![]() ![]() Let’s just hope it’s not a Cabin Fever remake repeat. He also applies a thuddingly loud musical score that, if you’re watching at home, will require constant fiddling with the volume control. It’s a whole other ballgame to accompany them with Eli Roths fists-and-blood kind of storytelling. For some reason, director Zariwny takes a more serious approach, which removes whatever sick fun is inherent to the material. The young ensemble playing the victims, including the wonderfully named Gage Golightly, goes through their violent paces with admirable conviction. “What did I tell you about biting city folk?!” his redneck father shouts. She is a gorgeous and talented actress with a chameleonesque ability to shape her character and bring it up off the page and into your memory forever. Seriously, has that ever worked out for anybody? Or as Juliet in 'Rodeo & Juliet' on Netflix, or possibly scaring the shit out of people with her flesh falling off as Marcy in Eli Roth's new remake of his original film 'Cabin Fever'. If your mind can stretch back 14 years, you’ll remember that the plot involves a quintet of college graduates who make the familiar horror film mistake of retreating for a weekend getaway in a remote cabin in the woods. (It’s playing in theaters, too, but who do they think they’re kidding?) If the prospect of experiencing “new deaths” excites you, by all means click on the VOD button to check this one out. But otherwise it’s virtually the same product scene by scene, although the publicity notes do point out one crucial difference: “What’s surprising are the ingenious new deaths, which offer a fresh spin on a horror-comedy milestone.”Īlrighty, then. Yes, the characters are different, although in both renditions they’re so forgettable that it hardly matters. 'They came to me exactly a year ago and said. This version is so similar to the original that it uses essentially the same screenplay by Eli Roth (who also executive produced this one, and he’ll have to answer for it somewhere down the line) and Randy Pearlstein. In 2016, a remake of Cabin Feverusing Roth’s original scriptwas released to mixed reviews.But Roth was totally on board with the project. Travis Zariwny’s reboot of Cabin Fever is destined to become little more than an answer to a Trivial Pursuit question. No such luck with the utterly pointless remake of Eli Roth’s 2002 cult favorite horror film, which, truth be told, wasn’t all that great in the first place. Sometimes they even deliver a new spin on vintage material that makes it feel fresh. But usually their creators have the decency to wait at least a few decades, long enough for nostalgia or forgetfulness, or both, to kick in. The film effectively showcases the director's style and his love for excessive gore and black comedy. Cabin Fever is not just a strong debut feature from Roth, but it might be his best work. However, the director's post- Hostel horror movies saw diminishing opening weekend returns.Is there a conspiracy among filmmakers to make me feel old? An inevitable by-product of living to middle age is that films you’ve seen are remade, and sometimes more than once. Cabin Fever feels like a throwback to the cabin in the woods films of the genre from the '70s and '80s. Despite only opening to $8.4 million, his first movie more than recouped its $1.5 million budget before its run even continued beyond the first three days. Arriving just shy of 15 years after Eli Roth’s 2002. It makes sense that 2005's Hostel was the first to reach that milestone, as it became Roth's first major mainstream hit, launching a three-part franchise after his feature debut Cabin Fever took the box office by storm. The Maniacal Cinephile reviews the 2016 remake of Eli Roth’s movie CABIN FEVER (2002). If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the remake of Cabin Fever reps a particularly po-faced exercise in pointless puffery. In the 14 years between the release of Eli Roth’s original Cabin Fever and Travis Zariwny’s remake, we’ve seen a couple of changes in government, there’s been a global financial crisis. However, for his horror efforts, this adaptation of the Thanksgiving trailer represents a huge return to form. Basically you’re rewatching an old favorite with a different cast and director an enjoyable play-by-play remake of Eli Roth’s original. Both his Bruce Willis-led action thriller remake Death Wish and the Jack Black family movie The House with a Clock in Its Walls did open above $10 million as well, bringing his total of movies hitting that milestone to four. Although Eli Roth is perhaps best known for his contributions to the horror genre, a few of his recent theatrical outings have been in other genres. ![]()
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