After reading an article in the Los Angeles Times, and hearing the synopsis (both included below), I am very hyped to see this film. Seems a horror throw back to "Evil Dead".
Director Eli Roth is a protege of David Lynch and the score was by Angelo Badalamenti (Roth spent 6 years researching a project for Lynch and Badalamenti that will be written for Broadway).
"As a last hurrah after college, friends Jeff, Karen, Paul, Marcy and Bert embark on a vacation deep into the mountains. With the top down and the music up, they drive to a remote cabin to enjoy their last days of decadence before entering the working world. Then somebody gets sick. Karen's skin starts to bubble and burn as something grows inside her, tunneling beneath her flesh. The group is so repulsed, shocked and sickened watching their friend deteriorate before their eyes; they lock her in a shed to avoid infection. As they debate about how to save her, they look at one another and realize that any one of them could also have it. What soon began as a struggle against the disease turns into a battle against friends, as the fear of contagion drives them to turn on each other. The kids confront the terror of having to kill anyone who comes near them, even if it's their closest friend. The survivors have to find help before they're all killed by the virus, or by the local lynch mob out to destroy anyone who may have come in contact with it."
Kick ass poster here. (http://w1.422.telia.com/~u42243560/images/cabin_fever.jpg) Set for release on September 12th.
Why pretend? This director loves gore for gore's sake
Eli Roth freely admits he has no interest in imparting messages. With 'Cabin Fever,' the goal is to entertain -- and frighten.
Friday the 13th. Midnight. There probably couldn't be a more appropriate time for the L.A. premiere of the new horror film "Cabin Fever," screening in the Independent Feature Project/Los Angeles Film Festival. The feature debut from director and co-writer Eli Roth is a willful, knowing throwback to the sex-and-gore films of the late 1970s and early '80s, leavened with a dose of "Evil Dead"-style humor.
Causing a stir on the festival circuit since its first unspooling at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, the movie, about a group of kids stricken by a flesh-eating virus while vacationing in a remote cabin in the woods, is scheduled to open in theaters in September. Deliberately crude, Roth's film is a sharp stick in the eye to the neutered, PG-13 horror films that have left fans of gore somewhat bloodthirsty in recent years.
Raised in Boston, Roth attended New York University's undergraduate film program, and after graduation worked most any film job he could get, from production assistant to line producer to stand-in. He finished the first draft of "Cabin Fever" in 1995 and began the years-long struggle to finance the picture, during which time he also moved to Los Angeles.
Between bites of a chicken sandwich late one recent afternoon, Roth, 31, recounted with great detail when he first caught, as it were, the movie bug.
"When I was 6, we took a trip to Florida and the hotel had pay cable," he recalls. "People forget what a big deal that was once. If you missed a movie in theaters, that was it, you might never see it, especially something like 'Mother's Day' or 'Screamers,' which would never show on regular TV. So I wanted to watch 'The Killer Bees,' a good '70s horror movie, and my dad was like, 'There's this other move I think you might like better called "The Exorcist." ' Two hours later I was just traumatized."
It wasn't long before young Eli had found his path. "When I was 8, my dad took me to see 'Alien,' and I remember after that I said I want to be a producer. My dad says, 'Well the producer has to raise the money for the movie.' I was like, well, what does the director get to do? Well, the director gets to spend the money and tell everybody what to do. I want to be a director."
If only it were so simple, as Roth, who also receives a producing credit on "Cabin Fever," performed both roles in the name of bringing his first feature to the screen.
Continuing in a rapid-fire, nearly stream-of-consciousness style, Roth forges ahead without stopping, detailing his life through the movies.
" 'Alien' was the first movie I puked at. I barfed everywhere. It became this thing where every time I'd see a horror movie, explosive vomit erupted. I'd even be so nervous about it, I'd puke before the movie. Once I got over it, I'd rent anything that was the ultimate in super, ultra-violent horror.
"At my bar mitzvah luncheon, I was sawed in half with a chainsaw. I wasn't friends with any girls, so we couldn't have a dance, and my mother thought maybe we should get a magician to entertain all the kids. I said only if I could be sawed in half. My bar mitzvah cake was a director's slate with blood splattered on it."
The speed and precision with which Roth recounts his personal history is at once, strangely inspiring and disconcerting, perhaps the ultimate revenge of the nerd. "This has been the plan forever. All I've ever wanted was to be on the cover of Fangoria magazine, that was the most important thing in the world, and next month that's going to happen. All I have to do is take Christie Brinkley and Heather Thomas to the premiere and I've hit the trifecta. I could retire."
In truth, Roth is just getting started. Proudly noting that "Cabin Fever" has already tripled its investment before a single theater ticket has been sold, he seems equally savvy at deal-making and directing. He's sold a pitch to Universal, is undertaking a collaboration with "Donnie Darko" writer-director Richard Kelly and has announced a joint production venture called Raw Nerve. An alliance with a small consortium of other writers and directors, including Scott Spiegel, Boaz Yakin, and David J. Schow, the company will fund low-budget horror movies.
Raw Nerve is inspired in part by Roth's frustration at seeing projects by himself and like-minded director pals such as Lucky McKee and Don Coscarelli shunned by the risk-averse, kid-friendly mind-set behind much current film funding and distribution.
"There's a wave of executives who don't really get these movies," he explains.
"I sent 'Cabin Fever' everywhere for six years," he continues. "Changed it, resubmitted it, everything. The comments were this is disgusting, you need a killer, it needs to be more ironic, it's too gross. After that first screening in Toronto, these same people were all fighting for the movie."
An informed showman and provocateur, Roth seems prone to such galvanizing declarations as "You go to an R-rated horror movie because you know you're going to get the good stuff, and part of the good stuff is you're going to see the hot girl naked. You can't ignore that aspect."
Self-aware enough to realize that his attitudes, and his movie, might rub some people the wrong way, Roth is undeterred. "If people are so uptight they can't see the movie for what it is and they wind up protesting or something, that would be the best thing. Picketers would be the ultimate compliment."
With an eye for the sensational and a mind for show biz, Roth's single-minded pursuit of gore and grosses is actually rather refreshing. Trashy fun has always been one of the hallmarks of the moviegoing experience, and he believes it's a tradition worth saving.
"A lot of kids in film school were doing short films about the Holocaust or homelessness, and you'd look at their video collection and it's 'Zapped,' 'Porky's,' 'Last American Virgin.' Those were the same movies I watched, and I'd say, 'Why would you make a movie you wouldn't even watch yourself?'
"At NYU they really beat it into you that you have to have a message, you have to say something important, your film has to really be about something. And I always said the message is to be entertained until the credits ended.
"That's my message."
Very interesting Mac, BTW the link of the poster didn't work, it said Page Access Forbidden
I've been really excited about seeing this, and this interview only ups the ante. Now if Lions Gate would just release a better trailer....
BTW, Lions Gate is the coolest distributor ever. All the way down to their seventies-style animated logo.
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I agree. Teaser one here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/cabin_fever.html)
i can't wait now! this is going to be a great year for horror fans, i can feel it! well, this and 28 days later. i guess that's it, unless somebody can think of more?
It'll be enough, man
One of the coolest interviews I have ever read!!
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This showed at South by Southwest here, but I didn't catch it.
A lot of people I was working with there said it was pretty good. That poster... isn't that almost the exact same as the Last house on the left poster? Or maybe I'm thinking of something else.
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that was exactly what i was thinking.
That poster is wonderful (Cabin Fever, not Cabin Boy). Bring on the gore and nudity!
cant wait!
I've got cabin fever
She's got cabin fever
We've got cabin fever
We're in love!
This look very cool!
Does the UK get a release or am I gonna have to blind buy it on R1 DVD?
Eli Roth's Next: The director of the upcoming horror flick "Cabin Fever" is already talking about his next projects to UHM. First up is "Drawn" which he describes as "so beautifully f**ked up and disturbing, I think it will be an incredible horror film....The tone of this one is much closer to 'The Exorcist' or 'The Shining'. F**ked up, and hardcore R rated, but not so much a gore film as just a terrifyingly disturbing movie. Everyone at Lion's Gate is really psyched about it, and I have two great producers in Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Nick Wechsler". Other than that he confirmed he'll be working on "The Box", the next flick from "Donnie Darko" creator Richard Kelly, and has launched a rather interesting initiative - "I formed RAW NERVE, a company devoted to making hard-R/NC-17 low budget balls to the wall old school horror films. The difference with our company is that it's going to be run by filmmakers - people who know and love the genre, not people who are jumping on a bandwagon. We should be announcing our first slate of projects very soon".
cool. i have a feeling im really going to love this guy
Man, I HAVE to get involved with Raw Nerve somehow. I've got two scripts I want to make that would be perfect for that label.
(so I say, as fifty million other indie filmmakers find the exact same thoughts rushing through their heads).
does anybody know when this might come to canada (particularily Alberta)?
Yeah, sounds like this director's pretty cool...
Exclusive still from Cabin Fever, the horror film from newbie filmmaker Eli Roth. Roth, an NYU film school graduate, "fleshed out" his ideas for the film while working as a production assistant on Howard Stern's Private Parts.
Roth says, "The initial idea for Cabin Fever came while I was working on a horse farm in Iceland when I was 19 years old. I had been cleaning out a barn and got a skin infection on my face. I woke up in the middle of the night scratching my cheek, thinking I had a mosquito bite. I looked down at my hand and saw chunks of skin. The next morning I attempted to shave and literally, shaved half my face off. The strangest part was not only did it not hurt – it actually satisfied some strange itch underneath my skin. I went to see a dermatologist, who, judging by the horrified and puzzled look on her face, had never seen anything like it before. She gave me steroid cream and luckily, my face cleared up."
As you see in the picture below, Roth stayed true to that gruesome inspiration while directing his debut feature. The film stars Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent, James DeBello, Arie Verveen, and Giuseppe Andrews. Roth co-wrote the flick with his friend Randy Pearlstein.
"I set out to make a film that would be a throwback to the late '70s/early '80s heyday of horror," Roth says. "This would not be a comedy, but instead a scary movie, one that would use humor to both release tension and draw people into the film."
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oh wow i cant fucking wait. rider strong? that kid from boy meets world? wow, i forgot about him.......
That still is awesome. I'm going to be so disappointed by this movie, because there's no way it can live up to my expectations...right?
Rider Strong is a very underrated actor. A shame he doesn't get more work. I thought this film came out a long time ago, though. Odd.
New trailer... (http://mediaframe.yahoo.com/launch?lid=rnv-56-p.1213296-110798,rnv-100-p.1213297-110798,rnv-300-p.1213298-110798,wmv-100-p.1213300-110798,wmv-300-p.1213301-110798,wmv-56-p.1213299-110798) in crappy streaming.
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Me too! I've never seen it though.
This sounds cool. I haven't seen Rider Strong in anything since Boy Meets World either. I miss Will Friedle more though...the guy that played Eric, that guy was hilarious.
Anyways, this sounds fucking great. Thanks a lot for bringing it up, this is the first I've heard of it. I've never seen the Evil Dead but I have seen many sex and gore exploitation films of the 70's and 80's...and man, do I love them. Hope it's a lot like them. His other one sounds cool too...The Shining/Exorcist-like one...I'll keep that in mind.
see Evil Dead right away. and then Evil Dead 2. and then Army Of Darkness. they are mandatory viewing.
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Already put it right at the top of my Netflix queue...sounds cool.
Managed to catch the flick a while ago and must say I was pleasantly surprised. Following the initial scare/opening, the intro of the main characters is pretty darned amusing and kept the audience interested until we got to the goods. The scope cinematography is beautiful and quite impressive considering the low budget. What I enjoyed most was that Roth's love for horror films is all over the screen, so he plays with the tricks and scenarios we all love and gives us some nice turns. Oh yeah, his cameo scene was a riot.
Now... the gripes. Quite often between scenes that go from day to night, we get quickly cut flashes of the woods, gore, and other random imagery IN SOLID RED. A little jarring and random (never paid off in the plot, in fact, some things we haven't yet seen pop up) and accompanied with some loud sound effects and score-- it feels like it was put there to make 'jump' moments for the crowd that weren't really there in the script. I heard that Lion's Gate was mucking with the final cut and dunno if that was their doing or not. The ending is dodgy for some (it's a mixed bag for me, won't spoil), but overall it delivers what we want in horror movies--
- lots and lots of blood and gore
- sex AND nudity (take that, 'Scream'!)
- major squirm moments
- some decent scares
- and some laughs inbetween scares
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- sex AND nudity (take that, 'Scream'!)
hey, watch it pal......
trailer (from above) in quicktime...
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Eli Roth Wakes Dead of Night
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Workshed Entertainment has optioned remake rights to Bob Clark's 1972 feature film Dead of Night for Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) to direct.
The film is about a young man killed in the Vietnam War. Through a series of circumstances, he is brought back to life as a zombie. When he returns home to his small town, his friends and family assume that he is shellshocked from the war and are unaware that he is a creature with a murderous lust for blood.
yeah u know, it was alright.
i won't hype it up cos it ain't that great, but for sum high charged fun and lotsa comical and graphic gory stuff, this is ur film.
the performances were good too, cerina vincent showed once again she's one of the few actresses still with a non-clothing clause. it was all quite funny and delivered in all required departments.. and really bizarre characters and scenes, like the cop, stole the show.
cabin fever "directors cut" quicktime trailer. you might have to turn up the volume kinda loud to hear it though.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/432/432008p1.html
that was pretty sweet, I just wish I hadn't seen that pic before I had seen the trailer
Same here. But man, they should totally put that out in theaters...that would get everyone to go see it.
