***Official CABIN FEVER Discussion Thread (1 Viewer)

[ChuckSolo]

The gore is always secondary to the fright. It had enough gore, just not enought fright.

I really could care less about the "nekkidness." That's what porn films are for.

 

[Adam_Reiter]

Matt, those are not both of my quotes, only the bottom one.

Let me put it this way, the movie had a lot of gore(sort of a good thing) and naked bodies(a very good thing, but certainly not needed).

However, the movie was a snore fest from the get go. Crappy acting, crappy story line, and as soon as I saw the first infected guy, I knew the rest wasn't going to be scary. This movie had no suspense, and a couple of jump scares. I was rolling my eyes throughout the entire flick. Again, this is my opinion of the movie. I know other people loved it, and I respect that. I just really thought my money was wasted.

 

[Justin_S]

crappy story line

Did you know what the film was about before seeing it? If so, why did you go see it if you thought it sounded crappy? Just curious.

 

[Matt Stone]

Matt, those are not both of my quotes, only the bottom one.

I know, I was just trying to illustrate that everyone has a different opinion on the issue. So there aren't any end-all, be-all complaints if people can't even agree on what the problem was.

Regardless, I'm just going to agree to disagree, because I can see there is nothing about this film that we are going to agree on.

 

[Adam_Reiter]

Did you know what the film was about before seeing it? If so, why did you go see it if you thought it sounded crappy? Just curious.

I actually, I didnt hear and read anything about it. Just what I had seen from the previews. Part of it may be I expected a much different movie than what I assumed it was about from the previews. No harm, no foul... I just didnt like it at all.

 

[Will K]

Having seen the film yesterday at 1:00 pm, I'm still not sure how I feel about it. It's somewhat enjoyable, mostly unpleasant(which, granted, horror should be sometimes). Some points have already been brought up, but...

*I think my main problem with the movie is that it's just all over the map. There's too many extra characters and subplots(it could've been much tighter), which I feel undermines the seclusion aspect of the whole thing. For a group of kids seemingly trapped at the cabin, they did a pretty good of coming and going.

*Any moron could tell that dog at the beginning was dead. Was Henry just retarded or something? Evidently, the virus took a little time to take effect. Why did Henry stay in the woods instead of going back to the pig lady's house?

*Wouldn't most people bring their own drinking water to a unfamiliar cabin in the woods? Heck, I don't drink tap water at home. Do most people disregard crud or slime at the bottom of their drinking glass?

*I realize she was sick, but why didn't the girl put up a fight about being put in a dark, outdoor shed? I sure as hell wouldn't let anyone do that to me.

*I have a huge problem with medical doctors agreeing to dump a live patient and leaving them to die. Did everyone in that town have such a reckless disregard for life?

*Way out of place jokes, specifically the one set up with the shopkeeper and the n-word.

*Why would those kids make lemonade out of creek water? Did they not have running tap at the store?

Maybe this is being nitpicky, but I haven't seen in a movie in a while with so many nagging questions.

 

[Lee Scoggins]

This was hands down the WORST MOVIE I have seen in a very long time.

I wonder if Eli Roth is related to studio chief Joe Roth because he got tremendous PR for a absolute shite film.

First, it was not scary at all.
Second, there was not much sex despite the obvious risque yet oblique sexual banter.
Third, it was so stupid and obvious to not be funny.

Why did this film receive so much hype?

It was simply horrible.

 

[Matt Stone]

This was hands down the WORST MOVIE I have seen in a very long time.

Sorry for the over-used phrase, but if this is the worst movie you've seen in a long time, see more movies.

 

[ChuckSolo]

Even though I thought this was a really, really bad film, I wouldn't exactly call it the worst film I have seen recently. That distinction belongs to "House of 1000 Corpses." It is getting to the point that the trailers to these things really leave a false impression as to what the movie is really all about. I am totally skeptical about going to see the upcoming "House of the Dead" for just that reason. I absolutely love horror movies, and have since I was a kid, but nowadays, it just seems that the makers of this genre of films gives you a taste of the small bit of horror involved in the actual film itself and makes you sit through a whole lotta nothing before it gets to what the trailer promised. I was surprised that "Underworld" delivered what it promised as well as its trailer did. I for one am sick of all the hype, which sometimes comes out months in advance, surrounding these films and leaves one anticipating these films only to have you encounter one disappointment after another. The only other alternative I can see is to wait until the movie comes out on DVD and rent it. That way, you spend about half of what the cost of a theater ticket is and you can always turn it off if you don't like it. In the end it is all about marketing, even though, to me anyway, the hype and most trailers leaves me feeling like the producers of the film lied to me to get me into the theater.

 

[Joel D]

i thought cabin fever did what it was intending to do perfectly. its not a staright horror or a comedy. its just horror in an absurdist PJist with bits of satiral jabs and reflections on the genre sprinkled throughout. some parts were just funny some, some were creepy.

personally i dont find any movie scary so when peopel use that as a diss on something i dont really understand. thats a highly subjective thing as peopel find a variety of things scary.

also, maybe im weird, but i dont get off on seeing tits or sex or whatever in films. when people say theres not enough tits in a film, itrs pretty pathetic and they should just get some porn of they want that. anyway, that doesnt have to do with much, just an annoyance from a lot of horror fans, but maybe of them are probably 13 year old boys, so i can kind of understand.

