![]() Looks good, has the vital horror foundations and can’t be faulted in the way that it looks. The most uncomfortable being when a girl with the infection (skin peeling off) is shaving her legs in the bath *shudder*īut the appearance of a redneck lynch mob, the predictable events leading to a messy shootout and an ending which just seemed to ‘keep on going’ made me pretty glad when the ordeal was over. I still cringed my way through, enjoying (sort of) the bloodier moments. The stupid twist that this film takes feels like an arrogant move like he was making things up as he went along like he’s over confident and like the only audience that he’s trying to appeal to is the jocks, arrogant airhead cheerleaders and unassuming dorks.ĭon’t get me wrong, I didn’t switch off. Any credit that I had given him has been eaten away, like that flesh eating virus got to it. But he has now dropped way down in my estimations. I quite enjoyed Hostel, and assumed that Cabin Fever would be more of the same. I didn’t mind the director, Eli Roth up until now. The characters start to act even more unrealistically (doing things that you REALLY wouldn’t do in the same circumstances) and the horror and drama is replaced by apparent attempts to make the audience laugh, whilst at the same time be ‘grossed out’. It’s as if that’s the moment when the silly button is pressed. ![]() I was willing to ignore the little plot holes, but a weird ‘dude’ police deputy who is oblivious to the blood and drama just doesn’t fit. All done with good special effects – yuk.īut, when a local police deputy turns up, the film takes a weird turn, a turn for the worst.Īfter starting out as a regular horror, the deputy turns out to be a comedy character, which immediately confuses things. So when it’s caught, the victims tend to bleed a lot, have their skin peel off, and generally fall to pieces. The infection is a fast acting leprosy/ebola virus kid of thing. ![]() Although I’m not struck by the originality of it all (there isn’t much that’s original), I do find myself cringing quite a bit. There are a couple of familiar faces – in particular Rider Strong who plays Paul (the lead). So I’m about 45 minutes in, and kind of enjoying it. They turn on each other, try to find help/escape, and it turns into a battle for survival. It’s only a matter of time before one of the group get infected and that’s when the paranoia and irrational behaviour starts. ![]() Problem is, the area is ‘bad’ as a contagious infection is spreading through the animals and humans and killing them off in horrible bloody ways. These party animals want to go wild in a remote cabin, lighting fires, drinking, smoking and shooting squirrels. The teens are your usual bunch too: the jock the good looking arrogant male the hot, airhead cheerleader girl the friendlier, plainer girl and of course the unassuming lead guy – our hero. 5 teens going on a road trip, somewhere remote (for no apparent reason), and in the sort of area where redneck weirdos like to hang out and do creepy things. Was it cursed? Maybe.īut when the Blu Ray directors cut of Cabin Fever arrived at Love Horror towers last week, I knew that I would finally get to watch the whole thing! Whenever I saw it on TV, I would catch about 10 minutes, then something would happen to prevent me from seeing the rest. ![]() It was one of those films that I had meant to watch for ages. ![]()
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