The core group of characters is shallow, not great people, and they aren’t totally in the wrong to be mistrusting of them. So while the depictions of the locals as dumb, hostile rednecks have been done a million times before, in this case, they’re kind of right. Bert shot at him earlier, and rather than owning up to it, he immediately pushes the sick man away. It speaks to the way they grew up that they try and cover the manslaughter up, and that their first reaction to his being sick was hostility.
The main group of friends is, after all, totally fine with setting fire to a man who clearly needs help. But like everything else in the movie, it’s taken too far. The way that the locals are portrayed is also fairly typical, but here, they kind of have a point. The interesting thing, though, is that while many of the characters can be insufferable (the aforementioned Bert being a chief offender), they are consistent and at least given some form of development so you understand them.
#Long dark cabin fever movie
The movie most certainly plays up stereotypes, with every character filling the designated slasher role, and it is loaded with violence and more than a little sex. It’s a pretty horrific act even though it was accidental, but this is the second time in the movie Bert is accused of murdering somebody. The thing is that Bert is the one who accidentally shot an infected backpacker earlier in the movie, then Paul (Ryder Strong) killed him with fire. The kid’s dad proceeds to shoot at Bert, saying that if his son is sick, it’s the same as murder. Because of course there’s a banjo in this movie. Cue music that wouldn’t sound out of place in The Return plays, and he flips and kicks then bites Bert on the hand. Then the kid (presumably named Dennis, if the sign that says “DO NOT SIT NEXT TO DENNIS” is to be believed) does some karate. The owner of a local corner store says he’ll get a doctor, and to stay where he is. It comes during the movie’s third act, and Bert (the douchebag role filled by James DeBello) is looking for help since most of the other people at the cabin are sick. Take, for instance, the infamous “ PANCAKES!” scene. It’s the same setup a million other horror movies have, but while I wouldn’t call Cabin Fever great, it has a set of quirks that sets it apart from the rest of the pack.Ĭhief among those quirks is the bizarre humor. This time, it’s a flesh-eating virus and the crazed locals that see them as outsiders. On the surface, Cabin Fever is about as generic as horror movies get, with a bunch of hot young 20-somethings going to party it up in a cabin in the middle of the woods, unknowing of the danger that lurks in the woods. Among them is Eli Roth’s debut feature Cabin Fever(2002).Īs a first-time filmmaker and horror lover, Roth didn’t want to reinvent the wheel with his first movie. It wasn’t a great time for horror, is what I’m getting at, although there are of course exceptions to that rule. Slashers came back into then dropped back out of vogue, meta-horror rose to popularity, and everyone was trying their best to be edgy while failing to make good movies. To say that horror was in a weird place during the first decade of the 2000s is a bit of an understatement.
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