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Summary: Cabin Fever- Catch it NOW!
Review: This is one of the funniest and most well-done horror movies I can recall. Not only does it pay homage to all of the best horror films that came before, but it does so with such humor and over-the-top grossness that you can't help but laugh yourself silly. Eli Roth has a terrific eye for detail(and a hilarious cameo, I might add) and does a great job with his strong cast of actors. The DVD extras are worth the price alone, especially if you saw the theatrical release as well.I look forward to Eli Roth's next project with great anticipation; I think he's destined for greatness.
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Summary: A Word To Horror Fans
Review: Giuseppe Andrews and James Debello steal the show here as they both did in Detroit Rock City...BUT...This film (though it is entertaining at times)is WAY overrated. The best things about the film are Angelo Badelamenti's (Blue Velvet) beautiful score and some of the random humor (i.e. karate and "pancakes", shaving with a razor in the bathtub, and the mad dog.) But mostly the film is completely unoriginal with nice cinematography here and there, okay editing and fantastic music. But horror fans...THIS IS NOT SCARY!!! And it doesn't cut it as a dark comedy so it winds up simply being somewhere in the middle, and not quite enough of both. It is nowhere near as good as Evil Dead 2 as some have said and it doesn't stand a candle to House Of 1000 Corpses (although admittedly most people hate that film.) *I do want to say that the dvd is definitely worth renting, seeing or purchasing for Eli Roth's amazing commentary track talking about the making of the film. Very imformative. I'm interested to see what he does with his next film. Don't get me wrong...He has talent I believe but he should use it trying to tell a better story and not a rehash of much better films.
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Summary: Praise to Lion's Gate and Eli Roth
Review: Personally, I thought this movie was well scripted and very well made. I also believe it has more originality than people are giving it credit for, especially in the midst of vampire mania. This is one of the best films I saw within the past year in any genre. It blows away other horror films of 2003, namely "Freddy vs. Jason", which had horrible dialogue and casting issues. It is also a more satisfying film than "28 Days Later", which I thought was a good movie but one that could have been better. I think this is one hell of a horror flick, and I want to send out praise to Eli Roth, who I think has a lot of talent, and will be keeping an eye out for in the future. I also want to send praise to Lion's Gate for backing him up, and for releasing many other great films such as "Secretary" and "House of 1000 Corpses".
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Summary: Cabin Fever
Review: 2003 was a pretty good year for horror movies if you ask me. You had the excellent "28 Days Later", "Freddy vs. Jason" and now this really good homage to 70's horror that will make you forget that other homage done by a certain rocker.
The plot to "Cabin Fever" is fairly simple: a group of good looking kids go out in the woods and end up contracting a mysterious flesh eating virus that turns them against one another.
The plot isn't so important, though writter/ director Eli Roth does put a few origanel touches on it. The important thing is that Roth captures the sense of dread that movies like the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" had way back in the day. You like the lead charactors, and you find yourself twitching in certain situations with them.
Its also fun to play name that movie, where you can find obvious references to at least "Evil Dead", "Texas Chainsaw" and "Night of the Living Dead".
"Cabin Fever" is a funny, scary, entertaining movie that not only harkens back to the movies of the past, but also has us looking foward t the future.
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Summary: Interesting and Entertaining
Review: Every once in a while one hears alot of positive feedback about a film and then one sees it. Sometimes one is exhilerated, disappointed or a little of both. I would have to say that I am in the latter group. First and foremost, this film's picture is gorgeous. Every frame looks like a beautiful painting. Second, the characters and the direction of the story/action was original while the overall feeling of the film wasn't. The music deserves special attention as well. I've read and have heard numerous interviews by Eli Roth or from people who know him and I do not doubt his sincerity to the genre. I think that this is a great stepping stone to what he might possibly unleash in the next couple of years. Sure, this film has homages to other great films but instead of taking these images and giving them a twist, they were merely presented again so that we could all pat ourselves on the back for getting the references. On his solo commentary track, Eli Roth makes fun of Film School Pretentiousness which exists--but in different forms. I think this film is pretentious but that is not a bad thing necessarily. This is the work of man who grew up watching the early 80's sex comedies and Fulci/Cronenberg films and decided to mix it up with Evil Dead and others and see where it took him. Alot of this film is fun and beautiful and sick, but that is part of its charm. It's also copied without the least bit of irony and in a film school sort of way, that's charming too. Now, Eli Roth has proved he has talent to bring images and characters to the screen. Now lets see what he does with a new story. One that is newer and fresher and not one he has been carrying around for 10 years. Frankly, I can not wait.