I finally downloaded the full length trailer...it's okay, but they really should have gone red-band on it. There isn't even a hint of gore. Just one good shot...like in Roth's trailer...and the movie would be sold. As it is, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer is much more effective than this one.
SCREENINGS: Advanced Houston Screening of Cabin Fever!
Source: Lions Gate Films
Coming Soon! and Lions Gate Films have teamed up to give away tickets (each good for 2 people) for an early screening of the Eli Roth horror film Cabin Fever, starring Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, Arie Verveen and Joe Adams. The screening will take place the week of September 8 in Houston (either Wednesday or Thursday).
If you live in one of the cities and would like to attend, then click here (http://www.comingsoon.net/cabinfever.php) to sign-up!
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My short term goal was to see this before P, and I failed -- but not by too much. I just got back from watching it, and it's great. Not GREAT great, but great in a totally fun way. I can't wait to see it again.
It's not exactly scary, but it's really really gross and cringe inducing (watch out for the scene in the bathtub). It has some great homages to Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining. Best of all, it's hilarious. The dialogue is simply brilliant. There are all these wonderful non sequiturs. I won't quote any of them because they won't make any sense out of context, but they'll have you in stitches. There's a bit with an old man --P, you know what I'm talking about -- that pays off in the end soooo well.
So all in all -- I had my hopes set really high for this movie, and I wasn't let down.
"PANCAKES!"
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Source: Lions Gate Films
Coming Soon! and Lions Gate Films have teamed up to give away tickets (each good for 2 people) for an early screening of the Eli Roth horror film Cabin Fever, starring Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, Arie Verveen and Joe Adams. The screening will take place the week of September 8 in Houston (either Wednesday or Thursday).
If you live in one of the cities and would like to attend, then click here (http://www.comingsoon.net/cabinfever.php) to sign-up!
i just got my pass in the mail, is there anyone else who is gonna go to this screening also?
Anyone know if there'll be any preview screenings in Dallas?
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Source: Lions Gate Films
Coming Soon! and Lions Gate Films have teamed up to give away tickets (each good for 2 people) for an early screening of the Eli Roth horror film Cabin Fever, starring Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, Arie Verveen and Joe Adams. The screening will take place the week of September 8 in Houston (either Wednesday or Thursday).
If you live in one of the cities and would like to attend, then click here (http://www.comingsoon.net/cabinfever.php) to sign-up!
i just got my pass in the mail, is there anyone else who is gonna go to this screening also?
I just got my pass too.
I think this can be really good or really bad. I'm crossing my fingers for the former.
I saw it for a second time last night; I loved it again, but this time the theater was full and I could tell that a lot of people just didn't get it. A few people walked out. I the sense of humor is so bizarre that, if you aren't on the same wavelength, the jokes will just fall flat, leaving you either annoyed or just really grossed out at the otherwise highly unsettling proceedings.
Eli Roth was there and he was really cool; super hyper excited kinda guy, very fond of filling his sentences with as many 'fucks' as verbally possible. You could tell he loved showing the movie to audiences, and then explaining how he made it. I asked him about David Lynch's connection, and he said that Lynch volunteered his name as executive producer to help raise funds. It worked, but within a few months, people were thinking that Lynch himself was directing it. When the movie was over, Lynch loved it and told him that it was good enough to stand on its own, it didn't need his shadow over it. So his producer credit is no longer on the movie.
Quote from: GhostboyI saw it for a second time last night; I loved it again, but this time the theater was full and I could tell that a lot of people just didn't get it. A few people walked out. I the sense of humor is so bizarre that, if you aren't on the same wavelength, the jokes will just fall flat, leaving you either annoyed or just really grossed out at the otherwise highly unsettling proceedings.
Eli Roth was there and he was really cool; super hyper excited kinda guy, very fond of filling his sentences with as many 'fucks' as verbally possible. You could tell he loved showing the movie to audiences, and then explaining how he made it. I asked him about David Lynch's connection, and he said that Lynch volunteered his name as executive producer to help raise funds. It worked, but within a few months, people were thinking that Lynch himself was directing it. When the movie was over, Lynch loved it and told him that it was good enough to stand on its own, it didn't need his shadow over it. So his producer credit is no longer on the movie.
how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
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how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
That's just what I do....
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how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
That's just what I do....
you could be full of shit
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how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
That's just what I do....
you could be full of shit
I seriously doubt that
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how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
That's just what I do....
you could be full of shit
I seriously doubt that
how do you figure?
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how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
That's just what I do....
you could be full of shit
I seriously doubt that
how do you figure?
Ghostboy is completely trustworthy
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how the hell are you seeing it so many times before its release?
That's just what I do....
you could be full of shit
I seriously doubt that
how do you figure?
Ghostboy is completely trustworthy
maybe your full of shit too. Can anyone vouch for you?
Don't take my word for it
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what the hell does that mean. Isnt that the tool from Reading Rainbow?
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:-D hahahahahahahahahaha
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Isn't that the guy with the visor thing from that one space show?
it's just a really gay lookin muvafucka.
It's Levar Burton... so you're all right...
but he was also Kunta Kinte, so give him a break.
Eli Roth / "Cabin Fever"
Exclusive Interview by Paul Fischer in Los Angeles, CA
Eli Roth is a director with boundless energy, energy visible in his scaringly debut film, Cabin Fever. But while a lover of horror and gore, this unique presence in staid Hollywood also wants to bring back sex in the teen comedy. PAUL FISCHER spoke to the irreverent director. Paul Fischer : So what is it about horror, as a genre, that appealed to you as a filmmaker?
Answer: Well, first of all, in terms of story telling, the different things you can do. You can go wild. I mean there's no boundary in what you can do. I mean, you, in horror movies you have to establish the rules but, you know, if you watch a movie like Evil Dead or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Dead Alive, I mean, the camera work, the lights, the colours, the sounds are such, there's such energy. You can be so creative. You can do anything and in the genre like, and the beauty of that is that, it's like if you're making a period drama, and a car drives by, the whole movie is ruined. The people are taken out of it. But in horror movies every film maker starts making movies on low budgets, that if you make it on a low budget and it looks grainy it actually adds to the effect of making a movie scarier; you can experiment with sounds, lighting. I mean, there are so many things you can do in a horror film.
Question: And how do you make horror film remake?
Answer: Well, I think that, you know, making it unique is, is the most difficult part now because everybody's seen everything. So, you know, what you have to, I think that what people, the unfortunate mistake that people make, is they try to make it unique by like overdoing it with camerawork and really fast editing and trying to make MTV editing and instead of thinking about the idea, you know, it's the ideas in the core of what is scary that's going to make a movie unique. You know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is such a scary movie, um, and it really was reflecting you know the fear of what was going on at the time. You know, you know that's why 20 days later it's successful. It's really tapping into a fear that currently was going on in the population and, you know, whereas you look at a forgettable film like 13 Ghosts or Ghost Ship, they kind of blend into one because there's nothing really that scary about the idea. So I think in making it unique, you know, it's the idea itself that has to be unique.
Question: But so many horror films are about teenagers and they deal with, deal with adolescence. So are you tapping into the fears of adolescence in society or are you tapping into what mainstream cinema requires you to deliver?
Answer: Well, I can only tap into what's scary for me. I think that if you make a movie that's honest and truthful with what truthfully reflects your own interests, then that's what's going to make it scary. I think that there's definitely something about adolescence where they have this optimism and they're at an age where they're adults but they still act like stupid kids. So that when you put them in a situation where there's danger, like if you had a bunch of 30-year-olds in Cabin Fever, there would be no conflict because they resolve the problem rationally. But there's something about that adolescent mind where they do think that they're adults and they want to act like adults, but they still act impulsive and irrationally and I think that that's one of the reasons you get so many things with teenagers and that, 'cause they can do stupid things and you go oh, it's a teenager that they're acting that way, and I think that everybody can relate to that. You know, teenagers certainly relate to it and older people go yeah, you know what, I was just like that or I had a friend who was just like that.
Question: When you write a script like this, do you base any of these characters on your own?
Answer: Everyone is based on me. Like everything in this movie happened to me. Like in this movie when I was 12-years-old, I got a virus in my head that paralysed me for six weeks and I couldn't walk and I basically sit in my bed reading and watching Elvira, and just thinking that I might never walk again. And then when I was a teenager, like 16 or 17, I went to Russia and I got a parasite from drinking the water which was in me for probably five months after I had mononucleosis and I would be there in my bed drinking this medicine that felt like poison, my stomach was on fire and all I could think about was an army that invaded my body that was eating me, that was eating my flesh and if I didn't kill it first, it was going to kill me. Then when I was 19, I went to Iceland and I was working on a farm and I got this bacteria in my face and I started shaving my face and literally taking chunks of my face off because the skin was dead. Then, when I was 22, I woke up one morning and I feel down and my legs were completely rotted out, like all infected, sort of like cracked and it turns that I had psoriasis. And I went to the doctor, and he said it's not contagious but your body's freaking out, figuring out, how to deal with it. It's genetic, there's nothing you can do and so, I just thought that my God, there is this feeling that we are not at the top of the food chain, it's virus and bacteria, we're not, we don't own our bodies, we're basically renting space and that at any time, my dad's a doctor so I've always had access to the best medical care but at any time, I would have been wiped out. Like if I didn't have good medical care.
And I thought what if you're a bunch of kids and then I read about this flesh eating strep. This bacteria that really can get people in ten hours and it's transmitted through the water. And I thought this is like Evil Dead I was watching Evil Dead. My dreams were like Evil Dead. And I thought, you know, this is it and that really scared the hell out of me that you're with your friend, you're stuck in some location and you need to help them. You want to help them. But you don't want to get near them because you might have to kill them and they might kill you and you're not killing them, you're killing the thing that's inside them with your body. Like, I was really terrified with possession movies and the body being taken over by something else. So, I think that, you know, everybody had something. Everybody had an illness where you wake up and you go what the fuck is this? There's that moment where you think am I going to die, is this it, is my leg always going to look this way, is that always going to be in my eye, am I going to be deformed? Like it's a real fear that sort of happens to everyone. It's about what sort of where, you know, where I, it's from the base of that fear where I started to craft the story.
Question: Who do you think are your influences as a horror director?
Answer: Well as a horror director, definitely Sam Raimi, Toby Hooper, George Romero, John Carpenter, Peter Jackson, David Lynch. Erazerhead really disturbed me. John Carpenter's The Thing
Question: There are some very gruesome scenes in Cabin Fever, a sequence in a bathtub comes to mind. Do you enjoy the fact that people just shut their eyes during stuff like that?
Answer: Yeah. Absolutely. That's the ultimate compliment. I mean we had a woman from Cosmopolitan magazine in England pass out during the screening and that's the highest compliment we can get. That leg shaving scene is really much more done with sound, but people will always remember something that's more disgusting than it actually was if it was done right. I remember thinking God, you know we had 20 minutes to do the makeup for that. It was like a six-hour makeup sessions so we were getting 40 set ups a day. Between 30 and 40 cameras, it was full of blood and everything. It was a nightmare so, but we were shooting that camera with everything we got. I could make this grosser, I could make this grosser. And I then when I watched it with an audience, everyone was watching it through the crack of their fingers and no one was looking up at the screen and they were all grossed out and screaming. I think, you know, if you've really done your job as a horror director, nobody should be looking at the movie, because they would be looking at the inside of their finger. So I think it's great. The fact that people couldn't watch it means that they were involved in the story, that they really were like getting a reaction and feeling something, they were really kind of freaked out by it.
Question: Where do you go from here?
Answer: Well, um, I have a whole bunch of things going on. On the low budget horror end, I've formed a company with Scott Spiegel who co-wrote Evil Dead 2 and Boaz Yakin, who directed Remember the Titans and Uptown Girls. I am a partner with Green Street Films out of New York to create Raw Nerves and we're going to have a fund to make three, low-budget, very violent horror movies a year. We already have directors like Lefty McKee, Rich Kelly, Tobe Hooper, already interested in making movies for us, because where we're going to be able to say, here's a million dollars and 18 days, go nuts, and with no restrictions. You know, I think a lot of these horror filmmakers really want to make that NC-17 or very hard, or really, really violent, disturbing film that no studio would ever make, but this is going to be the company to make that movie. I'm also writing a movie with Rich Kelly called The Box, and I went to see Johnny Darko while I was cutting Cabin Fever, and I was so blown away by it; and Rich loves Cabin Fever, so we're, we're writing a movie, and that's going to be much more like a psychological horror film, much more at The Ring end of the spectrum. Then I'm doing another movie for Lions Gate, which will be about a $20,000,000.00 horror move called Drawn, that's much more on the scale of like The Shining or The Exorcist, a lot of, more visual effects. And I'm writing a teen comedy for Universal.
Question: How do you, how do you, how did you get a teen comedy out of all of this?
Answer: Because, as much as I love horror movies, second to horror movies, I am obsessed with early 80's sex comedies.
Question: Which ones?
Answer: Last American Virgin is one of the greatest films ever made. I can watch Porky's over and over and over. I think Porky's is a masterpiece, but I also love movies like Zapped, Joystick, Hot Dog the Motion Picture, like anything with Scott Baio. I will go see anything with a monkey, I will go see it. I love, like, I mean Fast Times was great, but it's not really, I mean, that's in a different league, but I love early 80's, like Screwballs, like anything with a fat guy, a cool guy and a nerd, I'll go see. My favourite movies are Boaz Davidson's films, like the Lemon Popsicle films.
