![]() ![]() The movie adds up to a few good ideas and a lot of bad ones, wandering around in search of an organizing principle. There are truly horrible scenes (guy finds corpse in reservoir, falls onto it), over-the-top horrible scenes (dogs have eaten skin off good girl's face, but she is still alive), and just plain inexplicable scenes (Dennis, the little boy at the general store, bites people). But the director and co-author, Eli Roth, is too clever for his own good, and impatiently switches among genres, tones and intentions. Cabin Fever Latest on Cabin Fever Stream It Or Skip It: 'X' on VOD, a Nasty, Hilarious Horror-Comedy About Wannabe Porn Stars By John Serba COME for the copious amounts of sex and even. If some of this material had been harnessed and channeled into a disciplined screenplay with a goal in mind, the movie might have worked. The nature of the disease is inexplicable it seems to involve enormous quantities of blood appearing on the surface of the skin without visible wounds, and then spreading in wholesale amounts to every nearby surface. ![]() The drama mostly involves the characters locking the door against dogs, the locals and one another running into the woods in search of escape or help trying to start the truck (which, like all vehicles in horror films, runs only when the plot requires it to) and having sex, lots of sex. There's a deputy sheriff named Winston ( Giuseppe Andrews) who is a seriously counterproductive character the movie grinds to an incredulous halt every time he's onscreen. Everyone at the corner general store seems seriously demented, and the bearded old coot behind the counter seems like a racist (when at the end we discover that he isn't, the payoff is more offensive than his original offense). ![]() The film could develop its plague story in a serious way, like a George Romero picture or " 28 Days Later," but it keeps breaking the mood with weird humor involving the locals. ![]()
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