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Summary: Peter Jackson praised THIS???
Review: What was he thinking? Cabin Fever is a brainless, useless, worthless, witless, moronic, uncreative mess. I hate this movie, I hate all who were involved with this movie, and I'm sensing that [P3333 J#####'s] tastes might be a little off. Utterly a waste of my time. Absolutely a mindless film that wishes it had a brain. I'm feeling dirty just wasting time on a review. Stupid movie.
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Summary: I've Got the Fever For the Flavor of a Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Review: I saw the movie with Matt below. Don't let him and his high-brow sentiment fool you. He's trying to be cynical like his idol, Roger Ebert. (The thing about Roger Ebert is, he gives a thumbs down to Cabin Fever, but he'd give thumbs up to a Cop and 1/2 Part 2.) Anyway, back to Matt - don't let his review fool you. When he saw Cabin Fever, he laughed, he cried, he covered his eyes. He loved it. Then as the credits rolled, he sat in an raw emotion-triggered coma for about ten seconds with nothing but a smile on his face.....and then snapped back to his scholarly mode and declared it a failure. He was fighting his own true feelings of love for the film, but then had to post a review dismissing it. Shame. But I saw the look of pure joy he had on while the movie pulled him in.....Certainly, Cabin Fever may upset some purists, but those guys are too uptight anyway. I have seen all the classics, foreign and abroad, and I'll be the first to tell you Cabin Fever borrows generously from all of them. Let me explain. This movie is Evil Dead meets Night of the Living Dead meets Deliverence meets American Pie, all stirred up in the pot with a decidely David Lynch-ian hand. It's gory, funny, has nudity and is very WEIRD. At first I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but after seeing it, I can tell you - it's FUN. Matt has outlined the premise, so I'll skip that and tell you to just see this movie. Don't go in to it with your "Amadeus Blinders" on and don't look for something that we all know this movie will not be. Take relish in the homage itself. When a song from Last House on the Left's soundtrack popped up in this movie, I knew I was in for a treat. It's not completely a 5 Star flick, but dammit - it was good. Good I tell you!!!!!! Good!!!! See it, live it, love it. And email Matt and tell him how unhelpful his review is.
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Summary: pancakes!!!!!!!!pancakes!
Review: Wow...this movie was awsome! Eli Roth seemlessly paid homage to some great movies, but this one still belongs to him. Although there are elements of everything from Twin Peaks to Evil Dead, (with some Deliverance on the side) he manages to pay respect without ripping them off. The characters were likeable because they were real! I thought it was funny, gorey, over-the-top and well done. Oh...and Jordan Ladd is beautiful. Oh yeeaaaa. Almost forgot that.
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Summary: Another one bites the dust
Review: If one were to flip through the entertainment section of the newspaper and glance over all the movies showing, one might make the assumption that we were in a sort of horror genre ressurection... or reanimation if that suits you better. While it does appear that way, it couldn't be farther from the truth. Yes, there are people out there paying to see these movies, but how much longer will they. Each good horror flick (most recently 'Wrong Turn') is bookended by a dozen or so bad ones. And in many cases, its unfair to just call these movies bad, some of them are little miracles of the abyssmal. Cabin Fever falls squarly in the bad zone.
Part one: a bunch of kids go out to a cabin to have sex and drink beer; so far so good. A scary guy that's obviously sick shows up and presumably infects everyone. The kids start mistrusting each other. Okay, basically this is the same type of beginning alot of successful/scart horror films have. Fine. Part two: the whole thing falls apart. Part two is so ridiculous, that it's in 'Scary Movie' territory. If you sit through the first part expecting a real movie, bad news, you ain't getting one. If you are itching for another dumbed down horror/farce, then there's a few laughs to be had here. Unfortunately, there's not enough stylized photography or well-developed characters to carry the weight. All said, another bad midnight movie bites the dust.
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Summary: It Gave Me Fever
Review: "Cabin Fever" is a horror movie that wants to scare you, make you laugh, and gross you out. Sometimes, very rarely, it succeeds. Most of the time it simply stumbles around in the dark. What is meant as an homage to previous horror films simply smacks of the movie's unoriginality. What is meant as humor simply comes off as rude and crude. But it *does* manage to gross you out in parts. In that aspect, the film succeeds admirably. Five college friends (two couples and one guy who is so dumb that no one wants to date him) venture forth into some backwoods, where they have rented a cabin for a few weeks during the summer. They meet crazy hillbilly folks, as well as a bizarre pot smoker and a wacked-out deputy sheriff. The pot smoker turns up in a superfluous scene, and then wanders off into the woods. The character of the deputy made me laugh, but in a nervous way, not because he was intrinsically funny. He was just weird. And one of the hillbillies, an old man who runs a country store, makes a "joke" and says that he's keeping a shot gun for black people. Except that he doesn't use the term "black people", instead opting for a one word description that begins with the word "n". Yes, dear reader, that is what passed for humor in this film. The old man's word choice is later explained, but by that time, all is lost. Oh, and the dumb college guy says he likes to hunt squirrels "because they're gay". My, how nice. The plot of "Cabin Fever" revolves around a strange disease which has infected some of the inhabitants of the woods, and causes them to slowly have their skin peel off, and for them to spew blood everywhere. The five college friends soon begin to wonder which one of them (if not all of them) are infected, and that's when these already unlikeable characters truly become despicable. The blood-spewing infectious disease scenario was already done much better earlier this year with "28 Days Later". If you want to see a horror film with some real tension, intelligence and scares, go see that. If you want to see a really bad horror movie, then "Cabin Fever" should be right up your alley. -- Matthew Gladney
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Summary: it had the feel of a good movie
