Cabin Fever - Hot Damn!

[Evil Matt]

For the record, what DOES come within 10 light years of the gore in Dead Alive?

[Deej]

I didn't have any problem with Mr. Strong, he did a swell job. But, SkullNinja is right, the name did, does, and always will sound like a gay porn star(not that there's anything wrong with that).

Porn star monickers aside, this was a very entertaining movie, especially the "finger-bang misfire". Dug the gore factor, and the Dr. Mambo bit....ooooohhhh face..... This was a Netflix selection and I watched it twice. Still, can someone explain the creepy blonde kid? Pancakes..WTF?

[saul-bruce]

dude1 germ in this movie was sick, i loved it at the end how the blond guy didnt care his friends were dead, he was just so happy he survived, haha

[dean]

Throughout the film I kept thinking to myself how stupid a horror film it was.  I mean, it was ok, an alright amount of gore, though not really that shocking.  A friend said it kinda reminded him of Dreamcatcher.  But I stuck with the film, enjoying the fact the stoner guy from Detroit Rock City was in it [that guy is so stupid it's funny to me] and that the sex is always fun. ;-)


Sorta Spoilers ahead:

But anyways, once the end came about, I thought about how much I liked the film.  Just completely based on pancakes and the hoedown [or whatever you call it] parts of the film.  I couldn't stop laughing for a full five minutes after the film ended.  It was just so damn stupid.  I mean come on!!  When those gansters came out of no where to get their rifle, I thought it was just funny as hell!  Movies need more stupid absurd stuff in them, too many people are trying to be serious, and they need to lighten up.

As a horror movie, awful, as a comedy, it was funny enough, but only because of the horror elements.  A rather complicated, hard to classify film that must be watched.  Not because it is a good movie, but because it is just that stupid.

[ashcampbell]

i think the blonde guy was the best character apart from the surf dude who appeard at the camp fire and then played no further part in the film untill his dog ate the hot chick (hairy bastard!)

[Cabinfeversucks]

YOU ARE ALL MISSING THE POINT!! This movie had no POINT!! It never explained anything! It didn't explain why the little boy bites people, it didn't explain where that disease originated, and why would the shopkeeper just inexplicably want to track down and kill that guy??  There was no real bad guy and that's why this movie was awful.  There was no story, why would you rent that cabin?? In the middle of nowhere with nothing to do......There was nothing really ever after them.  Then the cop was sorta funny but it came out of left field and was so random it didn't work.


I thought the Big Hit was the worst movie ever, I now found one worse.  Gigli, Glitter, nothing can hold a candle to this!!

[jmc]

Of course, you could say the same things about most Dario Argento movies.  Not saying they're on the same level talent wise but there are a ton of popular horror movies out there that never explain anything and don't make a lot of sense.  

I do agree though that the director definitely used the scatter shot method...just throw a bunch of stuff out there and see if it sticks.  

I liked it okay....probably not enough to buy the DVD but I didn't leave the theater thinking I'd wasted the last 90 minutes, which is more than I can say for a lot of more popular films like 28 DAYS LATER for instance.

And personally, I think the gore was pretty good for a recent US horror film.  

I'd give it a B, I guess.

[wickednick]

I liked the movie and thought it was pretty decent, but I do have to say that the ending sucked.The end of the movie just kinda drags on and ends over all with a less than a bang.

[Lee]

Well, I know I enjoyed it. The girls were hot and I thought Bert while being a complete jackass was kinda funny. There is definatley some really random stuff in here. Definatley one of the funner trips to the theatre I had last year.

[The Burgomaster]

I just bought this DVD and watched it this afternoon.  I thought the concept of the flesh-eating disease was excellent, but the movie failed to capitalize on a good idea.  I was tremendously disappointed.

The characters were a major problem.  They were all annoying and by the end of the movie I was glad that they all had to endure such suffering.

The movie isn't scary or suspenseful or disturbing in any way.  This is a HUGE problem for a horror movie!

Also, the dialogue was pretty pathetic.  I guess a requirement for any "teen body count" movie is that almost every sentence has to have the "F" word in it.  I enjoy a good round of swearing as much as the next guy, but some of the "F this" and "F that" in CABIN FEVER just got to be silly.  

The only part I really liked was the bit of humor involving the store owner and the rifle at the very end.  I thought that was pretty funny.

[The Burgomaster]

One more thing about CABIN FEVER:

In this day and age of people drinking nothing but bottled water, WHY would those kids drink that cloudy water from the decrepit sink in the cabin??????

[FearlessFreep]

Another perspective at Dante's Inferno