“Cabin Fever” (Lion’s Gate Films)
“Cabin Fever” is a frightfully bad fright flick; a horribly bad horror movie; and a thrilless thriller. Put those all together and you have a movie loser of the nth degree. Even a young cast of beautiful women and okay guys can’t add any spark to this laughable movie. It is just a waste of time and talent, certainly not worth any of your entertainment bucks.
The film follows a group of five students who go off to the hills of North Carolina for a weekend escape. Jeff and Marcy (Cerina Vincent and Joey Kern) are a couple and have romantic plans. Paul and Karen (Rider Strong and Jordan Ladd) are not but he has high hopes. Bert (James DeBello) is the odd man out in the group.
Once they reach the remote cabin they are accosted by a guy stumbling around in the woods. He is infected with some kind of flesh eating virus, which he quickly passes on to one member of the group. Once she is infected the rest of the gang react with horror, and thoughts of self-preservation. To keep themselves safe they lock the poor girl in the shed out back.
Of course the infection picks off the rest of the cast one by one. These poor yahoos can only react in horror and wander around the woods. They never seem to think about going to the highway and flagging someone down.
The police do arrive on the scene in the body of a spaced out party guru. This deputy dawg is a joke and is supposed to provide some fun to the film (I assume). He doesn’t. He just makes the other obnoxious kids look better.
The movie is rated R for violence, profanity and gore.
It should be noted that if these kids didn’t have the f-word to use then there would be almost no dialogue. What did screenwriters do when that word was banned
“Cabin Fever” is that most awkward of films, a movie supposed to be scary that just isn’t. You can bring in the buckets of blood but if you don’t have some scary scenes the movie is going to bomb. This one does that big time!
I scored “Cabin Fever” a logged 2 out of 10.
