The quirk present in Roth's original script is there, but the tone of Zariwny's direction isn't nearly as playful and all the winks to the audience are gone. Zariwny seems to be trying to put on his best Fede Alvarez hat, taking a property that some people love and in the process of updating it removed the humor and character that made the original what it was. The cast, the poster, the 's all a lazy rehash that completely misses the point and spirit of Roth's original. Even if the original weren't a thing, I'm fairly confident the neutering that took place here would still crush your soul. The cast seems as confused and bored with the idea of remaking a movie from 2002 almost as much as everyone who is duped into watching it. It's as if a group of kids got together with mom and dad's camcorder and said, "let's pretend to have a flesh eating virus," except they have access to a Hollywood effects team. If you've seen Eli Roth's Cabin Fever than you've already seen the remake- better yet, you've seen the best iteration of this story that currently exists. There's essentially no better way of putting this film into words.
#Cabin fever movie 2016 update
A nearly shot for shot update of Roth's calling card that follows a bunch of 20 somethings falling prey to a flesh eating virus in the middle of the woods. Take a cast of a handful of CW rejects, Roth's original script, and one or two hackneyed "updates", throw them in a jar, give em a shake and there you have it. Unsurprisingly, by working from Roth's original script, the 2016 remake adds absolutely nothing new and instead feels like the idea ate away at itself until nothing interesting was left after all these years.
Eli Roth's original Cabin Fever is certainly not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but Travis Zariwny's version makes it seem like it could be. It started with a string of sequels no one wanted, and now it becomes the second remake of 2016 that no one wanted.
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