The thing is that Bert is the one who accidentally shot an infected backpacker earlier in the movie, then Paul (Ryder Strong) killed him with fire. The kid’s dad proceeds to shoot at Bert, saying that if his son is sick, it’s the same as murder. Because of course there’s a banjo in this movie. Cue music that wouldn’t sound out of place in The Return plays, and he flips and kicks then bites Bert on the hand. Then the kid (presumably named Dennis, if the sign that says “DO NOT SIT NEXT TO DENNIS” is to be believed) does some karate. The owner of a local corner store says he’ll get a doctor, and to stay where he is. It comes during the movie’s third act, and Bert (the douchebag role filled by James DeBello) is looking for help since most of the other people at the cabin are sick. Take, for instance, the infamous “ PANCAKES!” scene. It’s the same setup a million other horror movies have, but while I wouldn’t call Cabin Fever great, it has a set of quirks that sets it apart from the rest of the pack.Ĭhief among those quirks is the bizarre humor. This time, it’s a flesh-eating virus and the crazed locals that see them as outsiders. On the surface, Cabin Fever is about as generic as horror movies get, with a bunch of hot young 20-somethings going to party it up in a cabin in the middle of the woods, unknowing of the danger that lurks in the woods. Among them is Eli Roth’s debut feature Cabin Fever(2002).Īs a first-time filmmaker and horror lover, Roth didn’t want to reinvent the wheel with his first movie. It wasn’t a great time for horror, is what I’m getting at, although there are of course exceptions to that rule. Slashers came back into then dropped back out of vogue, meta-horror rose to popularity, and everyone was trying their best to be edgy while failing to make good movies. To say that horror was in a weird place during the first decade of the 2000s is a bit of an understatement.
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