Maybe that’s not enough to hold against Zariwny, who made it his goal to expunge Roth’s film of its humor and turn one of the characters, Bert, into a tolerable human being.
That, right off the bat, should tell you whether there’s anything here for you, and whether you’re just better off watching literally anything else and getting on with your life. But that’s not enough to justify his experimentation, much less make it “good.”Ĭabin Fever ’16 is functionally the exact same film as Cabin Fever ’02, right down to the plot formula: Kids go to a cabin in the woods to party, kids contract a flesh-eating virus, kids get dead, gruesome as you please. Sure, Zariwny’s film uses different shots, different scenery and different cast members, and sure, there’s a slight uptick in viscera, too, which should satisfy horror fans who only embrace horror that pushes the boundaries of what causes one’s stomach to churn and what does not. (Why? Does Roth’s version not get to the carnage and rampant softcore sex fast enough or something?) That’s close to exciting in theory, and kind of abominable in practice. This isn’t a franchise the world needed or asked to see renewed, though on paper the exercise sounds very nearly avant-garde: Zariwny used Randy Pearlstein’s shooting script from 2002, trimmed down by about 30 pages or so.
You asked for it, apparently, but then again did anybody really? Since 2002, the film has inspired a pair of rotten follow-ups that make Roth’s own efforts look downright sophisticated.
Fourteen years feels like a blip when even the most franchised American horror icons-Jason, Freddy, Michael-were each given grace periods just shy of three decades before studios decided to put a fresh coat of paint on their timeworn chassis. Case in point: Cabin Fever, Eli Roth’s 2002 gorefest debut, which has been given a 2016 makeover by Travis Zariwny, styled here as “Travis Z.” (The “ariwny” is silent.) Why so soon? Well, define “soon.” Lions Gate and DreamWorks barely waited a minute to pounce on their Japanese acquisitions, after all, but Cabin Fever is a U.S.
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For whatever reason, horror, maybe more than any other genre, is forgiving of unwanted updates and modernizations of its classics and essentials, even if horror fans themselves are typically less so.īut to paraphrase an old bromide, just because you can remake a horror movie doesn’t mean you should. You can even go back as recently as 2015’s Poltergeist, 2013’s Carrie or the Japanese horror remake trend of the early to mid 2000s, which saw titles like The Ring and Ju-On: The Grudge repeatedly translated into American product. Think The Blob ’88, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers ’78, or John Carpenter’s masterpiece The Thing (which itself was subject to remaking in 2011).
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