I saw Lemon Popsicles 3, Hot Bubble Gum, and it just blew me away, like I will go see Lemon Popsicles 4, Up Your Anchor, Lemon Popsicles 6, Private Popsicles, Lemon Popsicles 1, Lemon Popsicles 2. I have seen them all. They're so hard to find, like, I love those movies so much, and then he made like 15 of them, and he came over the America and made Last American Virgin, which is like the best gags from all the Lemon Popsicle films.
Question: Where does a good Jewish boy get all this stuff from?
Answer: God only knows. I mean, how the hell do, it's like, my parents were, you know, like, I was sawed in half with a chain saw at my Bar Mitzvah, and my cake, my Bar Mitzvah cake was a director's slate with blood splattered on it. And this was when I was 12, like my parents grew up in New York, and my, and always had appreciation of the theatre and film, and my dad's a psychoanalyst; my mom's an artist; and my, my dad always just saw it as like special effects for movies, like he never felt there was anything wrong with us watching it. It was like the whole family would sit around and watch Pieces and Basket Case and Caligula. Like, we knew that it was a movie, like we weren't, we knew that it wasn't real, and as I was older, as I got older, I got really interested in special effects, and I just loved growing up in those late 70's or early 80's movies. It just struck a chord with me, because I was the only kid allowed to see R-rated movies. I was the kid that saw Stripes when no one else was allowed to see it. I was the kid that saw The Exorcist when I was 6. And it was so cool, like, you know what? It started when I was, when I was 8 years old, I remember there was no cable TV, there was no VCR, and the movies that I really wanted to see, like Gates of Hell or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, never went to television. You'd look at the ad in the paper, and someone's older brother had seen it, and they described scenes from it, and you were like, I gotta see it, I gotta see it! But you could never get to the movies to see it, and then it was gone. And then you'd look at pictures from it, but it's like your imagination's open, just looking from these TV ads, you'd think, God, what is it like? What is it that's in these movies that's so bad, that's so forbidden, that you can't even see it because they're not on television. And then, of course, when cable came, I just saturated myself with every single movie, but I was the kid, when I was 10 years old, my friends, I drove them crazy, because after the movie, I would sit and read every credit out of respect for the filmmakers, and always wait to see if there was a tag after the credits.
Question: What's the teen comedy?
Answer: The teen comedy is called "Scavenger Hunt." I'm writing and directing for Universal and I want to bring back real kids and bush. That's what's gonna come back. We've gotta bring bush back to movies. If you watch those early 80's movies, it's like watching a National Geographic video. It's amazing. And movies, like the Cheerleaders, the great Cheerleaders that just came out on DVD bush everywhere. There was bush everywhere.
Question: You have no argument from me.
Answer: I just want real tits and bush. That's gonna be the early 80's movies.
nice post Mac
this guy sounds like he has a lot of good ideas. It excites me to see someone trying to contribute to the horror genre so intensley. Him and Richard Kelly doing a movie together sounds awsome.
Tremsloth your on a 8.5 a day post. HAHAHA
Quote from: BankyTremsloth your on a 8.5 a day post. HAHAHA
the post rate is based on total post count divided by days since registering..
it's never had relevance to any real current rate, like i'm doing maybe 3 a day, and it says i hav 7 or sumthin.
Eli Roth interview about how to get laid after seeing Cabin Fever here. (http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa090803.htm) Some minor spoilers.
Quote from: MacGuffinEli Roth interview about how to get laid after seeing Cabin Fever here. (http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa090803.htm) Some minor spoilers.
i really like this guy
Quote from: Bankyi really like this guy
Same here. That's why I kept posting his interviews.
An Interview With Director Eli RothBeing the new jack stepping onto the scene when the horror genre is essentially dying, Eli Roth's main mission is to revive it and return it to its Late 70's early 80's peak. And just because he is the new kid on the block, don't think he is going to bite his tongue when it comes to speaking candidly about certain topics, especially when it comes to the stale horror films of the 1990's (Look out "Wrong Turn"!)
Upon meeting Eli Roth you wouldn't even know he is an up and coming director. He's pretty laid back and speaks to you as if you were his good friend. He even had on a Statler and Waldorf Muppet T-Shirt, and anyone who likes those two cranky Muppets is cool with me. Eli has an extreme amount of energy and enthusiasm (our conversation covered a wide array of topics.)
Here are his thoughts on the state of the horror film today. And be forewarned Mr. Roth doesn't hold back when it comes to using profanity.
Eli Roth: "Horror films are at a crisis point right now, In the 70's you had such great directors, you had like Stanley Kubrick, William Freidken, Philip Kaufman, Ridley Scott, Richard Donner, all stepping into the horror genre and saying "I'm gonna make a horror film, it's going to be a well made, smart, big budget movie, we're going to get the best actors, and the best special effects" and you had "The Omen", "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" "Alien" all great movies. Then you have a whole wave of these younger filmmakers like Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, George Romero, John Carpenter, all like kicking down the door of Hollywood saying, "These are our movies and this is what scares us!" Everyone was coming from a place of what scares us."
"Then in the 80's the "Slasher" movies killed it. I love slasher films but then it became about "How can we kill the kids this time." Nobody's thinking about what's scary anymore. Then in 1985 Schwarzenegger takes over everyone and everything and is the biggest star in the world, and every time he killed someone he made a pun. And audiences are like "YEAH! He killed somebody and made a joke! That's awesome!" And then that bled over to the horror genre, and then you have Freddy Kreuger saying things like "Have a knife day!" or "Don't lose your head." At the end of the 80's horror movies were a joke."
Eli continued about the horror films of the 90's and today.
Eli Roth: "By 1991, Horror Movies are dead. And that's when I'm in film school I'm like "Yeah I wanna make horror movies." And people are like "Nobody likes Horror Movies anymore." I'm like "No people like horror movies, it's that just we haven't had a good one." Then "Scream" comes out, and it reinvents the genre, and everyone is like "Thank You!" It's so smart because the kids in "Scream" understand and have seen other horror movies. Unfortunately, what happens now is you get "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Urban Legend 2", like all these crappy, crappy, awful horror movies where they have TV stars that say, "I wanna be like Neve Campbell and use a horror movie as my vehicle to get famous. But I have a young fan base so I'm not going to do nudity during the sex scenes. So you have this pussy-ass, fucking neutered, castrated horror movies that suck! If I see a TV Actor, if I see a fucking hot girl TV Actress in an R rated movie and she doesn't fucking show her tits in the sex scene I'm pissed off, I'm out of the movie, I feel ripped off. When I go see "Wrong Turn" and these 3 hillbillies that are so inbred they fuck each other, and they have Eliza Dushku tied up on the bed and they don't rip her fucking clothes off! It's like what the fuck is this? What happened to the teen horror movie?"
Eli mentioned how he had a horrible addiction to the TV show "Dawson's Creek." (Hey I was there too right until the end of Season 2, and then I realized what I was doing and acted like the show did not exist anymore.) Eli had some things to say about "Dawson's Creek" star Katie Holmes and her chest baring scenes in the film "The Gift."
Eli Roth: "I Love Katie Holmes, that's why we love Katie Holmes, she showed the boobs in "The Gift" that's why she's the only one breaking out as a movie star. The fucking fans respect her cause she showed her tits in a fuck scene."
Eli then spoke about how studio execs are afraid to attach the label "Horror Film" to a horror movie.
Eli Roth: "The Sixth Sense" comes along and I'm like "This is a fucking great horror movie" and it makes 300 Million Dollars, and it's paced like a horror movie, it's 2 and a half hours, it moves at a snails pace, and everyone goes crazy for it because it's terrifying. And the studios go "Wait, wait, wait, it's not a horror film, it's a Supernatural Thriller." Well what the fuck does that mean. I'll tell you what it means, it means a marketing executive realized that "Silence of the Lambs" said, "Were a Thriller." and they won every Oscar. And "Misery" is like "Yeah were a Thriller too!" and Kathy Bates won the Oscar. Thrillers are made by smart people, morons make horror films. Then all of a sudden these great horror movies come out and we are no longer allowed to call them horror films. So you have Danny Boyle doing press for "28 Day's Later" and he's like "Yeah it's a Viral Thriller." And Fox Searchlight's like "It's a Viral Thriller." It's like "Really? Cause the last 3rd of that movie is "Day of the Dead" and so much of that movie is stolen from "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Triffids" don't fucking tell me that's a thriller, it's like spitting in my face. To call "28 Days Later" a thriller is a slap in the face to all horror fans. But it's a great movie, it's a scary movie, I really enjoyed it. But no one will call it a horror film because it's like saying you're a pornographer. As soon as you say horror, people immediately think "B – Straight to Video Piece of Crap", because why? Well look what we've got "13 Ghosts", "Ghost Ship", and "Wrong Turn." These movies are fucking awful. They are unacceptable. We have to have a higher standard of better horror films. Now is "Cabin Fever" the answer to everything? No, I'm not saying it is but it's like you gotta try, you gotta go out and make the effort.
Eli went on to explain what he set out to do with "Cabin Fever." And he also explained just how he intends to help out the guys who see this film on a date with their ladies.
Eli Roth: "I went out there and said, "I wanna make a movie that's going to be a throwback to "Evil Dead" to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." I wanna make an old school, blood and guts, violent, R rated, teens in the woods horror film. Where they have sex with their clothes off. And where a lot of people die, and the people you want to live probably aren't going to. And it's going to be a disturbing, fucked up, sick, crazy roller coaster. Because people forget horror movies are the best date movies. You have a better chance of getting laid taking a girl to see "Cabin Fever" than you do "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days." And here's why, in "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days" you're thinking, "When do I put my arm around her?" Well in "Cabin Fever" every 2 minutes I am giving you an opportunity to put your hand on a girls knee, to put your head in his chest, to grab his arm. If you are not sitting on each other 's lap, if you don't get laid after seeing "Cabin Fever" you are pathetic! Because you come out the theater and the girl is like "I'm so scared, I don't wanna sleep alone." That's when you invite her to your place. Say "Come over, we'll watch Willy Wonka." And you seal the deal. Bump, set, spike. That's what horror movies are about. I want an orgy of blood and sex in the theater."
Now onto the nightmare of casting that takes us back to the female nudity topic.
Eli Roth: "Casting the film was kind of a nightmare. Finding a girl that would do nudity in a horror movie was a nightmare. You can't even imagine. These girls you see them in Maxim and FHM and they be in these photo shoots covering their nipples with dental floss bikini's with their legs spread. And you bring them in and they are like "I'm not going to do nudity and the sex scene" and I'm like "Why not?" and they are like "That's exploitation." And it's like "Really? So you're saying that your 7-page spread in Stuff of you covered in oil, rolling around in dental floss, that's high art. But this 30-second sex scene in a movie to show that you are actually a real couple, so that when you break up later it actually means something. That's exploitation?" And it's all because it's a horror movie."
Eli is next working on a Teen Sex Comedy where he intends to revive that ailing genre that has been American Pie'd out and bring it back to it's "Porky's" heyday. He also is working with another rising director, Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) on an upcoming project. It seems that Eli has a lot of things in motion working in his favor.
Meeting Eli Roth was undoubtedly an experience to remember. He has equal parts of talent and passion toward his work that is welcome to see in these days where directors just make movies to cash a paycheck. He is passionate about his craft and it's cool to know that first and foremost Eli is a huge fan of the horror genre.
I'm sure with him gaining popularity with the fans of the horror genre coupled with his new commitment to make and produce quality horror films each year going forward, he will gain his own spot along side the great horror directors that he admires.
Damn damn damn I hope I love this movie 'cause I already love this fucking guy!!!!!
i am so unbelievably excited about cabin fever.
I just realized that Jordan Ladd and Cerina Vincent were in Lynch's short Darkend Room which is available at dl.com.
He's got that interview down pat. When he did the Q&A after the screening I went to, he said the same thing, verbatim. Except he cursed more. It's even better when you hear him saying it -- he's a riot.
HOLY SHIT! This guy sounds fucking amazing. That interview is like hearing myslef talk. I havent seen Cabin Fever but i think this guy is a genius.
I wish he would name the names of the girls who would not do the nudity.
Quote from: GhostboyHe's got that interview down pat. When he did the Q&A after the screening I went to, he said the same thing, verbatim. Except he cursed more. It's even better when you hear him saying it -- he's a riot.
Then I can't wait to hear what he has to say on his commentary track.
oh sweet Jesus, my car is dead and I don't have a ride to go see it today
Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: GhostboyHe's got that interview down pat. When he did the Q&A after the screening I went to, he said the same thing, verbatim. Except he cursed more. It's even better when you hear him saying it -- he's a riot.
Then I can't wait to hear what he has to say on his commentary track.
good point. I hope he calls people out.
Also Rotten.com has given CF 84%
That is really good considering what those assholes give out
Quote from: GhostboyHe's got that interview down pat. When he did the Q&A after the screening I went to, he said the same thing, verbatim. Except he cursed more. It's even better when you hear him saying it -- he's a riot.
You're right. His interview with iFilm covers the same territory, but it's still great hearing it straight from him.
*LISTEN WITH CAUTION- SPOILERS ON SOME INTERVIEWS*http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2455845&cch=1
I feel I have to see this movie now. I can't this weekend but very soon I'll see it to just be able to give an opinion.
~rougerum
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI feel I have to see this movie now. I can't this weekend but very soon I'll see it to just be able to give an opinion.
~rougerum
same here. im sitting here watching the tv and previews keep coming on. I cant stand it.
I got a lot of promo stuff....
