![]() ![]() While most of the rest follows the previous film quite closely, save for gender-swapping Deputy Winston, the scenes involving a modified machine gun play as extra-dumb this time around, though that may be simply due to my knowing more about firearms than I did 14 years ago. This is tough to maneuver narratively when your villain is a virus that can't be beaten, so kudos to Mr. Some of the tension does work better - the original's characters were basically dead meat walking from moment one, while you genuinely sense the stress of this group trying not to catch the flesh-eating sickness that's out there in the woods. And while it's not like this story absolutely requires a moment of n-word misunderstanding, the lack of it does point to a general lack of willingness to take chances. Roth actually fought to keep that joke in, as it was a point of contention in selling his movie in the first place. ![]() A notable omission in the new film is the elimination of a joke about racism that I can't reprint here, but everyone who saw the first film remembers it. Roth based the original script on actual rare and painful diseases he himself had contracted on various international trips this personal level of engagement seems to have made him better able to laugh at the situation than his successor. This plays to his strengths when it comes to the super-crisp cinematography and production design, but less so when he tries to play scenes like a botched mercy-killing as dire drama, amping up the dramatic score and neglecting the pitch-black comedy potential in the moment. Unfortunately, director Travis Z doesn't quite have Roth's sense of humor about the whole thing, and takes it all very seriously. Like Roth's original, it occasionally goes off on odd tangents, notably in its portrayal of small-town hillbillies who are depicted as genuinely weird rather than the obvious Deliverance stereotypes we're used to in this kind of thing. ![]() If Cabin Fever 2016 were an all-new movie with no history of previous installments, it might have generated some goodwill for creativity. If it's closer to $2 million, it may make back its budget and then some purely on the curiosity factor with horror fans, though it faces a tough weekend against the much funnier, equally violent dark comedy of Deadpool.īut how is it as a movie? Glad you asked, since I didn't sit through the thing for nothing. Precise budget details are difficult to come by at this time, but Cassian Elwes' Pelican Point Capital Partners, which produced, typically fund films between $2 and $15 million, and without any name actors this remake is likely on the lower end of that scale. Roth presumably sold the remake rights to make himself some money, and it uses his original screenplay, so no new writers needed to be hired. The Sean Astin starrer was released on VOD before very limited theatrical.so limited that its grosses are actually reported as $0, with a small $122, 091 in domestic video sales. In 2011, Dominican-based Indomina purchased the sequel rights to the series and announced production on two new installments, but only one was made: Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, which Indomina sold to Image Entertainment. It played a couple of horror film festival before basically going straight to DVD, and West, who has carved out his own horror niche since, disowns the film to this day. The sequel, however, directed by then up-and-comer Ti West, was left on the shelf for a year when Lionsgate disagreed with his comedic take on the material. The first one was a bona fide hit, grossing over $30 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5 million, and allowing Roth to go on to helm the more successful Hostel series. That's understandable - rarely does a franchise get this far with so little overall success. It's entirely possible, probable even, that you didn't know Cabin Fever was a franchise beyond the original 2002 horror-comedy that introduced Eli Roth to the world and established a theme he would go on to milk forever: dumb young Americans think they know everything, get out of their comfort zone and in over their head.
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