![]() Cabin Fever doesn't go back to whatever draft Roth and Pearlstein had cooked up initially instead, it appears to be based on a transcript of the finished film, with every line reading, improvisation, quirk and inflection now hard-coded into the draft. Unfortunately, there's one small difference between what I had heard was happening and what has happened, and it makes all the difference in the world. ![]() Early reports pegged Cabin Fever 2016 as one that simply repurposed Roth and co-writer Randy Pearlstein's original screenplay, changing only the deaths and their contexts, making it sound like a contemporary version of Gus Van Sant's ill-advised yet persistently intriguing Psycho remake. I also find sequels and remakes an interesting business instead of being put off by the idea of favorite classics being touched, I'm fascinated to see how some other set of people believe they can fit the lightning back in the bottle. I even have a soft spot for the much-derided sequel, which comes dangerously close to recapturing that same magic, before changes made by nervous producers become too intrusive to ignore. ![]() Full disclosure: I'm a massive fan of Eli Roth's original Cabin Fever, which takes the tropes of the cabin-in-the-woods movie, a spectacularly unique cast, and a memorably off-kilter sensibility, and blended them into exactly the kind of movie one would like to stumble upon unexpectedly during a late-night horror movie binge. ![]()
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