Cabin Fever was more funny than scary. Don't get me wrong, there were parts that had me clutching my 13.5 inch Wonderland promotional ruler, but I laughed a whole fucking lot. The gore is great, the nudity was not enough, but I loved this movie
oh and I guess this pertains mainly to Bonanzataz, but Cabin Fever blows away House of 1000 Corpses
Quote from: tremolosloththe nudity was not enough
thats odd considering the opinions he has on nudity in recent interviews
Quote from: BankyQuote from: tremolosloththe nudity was not enough
thats odd considering the opinions he has on nudity in recent interviews
yeah, that's what made me think there'd be more
Quote from: MacGuffin
. When I go see "Wrong Turn" and these 3 hillbillies that are so inbred they fuck each other, and they have Eliza Dushku tied up on the bed and they don't rip her fucking clothes off! It's like what the fuck is this? What happened to the teen horror movie?"
What a movie Wrong Turn would have been
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These girls you see them in Maxim and FHM and they be in these photo shoots covering their nipples with dental floss bikini's with their legs spread. And you bring them in and they are like "I'm not going to do nudity and the sex scene" and I'm like "Why not?" and they are like "That's exploitation." And it's like "Really? So you're saying that your 7-page spread in Stuff of you covered in oil, rolling around in dental floss, that's high art. But this 30-second sex scene in a movie to show that you are actually a real couple, so that when you break up later it actually means something. That's exploitation?" And it's all because it's a horror movie."
fuck young hollywood. I really wonder who theses girls are. aNy suggestions?
MAcguffin you should warn people about those ifilm interviews. They include many spoilers
Quote from: Bankyfuck young hollywood. I really wonder who theses girls are. aNy suggestions?
Hmm.. this one
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This one
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Maybe this one
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This one
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There's plenty more...
Quote from: BankyMAcguffin you should warn people about those ifilm interviews. They include many spoilers
I'll take your word for it. I only listened to Eli's and I don't remember hearing any spoilers from him.
the one with the two cast members played on mine somehow last nite too, and there were a few spoilers i would have rather not known being casually discussed.
Quote from: themodernage02... and there were a few spoilers i would have rather not known being casually discussed.
What, that some teenagers die in the movie?
Whoops, sorry about that. Spoiler alert.
SPOILERS
i dont want to know that the hero virgin of the film is the first to die. dick.
That's faulty information right there. Nothing's been spoiled.
Quote from: themodernage02SPOILERS
i dont want to know that the hero virgin of the film is the first to die. dick.
seriously. Those interviews were chalk full of stuff like that. It told pretty much order and how alot of them died.
and as for what pawbloe had to say.
I highly doubt since she isnt an actress at all that Jessica Simpson would be trying out
I know Lucy Lui is to old to play a teenager in one of these flicks so i doubt she tried out either.
An since her recent brush with the genre in Wrong Turn, i doubt Eliza Dushku was trying out either.
I could definantly see somone like Jessica Alba trying out though
But i did like your post. Im not trying to put it down or anything im just sharing my opinions
how about Elisha Cuthbert or whatever. I wonder if she tried out
good gawd does she need to get naked for either a photoshoot or a movie!
Quote from: BankyI highly doubt since she isnt an actress at all that Jessica Simpson would be trying out
Jessica Simpson in Mort, The Dead TeenagerSource: Superhero Hype!
Superhero Hype! has uncovered which Marvel Comics movie Jessica Simpson keeps talking about in the press. Jessica has mentioned she's got the lead role in a Marvel film next year about a character that not many people might know about.
That project looks to be Mort, The Dead Teenager which is to be executive produced by Quentin Tarantino at Dimension Films.
I will pay $2000 to see her breasts. I will throw in an extra $1000 for the full monty.
*hope hope*
Quote from: SoNowThenI will pay $2000 to see her breasts. I will throw in an extra $1000 for the full monty.
*hope hope*
I dont even think shes all that hot. She has big titties but thats about it.
So are they real, or what?
Also -- not hot? Really? But her face... those big, beautiful eyes, the hair... and what ass hips and legs!!!!
Quote from: SoNowThenAlso -- not hot? Really? But her face... those big, beautiful eyes, the hair... and what ass hips and legs!!!!
Watch her on MTV's "Newlyweds" and see how spoiled and 'blonde' she is, what a whiner and diva she is, and all that 'hotness' flies right out the window.
Quote from: SoNowThenSo are they real, or what?
Also -- not hot? Really? But her face... those big, beautiful eyes, the hair... and what ass hips and legs!!!!
yeah she has a nice body and i would guess real tits but to me her face just isnt all that atractive.
Jessica Simpson is annoying and fairly unnatractive outside of the world of airbrushing.
In Cabin Fever news, Eli Roth did a great interview with Harry Knowles right here. http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=16057
Oh, I'd like to thank MacGuffin for giving that link for the free tickets. Danke
Quote from: tremoloslothOh, I'd like to thank MacGuffin for giving that link for the free tickets. Danke
De nada. You got me some promo stuff, right?
Quote from: tremoloslothOh, I'd like to thank MacGuffin for giving that link for the free tickets. Danke
what are you talking about?
Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: tremoloslothOh, I'd like to thank MacGuffin for giving that link for the free tickets. Danke
De nada. You got me some promo stuff, right?
I have too much promo stuff. I should probably use it
Quote from: tremoloslothQuote from: MacGuffinQuote from: tremoloslothOh, I'd like to thank MacGuffin for giving that link for the free tickets. Danke
De nada. You got me some promo stuff, right?
I have too much promo stuff. I should probably use it
can yall enlighten me on what your talking about?
Quote from: Bankycan yall enlighten me on what your talking about?
Page 3. There was a special screening for Houston, TX residents. Trem went to it.
Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: Bankycan yall enlighten me on what your talking about?
Page 3. There was a special screening for TX residents. Trem went to it.
thanks, how does one "use" promo stuff?
well there's a 13.5inch Wonderland promotional ruler
then there's stickers and shit like that
Quote from: tremoloslothwell there's a 13.5inch Wonderland promotional ruler
then there's stickers and shit like that
oh ok
Okay... now I've seen it and I'd recomend it to others for sure.
Having said that, I wish I had seen it at SXSW when I had the chance because then I wouldn't have heard all this hype first.
Thing is, it's good, but not Fantastic (P, your review really helped prepare me for this possiblity, thanks)... It's got some great shit in it, but parts of it make me think it couldn't quite decide what it wanted to be or where it was going.
It had some Lynchian like characters which was kinda cool because they didn't belong, but in that same way, they did, but then again, it seemed like it wasn't sure whether it wanted it's comedy to be "strange" or "dumb" and having both is just fine, but it didn't play out very well.
Hmmm... I'm being a little hard on it because I really did like it... I thought it was one of the better movies that has come out in a while and I'm very excited about Eli Roth and his future.... it could have just been something worthy of comparisson to Evil Dead, but just didn't quite make it.
Great great horror flick ! I had a date to see it and she squeezed my arm at least 4-5 times. I now have good hopes for a second date, thank you Eli Roth !
Quote from: RegularKarateIt had some Lynchian like characters
Angelo Badalamenti did the score too, which was great !
Quote from: Pas RapportGreat great horror flick ! I had a date to see it and she squeezed my arm at least 4-5 times. I now have good hopes for a second date, thank you Eli Roth !
I went alone... intentionally... went early had almost the entire theater to myself (on a SATURDAY EVEN)... twenty minutes into the film, these fucking teenyboppers come in and sit DIRECTLY behind me... they start talking about it out loud, trying to figure out what's going on, talking about how stupid it is... So throughout the rest of the movie, I have to put up with "I don't understand..." "Why is he..." "What the hell is the deal with..." I start turning around and looking at them, clearing my throat, giving subtle hints that I'm trying to watch the movie and then after the movie, one of the girls actually leans forward and asks me what happened at the beginning... I go "you missed twenty minutes" and she says "I know... but I don't get this... what happened at the beginning" I just said "People got sick" and left.
I always end up with people like that behind me.
Quote from: Pas Rapport
Angelo Badalamenti did the score too, which was great !
Don't think he did the entire score, just a couple pieces... but you could definately tell when it was him. and yeah... it was great.
Oh Boy, did I enjoy this film! It started out with lots of laughs, but by the end no one in the audience was laughing. It was chilling and creepy, with a lot of "Oh, Shit!" moments. Did it break new ground for horror like Roth said it would? No, but it was great to see a true fan of horror do things right in this genre for a change. And you can tell Roth was a huge fan of "Evil Dead" 'cause the cabin resembled the cabin in "Evil Dead" to a T, even with the porch swing, and even naming some characters "Shemp" and "Fake Shemp".
The characters didn't come of as dumb and annoying. You felt for them. My only complaint though was the party cop. He was too over the top. But, still, I got a few chills during some scenes, and I believe the ending will blow everyone away!
Yeah I'm gonna have to give it two thumbs up. As people had already mentioned it is tribute to the whole Raimi/Tapert paradigm of Evil Deadosity. I can't remember who said they saw it and nobody else was laughing but the exact same thing happened to my brother and I. There were spots where I could not stop laughing and people were giving me the "eye." The whole awkward feeling of 'feeling' like you were watching another movie was almost as intense as when I saw "American Pyscho" and everyone was laughing their asses off except for me :( But yeah the nudity was worth a good quarter wood and although it takes some really hardcore nightmarish shit to get me cringing the scare factor was almost there. The credits made me laugh so hard I nearly shat myself, it was somewhat reminiscent of a "Dukes of Hazzard" episode sans hillibilly narrative. But yeah if you want some easy feels off your lady folk take them to see this flick they will be cringing left right and centre while you get the good and the laughs... hopefully :O
P.SpOILER Always dip your finger in the water before going in, that way you make sure her junk isn't in dire straits... yikes
I loved this movie, almost everything about it... especially the chilling moments of moral blurriness. I didn't like the joke at the end though... it was weak and defeated. The lemonade thing was beautiful, though.
Quote from: AnachronismThere were spots where I could not stop laughing and people were giving me the "eye."
(SPOILER) That happened to me when the rednecks see the bloody mess outside of the cabin and one of them (
carrying a shotgun) says "This ain't Christian."
Quote from: AnachronismThe whole awkward feeling of 'feeling' like you were watching another movie was almost as intense as when I saw "American Pyscho" and everyone was laughing their asses off except for me
The same thing happened to me with American Psycho (though I can laugh at it now). Ditto with A Clockwork Orange.
The Alamo Draft House is now giving out free lemonade during the screenings of this movie... people are happily sipping aways until the end (don't get bitchy, this isn't a spoiler).
when i saw chocolat the theater gave me a piece of chocolate. cute huh.
i liked this movie too. although, it was not what i expected. so, in a way, this too was disappointing. it doesnt really live up to the hype of "what horror fans have been waiting for". i think my biggest problem with the movie is when the shit starts hitting the fan, it doesnt go far enough. like, when evil dead goes off the deep end, it goes off the fucking deep end. but this seemed to be grounded in some sort of reality. i would have rather all mayhem broken loose and them hacking each other to pieces and crazies busting in and turning to zombies. but, like i told my girlfriend who liked it, but less, i guess you can fault a movie for what you expected it to be. i guess this is just the case of a cool little movie where the marketing campaign outweighs the film. great posters, trailers, etc. good movie. i liked it better than 28 days later. it bugged me in 28days when they got to the camp and started to have a moral. this was just fun. it didnt try to be anything it wasnt. ending was a little silly, other than that i liked the humor. it just wasnt that scary. it had some nice gross moments. and i liked the characters. the writing and acting and direction for the most part was well done. especially for a movie done under a million bucks, it looked like a million bucks. so i hope this is a success, and out of its ashes will rise a new wave of low budget great horror movies. i guess we'll see.
I was slightly dissapointed as others were with this movie but dont get me wrong i still liked it. The movie seemed to suffer from all the hype but thats not the movies fault so anyways. I'll post what i saw as cons first. The movie kinda needed to pick a genre. I felt while watching it that i wasnt even that scared and that i was laughing more than i was tensing up. In horror comedy adds lightness and serves as a releif from the suspense. Cabin Fever seemed to go the other way around. It was like the tension played second hand to the comedy. Im not saying it was always like this im just saying sometimes i got that feeling. I read this movie had "real" characters with "realistic" dialoge. I cringed during a couple of the deliveries and found that theses characters werent very realistic. Granted this was a horror flick but going in i had a different vision. I thought the term "Gay" was overused. Roth seemed to use that as a joke but the only time i thought it worked was during the squirell line which i found very amusing. I was a little dissapointed with the nudity in the film. I could be wrong but i dont think you ever see two nipples in one shot. Roth talked about how nudity was so key but the sex scenes were so short and shot from such angles that the nudity was not very affective. I must say that Freddy vs Jason knew how to show a pair of tits. Finally i dint like how the town folk were so perceptive with the idea of the flesh eating virus. Its like they didnt question it at all, they just figured it out to easy. You would think that fucked up back woods folk would not be so easily convinced. Anyway on to the pros.
Dont let the cons fool you, i really enjoyed this movie. As the movies inability to pick a genre , It also added an odd charm beacuse of the way it juggles between gore, comedy, and suspense. I thought this movie was a riot and i especially liked Roths cameo. The situation seemed real enough to hook the audience. The gore in this movie is top notch. I wonder how many gallons of blood they used. When this movie picks up speed it gets going fast. I read some complaints about the Deputy or Sheriff or whatever he was but i liked him. Did anyone else notice the Detroit Rock City connection. anyways, i loved the gore and they did a fantastic job with the amount of money they had. The scene in the tub will go down in horror history, no joke. The 3rd act is so fucked up and i really liked that about it.
