Bert delivers one of my favorite lines in the film as he’s busted shoplifting. His southern racism seemingly rears his head as he informs them that he has a rifle reserved for the slur for black people- immediately putting the college kids in a state of unease. Once inside, they’re greeted by a talkative but seemingly kind older man talking about fox urine and the demise of his prized Shirley Temple glassware. It’s an odd moment in the film, but definitely not the strangest, especially involving Dennis. Dennis is a small, blonde mullet wearing kid who winds up biting Paul for getting too close to him. Upon their arrival to the small southern store, we meet Dennis. Marcy and Jeff are the popular kids who can’t keep their hands off each other, Karen and Paul have some kind of hushed feelings for one another and Bert is just your dumb, goofy, drunk, jock. It’s kind of amazing to me that the characters can be established so quickly in this drive to the convenience store. It’s then we’re immediately thrust into the meeting of our main characters going on what I assume to be a summer break from college.
#Cabin fever pancakes movie#
This movie started off with a bang with the town hermit, later to be known as Henry, discovering his infected dog miraculously spouting blood directly into his mouth. The first in the series, directed by Eli Roth, starred Rider Strong as Paul, Jordan Ladd as Karen, Cerina Vincent as Marcy, Joey Kern as Jeff, and James DeBello as the dumb but oddly loveable Bert.The opening credits, though subtle, already makes you want to itch and gives you the feeling that there’s an odd smell of something rotting, but you can’t put your finger on it. I say if you’re a fan of the series, it’s worth a once over but nothing more.
#Cabin fever pancakes series#
So, during my time inside, I decided to spend it revisiting a series dedicated to a frightening flesh eating sickness.įor the record, I won’t be talking about the remake of Cabin Fever (2016) simply because it’s a near shot by shot remake of the original with only minor changes to the script and I was just honestly not impressed with it. I remember loving Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever and being really bored with Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero. Something I hadn’t done in a while though, (or ever since their release) was revisit the sequels.
It’s shockingly one of my comfort films and one I have most certainly reached for in the self quarantine days of COVID-19. My love for this film has literally spanned more than a decade. So much that one of the owners of Video Depot actually wound up giving me the tape since he wasn’t making any money off anyone else renting it. Our favorite type of films were most generally set in a cabin / camping scenario and this delivered beyond our expectations.
I was elated to show my best friend, Paige, this gratuitous, gorey, mess of a film. One of the hidden gems I ran across in the year 2003 was Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever. After my rentals were completed, I would take shelter in the student lounge which had a decent sized zenith and a couch. A haven of VHS tapes lining the walls and shelves next to my favorite Chinese restaurant, which is still in business by the way! My dad worked as an overnight janitor for the local private school and on Friday nights, I would spend my allowance on pork lo mein and the ‘rent five for a dollar special’ at Video Depot. The only way to facilitate this was my local video stores- mainly Video Depot. I started this habit where I would see a movie with an actor I really liked (during this era it was Emilio Estevez and Matt Dillon) and I’d go down a rabbit hole of all of the movies they’d ever done.
It was in those years I also became obsessed with the era of the ‘80s and the Brat Pack. I was branching out and disobeying my staunchly religious parents wishes of keeping my horror PG-13. However, my pivotal years in horror were most definitely middle school. I was introduced to the classic monochromatic monsters of Universal by the time I was five and always had a penchant for the Halloween special episodes of my favorite ‘90s cartoons. I started the horror genre at a pretty young age.
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