The remake seems to have been made on a much better budget and there are certainly some good makeup effects representing the meltdowns. Travis Z does a passable job directing, while some aspects like the photography are reasonable. If Cabin Fever 2016 were made on its own terms, one supposes it would not have been too bad. Andrews’ hilarious performance was one of the best aspects of the original, whereas Louise Linton adds nothing – in fact, her leering innuendo when we first meet her makes for something that is positively awful.(Shortly after the film came out, the Scottish-born Linton married studio executive Steve Mnuchin who went on to become Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary) Nadine Crocker and infected dog Another of the worst aspects is the recasting of Giuseppe Andrews’ Deputy Winston with a woman in the role. One of the worst changes is Dustin Ingram’s Bert who is now made into a major idiot who has brought along a semi-automatic rifle as opposed to a single-action gun and is obsessed with randomly blasting everything he comes across up with entire clips of ammo. What this results in is a Cabin Fever where the students are earnestly cool hipsters, obsessed with beer and making out, while bland pop songs play on the soundtrack.
Whatever the case, the sarcastic horror comedy element that was essentially the making of the original Cabin Fever is gone and without it we now only have a standard cabin in the woods film. Or quite possibly it was that Eli Roth improvised most of these in the original. Either director Travis Z is unattuned to these elements, lacks a horror background or orders have come down from above. Perhaps the most noticeable of these is the film is no longer a horror comedy and all the genre in-jokes have been cut. While Eli Roth and Randy Pearlstein have simply recycled their screenplay for the original, a number of changes have come in. A generic teen cast (l to r) Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker, Gage Golightly, Samuel Davis and Dustin Ingram greet the infected man at the cabin door
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It has only been fourteen years since the first film came out – it is usually at least 2-3 decades before we start to see remakes (not counting English-language remakes of foreign films) and people feel confident that the original has been around in tv re-runs long enough that a new generation of 19-25-year-olds are going to appreciate seeing it recast with new faces. Why, could be anybody’s guess – other than that Eli Roth and co-writer Randy Pearlstein probably took advantage of some producer’s offer to recycle their script for a whole bunch of money. There were two negligible sequels with Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009), one of the early films of Ti West, and Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014).įor no apparent reason, we now get a remake of Cabin Fever. It launched Eli Roth’s career as a horror director. The balance of gore and sarcastic humour obviously struck a nerve for audiences and the film became a reasonable success in theatrical release and subsequently on video and dvd. Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever (2002) was a modest hit.
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