When a group of bachelor party participants (Jillian Murray, Ryan Donowho, Brandon Eaton, and Mitch Ryan) end up on the same isolated island as our secret science lab, a nice pool of potent victim fodder is found. We learn than a man named Porter (Sean Astin) is the title “patient zero,” immune to the disgusting disease and held prisoner by a doctor (Currie Graham) desperate to use his blood for a cure. Instead, we get a direct-to-DVD level effort centering on how the skin-eating virus at the center of all the storylines came into being. Or perhaps wisely, he no longer claims the end results. Of course, Roth is nowhere to be found for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (sometimes referred to as Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero), probably because he no longer holds the rights to the series. He’s also added to his fame as a collaborator and co-star, working with Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s groovy Grindhouse experiment as well as playing Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz in the former’s fantastic Inglourious Basterds. Still, Roth has bankrolled said startup into a more or less mainstream career, with a string of equally successful scare-a-thons, including the horrific Hostel titles (well, at least, Parts One and Two) and the upcoming Goona-Goona retread Green Inferno. In fact, it fails on so many levels that its barely worth the bloodshed.
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But that doesn’t mean the movie is a masterpiece. Granted, in a cyclical genre the awash in PG-13 J-Horror, the ample arterial on display was a wet juicy raspberry in the creepshow’s commercial face. For some reason, fright fans flocked to this 2002 splatter throwback, giving it and its maker a ‘macabre maestro’ tag in return.
Such is the case with Eli Roth’s overrated “hardcore gorefest” Cabin Fever. However, in some very rare cases, going back to before the beginning is a necessity, especially when no one really successfully explained what was going on in the first place. Going back to rewrite that is not only disingenuous, but antithetical to what you accomplished the first time around. Indeed, the original film is supposed to set things up, provide the necessary narrative foundation and origin impetus for us to become invested in any continuing saga. There’s a good reason why the prequel is considered one of the worst movie moves, no matter the genre or franchise.