Cabin Fever Review – AVClub

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.