AVClub: Plenty of horror remakes are unnecessary; we didn’t need a new Texas Chain Saw Massacre, because we still have the old one, and it’s lost none of its nerve-shredding, sleep-destroying power. But for sheer pointlessness, this week’s Cabin Fever redo really takes the rotting cake. Eli Roth’s gross-out debut, about a group of college kids ravaged by a flesh-eating virus, is only about a decade and a half old—and unlike the various French and Japanese genre movies that regularly get speedy American do-overs, it won’t scare off the subtitle averse. What’s more, the makers of this modern makeover have taken the laziest possible approach to their assignment and actually reused Roth’s screenplay. Scene for scene, line for line, gag for gag, it’s basically the same movie. And the original was no masterpiece to begin with.
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Armory Films, Cassian Elwes and Contend have announced today that they have joined together to produce the remake of Eli Roth's horror thriller hit Cabin Fever, with Travis Zariwny (Intruder) directing and Armory and Pelican Point Media financing. The film, to be reshot from the original 2002 version by Eli Roth and Randy Pearlstein, stars Gage Golightly ("Teen Wolf"), Dustin Ingram (Paranormal Activity 3), Samuel Davis ("From Dusk Till Dawn"), Matthew Daddario (Delivery Man) and Nadine Crocker (Deadgirl). Cabin Fever will be produced by Contend's Evan Astrowsky, (who also produced the original film with Roth) and Armory Films' Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros.
cabin fever was a unique film back then, i hope they make it a more complicated story because the movie a decade ago i think lacks something to make it a classic.
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Good day, voyeurs of all things salaciously gelatinous. Go back into the 1970s this weekend and celebrate both Record Store Day on April 19 and stoner holiday 4/20 on, well, that day. Death Waltz Recording will be releasing limited 7" splits of the themes for The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits on one vinyl, and the themes for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Munsters on another. And though the stoner horror sub-genre is pretty weak – Evil Bong! – there’s always The Cabin in the Woods.
