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DVD Cabin Fever - Special Edition
A sneaky and surprisingly smart horror flick, Cabin Fever sets up all the cliches of its particular subgenre (what might be called the "sexy young people go into the woods" horror movie, featuring hostile redneck locals, dead animals on hooks, cars that suddenly stop running, etc.) and by the end has played a clever twist on every standard element, often to darkly comic effect. What's the plot? Well, five sexy young people (Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent, and James DeBello) go to an isolated cabin where they contract a nasty bacteria that eats their flesh; this, combined with a bad-tempered dog and a party-loving police deputy (Giuseppe Andrews, giving a particularly funny performance), leads everyone into confusion and bloody chaos. Some of the ironic twists are a little obvious, but most of them effectively subvert your expectations to entertaining effect. --Bret Fetzer
Not quite. Actually, not even close. "Evil Dead 2" is the "holy grail of horror", as Eli Roth, the director of "Cabin Fever", refers to it. It is a low budget film with mostly sub-par acting that manages to captivate the audience. In spite of everything working against it, "Evil Dead 2" has a masterful mix of humor, heart, and terror.
"Cabin Fever" has the heart, but is missing other elements to make it gel perfectly. I'm going to address a few mild SPOILERS in the rest of this paragraph, so skip ahead if you haven't seen the movie and want to view it with virgin eyes. The biggest drawback with "Cabin Fever" is that it's all set up, and there's no pay off. The way that the music works, and the way that the shots are set up (self admitted by the director) "borrow" from many other horror movies. I don't have a problem with that, but if you're going to use shots and music cues from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Dead By Dawn", then make it pay off. Here's the spoiler, which the viewer learns early on. The big bad guy in the movie is a flesh eating virus spread by the drinking water, among other methods. At the same time, the REAL bad guy in the film is "human nature". Here's my problem. All these "horror" movies without any actual horror in them. On the commentary track Eli talks about how horror movies are the pariah films in the movie industry, and then he makes a horror movie without any psychopaths, demons, serial killers, zombies, etc. In other words, in my opinion, he played it safe. He sets up that there's something sinister or underhanded happening, but nothing ever happens. The bad guy is human nature. The problem with that is, if human nature is going to be its own worse enemy, and the plot device bases the horror in "reality", then the characters in film need to react to situations realistically. If this film needs to be based in reality, then why do certain characters start attacking and killing others? It doesn't really make sense in terms of the plot.
So, why should you see this film? If you listen to the commentary track, you know that the movie was an effort of love. Eli Roth was trying really hard to make a horror movie like those that inspired him. He loves the horror genre. This is the first film he ever made, so it's a little understandable that the movie isn't perfect. Speaking of the commentary track, if you are a young aspiring director, then even if you don't like horror, the commentary track is very informative.
If audiences want more horror, then they need to support more low budget and unknown directors who make movies like this. Support is the only way that studios and producers will want to back these movies. Though this movie is terribly flawed in the plot, it still has a few good scares, and works on a "thriller" level. The gore effects are very decent, and the score is wonderful (almost too good, honestly). Is it the best horror movie in the last 10 years? Not even close, but it is pretty good for what it tries to do.
One of the greatest horror films in Cinema History
If you don't like this movie, odds are you just don't get it. Kids these days are raised on movies like Scream and The Ring. They don't truly appreciate the films that define the dawn of the horror genre. This is a classic B-Grade Horror flick that (DEAR GOD THANK YOU) steers clear of "OmGz DID u C Teh Ringu GURL - she muved s00 weErd!" CGI effects that horror movies suffer nowadays. This movie isn't afraid to laugh at itself...this movie isn't afraid to be gory...this movie isn't afraid to pay homage to some of the horror greats and lastly this movie isn't afraid to have fun. This film has become a staple in my "movie watching group" and we can't seem to get enough of it. It works as a party movie, a movie to watch when you're high, a movie to get a little creeped out about by yourself, and a movie to test potential girlfriends gag factors. It's cut and dry people...if you like old romero films, the evil dead series, campy slasher flicks, gory exploitation movies, or all of the above - CHECK THIS FILM OUT! If you almost peed your underoos when you saw The Ring and thought Blair Witch Project was real video tape - you're probably not going to like this. Eli Roth - I Applaud You.
