Bloody hell! What were the �Cabin Fever� makers thinking? This starts off on fine form with a bunch of friends busting out of high school and into the country for something of a holiday in a cabin. Pity that the locals they meet are yokels, and that one strange guy wandering around the nearby woods has been infected with a grisly, flesh-devouring disease: a disease that doesn�t look so hot in its skeleton-baring latter stages.
What I thought was going to be a �slasher�-based caper, the initial idea is pretty original. Shame then that the boys and birds are annoying, and that the movie sees fit to get as gory as it can for no reason other than because the make-up guys involved were damn talented..
�28 Days Later,� as a movie that deals with a similar �deadly disease� premise, is spectacularly superior. As soon as the kids in this movie go nuts and start defending themselves at all costs, �Cabin Fever� self-consumes all its credibility.
Vaguely similar to the structure of �From Dusk Till Dawn,� the first half tension of the movie charges into an intense blood-fest of sickening proportions - stabbing in some comedy for distracting measure - as they quarantine those who are infected and do their utmost to steer away from the none-too-friendly and unhappy-to-help locals.
The humour is at first racist, then takes it back� and the bizarre final scene is just plain bemusing. Still, it�s worth seeing for a laugh � however dubious a laugh that maybe.
6/10 Steve Rudd
(NB, Bloody hell! What was I thinking wanging white text atop a red background!!!)