Cabin fever movie 2016 ending8/13/2023 He staggers through the woods and ends up on a country road where an uncaring school bus promptly reduces him to a puddle of human sludge. Paul (top-billed Rider Strong), the sole survivor of a flesh-devouring plague that destroyed him and his friends while they were vacationing in a rural mountain community, emerges from a creek looking like a pizza with extra cheese. The story begins a few days after the events of the original Cabin Fever. Thus West’s name will forever be tied to a movie that was neither worthy of his effort or our time. Having no membership in the Directors Guild of America means you can’t hide behind the name of Alan Smithee, the Remington Steele of bad movies. West completed principal photography on Cabin Fever 2 back in April 2007 and the film sat on the shelf for more than two years while the producers and executives at Lionsgate continuously reedited and reshot West’s footage until it barely resembled the movie he initially filmed, but unfortunately West couldn’t take his name off the final product. As it turns out that may not be the case, at least with the atrocity I witnessed this morning. West wrote, directed, and edited House of the Devil and directed Cabin Fever 2 from a screenplay by Joshua Malkin, but when you watch the two films back to back as I did you can hardly believe they came from the same director. The strangest thing is that these two movies of diverse quality share a common link, a gentleman named Ti West. This was the kind of fright flick you don’t see much of these days: atmospheric, lurid, unnerving, methodically paced, and genuinely scary. The night before I watched Cabin Fever 2 I saw another movie that had been the subject of much discussion among horror fans in 2009, The House of the Devil. I’ve seen so many over the years that I’m practically immune to whatever jolts, shocks, and gratuitous gore the horror filmmakers of today can throw at me. To me the thrill of watching a scary movie was the greatest drug. I grew up watching horror films even during my earlier years when some would advise against subjecting an impressionable young mind to the sinful pleasures contained within the faded, flaking video boxes of various sizes (remember the big box?). People who know me also know I’m a huge horror fan. I hate Cabin Fever 2 with a fiery passion and I feel it’s my duty to warn all my fellow movie buffs and horror fans to avoid this movie no matter the cost. It improved my mood somewhat but my opinion for the movie hadn’t changed. The morning weather had been cold and overcast yet as I stood outside basking in the cool March weather the sun started to emerge from behind a thick wall of clouds. Instead I went out on my front porch, lit up a cigarette, and spent several minutes reflecting on this movie and life in general. Whenever I see a particularly bad movie I’m left feeling depressed and old, but after watching Cabin Fever 2 nearly a week after my 31st birthday I wanted to lock myself in my bedroom, close the blinds, and lay on the floor in the fetal position. Halfway through its 86 excruciating minutes I couldn’t wait to get this hunk of rancid shit out of my DVD player. Four months into 2010 and I now believe I will not see a worse film this year than Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, the long-awaited follow-up to the 2003 horror comedy that established Eli Roth - who had nothing to do with the sequel - as one of the most promising genre filmmakers to come along in years. Last summer I saw Rob Zombie’s Halloween II and I didn’t think I would see a worse film that year and it turns out I didn’t (and mind you I saw Old Dogs). Starring Guiseppe Andrews, Noah Segan, Rider Strong, Alexi Wasser
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