Cabin fever 2002 film6/3/2023 ![]() Yet, in spite of working from the same script and with the full support of the original creator, this low-budget production somehow manages to be worse and also weirder than its predecessor and the two awful installments. It reminds of Gus Van Sant's 1998 shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's massively influential ' Psycho.' However, whereas Van Sant defends his film as an experiment to recapture the allure and appeal of the original, this near-identical rehash meanders about without purpose, skipping from one gruesome scene to the next while foolishly substituting blood and gore for suspense and tension.Ī big part of this movie's failure begins with the fact that the first movie wasn't all that great to begin with, or at least, memorable enough to warrant a remake/reboot. The same group of five college kids on spring break - this time played by Samuel Davis, Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker and Dustin Ingram - travel to a remote cabin when they are exposed to a flesh-eating virus that turns the friends against each other. Only, the story's been updated for today's moviegoers, such as a single-shot rifle changed to a high-capacity assault rifle, the mention of cellphones and the lack of service, making them pointless. In fact, he and Randy Pearlstein are credited as the writers for this production, suggesting that the same screenplay was used. With Roth now serving as producer, it probably isn't of much surprise little has been altered from the original script. Unfortunately, what came out of that decision is a beat-for-beat duplicate of the original, more likely to induce yawns than a gross-out feeling of upchucking one's dinner. A fourth installment was in the works, but eventually scrapped in favor of kickstarting the entire franchise from scratch. (Again, never mind kids can just as easily rent, stream or torrent the original from practically anywhere there is a Wi-Fi signal.) The last two entries in the series - one, a direct follow-up sequel, and another, a prequel leading to the events of the first - went pretty much unnoticed by horror-hounds and are now all but forgotten. In this new digital world where information and gossip spreads quicker than a deadly infectious disease, the last decade is very old news, and this is NOW, where perhaps a new - read younger - generation can discover Roth's vomit-inducing horror comedy for the first time. ![]() Never mind the original is barely a couple decades old. Not recommended, even if you have absolutely nothing else to watch.After two failed attempts at establishing Eli Roth's "gore-tacular" contagion flick ' Cabin Fever,' which also marks as his directorial debut, into a profitable franchise, studio heads turn to the current Hollywood trend of remaking/rebooting recent movies. ![]() If you didn't believe Eli Roth was a hack before, you certainly will after watching this mess. It's just basic in almost every way, and really is a waste of resources. The movie was limited in its vision, and toning down the gore does a disservice to everything that was good about the original film. Honesty, I have seen found-footage films with better acting than what some of these no-talents pulled off. Worst part of it all? Save for a few of the actors, the performances were atrocious. This movie doesn't even try to be original in its retelling of the film, as the same basic set-up (and even some of the dialogue) has been reused and recycled to ill-effect. But everything from the acting to the gore has taken a considerable hit with this remake as to effectively make it Cabin Fever-lite. Had it been Evil Dead-remake caliber, we would have been in for something special. ![]() It does nothing new, different or even remotely better than the admittedly average original.
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