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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Bearing a shallow resemblance to Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cabin Fever is closer in style and tone to the Scream franchise. What elevates it is a younger taste in horror-comedy. The fratboy humor is dated and mostly flat, but the shocks are still disturbing and gross. Its not a scary film but it builds in tension and mood about halfway through. Eli Roth is a modest director who isn't great with actors or a shooting action, but he is a smart producer who hires a wonderful cinematographer and borrows the great Angelo Badalamenti from David Lynch. Roth was Lynch's assistant and also worked for Troma's Lloyd Kaufman. Borrowing more than a little from both directors is what made Roth look like a weirdo, sick genius to a generation, but he's really a clever ripoff artist like his future mentor Quentin Tarantino. Cabin Fever is well-produced and weird and somewhat fun, but under the surface its pretty dumb, thin on story and a pale imitation of much better movies. But it ushered in a new class of gruesome horror-comedy and inspired much better movies like Cabin in the Woods and The Evil Dead remake. Its your typical C-grade horror movie but with a much bigger budget.

saw this once before way back when and remember enjoying it. A lot of people don't like the work of Eli Roth. I don't think he is an amazing director or anything but I did enjoy Knock Knock and Hostel immensely. His films are often stupidly cheesy and full of graphic violence but I can appreciate that, the lowest form of entertainment. I knew I had to revisit this film after watching the terrible 2016 reboot (why the hell did that happen).The story of the film is quite simple. It's about 5 friends who are vacationing at a cabin. Little do they know that there is a type of flesh eating disease spreading around in the area that makes people's skin fall off. They also later find out that it is being spread through water. The film definitely is influenced by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Evil Dead but this film is definitely of that calibre. It's still a dumb enjoyable bloodfest. Which is what is expected from this director.The scares (the few that are present) don't really work and use the often played out jarring sound as something pops up. The blood and makeup is quite good. The skin falling off looks quite real and some of it really does make your skin crawl. The dialogue is so dumb and you get the typical prototype of dumb sex fueled teens who get themselves into trouble (as is par with horror films).The cast aren't particularly great although it was nice to see Rider Strong in a lead role. Jordan Ladd kind of faded into obscurity soon after. The film also has a cameo from Eli Roth, who basically plays an idiot. It's a truly dumb film but mindlessly entertaining. I don't think it's Roth's best (Knock Knock has definitely taken that cake) but it's an entertaining bloody debut.7/10

If I had to choose a Top 10 of worst movies I've ever seen, Eli Roth's Cabin Fever would be a very close tie with the first three Faces Of Death movies as the #1 worst movie I've ever seen. I couldn't stand sitting through this piece of trash for more than 5 minutes without hating every single last character in this film. It starts off with a bunch of unlikable morons in a pointless setup to a very unfunny race joke that doesn't get resolved until the very end, said joke involved a redneck store owner implying that a rifle is meant for "n!ggers", when really the punch line is that this redneck is trying to speak jive without knowing how to phrase such language and the gun belongs to the African American customers and he meant to say "N!gga". That's the caliber of humor in this pile of garbage and it get worse and worse as the minutes go by, and the thing is the concept could have made for a decent horror film but ends up screwing itself over so much that you want to take an angle grinder to your temple to get out of it.

OK I really wanted to enjoy this film, anybody a fan of Evil Dead is OK in my book but its nowhere near as good as its hype. I first watched it not long after it came out and I was disappointed, recently I watched it twice again to see firstly did I judge it too harshly as you generally over judge hyped up films and secondly to see if it's one of those films that grow on you, sadly it's neither. Don't get me wrong it's not a bad film but a decent one. The start is pretty good and the end is also quite good, it just doesn't flow well and losses you halfway through with filler scene's and characters you just don't give a s**t about, the actors are pretty good, they just aren't likable characters, I get that's the point but you need a balance even in a cheese filled horror otherwise you may as well be watching The young and the Restless. For the Cheese fans it has its moments but seems to be trying too hard, without spoiling there is one scene involving a gun and a shovel I'll let your imagination work on that one. Give this one a watch but if your expecting a great gore horror or cheesy horror or comedy horror you will be disappointed set the bar low and you might enjoy this one more.Rating: 5.5/10Cheeseometer: 11/50