![]() ![]() And gone are all elements of Eli Roth’s quirky, dark humor that helped give the original some of its character. Almost all of the scenes from the original look to have been faithfully recreated, only they’ve now been shot from the opposite angle. But the film also has some small visual and tonal changes. Small things like the cabin and the lake location are much nicer, the deputy getting gender-swapped, and the gun used being switched from a rifle to a semi-auto are prevalent throughout, but have no effect on the story. ![]() It’s just that the bulk of the changes pretty much just amount to little more than hollow window dressing. That’s not to say that the film is a 1-to-1 copy and doesn’t make any changes from the original film. Yep, it even starts exactly the same with a grisly dead dog to ruin your day. That’s how little this film deviates from the source material. The movie even runs about the same time, so I suspect that you could play them side-by-side and they’d remain synced up, probably right up until the last few minutes. So the characters are the same, the order they die in remains the same, and 95% of the dialogue has not changed at all. There are entire exchanges that do not deviate from the original one iota. And I mean, like, word-for-word the same. But other than that, this is the EXACT SAME SCRIPT. To their credit, the filmmakers did go to the trouble of updating several elements of the script ( slightly), so things like the setting, the cabin and the gun get an upgrade, the technology and the cars are new, and there are references to things like the internet and Minecraft. I mean they actually used the exact same script to film this remake that they used back in 2002. And no, I don’t just mean it just follows the same story with the same characters. I was still determined to give it a chance, but it looks like my penchant for optimism was, sadly, misplaced.īefore you watch the 2016 remake of Cabin Fever you need to ask yourself one very important question, namely: Have I already seen the original that came out in 2002? If the answer is “yes” then - Good News! - you don’t have to spend 2 hours of your life watching this version. Seems like I’m not the only one though, because based on some of the review scores it doesn’t look like this movie impressed anyone else, either. Frankly, I’ve never found anything offered on such services all that impressive. But then I read that it was initially released as one of those VOD things and thought, “Ah, that explains it.” I’ve never much cared for or paid attention to stuff like that. As a horror movie junkie I’m usually more on top of these things. I was very confused when I read that there was a Cabin Fever remake, and I was even more confused when I realized that it had come out over six years ago, and I had never even heard of its existence up until now. But when a rambling, infected man stumbles upon their vacation spot one night, begging for help, their idyllic trip takes a sudden turn as they quickly realize that they’ve become trapped in the wilderness and are now forced to contend with a contagious, flesh-eating disease. Their initial complaints of a lack of any cell reception or a phone now only seem like a minor inconvenience. The cabin is huge, the location is beautiful, and there’s no one around for miles, so they can party without interruption. ![]() Things start off rocky when they run into some crazy locals, but once they get to the cabin everything seems great. A group of five friends head off to a scenic lakeside cabin, hoping to have a nice, relaxing week. ![]()
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