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Title: Cabin Fever (2016)
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| Gage Golightly | ... | Karen | |
| Matthew Daddario | ... | Jeff | |
| Samuel Davis | ... | Paul | |
| Nadine Crocker | ... | Marcy | |
| Dustin Ingram | ... | Bert | |
| Randy Schulman | ... | Henry | |
| George Griffith | ... | Cadwell | |
| Tim Zajaros | ... | Connor / Grim (as Timothy G. Zajaros) | |
| Aaron Trainor | ... | Tommy | |
| Louise Linton | ... | Deputy Winston | |
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Laura Kenny | ... | Hog Lady |
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Derrick R. Means | ... | Dennis (as Derrick Means) |
| Jason Rouse | ... | Fenster | |
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Benton Morris | ... | Baily |
| Dawson Doupé | ... | Guitar Man | |
While visiting their getaway cabin, five friends succumb to a flesh-eating disease.
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Cabin Fever (2016)
1/2 (out of 4)
Five friends go out into the woods for a fun week but soon a flesh eating virus begins to take them over.
This is a remake of the 2002 Eli Roth film that put that director on the map and helped bring in some "frat boy" type of horror movies. Roth was involved in this one and had spent several months really pushing for people to give this film a chance but the end result is without question one of the biggest disasters in recent horror history. I've seen worse film but I've never seen such a pointless remake in my life. I'm a huge defender of remakes because quite often they're at least more original than sequels, which usually just copy the first movie. That's certainly not the case here because what we basically have is a scene-for-scene remake.
For the life of me I can't understand what Roth and company were trying to do with this film. At least the original film had two sequels that at least tried to be different or do something slightly original. When I say this is a scene-for-scene remake I'm not kidding. It really does seem like the original screenplay was used here with only a few things brought more up=to-date. This includes an assault rifle being used, stuff like the internet mentioned and the Deputy character is now a woman. Everything else is exactly like the original movie so what was the point? If you've seen the original then you're just going to be bored by what you see here.
The kills are slightly different but they're certainly not great enough to save the picture. The cast really isn't any better here. The direction isn't any better. As for the screenplay, as I said, it's pretty much just the original with a few alterations. Even worse is the fact that the film runs the same length, which just goes to show how alike they are. CABIN FEVER, the 2016 version, is one of the most unoriginal movies I've ever seen and it's just shocking that Roth would sign off for this type of remake. His rumor was taken out but the darker elements add up to nothing. I will avoid giving the film a BOMB rating since it's at least professionally made. Still, what on Earth were they smoking?