All in all Roth did not "Revive" any genre. He did though, put together a highly entertaining film that will open any doors that used to be closed for him. I think Roth has a lot of potential and i am excited to seee him grow as a writer, director, and even actor.
Does anyone know what was in THE KIT?
Maybe just a gun or knife
Quote from: tremoloslothMaybe just a gun or knife
no, they had guns, if it was a weapon they would have had it out when they were breaking into the cabin not locked in a little box
I sort of got the impression that he was "slow" so he didn't really know better
Roth said that the kit contains the cure to the virus.
Where did he say that
Someone at the screening I went to asked him, and that's what he said. Then he just sort of shrugged like, 'and that's that.' I guess it's not really something that's supposed to be picked up on.
I have a feeling it's like the 'what's in the Fed-Ex box?' question in "Cast Away", and Roth's answer was like Zemeckis's tongue-in-cheek answer of "A satelite phone".
I interpreted the kit as having the cure as well. I just figured it would be one of those old town secrets that are so cliche and effective at tying loose ends.
*******SPOILER*********
What sort of dashed any notions I had of the kit playing a prominent role in saving them, yes I was rooting for them to survive with the terrible knowledge of what they had done, but then that balding christian hillbilly w. the Billy Ray do shoots poor Det Rock City in the chest and exclaims "Got him!." That sorta threw a wrench in my hopes of redemption.
I think what Banky said about the picture hopping through genres leaving you feeling a sense of filmic vertigo is spot on, but where he discredits it and considers it a con, I think that is where the strength to the film lies. I find that in general most films that attempt to emulate the stereotypical aspects of a given genre are far too predictable and dull, when people cross genres like this I think it realy leaves alot of room to think outside the box so you aren't forced to rely upon static mechanisms to progress through the different plot points and neatly wrap up the denouement. I think if given some hyped post-theatre advertising we may see it take on a cult following similar to something like Rocky Horror or Evil Dead.
Speaking of Evil Dead I am going to have to disagree with you Themodernage. I think that if I had to decide between Evil Dead and Cabin Fever as to which was more representative or indicative of a horror flick I would be inclined to lean towards Cabin Fever. To me Evil Dead was pure spoof I don't think I ever felt nervous or ill at ease throughout the whole thing, to me it felt as though the entire driving force behind the first 2 films, AOD is a field of its own, was let's have alot of fun with stop-frame, gore and Bruce Campbell while sticking within the classic confines of a graveyard gorefest.
The more I think about it, I really really really like this flick. I just can't remember the last time a horror movie actually captured my interest, aside from Bordello of Blood :) Oh yeah Roth cameod as who again? The skater? Very valid comments though, I honestly enjoy reading peoples critiques of these films very good shit.
yeah he was the skater
oh, face
wasnt he also the smiling head?
Quote from: AnachronismThe more I think about it, I really really really like this flick. I just can't remember the last time a horror movie actually captured my interest, aside from Bordello of Blood :)
Oh dear god, I forgot all about that! Dennis Miller, Corey Feldman, Erika Eleniak. ... How did that movie EVER get green-lighted? It was fun, I admit. I wish Dennis Miller had been even more over the top, since he was clearly starring in a movie that was destined to be a cult classic.
Oh and, of course, Chris Sarandon of the brilliant "Fright Night" Fame. ....
The smiling head was his brother.
Quote from: AnachronismI think what Banky said about the picture hopping through genres leaving you feeling a sense of filmic vertigo is spot on, but where he discredits it and considers it a con, I think that is where the strength to the film lies.
read the pros also
its funny, i went up to visit my sister at college and she told me she saw Cabin Fever and hated it. She said it ws awful. But for like the next two hours she kept thinking of things that grossed her out or made her laugh. I mean she remembered characters names and everything. "Squirells are gay" "Faced" "Party Man"---i mean she was qouting left and right. This movies seems to leave general audiences like "What the fuck was that" yet it has a certain residence in thier mind so i guess its doing something right.
Finally got to see this today and i have to say i liked it. Good characters, though the odd man out guy sorta annoyed me after a bit, but once he was running from the hillbillies then he became more interesting. Best part was the whole slaughter at the cabin towards the end, really made you on your seat wondering what was gonna happen next. About the whole box thing, i dont think fat guy would be trying to open the box if hero character guy was coming after him had it contained the "cure" but why he was in fact trying to open it is beyond me, must have panicked and forgot what he was doing, but oh well he got screwed. The final line from the old store worker guy was pretty funny, but the whole sing-a-long was kinda pointless. I also totally missed out on Roth's cameo, i though i remembered reading he was the guy with the dog, but as i was reading the posts on here i dont recall seeing the skater guy, can anyone point out where in the film that was. All in all it was worth it and i look forward to seeing what Roth does next in his long line of projects.
The skater guy with a dog that met them at the campfire
he scared them when he first came in
he had weed
a lot of weed
Hey, why didn't you go to the free screening at Edward's Grand Palace
Quote from: tremoloslothThe skater guy with a dog that met them at the campfire
he scared them when he first came in
he had weed
a lot of weed
Hey, why didn't you go to the free screening at Edward's Grand Palace
yeah, thats they guy i pointed out to my girlfriend when he came up, but when i looked at the credits the name for Justin(wasnt that his name?) was someone else's.
I didnt go because i had to work that night, would have loved to though, oh well.
i had no idea she was the nude foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie
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I would just like to say this movie was kickass. I went to see it Thursday night (as Isabelle was bearing down on my area) and was completely satisfied with it. Not only was it a return to the fun, cringe-inducing gross-out horror films that I thought would never be made again, it was unpredictable (as other posts astutely pointed out.) Thank God for this Eli fella! I laughed, I cringed, and I cried (my God were those two chicks gorgeous!)
Cabin Fever: 4 stars!!!!!!!
Also, does anyone know the film's budget?
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Also, does anyone know the film's budget?
less than a million
anyone know who played the bunny? lynch maybe?
I heard that P.Jackson was going on about how brilliant cabin fever was, and that it was the best horror movie ever. Hmm...
Now, I do like Bad Taste, and it is one of my fave 'bad' films, but I would never have called it a horror. I don't see how a 'bad' film can be the beste horror ever, better than The Shinning?
Quote from: ***beady***I heard that P.Jackson was going on about how brilliant cabin fever was, and that it was the best horror movie ever. Hmm...
Now, I do like Bad Taste, and it is one of my fave 'bad' films, but I would never have called it a horror. I don't see how a 'bad' film can be the beste horror ever, better than The Shinning?
i dont think that Peter Jacson said it was the best horror feilm ever
what he said was...
"Brilliant! Fantastic! Horror fans have been waiting years for a movie like 'Cabin Fever.' I loved it!"
-Peter Jackson, Director of the 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy
Ahh, well, that explains it then.
Quote from: bonanzatazi can't wait now! this is going to be a great year for horror fans, i can feel it! well, this and 28 days later. i guess that's it, unless somebody can think of more?
Ohh jeeze dont get me started on 28 days later.. i have seen that .. and if theres a movie that starts out with EVIL MONKEYS WITH VIRUS' AND THEY KILL THE WORLD AND TURN THE PPL INTO ZOMBIS or whatever THE OMVIES GOING TO BE GAY.. im sorry.. but i left in the middle of it..
Quote from: horrorchick76Quote from: bonanzatazTHE OMVIES GOING TO BE GAY.. im sorry.. but i left in the middle of it..
i know what you mean, i saw fight club and all those sweating guys were so gay, i got up and left the theatre
Quote from: horrorchick76Quote from: bonanzatazi can't wait now! this is going to be a great year for horror fans, i can feel it! well, this and 28 days later. i guess that's it, unless somebody can think of more?
Ohh jeeze dont get me started on 28 days later.. i have seen that .. and if theres a movie that starts out with EVIL MONKEYS WITH VIRUS' AND THEY KILL THE WORLD AND TURN THE PPL INTO ZOMBIS or whatever THE OMVIES GOING TO BE GAY.. im sorry.. but i left in the middle of it..
Totally don't get me started on AIDS, I mean oh my GAWD
Holy Shit, was that what the alternate ending was? Gay monkeys take over the world? Why didn't they just call it "Planet Of The Rapes"?
gay is the new black.
hahaha :twisted:
Jackson fan gets hero's approval
An American movie director who is a big fan of Peter Jackson's early horror films hopes to shoot a feature in New Zealand after attracting the support of his role model.
Eli Roth's low-budget horror movie Cabin Fever, which opened last month in the United States, was screened at the Wellington Film Festival in July.
In an interview with American movie website Zap2it.com, Roth said Jackson sent for a print of the film after hearing of its success at the festival. He then shut down production on The Return of the King so he could twice screen Cabin Fever for the cast and crew.
While Roth was in Wellington for the festival, he met the production crew at Weta Digital, which created the special effects for The Lord of the Rings and had lunch with Jackson to discuss movies.
"The experience with Peter Jackson was pretty surreal," Roth said. "Horror fans have been on to Peter Jackson for years. He's been one of my heroes since I saw Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Braindead when I was in film school.
"When I first saw his movies, I said that this was exactly the type of film I wanted to make."
Jackson also provided quotes for marketing Cabin Fever, the first time the Wellington-based director has made a testimonial for another director's film. "Brilliant! Horror fans have been waiting years for a movie like Cabin Fever," Jackson wrote.
Roth said Jackson and Weta Workshop head Richard Taylor invited him to shoot a film in New Zealand using their facilities in Wellington. "I am now going through every project I have in development, trying to figure out a way to shoot in New Zealand."
thats really cool
Mac, your animated avatar is totally fucking up my computer. :(
Anyways, the director seems really cool, so I'm glad that things are working out for him. I've yet to see Cabin Fever, but I want to. I just saw the Evil Dead trilogy for the first time (Evil Dead 2 was easily my favorite), so I'm really excited about horror movies all of a sudden.
And does anybody know what a 'OMVIES' is, and what exactly that has to do with 28 Days Later? Don't get me started... :roll:
Quote from: markums2kMac, your animated avatar is totally fucking up my computer. :(
Mine too. I can't move my pointer tool clearly anytime I stop by it. It disappears and I have the hardest time just trying to get to another page. I have to make sure to keep the on the scroll tool to the side when I read his stuff. I can't stand Blackman's avatar either. Others have the same effect as well. Fucking new technology.......
~rougerum
i was suprised to see this movie has made almost 21 million
Rider Strong on Cabin Fever 2 and the DVD
Source: Moviehole
Moviehole wrote in with this bit on a possible Cabin Fever sequel and the upcoming DVD for the horror film.
Rider Strong – he of scalding and rave-worthy horror renaissance leader "Cabin Fever" – dropped by the site to let slip some pretty cool – but surprising – news. He says he’s been signed to star in "Cabin Fever 2", the sequel to the surprise smash hit about a group of teens that get ravaged by a bizarre skin virus while on vacation. "There will eventually be a Fever 2. And I'll be in it...but that's all I'm saying. Eli and I love working together; we're going to plug each other into as many projects as possible."
Meantime, says Rider, he's been working on the DVD. "Eli and I did a commentary track together. I think they're going to edit mine in with the rest of the cast. Eli's ridiculous, he's planning on having five commentary tracks, anybody who can sit through all five is either a true fan or a true nut-job (maybe a little of both)."
Cabin Fever, made for only about $1.5 million, has grossed $20.1 million in theaters.
thats fucking awsome
I could definantly listen to Eli Roth rant for 5 tracks
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Title: Cabin Fever
Starring: Rider Strong
Released: 20th January 2004
SRP: $26.99
Further Details
We've just this minute received details on the upcoming region one release of Cabin Fever which stars the likes of Rider Strong, Cerina Vincent, Jordan Ladd and Joey Kern. This brand new horror film will be available to own from the 20th January next year and should set you back somewhere in the region of $26.99. The full disc specs are attached below along with a first look at the official region one artwork. I'm afraid some of the features are a little cryptic so your guess is as good as mine!
-2.40:1 Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer
-English Dolby Digital 5.1 Track
-Five Feature Length Audio Commentaries
-Director's Shorts: The Rotten Fruit
-The Making Of Cabin Fever Featurette
-Family Friendly Version Feature
-Music Only Track
-Chick-Vision Feature
-Rotten Fruit Feature
-Pancakes (I have no idea!)
-Theatrical Trailer
-English & Spanish Subtitles
hells yeah
NICE.
And NICE av, Banky. :)
yeah im glad you changed your as well. The MJ one kinda scared me.
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One of the First 'Cabin Fever' DVD Reviews!
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
These days DVDs are usually planned out way in advance, and many of the special features are planned as well, giving the consumer a DVD that's fully packed for such an incredible price. But the question with most Lions Gate Films is - since Lions Gate picked up an independent film that they hadn't really planned on being such a success, can they still make the DVD worthwhile with such a lack of planning? After a let down with the House of 1000 Corpses DVD, I didn't really expect too much from the Cabin Fever DVD, which is an even smaller flick in the eyes of Hollywood. But after my initial viewing, I found the DVD to be extremely well packed for such a unplanned success. The reason the DVD kicks so much ass is because Eli Roth and whomever made this DVD took whatever they could scrounge up related to Roth and plopped it down on this puppy, which carries a $26.99 SRP.
First off, the opening interactive menu (pictured above) is really cool; it shows a leg being shaven that displaying the options underneath, and then it bleeds down the leg. The special features menu (pictured above) is really cool looking too, with eerie sound effects. The special features are interesting to say the least, very interesting. There's Five Production Commentaries, "Beneath the Skin" - The Making of Cabin Fever, Three Director's Shorts: "The Rotten Fruit", The Family Friendly Cut, Chick-Vision Cut, Music Only Track, and Pancakes!
