Cabin Fever Is the most overrated, overhyped mediocrity since... well...28 DAYS LATER (kudos to David Poland for that set up).
And just like DAYS, this film has a lot of promise if only the filmmaker had spent an extra couple of weeks on the script. But you get the feeling that Roth spent more time checking out what cool gross things his make-up effects guys had come up with than worrying about making the characters believable or the plot logical.
I will give him credit for attempting a horror movie that tries to avoid any supernatural BS (although the psycho dog comes close). He lets the virus and the paranoid self-protection of the characters do the work of boogeymen. And a few times this works, but not enough.
This isn't even worth renting unless you are a 12 year old taking a break from sniffing gas however.
And just like DAYS, this film has a lot of promise if only the filmmaker had spent an extra couple of weeks on the script. But you get the feeling that Roth spent more time checking out what cool gross things his make-up effects guys had come up with than worrying about making the characters believable or the plot logical.
I will give him credit for attempting a horror movie that tries to avoid any supernatural BS (although the psycho dog comes close). He lets the virus and the paranoid self-protection of the characters do the work of boogeymen. And a few times this works, but not enough.
This isn't even worth renting unless you are a 12 year old taking a break from sniffing gas however.