CABIN FEVER 2016 ROTTEN MOVIE
Conceptually, the movie plays out very much like Carpenter's The Thing. The problem, of course, is everything else. Watching the flesh-eating virus as it takes effect over our characters is a joy to watch. I don't think the practical effects are ever as gruesome as those in Patient Zero and it feels like to give the appearance that this was a better film than it actually was, but it's still really damn strong. And, if there was only one expectation I came into with this movie, was for it to have quality blood and gore and, honestly, the movie definitely delivered on that. Shame they were servicing a movie that was, largely, not very good. It was really impressive for what, essentially, was a low-budget direct-to-video affair. I wouldn't go out of my way to say that that was a good movie, but I felt that it had tremendous practical special and make-up effects. I'll be honest, the only other Cabin Fever movie I watched (there's two more, if you weren't aware), was Patient Zero. No one had anything positive to say about this movie. I'm honestly surprised that, out of 28 reviews on RottenTomatoes, there was not a single positive one.
CABIN FEVER 2016 ROTTEN UPDATE
The pointof the matter is that this really is an absolutely unnecessary update of the original movie and, quite frankly, it's worse than the original. I only watched it the one time in the theaters and I would welcome a re-watch. Honestly, as much as I've enjoyed some Eli Roth movies, as far as I remember, I wasn't that big of a fan of the original Cabin Fever. That would actually be a pretty cool idea. Which, I'm assuming, has a big cult following and it can be a merging of two different generations of horror fans, those who watched the movie when it first came out (I was a part of that, I was 14 when the original came out) and those who want to experience it for themselves for the first time because they may have been too young to watch it. If the idea was to bring the Cabin Fever story to a new generation of horror fans, given that, again, at that point, almost half a decade had passed between movies, then why not just do a re-release of the original. Quite possibly the most unnecessary horror remake in quite some time. And then, a couple of days after that movie, I end up watching this. I remember talking, in my Mad Money review, about how, while there are still remakes left and right in Hollywood, they aren't as bad or as prevalent now as they were in the past.
I think that's just way too short of a time to wait for a remake, to be perfectly honest. I give this movie a 4 out of 5, 5 being the worst movie I’ve ever seen.At the point of this movie's release, 14 years had passed between the original movie and its remake. The director is the same as the terrible remake, but it seems he got it right the first time. I haven’t seen it, but I worship Rotten Tomatoes like a god, and I trust the rating of 62 per cent. If you’re super into the whole flesh-eating virus thing, I would recommend watching the original. Unless you want to get super high and just put something on in the background while you think about life.
Overall if you’re thinking about watching this movie, don’t. There are ends that aren’t tied up and you don’t get to feel much empathy towards the characters because in my humble opinion - they suck. The characters aren’t likable, and I think it might be because they didn’t get a chance to be likable because everything picked up really fast.Īlso, the end is just depressing, I’m not going to spoil this terrible movie that you probably won’t watch. The thing I didn’t like about this movie is that the plot seemed to move along very quickly, there’s just a lot happening very quickly. There’s also the minor issue of a flesh-eating virus that comes knocking on their door in the form of a forest dwelling man named Bert. It starts as you’d expect a horror movie to start, with a group of friends who decide to rent a creepy cabin in the creepy woods. I’m not a huge fan of reboots, and I’m not a fan of horror movies so I don’t see me and Cabin Fever working out. I wouldn’t say well enough to be bold enough for a reboot, it got 62 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes which is 62 per cent better than what the reboot did. Cabin Fever (2016) is a reboot of the 2002 version which did pretty well in the box office. This week I’m being subjected to another horror movie, because I came up with this silly little column idea and I’m not a quitter. Worst of the Worst movie reviews - cabin fever 2016
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