![]() ![]() Another of the worst aspects is the recasting of Giuseppe Andrews’ Deputy Winston with a woman in the role. One of the worst changes is Dustin Ingram’s Bert who is now made into a major idiot who has brought along a semi-automatic rifle as opposed to a single-action gun and is obsessed with randomly blasting everything he comes across up with entire clips of ammo. What this results in is a Cabin Fever where the students are earnestly cool hipsters, obsessed with beer and making out, while bland pop songs play on the soundtrack. ![]() Whatever the case, the sarcastic horror comedy element that was essentially the making of the original Cabin Fever is gone and without it we now only have a standard cabin in the woods film. Or quite possibly it was that Eli Roth improvised most of these in the original. Either director Travis Z is unattuned to these elements, lacks a horror background or orders have come down from above. Perhaps the most noticeable of these is the film is no longer a horror comedy and all the genre in-jokes have been cut. While Eli Roth and Randy Pearlstein have simply recycled their screenplay for the original, a number of changes have come in. A generic teen cast (l to r) Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker, Gage Golightly, Samuel Davis and Dustin Ingram greet the infected man at the cabin door It has only been fourteen years since the first film came out – it is usually at least 2-3 decades before we start to see remakes (not counting English-language remakes of foreign films) and people feel confident that the original has been around in tv re-runs long enough that a new generation of 19-25-year-olds are going to appreciate seeing it recast with new faces. Why, could be anybody’s guess – other than that Eli Roth and co-writer Randy Pearlstein probably took advantage of some producer’s offer to recycle their script for a whole bunch of money. There were two negligible sequels with Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009), one of the early films of Ti West, and Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014).įor no apparent reason, we now get a remake of Cabin Fever. It launched Eli Roth’s career as a horror director. The balance of gore and sarcastic humour obviously struck a nerve for audiences and the film became a reasonable success in theatrical release and subsequently on video and dvd. If nothing else, the inclusion of these scenes at least speaks to Roth’s ability as a filmmaker-they’re not just sloppy mistakes on his part.Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever (2002) was a modest hit. These missing scenes actually provide a context for who that body is, even if it doesn't happen to be an important character. The theatrical version still contains a moment where the deputies discuss a body that's been found in the basement, but there are no further details provided. It solves the problem, but the scene also contained a wealth of viscera and gore all over the walls that were likely too much for an R-rating. Paul’s plan is shortsighted, and doesn't just take care of a threat he hopes to use this person to help prove his innocence through this bizarre situation.Ī follow-up deleted scene shows the cops taking no chances with the contents of the basement they blast the room full of shotgun fire, then set the whole thing ablaze. Two deleted scenes reveal that Paul (Rider Strong) holds one of the meddlesome locals that attacked them hostage. ![]() ![]() Cabin Fever does an admirable job at telling a fairly self-contained story, but there's a dangling plot thread involving a mysterious corpse in the basement of the cabin. The majority of these edits revolve around toning down the movie’s extreme violence, but some of the changes also happen to include important plot points. Despite how there’s a handful of alterations made to Cabin Fever, the unrated director’s cut version of the film is only two minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Deleted scenes are par for the course, especially for a director’s first movie. ![]()
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