{"id":19241,"date":"2016-02-12T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=19241"},"modified":"2023-05-19T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T07:38:07","slug":"cabin-fever-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/12\/cabin-fever-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabin Fever (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s no secret what my feelings are about 2003\u2019s \u201cCabin Fever<\/a>.\u201d I hate it. I despise it<\/a>. If I could go back in time, I\u2019d prevent myself from spending money on it in theaters and instead go see the mediocre \u201cUnderworld.\u201d It\u2019s one of the most painful movie going experiences I\u2019ve ever endured, and I welcomed a remake. Surely, it\u2019s disgraceful that in this day and age \u201cCabin Fever\u201d has had two sequels, and a remake, while films like \u201cBehind the Mask\u201d are scrounging for money for a follow-up. But Hollywood is Hollywood, and people love their trash. Thankfully, 2016\u2019s \u201cCabin Fever\u201d is a superior remake, even if it is still abysmal nonsense.<\/p>\n

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The premise and set up are essentially the same as the original. Five college students are going away to a cabin in the woods for drugs, drinking, and heavy sex. While on the way there, they accidentally become victims of a water born flesh eating virus that begins mangling the individual students one by one in gory horrific methods. The source of said virus is mysterious, as locals begin inexplicably turning up at the cabin drenched in blood and losing their flesh. Meanwhile, the group is being terrorized by rotting wild dogs, all of whom are flesh hungry because that\u2019s how stuff works. It\u2019s the same motions as usual, except IFC Midnight and director Travis Z excise a lot of the trash and filler from the original film. There are no more karate fighting pancake kids, no more racial and homophobic humor, no more segues in to a stoned camper telling a violent story about a bowling alley, and not much of an open door for a sequel.<\/p>\n

Even though we know there will eventually be one. There\u2019s an attempted gag in the mid-credits involving an \u201cI Pad\u201d and a slideshow of vacation photos, but it\u2019s another in a long line of poorly delivered dark comedy. Director Travis Z brings us through a lot of the motions from the original despite cutting out a lot of the junk from the original movie, exploring the characters, examining undercurrents of romance, and even featuring some hardcore sex. Standing in for Jordan Ladd is the insanely hot Gage GoLightly, one of the few stand-out performances in the bunch who really sells her grue and vicious deteriorating state well. I even enjoyed Louise Linton as the new inept deputy who wants to do nothing but party, even when faced with a victim covered in blood and guts. Linton\u2019s performance is slickly tongue and cheek, and she aces the obnoxious character originated by Giuseppe Andrews.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true, Travis Z\u2019s \u201cCabin Fever\u201d is a much more coherent and well made film than Eli Roth\u2019s original, it\u2019s marred by the utterly disjointed narrative that fails to hold together. Travis Z\u2019s poor attempts at dark humor, unnecessary sub-plots and introductions of characters that go nowhere, are valiant, but \u201cCabin Fever\u201d is still an abysmal genre entry with seeds of potential for a good movie buried deep within that\u2019s never realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret what my feelings are about 2003\u2019s \u201cCabin Fever.\u201d I hate it. I despise it. If I could go back in time, I\u2019d prevent myself from spending money on it in theaters and instead go see the mediocre \u201cUnderworld.\u201d It\u2019s one of the most painful movie going experiences I\u2019ve ever endured, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[170,259,318,477,703,835,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-19241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-c","tag-dark-comedy","tag-eli-roth","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-remake","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39811,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19241\/revisions\/39811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}