ELI ROTH CABIN FEVER MOVIE
The elements that make up ''Cabin Fever,'' a movie that finds an unusually potent blend of dread, gore and gallows humor, are as commonplace as rice, butter, cheese and broth.īut the director and producer Eli Roth, who wrote the story and collaborated on the screenplay with Randy Pearlman, has cooked up a tempting teens-in-the-woods bloodbath that suggests a ''Blair Witch Project'' with the blanks filled in, the camera stabilized and the story embellished with an evocative score (by Nathan Barr) whose shivery texture is spiced with the sounds of buzzing flies. Split-second timing and a meticulous balance of ingredients are critical for achieving a rich but chewy consistency. makes Eli Roth look like Stanley Kubrick.Making a satisfying horror film is as difficult as cooking a perfect risotto.
Cabin Fever shows the difference a director can make to a film: both versions have been made from identical source material, but Travis Z. Louise Linton is the only highlight here, with every other aspect of the film being a downgrade from the original. A lack of reaction shots and close-ups also makes the film feel lazy and unfinished. “Z.” changes up Roth’s environs a bit, making the “cabin” a lakeside mansion and the surrounding area leafier and prettier, but he has zero handle on the material – vacuuming away the original’s humour, horror and strangeness. The gender bending of the wonderful Deputy Winston (Giussepe Andrews in the 2002 film) is a casting high note though – with Linton managing to be sexy, scary, unpredictable and weird all at glorious once. The actors try valiantly but seem to have received little direction and thus miss any subtleties or humour in the script, playing everything painfully flat and straight.
The deaths these infections inflict are horribly and worryingly misjudged, with males dying quickly off screen while females kick the bucket in protracted sexualised detail. Where the original’s physical make-up effects were hideous and pulsating, here they are simple, static and clearly stuck on. The make-up effects used to portray this rotting flesh are poor. An odd deputy ( Louise Linton – Lions for Lambs) promises aid that never comes and our heroes are left to literally rot.
As they get sicker, the kids get more selfish and paranoid, turning on each other and letting their fear drive them to the murder of a sick local. Their water supply has been compromised and one by one the gang begin to get infected by a flesh eating virus. Two are a hot and heavy couple, one is a weirdo gamer loner – a variation on the original’s jock bone head – and the other two have been friends for years, with boy secretly totally in love with girl. The new version stars Gage Golightly (The Troop), Matthew Daddario (Delivery Man), Samuel Davis (Machete Kills), Nadine Crocker (Deadgirl) and Dustin Ingram (Paranormal Activity 3).Ĭabin Fever is shot from the same script as the original, so the plot is exactly the same: five teens head off to an isolated cabin in the woods to party. Posted by Alan Simmons on in All, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews | 0 commentsĭirected by “ Travis Z.”, Cabin Fever is a do-over of Eli Roth’s fourteen-year-old original film of the same name.
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