CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER is one of those appalling little movies that has no originality, no ambition, no way to succeed and it's no surprise that it sat on the shelves for two years before release and the director disowned it. A sequel to Eli Roth's semi-successful yucky horror yarn, it turns out to be a film for the immature, made by the immature, with Roth wisely nowhere in sight.
The opening animated credits alerted me to the fact that something was wrong, as if they can't afford to shoot this stuff in live action, then why bother in the first place? Then we move into a typical high school scenario, complete with moronic expletive-filled dialogue that sounds as though it was scribbled on a beermat before being typed up on the computer.
Inevitably the only horror in the thing comes from the various gore effects, which are pretty pitiful. In order to counteract this, there's a ton of lowbrow comedy (not my cup of tea), over the top performances and characters, and a handful of truly gross-out moments (such as a fat woman dissolving in a swimming pool) in order to provoke a reaction from the viewer. It's all a mess - a huge mess - and it makes for a crashing bore of a movie.
The opening animated credits alerted me to the fact that something was wrong, as if they can't afford to shoot this stuff in live action, then why bother in the first place? Then we move into a typical high school scenario, complete with moronic expletive-filled dialogue that sounds as though it was scribbled on a beermat before being typed up on the computer.
Inevitably the only horror in the thing comes from the various gore effects, which are pretty pitiful. In order to counteract this, there's a ton of lowbrow comedy (not my cup of tea), over the top performances and characters, and a handful of truly gross-out moments (such as a fat woman dissolving in a swimming pool) in order to provoke a reaction from the viewer. It's all a mess - a huge mess - and it makes for a crashing bore of a movie.