But the stuff in the middle is pretty great! ![]() The film has a full 20 minutes at the beginning and end that are utterly disposable. The pacing is definitely all wrong in this movie-why do I keep having to say that lately? Use the witch’s hat, people! IT’S EASY. The leads spend pretty much the entire movie running around the school and shouting at each other, until they manage some amazing stuff at the end that appears to come out of nowhere based on their previous ineptitude. Alexi Wasser as Cassie looks miraculously like both Shelley Duvall AND Shelley Long, and has the charisma of neither of those two ladies. The performances are okay–well Noah Segan and Rusty Kelley do a nice job. Then twenty minutes or so go by when nothing happens whatsoever. (Well, except for the aforementioned super awesome prom primping montage.) Eventually John, Cassie, Cassie’s dick boyfriend Marc (Marc Senter) and John’s raunchily hilarious friend Alex (Rusty Kelley) are quarantined inside the high school while some highly disgusting shit goes down. The film opens with a very cool title sequence involving a school bus and a lot of blood, followed by some frankly spectacular animated opening credits detailing the spread of the contaminated water that creates the titular fever. Rider Strong also (briefly) reprises his role from the original, as does Giuseppe Andrews as wacky cop Winston. ![]() He’s in love with Cassie (Alexi Wasser), your basic sweet pretty girl who’s inexplicably dating a horrible jackhole. Noah Segan (the Teenaged Sociopathic Fuck from Deadgirl fame, another movie that is much better, albeit harder to watch, than this one) plays John, your basic high school wimp. I mean, there’s a getting ready for prom montage! Quickly followed by blood and mayhem on the glowing dance floor! Simply, purely, definitively: that rules. It’s got a perfect 80s splatter tone (well, with a little hardy-har action that I could have done without), some unparalleled gore, and shit, you guys-it’s set at the PROM. And I get it, I wouldn’t want this uneven, wacky film to be my follow-up to the best horror movie of 2009.īut frankly, Cabin Fever 2 didn’t have to be nearly as much fun as it was. Cabin Fever 2 has glimpses of that vision, but Ti West disowned the film due to Lionsgate’s interference during post-production. The House of the Devil is stunningly original and taut, an unapologetic, unfiltered vision of Ti West’s twistedly brilliant mind. You can read my review of The House of the Devil here. And then rent THAT movie instead of this one. ![]() But Eli Roth’s original Cabin Fever is on my Top 50 Horror Movies of the Decade list more importantly, Cabin Fever 2 director Ti West’s The House of the Devil is on my Top 50 list, as well. I generally avoid such schlock, and sadly, Cabin Fever 2 pretty much reinforced that stance. You may ask yourself why I bothered to watch a straight-to-vid horror sequel. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever is a BAD movie.
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