What really made this DVD for me was the "Beneath the Skin" - The Making of Cabin Fever featurette. Unlike some of the other DVDs recently, Cabin Fever's making of featurette is a fantastic 30 minutes long. Besides watching them set up the scenes, you get alot of interactions between Eli Roth, the cast and Roth's parents. I bet you didn't know that Cabin Fever is based on a true story, that actually happened to Roth! While on a trip, he had a flesh eating disease, that caused him to lose layers of flesh when he shaved, that's when inspiration hit (always at the weirdest times right?)! We also get to see the "love" between the cast and crew and learn some of the tricks on how and why the lighting is the way that it is. This is by far one of the best features on the DVD.
Next up is my favorite part of this DVD, which almost makes it worth the money right here. The Three Director's Shorts: "The Rotten Fruit" is amazing. They are three animated (claymation) videos Eli Roth made in 2000 about a band named "Rotten Fruit." The videos are violent, vulgar and hilarious! They run about five minutes each, but it'll leave you dying for a DVD of just these puppies! If you want a taste, you'll be able to watch some clips here in the near future. There's just something about rotten fruit murdering a boy band that makes me tingle.
The "Pancakes" music video is pretty cool, its nothing super amazing, it just displays the "Pancake kid" showing off his super amazing karate moves to a song entitled "Gay Bar" performed by Electric Six; it runs around 1:45.
The "Family-Friendly Version" is something I got a laugh off of once before. If you own the Freddy Got Fingered DVD, then you know exactly what this is. Its a freaking hysterical 30 second version of the film, with cheesy happy music. The "Chick-Vision" cut of the film is perfect for when you're dying to watch the film, but your girlfriend is to chicken **** to watch it. Chick Vision will "automatically block out the most frightening scenes as they approach, offering a happier viewing experience," only problem is, the subtitles won't work, big deal right?
Unfortunately, the last goodie I won't have time to listen for awhile; but come on, five commentaries, how can that not kick ass?!
I just recently found the easter eggs with a little help from Eli, and I must say, these eggs RULE! The "eggs" placed throughout the DVD show a little story revolving around Deputy Winston (Giuseppe Andres) as he "parties" hard with porn superstar Stephanie Swift and Playboy TV personality Janelle Perry from The Weekend Flash! Im not going to give away much, but it's pretty funny, totally worth checking out.
Overall, I give the DVD 4 1/2 out of 5 Skulls. If you are a fan of the flick, then you'll be a fan of the DVD. Get your own copy on January 20th, and watch back here in January for your chance to win a copy! Check out the official site until then, or see what others had to say about the film in our review thread.
damn.....5 commentary tracks....
well it was pretty obvious that Roth was gonna deliver a quality dvd
i am assume that this is at least a 2--disk set..if not then w/all those extras and sh*t the transfer will be weak....
I'm fucking STOKED. Claymation music vid to boot! HAH!
Another Case of "Cabin Fever"
The ultra-busy Eli Roth took some time out to speak with Creature Corner today about the upcoming DVD release of his already cult hit "Cabin Fever" and the question of inevitable sequels came up to which he was quite forthcoming:
"Right now it's just a rights situation, we just have to sort that out and make a deal with Lions Gate. They're very excited and they want to do it, and we'd like to do it. We have not reached a deal as of yet, we're working on that now. I had to turn in a treatment for a sequel, but at the end of the day there's a Cabin Fever 2 that Eli Roth wants to make and there's a Cabin Fever 2 that Lions Gate wants to make, and we have to make sure that it's the same movie".
Roth is busy with his Raw Nerve production company which is hard at work on several films, the first of which is Tim Sullivan's awaited "2001 Maniacs" - "We just started cutting 2001 Maniacs this week, I'm really excited. I know many distributors are circling, certainly New Line Cinema, who is the strongest. They're dying to check it out. I think everybody's first taste of the movie will be at the American Film Market in February"
The company is also developing other films right now: "We got a lot of movies in the pipeline. There's a terrific script called Sick In The Head written by Frank Henenlotter [Brain Damage, Basket Case]. It's so damn good. In order for a production company to last is to have a lot of movies in the pipeline. Boaz Yakin wrote a great script called Abraham's Daughter, and we're out to directors on that. And we just had a great meeting with Darren Scott who did Tales From The Hood. Rich Kelly [Donnie Darko] has a project he brought to us too".
Eli Roth's solo track on the DVD is already one of my favorite commentary tracks ever! It was so jam packed with great ancedotes and useful information; I swear the guy never stopped to take a breath. It was a lot like Rodriguez's track on "El Mariachi" with information overload. The guy knows his horror films and gives you a timeline about the rise and fall of the genre, even calling out the bullshit about if it's a Oscar worthy film or makes over $100 million (like "Silence of the Lambs" or "Sixth Sense") then it's a thriller. It's all horror to him. Great stuff.
damn damn damn, I need to get this
mac have you listened to the other commentaries?
Im on my third the "Guys" one and James Debello is fucking hilarious and he talks with no regard for anything respectful. He talks about his co-stars tits and how he thinks they are fake, he talks about parts in the movie he did not like, he talks about strippers in NC he tried to fuck. It is some funny shit. This DVD is really worth the money.
mac where are all the rumored easter eggs?
Quote from: Bankymac have you listened to the other commentaries?
Not yet.
Quote from: Bankymac where are all the rumored easter eggs?
Haven't found 'em and haven't read about where to find 'em.
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Eli Roth Opens The Box NextSource: The Hollywood Reporter
Cabin Fever writer and director Eli Roth will next helm The Box, a psychological thriller loosely derived from an episode of CBS' 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone.
The Box revolves around an unhappy married couple who receive a small wooden box on their doorstep. At the push of a button, the box brings its bearer instant wealth but also instantly kills someone the bearer doesn't know.
Roth will write the script with Richard Kelly, who made a name for himself as the writer/director of cult hit Donnie Darko. They will loosely adapt the screenplay from the Richard Matheson short story "Button, Button," which was the basis for a classic episode of the "Twilight Zone" revival. Kelly optioned the short story last year.
"Rich and I have very similar influences," said Roth. "We love Peter Jackson, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino and the Olsen twins."
"The film is going to be a hybrid of psychological thriller, horror and black comedy," Kelly said, "and what will hopefully come out of that hybrid is the essence that Rod Serling created in the original 'Twilight Zone' and hasn't been seen since. More than anything, it's going to be a love letter to Rod and Richard Matheson."
The project will be produced and financed by Camelot Pictures principals Gary Gilbert and Dan Halsted, who are at Sundance with their acclaimed film "Garden State." They hope to start production on "The Box" this year.
Quote from: MacGuffinEli Roth Opens The Box Next
THANK GOD.
he's milked this goat long enuff.
mac that kinda sounds like one of ur screenplays.
I remember that episode... it was cool.
Seems a little thin to make a whole movie out of, but I'm psyched about these two, so it doesn't really matter.
I even remember almost exactly that episode ends too... wonder if it'll be the same.
i maybe just missed it or whatever, but does anybody know where the trailers are on the DVD of CABIN FEVER?
also i read on dvdaficionado that the Cabin Fever is the 'theatrical re-edit'. what the hell does that mean? the version released to theatres is different from the one the previously played festivals? or the one on dvd is a different edit from the one in theatres?
Trailers are hidden in the Lion's Gate logo.
As for the wonderful easter eggs, go to scene selections and wait, there's one on each page.
Quote from: GoneSavageAs for the wonderful easter eggs, go to scene selections and wait, there's one on each page.
Thanks for the tip...
"That's some bad rug burn you got there, baby."
:lol:
Another tip, if you just go to the last set of Scene Selections (Chapters 25-27) and wait, when the egg comes on, hit 'ENTER' and the entire set of easter eggs will play in succession without having to wait for each page to recycle.
yeah, thanks! :-D
i hope Deputy Winston Returns for the sequal
this film worth a rental?
Quote from: SHAFTRthis film worth a rental?
if you dig the genre
Quote from: BankyQuote from: SHAFTRthis film worth a rental?
if you dig the genre
tough to say...the evil dead films never floored me like they floored some.
I enjoy Jason X & Freddy Vs Jason.
check it out
it actually is a really funny and fun movie
EVIL DEAD RULES. that is all...
Quote from: SHAFTRthis film worth a rental?
yes sir.....actually w/ all the extras and sh*t its worth buying.....
Another Easter Egg can be found on the disc, trickier than the other ones. Simply watch the movie and during the hospital scene you will see a man in a rabbit costume on the screen. Press the 'Enter' key during that scene and you will have the chance to see a very special hidden feature. Director Eli Roth first congratulates you for finding the Easter Egg and then treats you to some deleted footage involving the original dog (who couldn't act) as well as some footage of Eli having difficulty with the dog they did use.
i finally caught this the other day at a buddies house. maybe this just isn't my genre, or maybe i just don't get it, but overall this movie made me go :? , two time. is this movie not suppose to be a return to form for the horror genre? when it came out i kept reading reviews like "best horror movie of the last decade/a revival of true horror..." what about it, if anything, is so innovative? it's the same made-for-tv horror schtick premise you see again and again. well, maybe i don't watch enough horror to appreciate it. i think my main beef w/ the movie was it just wasn't very scary/suspensful (save the opening credits) and the feeble attempts at tongue-in-cheek humor didn't help. i couldn't figure out if this was suppose to be a parody or what. the lynchian-esque characters were blatantly pointless when they should've been mysterious. it's as if roth was just trying to do the weirdest, most random thing possible to make ppl go "wtf?" and the ending... SPOIL...
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w/ the old guy at the convenient store cleaning the gun for the 'niggers.' that was the iceing on the cake. what the hell was that all about?
you do get a sense of roth's passion and energy behind the camera, and that is admirable. i'd be interested in seeing what roth does in the near future, but this one just didnt' work for me, especially when compared to 28 days later, which is exceedingly superior on every level.
Watch it with a girl. Then watch her squirm.
Watch it with a guy. Then crack up when the kid yells, "Pancakes" before he does a couple of karate moves.
Then... that's about it. Wait, wait... a hot girl gets naked.
Now, go back to watching it with a girl.
Over-rated, over-hyped and over-credited.
That said, it was fun camp. Not a great movie by any means, but a nice little movie with plenty of the cheesy moments you'd expect from a "cabin in the woods" movie.
If any movie had a chance to revive the horror genre it was 28 Days Later.
yeah, this sucked. nothing different from your standard teenie bop horror. oh, so there's a few evil dead references. good for him...he's seen a pre-1990 horror film. good work. if the best that can be said for it is that it had hip references to 70s-80s horror films, well....
and the weird, wacky sense of "humor" was lame too. but it's one of those things where if you say that the kid that does karate and says "pancakes" is not funny, then you'll be snickered at said to not "get it". when, in fact, i did get it...it just wasnt' funny.
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......damn.........whats up w/ the cabin fever hate....???........its funny as hell........i think its the next truly great cult film........in the horror genre......every time i watch it there is something new that i didn't catch before.....this film is phucking funny man......the pancakes sh*t is a trip and the fact that the kids name is dennis.and the sign behind him saying "do not sit next to dennis or something".......the sh*t that the guy w/ the green hat talks about is hilarious....about calling the girl a slut....and when he is lying on the couch talking about what the dog did to him....that guy is a trip......and the "fingering" scene was awesome.....that was worse than the shaving scene.....i will be honest....i liked this film much more thasn the evil deads.......and then one of the scenes that causes alot of tyhe "WTF's" is when they go out looking and the one girl finds a canoe.......hahahahaah.....this film is great.....
Quote from: abuck1220when, in fact, i did get it...it just wasnt' funny.
It's not a matter of getting it, it's a matter of 'getting it.' :wink:
I think that the Peter Jackson quote and everything else calling it the second coming of horror films may have ended up hurting it more than helping (at least in terms of reactions, if not box office). It's really not that scary. Squirmy is a good way to describe it. It's not a spoof, and it's not serious...it just occupies some weird in-between space that either seems dementedly brilliant or just lame, depending on your POV.
Quote from: Ghostboydementedly brilliant
gotta support what Roth stands for
yeah, it's funny and self-mocking in a less intellectual way than Scream. that's all it has going for it. plus a throwback to good nudity.
it's nothing revolutionizing,. scream was the future of horror films, cos it killed everything that was wrong with the genre. this is like a quirky shock fest with sum gruesome bits.
it was overhyped (and ppl like NEON bought into it) cos eli roth needed his first film to be a success. it was his one big chance so it's understandable that he fully went for it and tried to make some money. which obviously worked. i hope now he can ease up on the overhype and move onto another project.
can't argue w/ the nudity.
Quote from: ©bradyou do get a sense of roth's passion and energy behind the camera, and that is admirable. i'd be interested in seeing what roth does in the near future, but this one just didnt' work for me, especially when compared to 28 days later, which is exceedingly superior on every level.
yeah i re-watched this last week and noticed that its actually pretty bad. i thought it was cool in the theatres (although a huge letdown from the pj hype), but watching it now the dialogue seemed pretty badly written, and as a few others brought up, its really not scary. there were some cool elements there, but overall i think the film does not work. so i'm going to reverse my opinion on this one and give it a :yabbse-thumbdown:
Quote from: Pyeah, it's funny and self-mocking in a less intellectual way than Scream. that's all it has going for it...it's nothing revolutionizing this is like a quirky shock fest with sum gruesome bits....it was overhyped (and ppl like NEON bought into it)...
i just thougth is was solid man....i thought the dialogue(however some may say its poorly written) was funny as sh*t...i have mentioned earlier some parts that I...and anyone w/ a decent sense of humor would find funny.....and i liked how eli was main gfun of the cheesy horror genre(the slo-mo ass shot, his cameo appearence w/ the bag of weed, the off the wall campfire story, there are many more that i'm forgetting)..but its very evident in this film that roth was pokin/having fun w/ the genre.....aslo its nice to see the homage to evil dead(the cabin).....also i like how you pick up something new each time....for me it was the scene w/ the bunny..(i didn't realize the bunny was serving dennis pancakes....)....i know that my reasons for likig this film may not change anyones mind(..since when does it ever happen???)...but i try....to let people see it my way....and maybe open a different angle to them....that previously wasn't measured by oneself the first time watching this film...
