MOVIES LIKE Cabin Fever: Cabin Fever (2002), Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever(2009), Cabin Fever: Patient Zero(2014) and The Ruins (2008). Basically you’re rewatching an old favorite with a different cast and director. It’s a satisfactory culmination of all the failures of everything else and manages to successfully combine the previous foreshadowing and is just unsettling enough to be extremely effective.MY CALL: A perfectly watchable remake that replays the 2002 screenplay and brings nothing new to the table. The second iteration of the leg-shaving scene is faster and more furious, and culminates in a creepier way, but the best death in both movies now belongs triumphantly to Karen. Also, the finger bang scene is now consensual! Hooray! ![]() It’s weirdly more nuanced and is better acted towards the second half despite it’s tendency to take itself more seriously. ![]() That being said, betwixt the two films, the remake is…sigh…better. The first half is also full of charming little millennial nuances, like the “idiot” friend panicking over no internet or television, or taking like, oh my god so many cute selfies. It unfortunately just makes it a little funnier. I’ve talked about the Roth-technique, where he expertly establishes tension, and then we’re left with a sloppy payoff to some great tension (Karen drinks contaminated water, so we know she’ll be infected, but then it’s in a very creepy involuntary fingering (hooray), we learn that she definitely is infected.)īefore the movie hits its stride in the second half, everyone in the remake also has this air of gravitas about them like the ghost of Eli Roth is whispering in their ears to “BE SERIOUS OR ELSE”. Rather, characters are often quickly dead, except for poor Karen, who has the most compelling story line as a result. Additionally, because the virus doesn’t affect the state of the person (no madness, no placidity, no spread instinct) there should be more attention played to the slow erosion of realizing you have a flesh-eating virus. The slow burn potential of a flesh-eating virus should have excellent tension, but Roth squanders this opportunity. While it does contain little snippets of interest, and while there are some definitely great horror moments, everything in-between is painfully slow. To be honest, Cabin Fever ’02 is not really a super entertaining movie ( I know what I said). As far as horror goes, it’s adequately bloody, because Eli Roth is (if nothing else) a good gore director. All the teen tropes are present: the stupid friend, the friends who have sex all the time, and the friends who haven’t hooked up yet but want to desperately. Teens go to the woods, teens get sick, horror shenanigans ensue. Frankly, it’s otherwise a fairly standard teen horror comedy. I’m weak like that.Ĭabin Fever (’02) originally came out when I was twelve (Roth’s full length directorial debut), and I’ve previously discussed the extreme effectiveness of the leg shaving scene. However, when a director has the gall to remake his own campy horror movie not even fifteen years later as a straight horror (with the exact same script) well, color me intrigued. If you’ve been reading /horror, you may know how I feel about Eli Roth.
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