I’m referring to the overhead shot of the car traveling up the mountain road with “Dies Irae” playing over it. There is also a ridiculous homage to The Shining in the opening. The other noticeable change is the demise of one of the girls, which is drawn out and so disdainfully brutal, I questioned my decision to continue watching it. Deputy Winston, the unscrupulous officer who just wants to party, is now played by a female, but still exhibits the same voyeuristic, stoner behavior. Zarwiny or Travis Z, as he’s billed, used Roth’s original script, changing very little. Bert invites the trouble by shooting the infected Henry (Randy Schulman), who later shows up at their cabin looking for help. We have the horny couple, Jeff and Marcy (Matthew Daddario and Nadine Crocker), pretty Karen (Gage Golightly), who is keeping Paul (Samuel Davis) in the friend-zone, and Bert (Dustin Ingram), the fifth wheel. Their relaxing week of solitude is sidelined when a flesh eating virus begins infecting them one by one.
The story: Five twenty-somethings rent a cabin in a remote location to drink and screw. It was like watching a re-enactment on one of those reality crime shows. It is, however, exactly the same story with the same characters so there is nothing to give it any real distinction from the original. It was set up to be a shot for shot remake, which it turned out not to be. It’s not a foreign film so it doesn’t need to be Americanized. The original Cabin Fever, the film that introduced us to Eli Roth, was released in 2002, making it not quite 15 years old and therefore not really requiring updating. In the case of the remake of Cabin Fever, it simply defies all of these things. The flip side, when a filmmaker just wants to put a contemporary spin on a classic film and does a shot for shot redo, stirs my rage. Over the last few years I’ve come to accept them and realize, when handled correctly, some remakes can actually be better than the original (i.e. The biggest reason being, they just seemed unnecessary.
There is additional dialog among the townspeople, different shots, and it shows the FDA man walking around more testing and the Water supply truck is in view longer.I used to get angry about remakes for a variety of reasons. Instead of just the cops drinking the contaminated lemonade followed by a country song with the townspeople, the whole entire town shows up and has a cup. Then they pour gasoline and one cop lights a match and cellar goes up in flames followed by more shots of blood and guts on the walls, ceiling, and floor. The human-bonfire scene when they say "We got another one in the basement" immediately goes to a shot of the cellar door opening from the inside, then a bunch of shotguns appear and start shooting like crazy.He yells at the hick as he throws him down there and says "When they get here, tell them I didn't do it!", then slams the door. An additional scene where Rider Strong grabs the long-haired hick after the attack and drags him down to the cellar.In the "R" rated version it cuts away quick and only shows the aftermath from a difficult-to-see angle. The gunshot to Burt's head in the cabin is bloodier.This immediately follows when they hear the dog trying to get Karen in the shed and they shoot a bullet and tell Karen that they will stay outside with her to keep the dog away. A scene of Burt sitting outside guarding the shed with his shot gun.An extended scene of everyone arguing around the fireplace when Burt makes a joke about his burnt marshmallow.When it is discovered that Karen has the disease during an intimate scene, there is an additional scene that follows the "Don't.Leave.Me!" where Burt comes into the room and yells at her about how the truck isn't ready yet, and they have to finish cleaning up the bum's blood.A different angle of Jordan Ladd's character Karen swimming away after the "kiss" scene on the dock with Rider Strong.The scene of Rider Strong going behind the building to wash his hands after Dennis's bite and he pets the stray dogs is removed from the "uncut" version.Then they stop when Burt says he left something back at the store and they have a longer conversation about the map. The scene where they are in the shop in the beginning is removed from the "uncut" version and is replaced with an extended scene of them driving the truck through the woods.This version was released in North America on Blu-ray on February 10, 2016. However, the uncut version did play at a few festivals before Lions Gate bought it. Lions Gate cut 2 minutes from the film for the US Theatrical Release.
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