Quote from: Pit was his one big chance so it's understandable that he fully went for it and tried to make some money
are you saying that he made this just for money????(i.e. just a quick hopefull film that might make a buck to finance my "real, artistic films"..)
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i don't know what ur arguing, u just repeated what i said. it was funny and it's good, i agree.
i said scream was more revolutionary and this is getting hype cos especially for a first time filmmaker it's CRUCIAL that their first film is a success. obviously eli roth has other ambitions. i think this has served its purpose which was to get him noticed. that's what the hype is about, and now i hope he can move on to better things.
Quote from: Pi don't know what ur arguing, u just repeated what i said. it was funny and it's good, i agree.
.........oh, my bad
P..........8)....your critiques are hard to understand....like GT's...... :wink:
I'm late, but I finally saw this. I'm not going to argue the merits if it's redefining or revamping the horror genre, because I don't really care. I will say this, I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. I watched it with my roommate and my girlfriend and whereas she hated it, my roommate and I were cracking up through the whole thing. I'm tempted to buy the dvd with all those commentaries. The chick-vision supplement on the DVD is priceless. I just really, really enjoyed watching this. It has probably toppled Freddy vs Jason and maybe Jason X as movies I just really enjoy watching.
Quote from: SHAFTRI I'm tempted to buy the dvd with all those commentaries. .
....dude......you NEED to get the dvd........especially if you like it THIS much.....its very well presented......has some really good sh*t on it.....like the"rotten fruit" shorts..and other stuff......and as far as the commentaries go, i have only listened to the first one(just roth himself)...and its phucking awesome!!!......he's got a hell of alot of enthusiam ....reminds me of the pta commentaries.......just talks and talks talks..about everything.......i haven't listened to the rest but..maybe someone else could help you out in that department ......but its worth the price of owning this......you have my gaurantee...... :salute:
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Cabin Fever has just been released on DVD and now you can watch the skin peel off a hot girl’s legs in the privacy of your own home. When I first saw Cabin Fever I had only heard that it took place in a cabin in the middle of the woods, co-writer/director Eli Roth was a bit of a film geek and that Harry Knowles had been hailing it as “the new hotness.” To me, that makes me think that the movie was going to be pure buffalo mozzarella and a total rip-off of the Evil Dead movies.
But after seeing the film I knew that that Roth was a new horror visionary on the scene. It’s a film that’s not just monsters jumping out giving the cheap scare. It’s a film that pays great homage to the horror films of the 1970’s, mostly David Cronenberg films. Perhaps we’ll be hailing Eli Roth as the new Baron of blood.
While the marketing campaign that came along with the theatrical release of Cabin Fever may have been slightly misleading, the DVD is dead on with Roth’s weird and funny sensibilities. Highlights on the DVD include Chick-Vision which covers up any offending scenes, the Family version which is about one minute long and many cartoon shorts, called The Rotten Fruit. The Rotten Fruit is a British hardcore rock band, composed of fruit, which vomits and trashes hotel rooms.
I got a chance to talk with Roth about his upcoming work with Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly, the affect of Ain’t it Cool News and gore.
Daniel Robert Epstein: So you’re a big fan of SuicideGirls.
Eli Roth: We love SuicideGirls; I was actually made aware of it after Rob Zombie did an interview.
DRE: That was me who talked with him.
ER: I became addicted to it ever since; I think it’s great.
DRE: Are they your kind of girls?
ER: Well I like all kinds of girls [laughs]. I don’t discriminate when it comes to girls. But I think that the SuicideGirls tend to be more open to really disgusting horror movies.
DRE: Oh yeah they love horror movies.
ER: They’re into the same stuff that I’m into so I love those girls. Unfortunately I’m so not their type of guy. I don’t have any piercings, I have like one earring and I have no tattoos. I’m fairly clean cut.
DRE: I’m the same exact way too.
ER: So the girls like that generally don’t look at me and think I’m into the cool stuff.
DRE: I mean I first found SuicideGirls because I looked up “naked Goth girls” on Google.
ER: Right.
DRE: So, that’s just fun to look at.
ER: Naked Goth girls [laughs].
DRE: So when Cabin Fever opened at $9M you must have been ecstatic.
ER: I was thrilled. The movie cost a million and a half dollars to make and with a film with no distributor there’s no guarantee whatsoever so you don’t think you’ll ever see a dime. So, first of all to have it hit theaters and have it be Lion’s Gate widest release ever on 2100 screens was incredible. But then there’s the real test, I co-wrote this in 1995 so I’ve had this movie in my head for almost eight years. So you’re just sitting there thinking god I hope it works [laughs]. I was so happy it was a huge opening for Lion’s Gate. I think it was their second highest opening ever.
DRE: Oh really?
ER: Yeah, but the truth of the matter is that we went up against huge movies and we still we came in pretty close behind Nicolas Cage in Matchstick Men, but we knew Johnny Depp would be number one but I was still thrilled. The movie made five times its budget in its opening week which is pretty incredible. I know there was statistics from The Hollywood Reporter that it’s the most profitable horror movie of the year and I think the most profit-turning movie since Blair Witch based on what it cost. Howard Stern was talking about it and it was on like every single website.
DRE: Did Howard like it?
ER: Howard loved it. He’s been plugging the movie. It’s just an incredible feeling especially after so many years of rejection where no company would ever make it. Finally I found other producers and we formed a company and made it on our own. So at the end of the day to know that it opened with just good actors and no major stars. Basically I worked my whole life towards something and then it happens.
DRE: I read a couple things. Did Lion’s Gate buy it for $12 million or did they spend $12 million in marketing?
ER: They bought it for three and a half million. We made everyone’s money back. I think they spent upwards of $12M in advertising. So the total package was $15 million.
DRE: That must have been really amazing just to make back your investor’s money because I know that a lot of filmmakers feel an obligation to their investors as well as making a film.
ER: Yeah, well that’s the tricky part. The highest compliment is that people did not know Cabin Fever was an independent film. Many thought it was a regular studio release and that’s actually it is a very fine line because you want to make the best film possible. So you also have this incredible pressure that if people don’t make their money back they’re going to be financially ruined. This was financed by my aunt, my parents, friends and many people that risked their personal fortune. My dad took money out of his retirement; other people had spent their entire savings so if we didn’t make the money back it would have turned into this vortex. Then there was this incredible moment where it’s like this great weight was lifted knowing that everybody not only had made their money back but it’s really going to make a substantial amount of money on their investment.
DRE: I read that [co-writer] Randy Pearlstein said that you and he got together to write something more commercial. Is that true?
ER: No, that doesn’t sound right.
DRE: Okay, then ignore that [laughs].
ER: I wrote the first draft and Randy was my roommate while I was living in New York. At the time I brought him in to help rewrite the script with me and he really helped to flesh out the characters, so to speak, and add other layers to the story. He did things like help structure the movie and make the characters more realistic. I always believed that if you made a really, really, sick disgusting horror movie there would be a huge audience for it. The beauty is that I’ve always said to people you don’t need stars, you don’t need big production value and often the reverse is true. If you have a low-budget movie it somehow feels more real and it makes it scarier if you don’t have preconceived notions and associations with the characters. In certain types of horror films it makes it scarier. The Blair Witch Project is a prime example of that.
People just want to be scared and grossed out. All these companies said that the movie was too final, that it was uncommercial or they hated the fact that it was scary and funny. That’s something that a lot of people have problems with. People are so used to being spoon fed bad movies that their minds aren’t open to other forms of film. Also the marketing campaign was very misleading. I thought that certain things were excellent, but I was frustrated that they didn’t tell people it was funny. People that expected it to be funny and scary get their expectations met and the people that are expecting 28 Days Later are totally thrown off. This film is a weird, creepy roller-coaster ride that’s supposed to be funny and then it just gets weird and everything is just dark and fucked up.
DRE: One of the main comments, from the people that didn’t like Cabin Fever, was that they thought that at times it got a little silly. Certain points that got silly such as the pancakes kid and the last scene. You could have just as easily made this a much darker movie by cutting those scenes out.
ER: Of course, but that’s not the movie I wanted to make. I wanted to make a movie that was weird and funny. That’s my style. If you go to a restaurant and you order chicken and they bring you steak you’re frustrated because you saw something on the menu and that’s what you paid for but then something arrives that wasn’t what you were expecting. That’s what happens when you see a commercial and it says “this is the scariest movie you’ve ever seen.” You go there expecting to be scared and when it’s funny you’re thinking, “why isn’t this scary?” But if you were told from the beginning that this movie is funny and scary and you were in the mood for that and paid money then you’d be open to that kind of stuff. I think people need to be prepared for what they’re going to see. People generally aren’t open to something that’s kind of alternative or weird.
DRE: But you’re not saying to reveal too much about the movie in trailers. That’s not what you meant.
ER: No, it’s got to be some hint of it. Which is why on the cover of the DVD they put the Peter Jackson quote, “hilarious bloodbath”.
DRE: Right, right.
ER: To let people know that there’s going to be humor and that it’s okay to laugh. I also hate movies where everything is explained to you. If you watch Japanese movies like Suicide Circle or The Grudge they don’t explain everything.
I love Twin Peaks where you’re sitting there and you’re thinking about it and it could be your own interpretation. It drives me crazy that people feel that the director owes it to them to absolutely explain every little thing. I don’t think film works that way. They don’t explain everything in The Shining. Watch the first 45 minutes of The Exorcist and try and explain what’s going on. You can’t, it’s just mood, it’s weird and I think that horror films are the last frontier where you can be experimental. I knew that Cabin Fever was a love it or hate it kind of movie.
DRE: What did Harry Knowles [of Ain’t It Cool] raving about Cabin Fever do for you?
ER: It had tremendous influence.
DRE: Like what?
ER: Okay, here’s how it helped Cabin Fever. We shot the movie then we got shut down by the union and they took all our money so I had three quarters of a movie and I owed the crew a hundred thousand dollars and needed six hundred thousand to finish the film. We’re running on fumes, living on credit cards and editing the movie. I showed the rough cut of the movie to my effects guys KNB Effects. They loved it.
They wrote Harry Knowles a letter saying “we feel this is the best horror movie we’ve worked on since “Evil Dead 2.” Which is the highest compliment for a horror film and I was shocked that they wrote that. Then Harry called me and I told him, “Look, I need money to finish the film. I’d love to show it to you when it’s done.” But we ended up talking about art and he got to know me a little. So Harry writes something on his site saying, “Hey guys I just got a hot tip about this Cabin Fever movie.” Since Harry wrote that I can print that out and show it to investors. The investors know how many people read Ain't it Cool. Their concern is if they invest in this movie will the fans come out and support it. I say look, “Harry Knowles is on our side,” and once they saw that they felt comfortable investing in the movie.
DRE: Wow!
ER: So I got the money to finish the film with the help of Harry. A few months later the Toronto Film Festival placed us dead last out of 343 films.
Now it’s a 12-day festival and a lot of the people just go home after several days. So I talked to Harry and he writes this whole thing on his site saying “I haven’t seen this movie but I’ve got a gut feeling Cabin Fever is the one everyone is going to be talking about. So if you’re planning on leaving early, don’t. Change your flight plan today,” because Harry wrote that it started this buzz and everyone talked about it. So by the end of the festival, we got a huge sale. A movie like Cabin Fever with no distributor, no stars, no money, that thing from Harry made all the difference in the world
Buyers need to know if they buy this movie will it be supported on the Internet. That’s just very important to them for a movie like Cabin Fever. Harry is a very good barometer as to whether or not other sites will support it.
DRE: Unbelievable!
ER: Yeah, it is unbelievable, I’m glad the guy has good taste.
DRE: [laughs] Did you meet anyone up close that didn’t like your movie?
ER: Oh sure. I know there are a lot of people who don’t like the movie. But the people that generally come up to me and talk to me at horror conventions or if I’m at a screening, are people that like the movie. Because if you hate the movie they don’t seek me out to tell me how much they hate it. So generally the feedback that I get is positive. Now I’ve read message boards so I know what people think about it. I met one critic and I talked to him and he’s like, “I hated it because I thought I heard it was scary and it’s getting all this attention. I heard you worked with David Lynch and I expected…” He brought all this baggage to the movie so I talked to him and I turned him around. When his review came out he’s like, “this movie’s great.”
I felt that he wasn’t criticizing the movie but was criticizing the hype around the movie.
DRE: What do you feel the problems were with it? Now that you can look at it objectively?
ER: It’s weird because certain people criticize that the pancake scene doesn’t make any sense. The thing that bothers me is the ending that the studio re-cut. There are certain scenes that I wish I could have made really much more grotesque like the hog lady. All my problems I have with the movie are stuff that I wish I’d had more time to shoot, more time to do. I did make the movie I wanted to make and I’m very happy with it. But there are always things you want to do different but I’m so happy with the photography, I love the score, I love the sound design that kind of stuff.
