Film review: Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever @ IMDB

What? You thought all these reviews were going to be of current films? I haven't seen this film before. And anyway, with the recent release of Hostel Part II it's almost topical.

So. Group of teenagers go into woods, get some flesh eating virus, bad things happen to them. Same old, same old.

My problem with this film: it goes to the throat too quickly. There's no real tension, no sense of claustrophobia. The characters are annoying at best. Yeah, it's nice and gory but that only gets you so far. I don't know. Maybe if I haven't seen films like The Evil Dead before then I would have thought this was great.

This, frankly, should be a modern interpretation of The Thing. But it isn't. It's empty. It's just a string of "oh, wouldn't this be gross" scenes with nothing holding it together.

The best weapon for this film is a shovel. If you've seen it you'll know.