I am generally a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to horrors, so naturally when I saw the powerful and intense images from cabin fever flash on the cinema screen a couple of months ago, I vowed not to put myself through such 'termoil'.
My MUM dragged me along...the first five minutes of the film passed and eventually I convinced myself it was safe to come out from beneath my coat until I felt something trully scary was about to occur. I have to say I eventually sat on my coat...because nothing very scary really did happen!(Gore is not that scary to me.)
Basically the title gives it away....'Cabin Fever' and that's it...a bunch of kids get a fever in a cabin(well it's a bit more gruesome than that) somewhere in outback America. I guess the trailers in the months before the release did all they could to hype it up and I have to say I expected something completely different.
I do have to say it was a different type of horror plot than what we are used to with other teen horrors such as Scream, and there was plenty of gore to keep even Michael Myers happy. The lusty ones get an eyefull of breast and some interesting bedroom behaviour in this film for sure!(what is with the 'finger' scene in a 15 film?)
Overall I was left thinking 'what was that about?' mixed with...'I'd rather watch National Geographic to get all the information I need on illnesses-thanks.'
Not forgetting of course the cliff hanger of the film....'what was in that box????!' (I guess we will never know because the keeper received a timely screwdriver in his ear!)
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