0 0 report cabin fever 201612/9/2023 “I wrote Cabin Fever in 1995 so it was an eight-year process for me,” Roth told Dread Central. Though Roth was often cited as an overnight sensation, the process of getting Cabin Fever made was far from quick. “They built Howard an apartment in Silvercup Studios and I stayed outside all night, and wrote Cabin Fever,” Roth told Deadline. Roth found the time to write the bulk of the script for Cabin Fever when he was hired as a nighttime production assistant to Howard Stern on Private Parts, where his job mostly required waking Stern up in the morning. ROTH WROTE THE SCRIPT WHILE HOWARD STERN WAS SLEEPING. I went to see a dermatologist, who, judging by the horrified and puzzled look on her face, had never seen anything like it before.” 2. The strangest part was not only did it not hurt-it actually satisfied some strange itch underneath my skin. The next morning I attempted to shave and literally, shaved half my face off. I looked down at my hand and saw chunks of skin. I woke up in the middle of the night scratching my cheek, thinking I had a mosquito bite. “I had been cleaning out a barn and got a skin infection on my face. “The initial idea for Cabin Fever came while I was working on a horse farm in Iceland when I was 19 years old,” Roth told. It wasn’t quite as gory as in the movie, but the idea for Cabin Fever came from an experience writer/director Eli Roth had in his late teens. ELI ROTH GOT THE IDEA FOR CABIN FEVER WHEN HE DEVELOPED A SERIOUS SKIN INFECTION. Here are 14 things you might not have known about Cabin Fever. One sequel, one prequel, and one reboot later, the original film remains one of the best horror films of the past 20 years and has turned Roth into a modern master of horror. Written and directed by Eli Roth, the 1980s-style horror throwback followed a familiar genre trope-a group of college students make their way to a cabin in the woods-then turned it on its head. At least I did like Kevin Riepl’s score.Īwful movie, a complete waste of time and one of the most pointless remakes ever made…and Roth produced it! Also stars Alexandra Daddario’s brother Matthew, Samuel Davis, Dustin Ingram and Nadine Crocker as the other four ill-fated morons.ġ and 1/2 pancakes cause even that stupid bit is recycled.Fifteen years ago, Cabin Fever reinvigorated the modern horror movie scene by going back to the past. Travis Z’s attempts at Roth-like humor also fail miserably, though they are thankfully few and far between and the gore isn’t any more inventive than it was last time around. And don’t get me started on the gun that only fires when convenient. You are almost rooting for this bunch to melt away, they are such unlikable idiots. Yes, the film is filled with that kind of blatant stupidity that the only person you feel bad for is the first contractee Karen (Gage Golightly), mostly because she shares your contempt for the rest of them. Is this a student film? Note to stupid yuppies…don’t lament setting a guy on fire when you doused him with lighter fluid to begin with, that’s kinda what happens. The scene where the homeless guy gets set on fire by the five dumb-asses is so clumsily staged, that you can’t believe what you just saw. It becomes just a series of dumb behavior by the characters who do the stupidest possible things during this viral outbreak. Having sex, despite being supposedly terrified of contracting it and constantly putting themselves in the proximity of blood from the infected, are just a few of the moronic things these folks do. Roth’s script is adjusted a bit, for the worse, by Randy Pearlstine and directed lifelessly by someone named Travis Z. Panic and paranoia set in and so do stupid antics by our main characters. So, yet again we have five twenty-somethings going to a remote cabin and contracting some kind of flesh eating virus from a weird homeless guy living in the woods. This might be one of the most pointless remakes in the current trend, not only using the original’s script, but dumbing it down even further. It still managed to be moderately entertaining and at it’s core was a good idea. The combination of horror elements and really goofy humor didn’t mix well, killing any tension it tried to build and the homages to his influences were way too obvious and intrusive. I’m not the biggest fan of Eli Roth’s original Cabin Fever. (Remember, clicking the highlighted links brings you to other reviews and articles here at The Movie Madhouse!)
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