tomthedog (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tomthedog) wrote,@ 2004-01-25 01:01:00 |
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Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever was so completely insane I think my brain is injured. Every single person in the film is an ugly, stupid wretch. It's fun to root for someone to get killed in a horror movie, but it's also fun to have at least one character you can identify with, and that you'd like to survive. No one fits that description in this film. Not even "Boy Meets World" star Rider Strong. Man, would Cory be shocked if he saw what you were up to here, Rider! (Did I just admit that I watched "Boy Meets World"?)
And even though it's a little silly to expect logic and/or a coherent plot in a horror film, this one just goes right over the edge in total non-sensical behavior, just utter whacked-out bizarro scenes that are in the film for no other reason than to be totally bizarro and whacked-out. Like, there's this kid who bites people. Why? No reason. He just bites people. And in this one bit, he starts screaming, "PANCAKES! PANCAKES!!!" and does this crazy full-on karate routine -- like, slow motion kung fu spin kicks and everything -- and then, well, bites another guy. WHY??? WHY, MOVIE, WHY??? And when Rider gets brought into a hospital, he sees a guy dressed in a full-size bunny costume. WHY, MOVIE, WHY???
The best part of the DVD was the extra features. The director, Eli Roth, also directed these claymation short films about The Rotten Fruit, the "greatest band in the world," that are far more violent, funny, and all-around entertaining than the feature film. And the making-of featurette includes a clip of Angelo Badalamenti (long-time composer for David Lynch) describing how he came to compose the "Love Theme" for this movie, or, as he memorably (and accurately) calls it, "also known as Fingerbang Misfire." And there's an option for watching the film called "Chick-Vision," in which a silhouette of a pair of hands covers up the screen during the scary parts, which I thought was funny.
The movie did have boobies (from an ex-Power Ranger, surprisingly enough) and blood, just buckets of blood, and a couple of good gross-outs. It just didn't have anything else that makes a good horror movie. Pity.
Cabin Fever was so completely insane I think my brain is injured. Every single person in the film is an ugly, stupid wretch. It's fun to root for someone to get killed in a horror movie, but it's also fun to have at least one character you can identify with, and that you'd like to survive. No one fits that description in this film. Not even "Boy Meets World" star Rider Strong. Man, would Cory be shocked if he saw what you were up to here, Rider! (Did I just admit that I watched "Boy Meets World"?)
And even though it's a little silly to expect logic and/or a coherent plot in a horror film, this one just goes right over the edge in total non-sensical behavior, just utter whacked-out bizarro scenes that are in the film for no other reason than to be totally bizarro and whacked-out. Like, there's this kid who bites people. Why? No reason. He just bites people. And in this one bit, he starts screaming, "PANCAKES! PANCAKES!!!" and does this crazy full-on karate routine -- like, slow motion kung fu spin kicks and everything -- and then, well, bites another guy. WHY??? WHY, MOVIE, WHY??? And when Rider gets brought into a hospital, he sees a guy dressed in a full-size bunny costume. WHY, MOVIE, WHY???
The best part of the DVD was the extra features. The director, Eli Roth, also directed these claymation short films about The Rotten Fruit, the "greatest band in the world," that are far more violent, funny, and all-around entertaining than the feature film. And the making-of featurette includes a clip of Angelo Badalamenti (long-time composer for David Lynch) describing how he came to compose the "Love Theme" for this movie, or, as he memorably (and accurately) calls it, "also known as Fingerbang Misfire." And there's an option for watching the film called "Chick-Vision," in which a silhouette of a pair of hands covers up the screen during the scary parts, which I thought was funny.
The movie did have boobies (from an ex-Power Ranger, surprisingly enough) and blood, just buckets of blood, and a couple of good gross-outs. It just didn't have anything else that makes a good horror movie. Pity.
