I'm not saying I expect my horror flicks populated with MENSA members or anything, but it'd be nice if these kids didn't continually demonstrate such a pervasive and fatal lack of common sense. Your average below-average horror-movie yahoos. Along the way, a girl fails to notice that she's shaving the rotten skin off her own leg, a guy falls directly onto a floating corpse after poking it with a stick for no apparent reason, and that same guy so misjudges the location of a girl's vagina that he spends several minutes fingering her leg wound. The very bad thing in question is a nasty flesh-eating virus that begins rotting them alive, even as their growing paranoia drives them apart and sets this against each other. Famously inspired by Roth's own run-in a nasty skin infection, Cabin Fever takes a straight-from-central-casting group of young friends, dumps them in an isolated forest cabin, and lets very bad things happen to them. Far be it from me to disagree with Peter Jackson, but the best thing Roth has ever done was play the Bear Jew in Inglourious Basterds. Eight years later and in the aftermath of a renaissance (if you can call it that) of splatter and torture porn, it's hard to figure out why anybody thought Cabin Fever was such a big deal in the first place. Get ready to Binge on One of Cables #1 Watched Com.Remember when Eli Roth was supposed to be the next big thing in American horror? His 2002 film Cabin Fever sported an old-school love of gleeful gore, nudity for nudity's sake, and quirky humor that helped set it apart from most of the horror spectrum at the time.A WOMAN KILLS (1968) (Radiance Films Blu-ray Review).
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