Peter Bradshaw 

Cabin Fever review – horror remake astounding in its lameness

A gang of young people encounter creepy hillbillies and a flesh-eating virus in this uninspired rehash of Eli Roth’s 2002 scary movie
  
  

Nothing new … Cabin Fever
One to avoid … Cabin Fever Photograph: PR

Eli Roth presides as exec producer over this fantastically pointless and uninspired horror remake of his 2002 scary movie about the attractive young people who go away for a weekend break in a cabin in the woods, have sex and then succumb to a flesh-eating virus, while at the same time being menaced by creepy hillbilly locals.

There is no interesting new slant on this material: it’s just the same old stuff, being served up in a tired and cynical fashion, without anything inventive in the way of humour or fear. And the sting that comes midway through the closing credits takes the film to a new level of lameness and dullness. One to avoid.

 

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