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Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
Tags: (12 votes)
Rating #:
5/10
Director:
Ti West
Runtime:
87 minutes
Cast:
Noah Segan,
Rusty Kelley,
Alexi Wasser,
Marc Senter,
Giuseppe Andrews,
Rider Strong,
Mark Borchardt,
Judah Friedlander,
Larry Fessenden Eli Roth's Cabin Fever opened to theaters back in 2002 and for its low-budget was fairly successful at the box office. Talks of a sequel with Eli returning was brought up a couple years later, but the man became too busy with other projects to pursue the sequel, and Ti West (The Roost, The House of the Devil) came into the project in 2006, with promises of bringing something new to the table. I personally didn't really like the first Cabin Fever all that much. I liked the concept, but wasn't a fan of the comedy or the random weirdness it offered.
Writer/director Ti West has publicly disowned this sequel, as he and the studio couldn't agree on the direction the film should take. Although about
90% of his footage is still there, a new ending was filmed and apparently the movie was edited a certain way that Ti doesn't agree with. This explains why after filming completed in 2007 that it took almost three years to get a proper release. Whether Ti's vision would have been any better than what was given to us remains to be seen, but from what I watched, I wasn't impressed.The story takes place shortly after the events of the first, bringing back Rider Strong as Paul for a brief appearance in the beginning, as he awakens in the nearby lake. The bacteria finds its way into the water system and to a factory that produces bottled water for the
nearby towns. The water must not run through much of a filtration process, because it causes all the new water to become contaminated, giving anyone who drinks it the flesh-eating virus. The first drop off point for the water? A local high school.Aside from Paul's brief cameo appearance, we see the return of the whacked out Deputy Winston (Giuseppe Andrews), whose role isn't entirely pointless this time 'round. In this sequel the Deputy catches onto what's happened to the water and attempts to warn others of what will occur to those who drink it, before skipping town of course.
The first half of the movie is basically just the build up to prom, following the dorky lead, as he tries to find a date and given various shots of people around
the school drinking the bottled water and developing symptoms of the bacteria. Of course, a majority of the mayhem doesn't occur until everyone's at prom, offering up a sizeable amount of blood and bodies. Speaking of which, the gore is really amped up big time in this sequel. The first film promised a lot of gore, which we never really received, but this film makes up for that in a big way.We get severed limbs and a lot of rotted away faces and body parts. There's a great scene involving someone's wrist getting sawed off and another of a guy getting his face crushed. Whenever there's a point where you think the camera will shy away from a
particular scene, it does the opposite and shows everything in its gory goodness. There are also a few "gross-out" scenes in the movie -- one in particular involved a shot of a dude's penis spewing blood and pus from the tip; nasty! Sadly, had it not been for the gore, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed the movie much -- the "comedy" it offered didn't really work for me and there wasn't a lot of character development or story, leaving little else to like about the pic. In the second half of the flick we're shown several armed men in hazmat suits sealing off the school and shooting anyone infected, however we're never revealed who they are or how they know of the flesh-eating bacteria, which I suppose may be explained in a potential third film (if it ever happens).
By the time the credits roll you realize just how pointless this sequel was, as it really didn't bring anything new to the table (like was promised), except for a larger body count and lots of gore. Fans of the first will likely be disappointed. Worth a check for the gore, but avoid otherwise.
| Posted on February 7, 2010 - 10:41am | FrighT MasteR |
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by the time the credits roal........uno pensa........ PERCHE MERDA ESCHUCHAS A ESTES FDUP!!!!!!!!!! LOVED IT....... THe FLAWS....... PROMINENT! AS WITH EVERY OTHER FU@KIN HORROR MOVIE. IF URE A FAN OF CHEESE. OF TRUE HORROR (GOLDEN AGE) Then UL MOTHERFUCKIN ENJOY THIS ONE. TI WEST did alright with this one, more so than his previous effort (house on...wow this movie is stil going... oh shit she finally killed the dude). Obviously Eli Roth isnt the greatest, but if u enjoyed his first effort. I promise you'll enjoy this sequel! CRITICOS CHUPAN VERGA (MENOS YO)!
1st movie was a nice one, this one a disapointment
pretty messie but the story goes nowhere
my wife and i realy liked the first cabin fever and was looking forward to seeing the sequel and was quite disappointed. the opening scene with rider strong had promise but then the story kicked in and it was really just a mess. the actors do what they can with the material but there isn't much there. and why did the virus act so fast in this movie, it was a flesh eating virus that took awhile to work in the first. this was just played for gore and it's actually kinda boring. it is bloody with some good gory scene's but it needed a better story and acting. like you said if your a fan of the original you might be disappointed with this sequel, we where. and the ending is just a mess!! 4 out of ten for me and i'm being generous with the four.
I found this movie to have so many flaws for a movie that is a sequel to such a critically and financially successful movie. The storyline was amateur as a prom is too easy an idea to use. There could have been a much more creative setting. Here's one. There's fish in the water that's able to be eaten. People fish, eat the fish, and get the disease and it spreads. I agree the whole water plotline doesn't make sense as I've never heard of a water company who doesn't test their water for ANY bacteria.
Another complaint I had was the wasted 3-4 minute music montages. I hate them in movies. They are pointless and only used to make sure the movie gets to 90 mins.
This was a pointless movie to watch which is a shame cause I've been looking forward to it for a while as a fan of the first.
P.S. Rider Strong is easily your biggest name in the film and you kill him off in 2 mins and advertise him as the star. Scream could make up for killing Drew off in the first scene. This can't.
I totally agree with the review, it had it's moments it was nice and gory in places and pretty funny, just as the first film, There is promise there but it just never lives up to its potential, scenes are rushed through especially the fallout at the prom one min people are dancing a little bit of blood is thrown up around the room cut to main characters then cut back 5 mins later and everyone is dead on the floor, A waste of a gorefest. It amuses me the dvd cover has uncut written on it, as it is cut/edited (by the studio) and feels that way, it's only aprox 80 mins long which would be enough for the prom story line but no they steamroll through that and decide to try and squeeze the stripclub in for the last 10 mins (nice tits).
On a good note I loved the animated sections .
The rushed prom sequence is one thing I forgot to mention in the review. Very disappointing since most of the movie was building up to it.
I totally agree that the prom was way too rushed. We didn't even get a scene of the prom king and queen together. They really could have done something awesome with that. And I thought they all went down way too fast. The disease is supposed to kill slowly, right? Too rushed.
ha ha seems this film has annoyed a few people with how lame it was the reviews on IMDB are terrible.
I also forgot to mention the incubation for the disease it has gone from round about a day for symptons and a day to two days of decay then death.But in part two it seems you consume contaminated water fall ill and die all within 4hours. Things like that really annoy me it's just sloppy.
I liked it. There are always going to be things in any movie that could have been better. I liked the cartoon sequences for the opening and ending. I liked the soundtrack. Come on, we had The Ramones, we had the original Prom Night song. How about all the homage to Carrie? It's not a bad movie. It might not be worthy of an Oscar, but for what it is, I thought it was entertaining. You need to look at the small hidden things. The hazmat guys at the end were a homage to X Files. I liked it and thought it was worth the watch.
Little homages don't make it a good movie in my book. It's an ultimately pointless sequel.
took the words outta my mouth
Good review.
I liked that wacky detective. Made me laugh in CF1.
I'll give it a try.