Neither managed to recreate Roth’s raw, manic mayhem, but they both upped the gross, body-centric gore for those of us into that sort of thing. Like any moderately successful genre film it also started its own franchise with both a sequel and a prequel hitting home video in the years since. Sure it’s heavily flawed, but it’s also a nasty little shocker that accomplishes its admittedly slight goals with a messy efficiency. It also introduced us, without reason or explanation, to the “pancakes!” kid. As a debut it marked Roth as an energetic film maker to watch, the practical makeup/gore effectively played up the always-disturbing body-horror angle, and it put a fresh spin on the cabin-in-the-woods scenario by avoiding both slasher killers and the supernatural. Catch the trailer here.Whether or not you’re a fan of Eli Roth’s 2002 feature, Cabin Fever, there are elements that make it one of the early 21st century’s more memorable horror films.
This remake is virtually the same film as the original, only slower, drier, and not nearly as much fun.ĬABIN FEVER is released in US theaters today.
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The oddball humour is what kept the original movie afloat in between the scary bits the remake is basically an hour of thinly-plotted wheel-spinning followed by some decent gore scenes that don’t exactly improve upon those found in the first film.ĭespite a few creative touches here and there (love that drone-cam), there’s just not a whole lot here that’s all that memorable. It’s not nearly enough that the humour has been toned down or that one key character has switched genders. Zariwny (aka ‘Travis Z’) was told that he had to work with the old screenplay, so his only way to forge a little new ground was to go “dark and serious” where the original went with “gruesome and wacky.” His efforts might have bore more fruit had he been allowed to monkey with the plot just a bit.įrequently well-shot and (eventually) bursting with some impressively icky gore effects, Cabin Fever ’16 suffers from a perpetual sense of déjà vu. It just seems like a shady (and/or lazy) move to recycle the same screenplay, delete most of the humour, re-create the same old gore scenes, and ask horror fans to treat it like something special.
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That’s not a knock on the original Cabin Fever, which still holds up as a gruesome, raucous, enjoyably immature horror/comedy about five doomed idiots who hole up in a cabin and (eventually) get infected by a horrific skin disease. Why we need a remake of a 14-year-old movie is a minor mystery why they decided to use the same script is something that simply boggles the mind. Like this one: Cabin Fever (2016), which not only features the same plot, setting, and characters as the 2002 original, but also almost all of the Eli Roth/Randy Pearlstein screenplay. After that we go back to hating remakes, and here’s why: for every half-decent, solid, or excellent remake that comes down the pike, movie fans are subjected to at least a half-dozen that are lazy, tiresome, poorly-made films that exist solely because of name recognition, nostalgia value, and contractual obligations.Īnd then there are remakes that just make no sense whatsoever. We love to hate them, except when a new one happens to be a good film, in which case we suspend our “all remakes suck!” position for at least a week.
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