The story too, despite the fun elements of subversion, does fairly little to distinguish itself.
This all links to an overall blackly comic tone where the laughs are almost as frequent as the scares.įor the most part the performances are typical for this type of horror film in that the core cast are required to do little beyond look scared, occasionally get naked and shout at each other a lot. There are more examples of subverting expectations littered throughout – the police officer isn’t suspicious about the blood covering their vehicle, the hillbillies aren’t necessarily out to kill you, and just for once there isn’t a strange presence inhabiting the cabin. There are fun twists to the usual genre tropes, all by making the teenagers a touch more aware of their surroundings than the usual teen horror crowd, socially aware and aghast when a shopkeeper states that the gun behind the counter is for, shall we say, a term generally considered offensive to a particular group of people. Deaths follow, as do misunderstandings with the locals which will cause its own fair share of troubles. Shortly thereafter they start to succumb to the infection. They turn away his request for help, mostly because he vomits blood everywhere. They encounter an infected man covered in blood, boils and peeling skin. Here, a group of five teens head to a cabin in the woods (standard stuff) to celebrate the completion of their college finals.
Cabin Fever, the feature film directorial debut of Eli Roth, uses that basic trope in order to kick off this particular story before spinning off and putting his own stamp on things. The cabin in the woods trope has been done to death, let’s be honest. There is, however, still a cabin in the woods. Twitter Plot Summary: A group of teens are taken out by a flesh eating disease.
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