 

[ChuckSolo]

Joel, while I agree with you on the T&A part, what are your thoughts on the dialogue in "Cabin Fever" involving the guy and his dog? Don't you think that that type of scripting is worse than showing someone's bare breasts. I mean think about it, the guy actually finds it funny that he engaged in beastiality. I'm no prude, but c'mon, that type of scripting and innuendo had absolutely no significance to the story. Was it included for a cheap laugh? Was that one of the parts you thought was funny? That and a number of overtly stupid scenes and dialouge were why I found the film an absolute failure to the genre.

 

[Jason_Els]

I wonder if Eli Roth is related to studio chief Joe Roth because he got tremendous PR for a absolute shite film.

Nope.

Lion's Gate bought the film at the Toronto Film Festival where it was the talk of the festival. Eli made the film with money borrowed from friends, and primarily, his parents. As it made $8.3 million in its opening weekend you can be assured Lion's Gate has made a profit on it.

 

[Joel D]

Chuck, I agree that part was pretty dumb. It was intended to be played off for laughs. Personally I just thought the character was just f$$king around, since he seemed to be kind of a dumb ass. I didn't kind it funny.

What I did find funny is when they were talkign about Berkeley and having to drink nothing but beer.

Also I would like that I think the ending is hilarious, but with 11 or so minutes cut out of it, it doesn't really have the same effect that the directors cut has. which is sad because the theatertical ending is pretty absirdist but it seems like sorta copping out, while the other ending just basks in it.

also if stupid dialogue is constituted as a failure in this genre (espcially sub genre of teen in the woods/ slasher) then there are a while lot of failures. I personally thoguht most of the dialogue was fine, and actually somewhat like peopel i went to high school with.

 

[ChuckSolo]

See, the funny thing is, I would have prefered a teen/slasher type flick to this drivel. There was nothing in this movie, IMHO, that made the film interesting. There wasn't even any sense of suspense in it. I think that there just wasn't any sense of frightfulness to it at all. Frankly, I didn't even care whether any of the characters lived or died. Well, unless you count that pathetic deputy which should have been the first to go IMO.

 

[Joel D]

aww man. don't be hatin on winston.

i see this film as a teeny slasher flick that accidentally got blended together with some buneul sensibilites. i also felt it was suspenseful at times, but this mainly has to do with the score, and less to do with the other filmmaking elements.

anyway, the more i read the stuff that comes out of eli roths mouth, the more i think most of the stuff i find great about this flick somehow happened accidentally or by someone elses hand. i do appreciate a lot of the humor, but i looked at a ton of it as so absurdly terrible that it could not have possibly be meant to be taken at face value. although, i do now have some doubts about roth. maybe he just fins really stupid shit funny.

 

[ChuckSolo]

Yeah, I hear ya. I just wish they would have marketed the movie differently. I went in hoping to see a great apocolyptic type film. What I saw was pure crap.

 

[Joel D]

I agree. When I first saw it ,there was pretty much only word of mouth about the film. it was all that this film was rutal and a return to horror roots.needless to say when i saw it i was a bit confused. i enjoyed it but itdidnt sit right with me. anyway i thought about it for a while and came to my opinions on the film after finally seperating it from my expectations. seeing it again much better experience.

the trailers for this film were terrible in my opinion, and mader the movie seem not at all what it was like. all the advertising was like that. in fact ne who mentioned the film i told them that it would not be what they expectr and to watch out. eli roth didn't help matters much by building himself up as the single handed savior of horror. he talks too much for his own good.

 

[Tino]

What..a..piece..of...shite!

I bought this DVD blind, and after suffering through it, I wish I was!

IMO, Cabin Fever is a horrible, derivative, waste of time. It rips off so many better films, such as Evil Dead, 28 Days Later, Blair Witch Project, Deliverance and countless others, and does so badly.

This film didn't have ONE original idea! Seen it all before.
No scares, laughable script, terrible acting, unsympathetic characters, and on...and on....and on..... A complete and total waste of celluloid and my time.

I can't believe Peter Jackson loved this film. He must have been smoking that wacky middle-earth weed when he saw it.

The last so called "horror" film I bought blind was MAY, another suckass waste of time.

Horror film fans should avoid at all costs!

Will I ever learn???

 

[ChuckSolo]

Buying the DVD a mistake???? Heck, I was one of the idiot saps who went to see this drivel at the movies!!!!! I was surprised this didn't make the 10 worst movies of 2003 list This garbage along with "House of the Dead" and "House of 1000 Corpses" are among the worst movies of all time IMHO. And to think, I waited with much anticipation for all three of these stinkers.

 

[Nick Sievers]

I was one of the idiot saps who went to see this drivel at the movies

Hey, what are you implying Chuck?

I saw it at the movies and liked it quite a bit, enough to buy the DVD. It seems people who don't like it, loathe it and people who liked it loved it (though I wouldn't go that far myself). There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground. I guess we just have different tastes, Tino because if I recall you like LXG.