The weirdest thing about them is Dennis, the son of one of the shop workers who likes to bite people who sit next to him.When we arrive at the cabin Jeff and Marcy immediately start having sex, Bert heads off into the woods to shoot some squirrels with his air rifle, and Paul decides to pine over Karen, who he has fancied since they were kids but has yet to make a move.In typical ‘only character without a romantic storyline’ fashion, Bert goes off on his own and makes bad decisions, one of which is accidentally shooting the hermit from the beginning of the film. The hillbillies are a little bit Royston Vasey, very casually racist, but not overly murderous like a lot of horror movies. makes Eli Roth look like Stanley Kubrick.The group are on their way to a cabin in the middle of the woods (standard) and stop at a small store on the way which is run by country bumpkin-type folk (again, standard) to pick up some supplies for their trip. Cabin Fever shows the difference a director can make to a film: both versions have been made from identical source material, but Travis Z. Louise Linton is the only highlight here, with every other aspect of the film being a downgrade from the original. A lack of reaction shots and close-ups also makes the film feel lazy and unfinished.
“Z.” changes up Roth’s environs a bit, making the “cabin” a lakeside mansion and the surrounding area leafier and prettier, but he has zero handle on the material – vacuuming away the original’s humour, horror and strangeness.
The gender bending of the wonderful Deputy Winston (Giussepe Andrews in the 2002 film) is a casting high note though – with Linton managing to be sexy, scary, unpredictable and weird all at glorious once. The actors try valiantly but seem to have received little direction and thus miss any subtleties or humour in the script, playing everything painfully flat and straight. The deaths these infections inflict are horribly and worryingly misjudged, with males dying quickly off screen while females kick the bucket in protracted sexualised detail. Where the original’s physical make-up effects were hideous and pulsating, here they are simple, static and clearly stuck on. The make-up effects used to portray this rotting flesh are poor.
An odd deputy ( Louise Linton – Lions for Lambs) promises aid that never comes and our heroes are left to literally rot. As they get sicker, the kids get more selfish and paranoid, turning on each other and letting their fear drive them to the murder of a sick local. Their water supply has been compromised and one by one the gang begin to get infected by a flesh eating virus. Two are a hot and heavy couple, one is a weirdo gamer loner – a variation on the original’s jock bone head – and the other two have been friends for years, with boy secretly totally in love with girl. The new version stars Gage Golightly (The Troop), Matthew Daddario (Delivery Man), Samuel Davis (Machete Kills), Nadine Crocker (Deadgirl) and Dustin Ingram (Paranormal Activity 3).Ĭabin Fever is shot from the same script as the original, so the plot is exactly the same: five teens head off to an isolated cabin in the woods to party. Posted by Alan Simmons on in All, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews | 0 commentsĭirected by “ Travis Z.”, Cabin Fever is a do-over of Eli Roth’s fourteen-year-old original film of the same name.
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