![]() This movie would have been so much more effective had it gone for straight intensity rather than trying to be funny. The humor in those 70s movies worked because the acting was so bad and the effects so cheesy. Director and co-writer Eli Roth seems to think that adding weird humor, like a goofball local cop who "just wants to party, man" or the Deliverance reject kid who screams "pancakes!" works in between scenes of people bleeding out. Our victims are forgotten and we close with cheap gags. It just makes no sense, especially in the context of this movie. They never bother to explain the infection, and while they imply it's in the local water supply, the ending is terrible. They got a lot out of their minimal budget. Made for $1.5 million, there's no CG here, just a lot of colored corn syrup, but it's pretty good. Well the poor sap makes his way to the house, now bleeding from open sores everywhere. Bert says he'll go get help and ends up leaving him. Stifler, er, Bert goes out shooting with a gun at, well, anything, and ends up injuring a guy who looks to be in rough shape. How appropriate that they cast Vincent, who was in Not Another Teen Movie, because this bunch is every bit as generic as that cast. Suave, Jeff (Joey Kern), his hottie girlfriend Marcy (Cerina Vincent), the sweet girl Karen (Jordan Ladd), the dork with an unrequited crush on her, Paul (Rider Strong) and the knucklehead, Bert (James DeBello). All five come right out of the Hollywood mold of teen horror movie victims. Five college kids head off to a cabin in the woods after finals end. The Movie If you saw Evil Dead then that's half the story. He really should be more judicious in lending his name to second-rate stuff like this. The cover features a kudo from Peter Jackson, who has gained ten tons of gravitas in the last few years. Cabin Fever, the product of a Troma alumnus, is every bit as derivative as Pitch Black and Equilibrium but populated with a bunch of idiots, inexplicable scenes and logic holes. Plus I liked Rhada Mitchell's character and Keith David is always great. Pitch Black may have been a total rip of Aliens but Riddick was an enjoyable character because I like soft-spoken villains who operate by menace, not screaming. What helped make them enjoyable was the characters, and their actions.
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