Are you kidding?!
Who in their right state of mind could possibly like this movie?! In it's attempt at humor it laughs at itself. I certainly wasn't laughing. I really feel sorry for the director of this film. He doesn't realize his own short comings if he thinks he made a hit here. And the ending with the black teenagers showing up was possible the worst, most stupidiest scene in movie history.
This movie's not even good enough to use as a book end. Don't, for the love of all things sacred, buy this garbage!
Sultry Eliza Dushku runs for her life in a snug white tanktop, pursued by inbred backwoods cannibals in Wrong Turn. Dushku (Bring It On, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a clump of other attractive young people (including Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto and Desmond Harrington of We Were Soldiers) get waylaid in the deep West Virginia wilds by a trio of grotesque mountain men, all given realistic ugliness by makeup artist Stan Winston (Interview with the Vampire, Terminator 2). Wrong Turn is the sort of movie where you know who's going to die by the order they appear in the credits, but fans of the inbred backwoods cannibals genre (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes) will find much to savor, particularly the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eliza Dushku - Emmanuelle Chriqui - Jeremy Sisto Director(s): Rob Schmidt DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Saw opens with a gruesome scenario: Two men are chained to the walls of a grimy bathroom with a bloody corpse lying on the floor between them. Tape recordings tell them that one of the men has to kill the other, or his wife and child will die. The corpse is holding a gun in one hand, but it's out of reach...but whoever has locked these two up has thoughtfully provided a hacksaw that can't cut through the heavy chain, but might cut through a little flesh and bone. From there, Saw jumps back and forth as the two men slowly unravel how they know each other and that their tormentor is one of those all-knowing, all-capable serial killers (it goes without saying that Saw is hugely influenced by Seven and the movies of Dario Argento), a fellow known as Jigsaw who... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Leigh Whannell - Cary Elwes - Danny Glover Director(s): James Wan DVD Release Date: Released the 15 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre adheres to the pure and simple slasher movie formula: Introduce a gaggle of sexy young people, make vague gestures to distinguish them--Jessica Biel (Summer Catch) wants to get married and doesn't like pot, so she's our moral compass--then start hacking them to pieces one by one. The visual palette includes grimy crucified dolls, fly-specked pig carcasses, body parts floating in murky jars, a tobacco-chewing redneck sheriff, and many slender beams of sunlight cutting through dank, dusty interiors. The camera lovingly photographs Biel's tank-topped bosom and sculpted abs as she's running in terror from a bloated, chainsaw-wielding, human-skin-wearing maniac. This remake lacks the macabre comedy of the original; it's all about... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jessica Biel - Jonathan Tucker - Andrew Bryniarski Director(s): Marcus Nispel DVD Release Date: Released the 30 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Are you ready to get down with the sickness? Movie logic dictates that you shouldn't remake a classic, but Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead defies that logic and comes up a winner. You could argue that George A. Romero's 1978 original was sacred ground for horror buffs, but it was a low-budget classic, and Snyder's action-packed upgrade benefits from the same manic pacing that energized Romero's continuing zombie saga. Romero's indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost (it's arguably outmoded anyway), so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting--in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak--a well-chosen cast (led by Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sarah Polley - Ving Rhames - Jake Weber - Mekhi Phifer Director(s): Zack Snyder DVD Release Date: Released the 26 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Despite the usual symptoms of sequelitis, Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers the goods for those who enjoyed the 2001 original--a group large enough to propel this sequel to a record-setting opening in August 2003. While establishing the flesh-eating "Creeper" as a new horror icon with frantic action and more elaborate special effects, writer-director Victor Salva follows the traditional formula, dispensing with plot almost altogether and focusing entirely on threat, menace, mayhem, and gore. That's likely to disappoint horror fans hoping for a more revealing exploration of the Creeper's origins (room for another sequel, perhaps?), and by trapping nondescript teens in a school bus attacked by the Creeper, Salva severely limits the movie's overall potential. Still, there's something... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ray Wise - Jonathan Breck - Nicki Lynn Aycox Director(s): Victor Salva DVD Release Date: Released the 23 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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