![]() ![]() The Region A locked, BD25 disc is housed inside the normal blue case. Shout! Factory brings 'Cabin Fever (2016)' to Blu-ray under the distributor's Scream Factory line. Ultimately, it's best to quarantine this lame, infected forgery and keep it as far away from every coming in contact with other, far superior horror movies. It ultimately serves no purpose and doesn't offer anything for moviegoers, let alone genre fans. But that's how much of this production goes. Annoyingly, this is a bit of head-scratcher since there is absolutely no point in such an opening other than this would-be director just could and thought it might as cool as his new name. Or, as in one very obvious instance, he blatantly copies the opening of Stanley Kubrick's ' The Shinning' with similar aerial shots and the same haunting music of Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind. In either case, one or two sequences reveal some competency behind the camera, but it's hard to tell sometimes when he appears more intent on simply imitating Roth's camerawork. It's unknown how or why he landed such an important role, but apparently changing his name to Travis Z because it probably looks cooler and edgier warranted enough reason. ![]() At least in the original, Rider Strong's Paul was the likable virgin, but in this version, Samuel Davis could just as easily be replaced by a cardboard box with a voiceover by David Attenborough and no one would be the wiser.ĭirecting duties are handed over to relative newcomer Travis Zariwny, who's done nothing of note and whose only notable film credits are as miscellaneous crew in better known projects. But having to sit through scenes meant to nauseate audiences are of little to no consequence when the characters are so unattractively annoying and obnoxious, which has about as much to do with the actors over-dramatizing every line of dialogue as the way the characters are written. Why in the world any studio would want to waste money on this is a bigger mystery than the origins of the ferocious virus, which leaves its victims with oozingly repulsive, festering lesions around some of the most cringe-inducing areas of the body. Yet, in spite of working from the same script and with the full support of the original creator, this low-budget production somehow manages to be worse and also weirder than its predecessor and the two awful installments. It reminds of Gus Van Sant's 1998 shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's massively influential ' Psycho.' However, whereas Van Sant defends his film as an experiment to recapture the allure and appeal of the original, this near-identical rehash meanders about without purpose, skipping from one gruesome scene to the next while foolishly substituting blood and gore for suspense and tension.Ī big part of this movie's failure begins with the fact that the first movie wasn't all that great to begin with, or at least, memorable enough to warrant a remake/reboot. The same group of five college kids on spring break - this time played by Samuel Davis, Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker and Dustin Ingram - travel to a remote cabin when they are exposed to a flesh-eating virus that turns the friends against each other. ![]() Only, the story's been updated for today's moviegoers, such as a single-shot rifle changed to a high-capacity assault rifle, the mention of cellphones and the lack of service, making them pointless. In fact, he and Randy Pearlstein are credited as the writers for this production, suggesting that the same screenplay was used. With Roth now serving as producer, it probably isn't of much surprise little has been altered from the original script. ![]() Unfortunately, what came out of that decision is a beat-for-beat duplicate of the original, more likely to induce yawns than a gross-out feeling of upchucking one's dinner. A fourth installment was in the works, but eventually scrapped in favor of kickstarting the entire franchise from scratch. (Again, never mind kids can just as easily rent, stream or torrent the original from practically anywhere there is a Wi-Fi signal.) The last two entries in the series - one, a direct follow-up sequel, and another, a prequel leading to the events of the first - went pretty much unnoticed by horror-hounds and are now all but forgotten. In this new digital world where information and gossip spreads quicker than a deadly infectious disease, the last decade is very old news, and this is NOW, where perhaps a new - read younger - generation can discover Roth's vomit-inducing horror comedy for the first time. Never mind the original is barely a couple decades old. After two failed attempts at establishing Eli Roth's "gore-tacular" contagion flick ' Cabin Fever,' which also marks as his directorial debut, into a profitable franchise, studio heads turn to the current Hollywood trend of remaking/rebooting recent movies. ![]()
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