Cabin Fever

[MacGuffin]

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.

[©brad]

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.

[Pwaybloe]

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.

[Raikus]

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.

[abuck1220]

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.

[RegularKarate]

[NEON MERCURY]

......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.....

[Ghostboy]

when, 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.'  

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.

[Banky]

dementedly brilliant

gotta support what Roth stands for

[Pubrick]

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.

[abuck1220]

can't argue w/ the nudity.

[modage]

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.

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  

[NEON MERCURY]

yeah, 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...  

it 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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[Pubrick]

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.

[NEON MERCURY]

i 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......