DRE: Did you and Randy come up with a philosophy for the movie first or did that come out of the writing of the script? The philosophy to me is “hell is other people.”
ER: I wrote the original story and it was all about the gray area between wanting to help your friends but not wanting to get sick. This area between compassion, survival and where does everyone draw their own line. Also this feeling of the way people panic when there’s a disease they don’t understand and the way they react totally irrationally. People watch Cabin Fever and go “well why don’t they just drive to the doctor or whatever.” But then you look at SARS breaking out and they just sealed off the apartment building in China. They wouldn’t even let those people in the hospital. So whenever there’s an illness that people don’t understand, they go crazy. I loved the idea that you should do onto others as you want done to yourself and everything they do to other people finally happens to them. They light a guy on fire and in a weird way they all end up lit on fire. There’s this feeling that everyone is trying to avoid the problem by kind of sweeping it under the table and it comes back to bite them in the ass; those are the things that I was interested in
DRE: It seems like you had a ton of input on the DVD. Was it totally under your control?
ER: Completely yeah. That’s what was great. Lion’s Gate was really terrific about letting me have complete control of the DVD and we worked with a great company called Third Vector. They really care about doing DVDs the way the director wants to do them and I had this whole idea for this Chick-Vision. Every time 14 old girls saw the movie they would watch it through the cracks of their fingers. I felt like we’ve got to have a feature called Chick-Vision.
DRE: It kind of reminded me the way Todd Solondz put the red bar on Storytelling.
ER: Our thing is a joke, but it does run the whole film. What Todd Solondz did in Storytelling was he was so pissed off that the censors made him cut that scene so he slapped that red bar up.
DRE: I know you generate your own material but are offers rolling in?
ER: It’s funny. Every remake gets sent to me. There’s a certain type of movie that gets sent to me. I get sent $15 million studio comedies.
DRE: Is that any of that stuff appealing to you? I know Todd Phillips’ films are different than yours but he saw Starsky & Hutch and just snatched it right up and thought it was a great idea for him.
ER: Todd Phillips is one of my favorite filmmakers. I would love to have a career like Todd Phillips because he makes kick ass documentaries.
DRE: He’s amazing.
ER: His comedies are as funny as hell.
I’m writing a comedy for Universal Studios so that will be like American Pie. It’s really like a Porky’s type movie. But there’s another script that I’ve read called Drawn which was the scariest script that I’ve ever read and now I’m set to direct it.
DRE: Oh wow. Who wrote Drawn?
ER: This guy Rand Ravage who wrote and directed the Astronaut’s Wife. I’ve probably read two or three hundred scripts and it’s the only one that’s made me stop in my tracks. I’m also writing a movie with Richard Kelly who wrote and directed Donnie Darko.
DRE: When a script shows up and it’s written by the guy who did The Astronaut’s Wife do you go, “Ah, what the fuck?”
ER: No the way it works is my agent calls me and says the guy who wrote “The Astronaut’s Wife” wrote a script and I think you’d love it. He’s not attached to direct it but would love to know what you think about it. He sends it to me and I go, “oh my god”, then I met him and we sit down and talk about the Astronaut’s Wife. Where it went wrong and what happened to the making of that movie. He’s a very smart guy and I said I would want to adapt these changes into the script and he totally agreed with them and he implemented them. So it was the first time I ever got to work with a writer just as a director where my ideas get into the movie and you can really make a project your own.
Then my agent will call and tell me they’re sending over The Dukes of Hazzard.
DRE: Did you like The Dukes of Hazzard when you were a kid?
ER: Loved it.
DRE: So when the script for the movie showed, did you say to yourself “Man I would love to do something like this.” But then you realized it was going to be two years of your life and its only The Dukes of Hazzard?
ER: No, I mean I haven’t read the script yet. But it’s got to be something that I feel I can make into great movie. If I read the script and go, “there’s a great idea here and I’d like to rewrite it” then they’ll let me do that.
The thing about Cabin Fever is since I am the co-writer, producer and director is that I had total control of the film. But for my next film I definitely want to do a much bigger budget movie. I don’t want keep making low-budget horror films it’s too exhausting and stressful, I can’t afford it.
DRE: Do you have a girlfriend? I’m not asking you out or anything.
ER: No not currently.
DRE: Did you get laid a lot for when traveling around with this movie?
ER: First of all you don’t get laid when you’re making a move, at all. There’s no sex for like a year and a half. That’s the first thing you have to be willing to give up, not because you’re a director in Hollywood and you can’t meet girls. But you have no time and you’re constantly thinking about the movie. It’s like it infects you and takes over everything. The next thing you realize is you haven’t had sex in like two years then the movie ends. Once we sold the movie up in Toronto there was kind of a spree where I finally made up for lost time.
DRE: How easy was it to get laid?
ER: Traveling the world with the movie I get to go to different countries. You’ll meet a girl and the girl always assumes, “Yeah I bet you do this at every festival” and you’re like, “no I really don’t,” and they’re like, “yeah, yeah, you’re a director, you’re single, you probably fuck girls at every festival, I’m not going to be that girl. I’m not going to be that one that just fucks you.” So I just go around from festival to festival to festival and wind up trying to convince girls that I don’t have sex with other girls at festivals.
At the end of the day I just wound up hanging around with other directors and stuff because here’s Richard Stanley who made “Dust Devil.” He’s so cool, am I going to run off with some idiot chick or am I going to sit here and ask him about when he got fired off Dr. Moreau and hid as one of the characters working as an extra.
DRE: Really?
ER: Yeah it’s like fascinating so that’s what happened.
DRE: But if you went as not the main guest then you’d get laid.
ER: Yeah I went to the Fangoria convention last weekend and I will say nothing other than the bite marks and scratch marks won’t go away.
DRE: [laughs] Are there more personal stories that you want to tell? Like non-genre type?
ER: About what?
DRE: About yourself.
ER: Sure. It’s been incredible; this whole thing has been an incredible journey. In the last year, my life has turned completely upside down. Where one minute you’re totally broke and you’re sitting in an editing room and the next you’re being flown around the world and you’re meeting Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino. I’ve really met all of my heroes and I’ve also learned a lot. I’m living my dream and I’m also being very careful to make sure that I enjoy it. I’ve started up a horror company with some other filmmakers and it’s called Raw Nerve and we’re going to be producing three to five low budget horror movies a year so that way even if I’m directing a movie, like when I make my teen comedy for Universal, I’ll have at least several horror movies in production that I’m involved in.
DRE: So you saw the Olsen twins got into NYU right?
ER: I was so excited that the Olsen twins are going to NYU and I now want to go and teach at NYU. So this movie, Drawn, is the ideal movie for the Suicide Girls. It’s really dark, apocalyptic, fucked up, scary and very violent but I guarantee if the Olsen’s twins were like “hey Eli, we want to make a move where we co-star with a monkey.” I’ll do it in a heartbeat.
DRE: Tell me about The Box.
ER: It’s going to be great. They just announced that we closed the deal. Richard Kelly and I are writing this movie. It’s going to be a very scary, dark twisted weird much more of a horror thriller, much more in the vein of a film like the old Polanski movies. It’s based on a Richard Matheson story. Rich and I have total creative control and what’s great about it is we can make it as dark and fucked up as we want.
DRE: Why hasn’t Richard Kelly done a second movie after Donnie Darko?
ER: Richard is very smart and he doesn’t want to do a bad sophomore movie. Rich is very meticulous and very careful. Believe me I always say to Rich that I get table scraps because any script that is sent to me, multiple that by twenty and that’s what is sent to Rich as well. He is interested in making movies like the directors that we admire like Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. These guys really were very meticulous and careful in plotting their careers and there are other directors that make one interesting film and then flame out because they make a bunch of crappy movies afterward. We are very carefully and purposefully trying to plot our careers in a similar pattern and not just run out and take the first movie that is offered to us.
What’s happened with Rich is that every A list director like Jonathan Mostow are all having Rich write movies for them. Rich is such a hot writer that he can make a tremendous living that off that alone.
DRE: He could be like John Sayles.
ER: Right exactly. But it’s very difficult to put a movie together and Rich has an incredible project called, Knowing. So that’s just been a matter of finding the right lead actor and getting the timing right. Knowing is an amazing and huge sci-fi movie. That’s what he’s doing. We’d rather make movies that we really care about.
DRE: Is the Donnie Darko director’s cut going to be more confusing or less confusing?
ER: Well what’s you’re definition of confusing. There are some people that think Mulholland Drive is confusing and I happen to feel like I completely understand that movie perfectly. Anyway I don’t go see Donnie Darko director’s cut expecting to find a narrative.
DRE: So you have these Master of Horror pizza parties with some of the people you admire. A lot of those guys either can’t make films anymore, don’t get to make films anymore or don’t make good films anymore. Do you look at them and go, “what can I do to make that not happen to me?”
ER: I think it’s a combination. What I’ve seen from these guys if they made one larger budget movie but it didn’t do well necessarily that really hurt them.
A lot of their friends who scored big early on turned on them. People get pigeonholed as hard directors and the times changed in the 90’s so you couldn’t make violent movies, the studios wouldn’t let you. So what I saw was a lot of these directors, it wasn’t so much that they started making bad movies it was that they started making bigger movies and as they were making bigger movies, more studio interference got in and started really ruining the films by re-cutting and taking out all the violence. You ask someone what happened on a particular movie and once they explained to you what their original vision was, what they originally shot was, it’s shocking so I think that it’s just a careful navigation. The people that are sticking around have figured it out such as Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson.
DRE: Larry Cohen seems to be catching up too.
ER: Larry Cohen is doing great. You’ve got to find ways to make studio movies and still retain that control. That’s what I’m going to learn when I’m going to make a studio movie.
DRE: Oh I loved the extra on the Cabin Fever DVD where you played Electric 6’s “Gay Bar” song while the pancakes kid does a martial arts routine. How did you get that?
ER: The kid sent that to me out of nowhere. Originally it was this tape of him doing karate to the Miami Sound Machine and we wanted to use it on the DVD but they couldn’t get the rights. So then Lion’s Gate was able to get the rights to Gay Bar.
DRE: Which is a great song.
ER: I sent it to him and asked him to recreate the tape exactly. He recreated the original tape and choreographed the moves. He’s so funny that he just did it in like two days. He’s got a great sense of humor but he knows it’s weird and stuff.
DRE: I loved The Rotten Fruit cartoons.
ER: Thank you. My friend Noah [Belson] and I wrote those before Cabin Fever and we put up a website called Rottenfruit.com. I’m putting together a DVD of all the episodes. Noah and I wrote them then I produced and directed them. We had a whole animation studio and Noah and I did all the voices.
DRE: That must have taken forever.
ER: We would do new episodes every two weeks. An entire episode start to finish completely sound mixed and edited in nine or ten days.
DRE: How did you do that?
ER: We worked our asses off. I had a good crew and a good system on how to do them every two weeks. We shot them on digital video. It was really fun.
DRE: Did you see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake?
ER: Yeah I had a really cool time at that. I think that if you go see a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre comparing it to the first one, you’re setting yourself up for disaster. If you go to see it thinking “am I having fun? Am I scared?” Then it’s totally enjoyable
DRE: Dawn of the Dead the only thing I could think of is that if you look at it now it’s actually not a very well put together movie. It’s not edited very well. That’s the only reason I could justify remaking that movie.
ER: If you think about it the difference in the time of the Dawn of the Dead remakes is the same difference in time between the remakes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. When those films came out I’m sure someone was like, “How dare they remake that!”
I saw this a while back on DVD. What a great little horror film. I haven't listened to any of the commenrtaries but rereading this thread makes me want to buy it.
Cabin Fever 2 begins casting
Source: Moviehole
The long-awaited sequel to Eli Roth's aggressively silly but genially brilliant "Cabin Fever" is locked in for a January start date in the area, and we've been informed that casting begins this month.
Scooper 'Sandy' tells us that auditions are taking place, and the breakdowns suggest that the film centres on a group of all-new characters. "Though I believe Robert Harris, who played Old Man Cadwell in the first film, has been signed to reprise his role, so there will be a link to the first film".
The studio wasn't brave enough to forge ahead with Roth's idea for a sequel – "My concept for the sequel was a Song of the South-style half-animated film where Deputy Winston sings songs (ones I was forced to learn in Hebrew school) to imaginary creatures in his head, and has sex with the burned, rotted corpses of everyone who died in the original, but they didn't go for it" Roth said. - so from what I can gather, they're heading into 'rehash' territory instead.
Quote from: MacGuffin on October 24, 2006, 01:24:58 AM
The studio wasn't brave enough to forge ahead with Roth's idea for a sequel – "My concept for the sequel was a Song of the South-style half-animated film where Deputy Winston sings songs (ones I was forced to learn in Hebrew school) to imaginary creatures in his head, and has sex with the burned, rotted corpses of everyone who died in the original, but they didn't go for it" Roth said. - so from what I can gather, they're heading into 'rehash' territory instead.
i don't know what to think of him now. on the one hand his idea, if he's serious, would have been goddamn brilliant and original.. but his caving in to what the studio wants, and ultimately offering nothing original at all, makes him sound like he doesn't care either way.. he just wants something to hype.
Ti West to Write and Direct 'Cabin Fever 2'!!
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
We've been informed by various sources that Ti West (The Roost) has been tapped to write and direct Cabin Fever 2, the sequel to Lionsgate's smash hit that helped kick start the horror revolution. Eli Roth helmed the original indie film, which followed a group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
whoa! way to go ghostboys friend!