Ummmm...
Eirik, you may not want to heed that advice.
By all means watch it but be prepared to be disappointed in the film as a whole.
I just rented and watched Cabin Fever tonight and well.....
I kept waiting to see all this disguting gore and have my socks blown off but that did not happen suprisingly.
True, it does have a few funny moments which are all provided by the local rednecks...especially the shopkeeper but other than that, I found this film to be rather dull and more appropriately, BORING.
It did have one decent shock scene where I said aloud, "Oh s**t!" and that was the screwdriver scene.
I was not gossed out....the gore in this movie was way too tame.
I use Dead Alive as a basis of comparison to any other movie that's gory and this one didn't come within 10 light years of the gore in Dead Alive.
I was not scared....this is not a frightening movie.
The only frightening thing is what would be in my thoughts as to what becomes of the townsfolk in the end after they.....uh...well I don't want to give it away. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it.
I didn't give one rats ass about any of the characters or what happened to them....the last half hour goes so over the top that it doesn't seem to work...at least that's how I saw it.
I don't know....I just can't put my finger on EXACTLY why I didn't really care for this film.
Roger Ebert said it best in his review of this film which he gave 1 and 1/2 stars out of 4 (which I do feel is appropriate)...he said:
"Unsure of whether it wants to be a horror film, a comedy, a homage, a satire or a parable, "Cabin Fever" tries to cover every base; it jumps around like kids on those arcade games where the target lights up and you have to stomp on it."
He also goes on to say:
"If some of this material had been harnessed and channeled into a disciplined screenplay with a goal in mind, the movie might have worked. But the director and co-author, Eli Roth, is too clever for his own good, and impatiently switches among genres, tones and intentions. There are truly horrible scenes (guy finds corpse in reservoir, falls onto it), over-the-top horrible scenes (dogs have eaten skin off good girl's face, but she is still alive), and just plain inexplicable scenes (Dennis, the little boy at the general store, bites people). By the end, we've lost all interest. The movie adds up to a few good ideas and a lot of bad ones, wandering around in search of an organizing principle."
Ebert was right, by the end I HAD lost all interest.
It seems like Ebert put my finger on what I was getting at for me.
Go here to read his entire review:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/09/091205.htmlMaybe another viewing at a later date might change my mind but I doubt it.
This film had a strange blandness about it that I cannot describe.
You'll understand when you see it.
Sorry folks.
I only recommend this for a one-time viewing maybe on a Saturday night with the wife or girlfriend and that's it.
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