The cinematography is pretty good, with it doing well to make the forest feel creepy and lonesome - making the characters seem far and separate from any help. It doesn’t go all the way into the realms of gore-porn, but what’s there works with its mix of make-up and props. I’ve honestly had to look away from scenes just from the set-up alone because I knew exactly where it would go, which I guess is something I got to applaud Eli Roth for in how much his use of gore gets to me. ![]() The gore isn’t all over the film but when it does appear it is nerve-wrecking in its effectiveness. ![]() In terms of effects, this film is both less gory than what I expected of Eli Roth while also being as gory as you’d expect from his directing. Overall I don’t think anyone did a bad job. It’s say it’s great that they appear so little because it plays more into the grindhouse feel of these one-note characters adding some flavor to the story, and the utter random obstacles that the college kids face. These characters appear briefly in their own scenes with their own set-ups and payoffs that are mostly good and funny. Mambo (who serves almost as a secondary antagonist in the film). You have seemingly racist shop owners, a cop who only cares about partying, the previously mentioned pancakes kid, and Eli Roth himself appearing alongside his dog Dr. The other characters, the random strangers they come across, are wide in their variety. Still, the characters aren’t so fleshed out they come off as memorable, but I wouldn’t say they’re bad either. You sorta do sympathize with them and hope they somehow pull through this, but they’re constantly met with strange and unfortunate circumstances that prevent them from getting a good outcome. While a few of them can be annoying, they do eventually simmer down and become far more tolerable as the film progresses. Speaking of characters, I have to give props to Eli Roth in that I don’t hate the cast of this film. There were a couple times that I’ve honestly chuckled at what was going on in the film, and thankfully the characters don’t remain jerks for too long and actually do change with the story. I’d almost compare it to “Ravenous” from 1999, in that “Cabin Fever” has a mix of gory horror and surreal comedy that give it a unique identity. ![]() From party-cops to a disturbed kid who shouts pancakes before biting people, these random bits of nonsense prove to be a threat as the film continues, and it adds on to the craziness of the story about a bunch of teens getting infected with a flesh-eating virus. From the moment the infection happens, the characters are screwed no matter what - what matters is how badly their situation gets. If you take it as anything serious than you won’t be having any fun, because the movie works best if you accept it as a crazy horror story with a simple plot. It then becomes a race against time to find some help in a town/area that makes them feel more and more isolated.Ĭabin Fever can almost be seen as a modern-day grindhouse movie, complete with over-the-top characters, violence, and ridiculous situations. One by one they start getting sick with a horrible disease that starts to melt them from the inside out. Although things seem to have calmed down, the group soon start to come down with something terrible. Events transpire, leading to the man coming to their cabin to ask for help, only to be fended off. They go about their usual brand of partying and sex until one of them accidentally shoots a terribly sick man. However does that make it any better? It’s an Eli Roth early 2000’s horror film, so… my expectations aren’t high.Ĭabin Fever follows a group of college students on break out in the wilderness, enjoying a cabin out in the woods. “Cabin Fever” is no different, although with it being the earliest of Roth’s work it’s certainly far less gory than his later films. Directed by Eli Roth, a man who the words ‘subtle’ and ‘limits’ are just strange garbled nonsense, he has many films that go high on the gore such as the “Hostel” series and “Green Inferno”. “Hey! Looks like you guys were doing some serious partying, man!”Īlright, it’s time for a return to form! Now that we’ve watched something for kids, let’s move onto something way, way, way less so: 2002’s “Cabin Fever”.
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