I also failed to mention Louise Linton playing Deputy Winston, someone who seemed to come from a completely different movie and probably retained the most off-beat aspect from the original. Where the original had likeable characters and an often pitch dark sense of humor, this version lacks any humor and a set of characters who were at best bland and at worst loathsome and annoying to the point I was rooting for the virus to off them, mercy not on them but me as a viewer. The plot also involves a rabid dog with the disease who manages to get inside a locked shed to threaten a member of the group.Ĭabin Fever was just an all around horrible horror movie and symbolic of how creatively bankrupt Hollywood has become to the point where they couldn’t even come up with a new story, or characters for that matter, and merely reused writer Eli Roth’s screenplay with different actors and a different locale. This isn’t a big spoiler as its revealed a little over halfway through however only one character finds out towards the very end and absurdly yells out to stay away from the water (in spite of everybody already being infected). The cause? Water supplied by a nearby reservoir. Soon enough, they too become infected with some nasty disease that tears apart the skin. The man is then accidentally set ablaze where he goes running off into the woods. Not wanting to get infected, they turn him away but not before he bleeds over their car and Bert, being Bert, fires his gun… right into a car tire. Sadly, he’s not the first to be killed.įollowing an explicit sex scene between Jeff and Karen (and she’ll get another scene toward the end), some boozing and a bit of drug use courtesy of a wandering stranger named Grim (TIM ZAJAROS), a couple scenes with Paul and Marcy who were childhood best friends with Paul wanting to take it to the next level not to mention Bert’s continuance of acting like a jackass and accidentally shooting a man in the woods things take a turn for the worse when the man Bert shot shows up at their door, skin peeling off, seeking help. His klepto tendencies aren’t brought up again and have no bearing on the plot other than to make us hate Bert from the start. They’re soon run off from the store owner after catching Bert attempting to steal a candy bar. He also gets scolded by the boy’s father when suggesting to reign in his kid. Their vacation begins auspiciously when, upon stopping by a convenience store, Paul befriends a creepy boy wearing a paper rabbit mask and for this he gets bitten in the hand because… why the hell not. The story centers on of five annoying friends - Karen (GAGE GOLIGHTLY), Jeff (MATTHEW DADDARIO), Paul (SAMUEL DAVIS), Marcy (NADINE CROCKER) and the fifth wheel, Bert (DUSTIN INGRIM) - who travel to a remote cabin in the boonies of Oregon for what is supposed to be relaxing weekend of booze and sex. But even if this wasn’t a pointless remake the film is just, simply put, dumb in combination with being an unabashed studio cash grab. Character names haven’t been changes and the premise more or less remains the same with minor alterations. Cabin Fever the ’16 Edition is, from what I’ve read, a script-for-script remake of the 2003 original. Remakes of late are nothing new but this one really takes the cake. Writer(s): Eli Roth (story), Eli Roth & Randy Pearlstein (written by)Ĭast: Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Samuel Davis, Nadine Crocker, Dustin Ingram In the end, this is the poster child on how creatively bankrupt the studios are. The only positive thing I can say is at least the cinematography was nice to look at but that’s about it. Cabin Fever, even setting aside being a pointless script-for-script remake, just is a bad movie filled with annoying and/or unlikeable characters and shoddy make-up effects work.
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