CABIN FEVER has been getting major buzz in recent news because of it's so called step "back into the direction of traditional horror flicks" I would ahve to agree with anyone whos ays this for several reasons. One, this movie has characters that you actually care about. Two, the characters are really easy to relate to. And three, it's the first movie ever to make me even think about gagging. That says a lot, folks.
CABIN FEVER is also the first cross-genre movie I have ever seen. The first thirty minutes have TEEN COMEDY written all over them. With hilarious dialogue, funny bits, and natural characters, we get to learn about each one of them and their own personality traits. And then The Hermit with a bad looking disease shows up, and all hell breaks loose, leaving these people we get to know and love in a gory struggle for thier lives.
First off, major respect must be paid to Eli Roth for completely mixing a movie up here and giving us people we love and don't want to see bite it. Paticularly Rider Strong and James DeBello as the good kid and the wise-guy, respectively. I really felt a connection with these two, and I appriciated that sort of natural filmmaking and writing.
Also, one the disease does start picking away at our helpless teens, the gore really begins to pile on. Wonderful praise goes to the makeup artists who managed to ake something looks so disghustingly realistic that it made me looks away and do bit of slight gagging. Good Lord some of the stuff in this flick is really disturbing. Just watch out for the "shaving of the legs" scene, that's the one that got me.
I was really pleased (if that's the right word I'm looking for) to see a movie that wasn't afraid to pull its punches by giving us irreverent humor, wonderfuly drawn-out characters, and some of the nastiest make-up effects I have ever seen. Mind you, this movie should be seen by gorehounds only to be enjoyed, this is not a happy movie once the friends start to die. Another thing is the ways and order that they die in, very unconventional and unexpected.
CABIN FEVER is a step back into the days of old, and a well recieved one at that. If your looking for comedy, walk out after the first half-hour, or you may end up lsing your lunch. And it's all due to just a little FEVER. |