Review: but it COMPLETELY FLOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i gave it the 1 star for the originality factor but once again the director had no clue once he got past this idea.i was about to give this lump of fecal matter another star on a group of good points-no rappers,singers,or models(but there were a few aspiring rappers at the very end).there were 2 semi ok gore scenes(1 being the harmonica in the neck).as for the frightening stuff,it all takes place in the last 20 minutes.and within those 20 minutes,only 10 of them were worth watching.the same old charactors were present;the bimbo,her boytoy boyfriend,the''party animal'',the sincere guy,and his love interest the sensible girl.and no horror-movie-in-the-woods movie can be complete without the inbreed stereotypes.ok,heres the plot;5 college kids on a vacation pick the most ridiculous place to vacation,a log cabin in the woods.yeah,right.where every college kid wishes they can escape to.as it turns out,they pick a virus infected area of the flesh eating/brain distorting kind.it takes forever to get to the point.theres a clumsy attempt at charactor developement.we all know who is supposed to act in what way and we all get it dead on.in the first scene.CAN WE PLEASE THE MOVIE ALONG?!?!?!?!?ok,after what seems like hours of useless banter,an unexplainable dog impression by a young boy,they reach the cabin.a few wandering souls cross paths with the group(maybe secluded cabins are a vacationers paradise)one being the best charactor in the movie,the dumb as dirt deputy.anyway,there are spurts(pun intended)of gore before the go for it all ending.but the set up is so clumsy and unbeleiveable that they might as well never happen.i rate this on the let down scale on the same level as evil dead 2.too much laughing,not enough screaming.my favorite part of this movie was shutting up a couple of yapping yentas.they recited all the words to pre previews commercials expertly,then went on to test eachother on the title of the previews.this didnt get me upset.but then they started having a full blown conversation during the movie.but the tip of the iceburg came when they started having a conversation with the screen.THAT WAS IT!!!!!i stood up and asked them if their heads would explode if they were to shut it up for 2 seconds.one of the yentas defence was that she paid for her ticket....newsflash....we all did,i informed her and i told her we didnt pay to hear her yapping!!!!!but as i was leaving the movie,i wanted to apologize,their annoying yapping was far more interesting/entertaining than the movie,even if they sounded like rosie perez on helium.PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF HUMANITY,LET THERE NOT BE A SEQUAL TO THIS JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Funny, but nothing even remotely scary
Review: for a movie that I was inclined to believe was a "horror" film, I was sure suprised by the lack of horror scenes. Given that we've all been through the shock and wawe of some fantastic scenes, I am still shaken by what I consider are the "better" flicks. If you're taking someone out, choose a better movie, cause quite frankly, this is 9 bucks (or 18 if you take someone out) that you will have wished you spent on something a bit more "fun". Save the cash and rent (or buy) Session 9.
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Summary: Humorous parody of the horror genre
Review: What starts out as yet another low-budgeted horror movie with cookie-cutter characters that lacked any kind of common sense, turns out to be something completely unexpected and surprisingly entertaining. In Cabin Fever five college friends decide to take a vacation in the middle of nowhere after their finals. It is suppose to be a time filled with booze, sex and endless parties. Instead, what they find is a deadly disease that can consume the human flesh within hours of infection. Finding themselves trapped in the woods with nowhere to run, the virus begins to claim its victims one by one. Who will survive the onslaught? Truth be told the plot of the movie went quickly out of the window after the first half hour or so. Clearly it is only used as a means to put the characters into a situation that make very little sense. There are no logical explanations as to where the virus came from, how it is spread or if there is any way to stop it. Actually, none of those details matter in Cabin Fever. It seems that director Eli Roth is not interested in telling a coherent story, but rather to present a parody to the horror genre, at least I hope that is his intention, because I shudder at the thought of the alternative. The acting in Cabin Fever is mostly nonexistent, which is something to be expected. The characters are all fairly standard and cliched. There is the sex-crazed jock, the gorgeous siren, the all-around nice guy, the girl-next-door type, and not to mention the incompetent idiot as the comic relief. Their inability to make the right decisions and their moronic behaviors will either baffle you or disgust you. Then there is a whole slew of supporting personas that will probably have you scratching your head in confusion. Cabin Fever is bloody, gory and completely nonsensical. Fortunately, it does not take itself very seriously, and that is the reason why I found it hilariously funny. I could not help but laugh at the absurdity and the ridiculousness of everything that went on in the movie. I recommend it solely for its entertaining value, but if you are looking for something that will revolutionarize the horror genre, this is definitely not it.
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Summary: Skin Crawling
Review: The movie was actually pretty good. The movie had no type of demons or anything like that but the horror of a virus that you can not see or cure is the scariest of all things. The movie could've used a little more of an explanation for somethings - Preferable the source of the virus would be really good to know. People should actually go out and see this movie unless you are really easily grossed out because all of the decaying of the skin is pretty disgusting.
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Summary: A FANTASTIC HORROR FILM!!!!!!!!
Review: CABIN FEVER WAS A FANTASTIC HORROR MOVIE.
I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE MORE NEW HORROR FILMS LIKE THIS ONE.
A FEW MONTHS AGO, I WAS BRAGGING ABOUT WRONG TURN, HOWEVER THIS FILM IS AS GOOD AS THAT ONE WAS.
THERE IS A LOT OF SEX, NUDITY, VIOLENCE AND GORE.
ACTUALLY, THE "GROSS" FACTOR WAS DEFINETELY AT WORK! THIS FILM FEATURES TWO SEXY ACTRESSES AND A WHOLE LOT OF GORE!!
IF YOU LIKE "OLD-STYLE" HORROR FILMS, THEN SEE THIS ONE.
IT'S NOT LIKE MOST OF THE SPECIAL EFFECTS MOVIES OF TODAY!!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
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