![]() Its well shot, cut and is professionally produced and the cast as nondescript as they are here will likely go on to better things. To be fair, for what its worth, CABIN FEVER 2016 isnt badly made or anything. This remake is just dull and far-too-clean every time it apes character ticks and plot devices it feels like a community theater whitewash. Roth at least knows and loves classic exploitation cinema and gave his CABIN FEVER the texture of a real-deal grindhouse romp, with a tactile visual palette that made the sloppy shenanigans on screen feel filthy. Travis Z.s clone is shot on video and has that glossy, un-sensual, fake-flawless look that HD video technology gives every indie flick. Instead he and writer Randy Pearlstein simply regurgitate the same story, with a new gaggle of bland actors (here played by Matthew Daddario, Samuel Davis, Nadine Crocker, Dustin Ingram and Gage Golightly) simply spilling into their almost-isolated cabin in the woods for a weekend of weed, sex and irritating stupidity, encountering wanna-be-eccentric locals and once again running afoul of a flesh-eating disease that causes its hosts to literally melt and spread a Velveeta-cheesy plague.ĬABIN FEVER 2016 is, despite a few trite deviations, the same movie as CABIN FEVER 2002, but far worse, especially since Roths film was shot on film and looked great and had a rather beautiful Angelo (TWIN PEAKS) Badalamenti score. (real name: Travis Zariwny) isnt interested in such things, however. ![]() Still, theres an outbreak horror germ of a good idea in the film, one that could potentially be explored with style, urgency and a more sophisticated character design. Instead, CABIN FEVER is just a body horror geek show, goosed with cheap jokes, female nudity and a racist running gag that is even odder now than it was then. ![]() ![]() Its not a sentient threat and thus, theres no morality or suspense in regards to its onslaught. The antagonist in CABIN FEVER is a disease. Its Roths first film and not his best, with the obnoxious, frat boy characters he oft employs (and lampoons) in his subsequent, far more successful features, running hog wild and pitting them against a threat that, in the context of a survivalist/body count horror film, is really a cheat. redux, was (in this writer’s opinion) maturely and respectfully rendered, with added dimensions of humanity that the original failed to explore.īut Eli Roths CABIN FEVER, itself less than 14 years old, is not necessarily a film that merits another look. For even though the idea of remaking a film especially a beloved film – only a few years old is both absurd and crass, Pascal Laugiers original effort employs a rich, emotional and intricately designed narrative and thematic arc that lends itself to a revisit and, in the U.S. We recently reviewed The Goetz Brothers remake of MARTYRS and did so positively. SHOCK reviews the remake of Eli Roth’s CABIN FEVER.
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