So Id heard that this was sort of an homage to Raimis horror/comedy genre and had been meaning to watch it for awhile, but never got around to it. I wasn't missing much of anything.
The setup is the usual horror scenario of a bunch of teen/college kids heading off to a cabin in the middle of nowhere (or at least in the middle of nowhere when it serves the story) and facing evil. The evil however is not a monster or a villain but rather a flesh eating virus.
So these 5 kids go this cabin, 2 of em fuck, 2 of em give puppy dog eyes to each other and decide whether they wanna hook up after being friends for many years. And a 5th guy wanders out to hunt squirrels and accidentally shoots a drifter who has some sort of virus. Of course after shooting the dude he just leaves him there and hopes that it will go away or something, I dunno.
Anyway, the sick dude wanders up to the cabin and begs for help but instead of doing anything to actually help him they all just flail around and freak out when he tries to take the truck and they end up setting him on fire and watch him run away, then they to try and pretend that nothing actually happened. Eventually they go looking for help and come upon house after house, but by hook or crook the simple act of calling a doctor or getting help eludes them. A cop even shows up but he's a young cop so he's more interested in partying than actually doing anything. I mean the film goes out of it's way to make itself look stupid. One by one the five kids become infected and still instead of doing anything they seem content to just sit around and wait to get help.
The locals, including the cops, figure out what's happening, and again instead of doing anything remotely smart they just start hunting anyone who's infected. Finally the lead gets out of there and it takes him about 30 seconds to find a highway. What is supposed to be hilarity ensues in the films last 10 minutes but I was just begging for the thing to end, especially when a joke was telegraphed for what seemed like 10 minutes before it finally payed off.
A movie that's just not scarey, not funny, and takes absurd pleasure in getting in it's own way. There are a few decent moments of comedy and some nice tits and ass but that's about it. The characters sucked, the virus as a villain sucked and the script was atrocious.
If you ever get Cabin Fever, just kill yourself.
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