![]() Still, with Roth’s long-gestating Thanksgiving slasher finally becoming reality and looking something closer to that early work, maybe the spread of Cabin Fever can infect the seasonal slasher with the right kind of weird, silly, and gross horror. Sitting through the grossest moment of the original trilogy is an absolute breeze compared to enduring Cabin Fever 2016.Įli Roth cemented his place in the modern horror pantheon with Hostel, but in the years since, the weirdo magic of Cabin Fever has eluded his filmography, in the good sense anyway. With both sequels, the quality is undoubtedly lower, but the intent remains the same.Ĭompare and contrast with the utterly pointless 2016 remake that goes beat for beat with the original but strips back the gore, personality, weirdness, and humor of it to leave a painfully ordinary structure for a truly awful remake. It’s a lesser film in terms of bottling that icky formula of the original, but it’s grimly entertaining to see the disease rip through a high school prom.Ī third entry, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, moves the action to a remote island and features more attempts at raising the sicko bar with a particular nightmarish scene for anyone with a hang-up about oral pleasure. Out of the Cabin and Into the Fire Credit: LionsgateĪ sequel, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, continued on from the events of the first movie, and was helmed by future X and Pearl director Ti West. One of the actors in the film, Cerina Vincent, had even appeared in the teen sex comedy spoof Not Another Teen Movie as a riff on the nymphomaniac foreign exchange student.Ĭabin Fever certainly leans into being odd and offensive on a level reminiscent of sex comedies and Troma films, and that’s what makes it such a delightfully disgusting watch compared to the bleaker nastiness of Hostel. There are bizarre moments of comedy such as the whole ”pancakes” scene and even the sex scenes carry the awkwardly goofy feel of a comedy (which is at least partially intentional). ![]() ![]() Roth’s love of schlock horror is apparent in that department, but also in the general off-tone of the movie itself. Paralleled with their story is that of Sean Astin’s creepy test subject, locked up in a lab as, predictably, both the cause and antidote to the problem.Cabin Fever is repulsive on a lot of levels that don’t involve flesh slopping off pretty young actors. Cannibals and sadistic killers are nowhere in sight the characters are rather terrorized by a flesh-eating virus that has contaminated the waters in which they take their lovely vacation swims. “Patient Zero” combines the usual narrative of young people being gruesomely murdered in isolated places with that of a deadly virus outbreak. READ MORE: Image Entertainment Acquires ‘Cabin Fever: Patient Zero Compared to Cabin Fever 2 or simply taken on its own merits, Cabin Fever 3 is a. It costars relative unknowns Ryan Donowho, Brando Eaton, Jillian Murray, Mitch Ryan, and Lydia Hearst. Directed by Kaare Andrews (“The ABCs of Death”) and written by Jake Wade Wall, “ Cabin Fever: Patient Zero” (a prequel to 2010’s “Cabin Fever”) tells the fairly conventional story of a group of attractive friends looking for a relaxing vacation in the Caribbean only to instead–to their dismay and our delightful horror– find their guts on the sand. Fans of body horror will be happy to know there’s a new film coming with more views of gory insides than pretty faces. ![]()
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