I can't believe I missed out on seeing this one in the theater!
The dvd kicks butt, with all kinds of goofy extras, and of course an easter egg for 3 trailers is on the main menu.
This one had the gore factor off the bloody charts!
Anyone else catch this? I thought the ending was a bit of a letdown; but all in all if you're looking for a good horror flick, this one totally fits the bill!
PANCAKES!!!!!!
The movie rocked in the theater. All the kiddies expecting the next safe teenie horror movie were screaming and squirming in their seats.
Brother R
Wow - I was gonna let this one slip by after all the reviews (both professional and from friends) I heard about it - extremely negative. Now I'll give it a shot. Thanks guys (and I hope your posts weren't sarcastic!).
You see? This is why I come to this site.
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.html
Maybe 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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I thought it was really interesting until the ending....It came across as if they didn't know how to end the movie, so they just threw together a goofy ending that ruined everything up until that point, for me.
SPOILERS....
I also didn't like how the movie ripped off the ending to Night of the Living Dead....I totally didn't buy into having the a***ole guy come back to the cabin to find out he was right, and then jump around in glee.....Just so he could get shot in the head by the police and put on a bonfire. Lame.
And what was up with that kid doing Matrix-like karate stuff right near the end. Again, goofy and stupid.
how hot is that chick who goes out with the blonde jock though!
wasnt she in hang time or something? mary jane?
I generally liked it, and yes, I thought it was fairly gory for a horror film in wide release these days. It wasn't that there was gore in great quantity, but that the scenes with gore were unpleasant. I saw people actually leaving the theater after the gory parts, which is something I've never seen happen. I think they came back, but it was obvious they were really grossed out.
Dead Alive isn't really a good criteria, because it's a comedy and the gore doesn't really affect you the way it does in a real horror film.
In my opinion, the film just went too far afield with the comedy. I agree with Ebert there--some of the characters have no reason to be there and the movie comes to a halt when they're on screen. But I was never bored with it, which is more than I can say for 28 Days Later, for instance.
Still, it sounds like this DVD is a case of overkill.
Man, I just rented and watched this movie and I have to come down firmly in ASHTHECAT's camp on this one. Let's see how much random disjointed s**t we tack on to try to enliven our boring and overused plotline. It just seemed like the kind of movie that people who smoke a lot of pot would think was awesome. The scarey parts didn't scare me, the comedy parts didn't make me laugh. The only two good things I saw about this movie were the two girls.
Let me ask you this: if you and a buddy were taking those two chicks up to a cabin in the woods, would you have invited the moron in the green hat? I went on plenty of trips like that and never invited single friends that I LIKED, much less squirrel-shooting mouth-breathers who couldn't tell a beebee gun from a magazine-loaded rifle.
Unless you were kidding, Neon Noodle, your opinion of movies carries much less weight with me from this day forward.
Eh - to each his own, I guess. I am so sick of the Scream-type movies that have been out for the last decade that pass as horror movies. This one had overused plotlines, yes. But seeing a film that didn't skimp on the gore was actually refreshing.
If you didn't like it, no worries. Plenty of other folks on this board to get critiques from.
i saw this movie at the cinema......the only good thing except the chicks (especially the brown haired one) was the fact that "The Germ" from two guys and a girl played that party cop
Yeah, this movie was fun, worth watching once or maybe twice. Once you realize it's a very gory comedy rather than a straight-up horror flick the enjoyment factor is much more apparent. Loved the Pancakes thing, and the Pancakes featurette on the DVD. All in all, nothing particularly amazing, but it's a decent first effort and it's hardly the mainstream teen slasher we were all expecting.
I didn't like Rider Strong (between his name and his poofie looks, I think gay porn star every time I see him). The rest of the cast was pretty good though.
I didn't like the movie much. The characters remind me way too much of my classmates to not hate them.
Thing that sticks out in my memory: when you see the mullet kid for the first time, when he's sitting in a swing with a can of Welch's; the instant I saw it I thought, "Wow, the Welch's grape juice girl really let herself go!"
ha ha, welch's girl......thats a good one!.
i still cant get over that chick out of hang time though! how hot has she got!
I saw this movie and boy was it sick! I think I probably would have enjoyed it more had I seen it when I was eighteen. Don't get me wrong... I did like it but it made me a little queasy. Not my idea of a good time... : ( I still give it 3 stars though. I know, I know... you guys are gonna start pelting me with rocks. ; )
For the record, what DOES come within 10 light years of the gore in Dead Alive?
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?
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
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.
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!)
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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??????
Another perspective at Dante's Inferno (http://www.badmovieplanet.com/inferno/archives/cabfev.html)