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Summary: What a romp!!
Review: This has to be one of the best movies of 2003....and one of the most underrated! I remember laughing myself silly when I saw this in the theater...and I was so eager to get the DVD! When I brought it home yesterday, I just had to watch it again. It was so much better the second time. While I don't care much for horror flicks, this movie just had something...genuine. I think the blending of nasty bacterial disease, along with possessed hillbillies and a stoned police officer just took the cake! Pancakes, that is!!! While the story is pretty predictable, and it is funny in spots, there are serious portions too. The way in which the friends treated each other once they became ill did give us a glimpse into the way human nature operates, and it shows our tendency to revert to fight-flight mechanisms when we get challenged by something out of our control. That aside, this is just a fun, great movie! Give this one a chance...you won't be disappointed at all!
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Summary: dont get this movie
Review: This was one of the slowest, weakest movies I have seen in a very long time. Dont waist your time
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Summary: Unimaginative and poorly made gross out film
Review: Millennia ago, primitive man found fear from the unknown. That same fear exists today in each of us. Call it what you will, but ultimately it boils down to horror. A dictionary definition refers to it as, "...as sense of dread or forboding". A film character, in a haunted house, looks at the doorknob to her room as it slowly turns (only she's supposed to be alone). The emotion that she feels could well be defined as horror. When you are alone and you have the distinct feeling that there is someone else there - that's horror. There is a distinct difference between horror and gore. Cabin Fever is a gore film. It is not a horror film. That said, let's take a look at it on its own merits... Cabin Fever is neither particularly scary, nor is it original in the least bit. It borrows so much of its storyline from a multitude of other films (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead, to name a few). The actors are all unknowns with the exception of the lead boy (Rider Strong) who was formerly on Boy Meets World, a television show. The premise is this: college kids rent a cabin in the deep woods for a week, but somehow manage to catch a severe case of the dreaded (sarcasm) flesh eating bacteria. There's some doper who stumbles across them as they tell "campfire" ghost stories to each other outside the cabin - which makes no sense, because the cabin has a fireplace - for no reason than to later end up as a footnote in the carnage. (And why is his dog in such a bad mood?). There's the three rednecks sharing a single brain with murder on their mind for no darned reason at all (this whole storyline even includes a semi-retarded kid ala "Deliverance"). To be certain there is lots and lots of gore. The filmmakers must have gone through gallons of Kayro syrup and red food coloring, because the blood looks anything but like the real thing. That's not to say that this film isn't gross - because that is one thing it really is. Gross. If you are actually past your teen years you'll probably look away from the screen as I did. Not in fear or horror - but because gross is just not scary - it's shock value only. I thought I was going to see a horror film - not a gore film. I can't say that I recommend this film unless you want to see one pair of quite obviously surgically enhanced breasts and a young man (Rider Strong), who desperately either needs to shave both his face and that nasty patch of hair on his chest (and trim that pit hair while you're at it) or hit the gym - because, yuuuck - it's a horror all on it's own.
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Summary: Uninspired
Review: By riding the wave of Japanese and Spanish horror flicks over the last three years, I guess I've irreparably damaged myself. I'm permanently soured on American-made horror movies. Cabin Fever is no exception. Though its indie status and nice camerawork are alluring, it trots out the old Hollywood cliches like a champ (kids rent cabin in woods, are divided by an invading "evil"--been there, done that). Its humor seems out of place, too. I apologize, BUT ARE THERE ANY U.S. DIRECTORS OUT THERE PAYING ATTENTION TO PEOPLE LIKE KIYOSHI KUROSAWA OR JUAME BALAGUERO? Bring on the Pang Brothers, please. By the way, anyone thinking the New Wave of Asian horror is kaputt, check out "The Uninvited" 2003 with Park Shin Yang and Jeon Ji Hyun. Nice little psychological creeper, with a breathtaking, slo-mo high-rise suicide scene. Absolutely brain-chilling. I guess maybe someday there will be another American horror movie that does the job--but Cabin Fever isn't one of them by any stretch.
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Summary: Boy Meets Cabin!
Review: Let me tell you, I was so impressed with Ryder Strong, his Boy meets world days are over, which sucks, but at least hes a good future key to horror. The rest of the casting was good also, the two members from Detroit Rock City help the film out too. Also the movie contains all the necessities, good nudity, gore, blood, and most of all Ryder Strong!! As for the dvd, 5 stars as well, 5 commentaries, documentaries, other cool stuff, great picture and sound. In other words, buy it for Ryder Strong!!
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