Ĭabin Fever, much like the original, is not a very good movie, but kudos have to be given to the makeup department for creating some grotesque looking abominations of people as their skin continues to rot. Unfortunately, even someone like me, who actually remembers nothing about the original film other than that I saw it in a theater, and found it intentionally bad to elicit laughter while also being serviceable at conjuring up some entertaining gore, kept feeling the sensation of familiarity. There are slight changes like turning the inept and dimwitted sheriff into a female, adding in some social media bits, and one character re-imagined as a gamer struggling to cope without Call of Duty for a week, but roughly 95% of this movie is an exact replication of what was released in 2002. ![]() With that prefaced, I wasn’t really concerned knowing that going into Cabin Fever (a remake of Eli Roth’s campy body-horror cult classic that he has also produced, now directed by newcomer Travis Z) that the most crippling fault fellow critics are finding with it is that the movie does nothing to set itself apart from the original, and actually literally reuses Eli Roth’s original script. What this results in is a lot of what I watch ultimately becoming a blur in my mind and inevitably a long forgotten memory, unless a particular film was capable of standing out. A remake of the 2002 film, ‘Cabin Fever’.įor those of you that actually follow along regularly with the madness that are my weekly, sometimes daily reviews, you have come to the conclusion a long time ago that I watch a lot of movies bad, decent, good, low-budget, art-house, independent, mainstream All genres you get the picture. I honestly wish it could have been better, but redemptively, it was an honourable failure.Starring Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker, Dustin Ingram, Samuel Davis, and Louise Linton.Ī group of five friends are terrorized at their getaway cabin. To me, it just felt to me like a bunch of stuff i'd seen from some of the classic horror movies mashed in with one interesting premise. I think its designed brilliantly and has an environmental message, and I admire Roth's aspirations to not skimp on gore or sex, but it was unnecessary to the plot. But in the end it's interesting twist to the typical cabin in the woods story doesn't fully make it work. There was also very few shocks, and once I adjusted to the carnage, consequently, it wasn't that scary. However he shows almost no creativity in Cabin Fever and for me he never demonstrated the extent of his talent. All this adds up to the construction of a cheesy 80's horror movie, which was exactly what Roth was trying to mimic. Especially considering the tiny budget it was made on. Firstly, the acting is much better than I expected it would be, and the gore is disgusting and boasts some pretty impressive bloody corpse special effects. ![]() But that's just damning it with very faint praise. ![]() Rating: R (Language|Brief Drug Use|Sexuality|Strong Violence and Gore)ĭefinitely Eli Roth's most inspired, and most substantial film. The friends struggle to stop the contagious, flesh-eating disease while on the run from a group of ornery backwoods locals out for revenge. When the man stumbles into a reservoir, he infects the water supply, and soon one of Bert's friends becomes infected. Panicking, he abandons the scene and leaves the man for dead. Bert (James DeBello), a college student vacationing with friends in the mountains, mistakenly shoots a local man (Arie Verveen) with a skin infection while hunting in the woods. ![]()
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