![]() 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. 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.
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