The Boy Wonder

Remember that really, really bad horror film I was talking about? Well, here it is … “Cabin Fever.” Ah, but where to start? There are so many thing wrong with this film. Things so wrong that even a neophyte horror buff would wince while watching it. I think that the movie’s main problem is its writer/director, Eli Roth. He claims to be a dyed-in-the-wool horror fan and that’s just great. Horror film fans kick ass! What Eli Roth does that is wrong (and disastrously so) is try to reference every single horror movie that has inspired him … “Last House on the Left,” “The Hills Have Eyes,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Evil Dead 1 & 2,” “The Thing,” “Deliverance” and “Dawn of the Dead” This pulls the plot of the movie in so many directions that the final act is a muddled mess. Not only do we have the “virus in the woods” … we have dumb backwoods townsfolk, the creepy child at the general store, corrupt small town policemen, the dumb deputy, a rabid dog … the list goes on and on. Argh! The only good moment in the movie comes about 3/4 of the way in when our young hero feels he must kill the girl he loves (whose flesh is being devoured by the virus) with a shovel to the head … several times. Now, that was good stuff.~