All “Cabin Fever” conjures is a single question: Why? The answer never arrives. A better movie might conjure a disquieting atmosphere of dread as its clueless characters await their fates. Otherwise the film is exactly the same as its predecessor, right down to the irritatingly contrived and purportedly humorous banter, cloying backwoods caricatures, and flesh-destroying illness spread by water (any similarities to Flint, Mich., are unintentional and best ignored). Slavishly unimaginative helmer Travis Z (it stands for Zariwny) makes a few tweaks - a smugly provocative racial epithet is excised, the gender of a key supporting player (sleazy Deputy Winston, played here by Louise Linton) is flipped, and the death of one female character is made even more grotesque and cruel (upping the already considerable misogyny quotient) - but to no meaningful end. He may have been seen by some as a bold new voice in the genre, but time has not been terribly kind to Roth’s reputation.Īnd time certainly hasn’t done any favors for his “Cabin Fever” screenplay, co-written with Randy Pearlstein and resurrected here almost in its entirety. At the time, shortly after the twin successes of “The Sixth Sense” and “The Blair Witch Project,” Roth got some mileage out of hyping his work as a return to down-and-dirty exploitation-style horror. The plot: Five interchangeably boring college grads set out for a remote cabin in the woods to chill out, smoke pot and have sex, and wind up paying with their lives. Lack of originality feels like a fairly meaningless complaint when Roth’s film was derivative enough to begin with. Who else would feel as much passion for the middling material? And who better to ensure the copy does nothing to improve on the original? The silver lining of a day-and-date limited theatrical and VOD release is that there’s no chance this repurposed dud duplicates the original’s commercial performance. Arriving just shy of 15 years after Eli Roth’s 2002 gorefest scared up enough admirers and box office to launch his career, it’s little surprise that Roth himself is the exec producer of this nearly beat-for-beat redo. Zariwny's Cabin Fever arrives in theaters starting February 12th this winter.If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the remake of “ Cabin Fever” reps a particularly po-faced exercise in pointless puffery. This new Cabin Fever is directed by Travis Zariwny (a former production designer and camera assistant), from a screenplay written by Randy Pearlstein. This film is a remake of Eli Roth's Cabin Fever from 2002. Here's the first trailer for Travis Zariwny's Cabin Fever remake, found directly on YouTube:Ī group of five friends rent a getaway cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals. Nothing I'm interested in seeing, but if you're curious about this film, give this trailer a look. The cast includes Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker, Dustin Ingram, Samuel Davis, Louise Linton and Randy Schulman. Eli Roth actually executive produced this new version of his freaky horror hit, which is full of pretty people screaming and getting all bloody and chopped up. I don't know why anyone felt it was necessary to remake this horror film, but they went for it anyway. The first official trailer for the remake of Eli Roth's 2002 horror film Cabin Fever has arrived online.
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