For me, the running time was really short and there were not enough scares throughout. The reason I don't give this a really high score is because the pacing seemed jumbled to me. There is plenty of gore and plenty of scenes to make you squirm in disgust. The locals aren't so realistic and seem to be their for comic relief and body count (which isn't a bad thing). We do all that they do (well, not so much drugs.) and to me that makes them more realistic. Most of them swear, drink, have wild sex and smoke drugs and because of this may seem annoying and clichéd, on the contrary, Roth has captured the attitude of what teenagers were (and still are) like. The five teens are a mixed bunch (the dumb guy, the horny couple and the innocent couple). Roth blends horror with a small amount of comedy which suits this type of movie. A horror movie about five teenagers going to holiday in a cabin in the woods after college where the nearest town is filled with hicks and everything is slowly getting infected by an unknown virus which starts to turn everyone against each other. To sum up this movie: take a bit of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a bit of The Evil Dead, a couple of elements from The Thing and Last House on the Left and you have Cabin Fever. I, however, found this to be a rather enjoyable little film that just falls short of being great. I just know that I had fun watching it.Reviewed by LoneWolfAndCub 8 / 10 An unfairly criticised debut it really is not that badĮli Roth's debut, Cabin Fever, seems to be hated by the majority on IMDb and many other critics. That may be a good or a bad thing, that doesn't matter. But, I think the movie is so ridiculous that it gets entertaining. Further one the only other thing that was funny is the fact that the movie is quite ridiculous. I won't spoil anything but it's the moment that's point back to the beginning. One thing that I liked was the ending, with that I mean the very ending with the old man. If you ask me it was Eli Roth's way to fill up some time, because I don't know what the whole point was. Like what was up with the whole Deputy Winston thing, the useless stuff about partying and eventually never showing up. When you think about it, there were many useless moments in the movie. I don't really get the purpose of him being in the movie, maybe to bring the dog in, but still, a bit of a time waste if you ask me. Grim was a very useless character I think. Even when they finally met a weird but reasonably friendly neighbor they ran off.Įli Roth himself makes also two appearances, one as the guy in the scary story and the second time as a guy named Grim. When one of them gets sick, they lock her up in a barn instead of walking to the town to get help. Further it's hard to get any sympathy for any of these people, when a guy asked for their help, they sat him on fire. I especially liked Rider Strong (he reminds me a bit of Jared Leto) and through the entire movie you have your fingers crossed that he won't get infected, but, he was the only one. The group itself was a weird combination of people, but they were reasonable actors. Also the part where they start chasing Bert was kinda stupid and sudden. There is also the usual redneck family who run the store in the local town with a weird kid named Dennis who bites people after yelling 'pancakes'! Yeah, the redneck family was what bothered me the most, not only was Dennis the weirdest/creepiest kid I've ever seen, the rednecks themselves were quite weird too. The movie is also filled with the usual cliches, for example, your friends are probably all infected but there is a chance you are not infected yet, also there's a girl in the barn bleeding out of every pore she has let's have unprotected sex, right now at this very wrong moment! Unfortunately, I'm not much of a fan of this movie. Eli Roth is also the brain behind Hostel, a movie that I personally liked a lot. So the director and writer of this story is Eli Roth.
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