Cabin Fever really surprises us all this time around with a really thoughtful piece about... idiots getting infected with a flesh eating virus. phelous.com / phelous Originally Released: March 26, 2014
So this secret facility was on an isolated island not mapped, had limited hazmat suits, didn't know proper biohazard procedures, and didn't immediately call for CDC assistance the instant there was a containment failure? This is Incubus levels of anti-logic.
Okay what I don't understand, is if this facility is top secret and stuff. Then why isn't their security to make sure strangers don't get on the island!? I highly doubt that a place that big, wouldn't have security both inside and outside the facility!
it's possible they did but we find out that basically everyone in the facility is already dead or dying. so either they were but no longer could... or for some reason thought that just no one would come ie: movie logic lol.
could have been worse, it could have transform them into killer zombie instead of just killing them. This is actually the only reason I alost like the movie, just because its not a zombifying virus... oh wait? Never mind...
If we can turn sharks, dogs, dolls, tornadoes, and plants into serial killers, I don't see why unfortunate instances of widespread natural selection would be off the table
If this truly was a prequel, id like to see them try to explain the sudden decade-worth of technology devolution that occurred... Oh yeah, and how Porter's virus came into contact with the hermit and his dog.
I'm calling it Porter's Virus instead of Cabin Fever now. Ok, the virus is really more akin to Necrotizing Fasciitis but I prefer to say "HE'S INFECTED WITH THE T-VIRUS!" while waving my arms.
Surprisingly, it's quite easy when you think about the lore. The 2nd and 3rd movie establish the virus survives in sanitized water (bottled water) and salt water. So, the virus could travel via rain and boats. That alone will make the disease impossible not to spread. Suppose any migrating birds, bugs, or people came in contact with the water, then the Hermit or his dog touched it by accident.
***** I think they also said "we got the rights for that super popular sequel needing horror flick, cabin fever!" and then they all went to hell, or the cinema snob summoned sasquatch satan (the black river monster) and sent them to hell :)
@@rogue7723 ohhhh is that why he looked so familiar lol. neat. . on topic. errr the red queen was nuts but a fairly decent security system. if she was involved to that level idk would the movie still happen?
Clearly that mouse was one of the leftovers from NIMH and agreed to take vengeance on his captors with the help of Ashton and the virus. Now mice shall inherit the Earth!!
I honestly don't mind him in the first two movies as well as most of the guys in the first movie. Sure they are dude bro's but even the one guy was like "Don't hit kids" at the start so least it shows he cares?@@drstrangelove9525
If you think about it, this meets the definition of a bachelor party in the same way the movie's title relates to both Cabin Fever and patient zero. A title only slightly less confusing than Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows.
And then later Astin found himsefl changing...changing in horrible ways. His skin turned green, a hardened shell-like formation began to appear on his back, he got...shorter and his eyes turned green. His temper began to flare through the roof but he found he had the strength to break out of the lab and travel into the sewers were he met three others like him as well as a giant rat who said he had once been human. AND THEN THEY ALL JOINED TOGETHER AND BECAME....MIGHTY NEW STYLE FIGHTING GALAPAGOS TORTOISE PLUCKY FIGHTERS. Oh, and POH-TAY-TOES.
So apparently this was supposed to be a prequel also they were planning a 4th Cabin Fever entitled Cabin Fever: Outbreak, to be filmed back-to-back but it was eventually scrapped. As of April 2014, it has been reported that the filmmakers are now actively working on a Cabin Fever remake instead of the sequel.
I'd rather Hollywood come up with new and interesting ideas and actually take time to make a good movie as apposed to just trying to pump out movies and sequels as fast as they can so they can cash in
Phelous must be SO excited that finally, a new Cabin Fever (or rather, a remake) is in the cinemas now. Can't wait for his undoubtedly calm and positive review. Oh, and we also get another Resident Alice movie next year. Hoooray!
James Young The first movie was good. The series became a train wreck after that. The CG animated movies rock. Except for Degeneration. That did not make sense.
7:56 why does he sound like the gas station attendant from birdemic? "I'm sorry doctor but because the eagle attack i can only sell you gas for $100 a gallon."
"You have the incredible opportunity to do something special.." Yeah he already did he went to Mordor with his boyfriend and destroyed the one ring of power. Then he and Mister Frodo lived happily ever after until the day they died of old age. I may have got some details wrong, but whatever you were going to say ain't gonna beat that.
Just to help those who don't know what cabin fever is: it's another name for claustrophobia. If the movie was centered around that I would love it to death. The franchise had one cabin, but no fever.
Kiiinda sorta.... Cabin Fever is more like a collection of symptoms that can happen with prolonged isolation. The biggest way of keeping it from happening is finding ways to keep busy (which is why so many of those stereotypical mountain men hunt and stuff, tracking your dinner or chopping your own firewood helps staves off the nagging lonliness). Still, if you start to basically dwell on shit like that, you grow stir-crazy, psychological disorders, and can go quite coo-coo.
Wrong. cab·in fe·ver noun INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN irritability, listlessness, and similar symptoms resulting from long confinement or isolation indoors during the winter. Google definitions before you stick your foot in your mouth.
Wait, what if this is a prequel/sequel combo??? Sean Astin's character was vacationing in a cabin in the same forest as the teens from the first movie, but he arrived a few weeks before. He could be the one that had spread it to the life stock, the hermits dog, which in turn affected the hermit. Even Dennis' father admitted he already lost one son before Dennis bit the infected Bert, and it's implied his son died from the same virus, and after the events of the first movie and maybe second movie, they narrow it down to begining with Sean Astin's character and now this movie is long after those events, which would explain why this movie feels more like a sequel, but intended as a prequel... I'm clearly thinking too much about this :P
Your theory makes sense and exposes the sad truth. Hollywood sometimes takes good ideas (like what you wrote) and makes them more stupid and dumb. So that what you said isn't what happens in the movie.
One of the biggest problems of this series is they had different 'Directors' each movie. It's true, not even the first one happened to be one of the 'best' movies out there yet throw in the fact they continued to chew up and spit out more and more of this series with different directors and you have a slew of issues. I've read something about a forth one just being a redone rehash of the first movie but I guess we will see just how much more they screw it up unless they actually pull off some masterpiece. I doubt it seeing this is along the lines of a B movie but never know.
Funny enough, Sea Fever isn't a spin off of this, actually has something to do with isolation-based psychological breakdown, and is actually pretty good.
Loved the Chrono Trigger reference! (hope it was in this video, I just watched all your Cabin Fever videos one after the other, so.... could be it was in the CF2 video, but I thought it was this one) Also the hobbit walking the boulevard of broken dreams joke :p
this feels like the ruins mixed with cabin fever. it would work on that level if the movie was focused on the island more than the facility. it feels like they are in 2 locations such as the island and a city..
Remember in cabin fever one of the guys in the beginning of the movie told the group they need to be careful because it was a group before them and they got sick soooo patient zero at the beginning the got him from a cabin
About the "tiny bit of virus in the vast ocean is super powerful" thing.... Isn't that how homeopathy is supposed to work? (I know it doesn't actually work)
MsGhoulz No, that was Golum, by accident; after struggling for it with Frodo after he smacked Samwise down for saying it was time to do it. The Orc stronghold rescue would have been an accurate Samwise proving himself example.
Astin made me like this movie. I enjoyed his character and every scene he was in, because even if Phelous just says he's a dick and leaves it at that, there was proper build up to him becoming a monster. Survive a traumatic situation where you watched your own son literally rot away? Add abduction, isolation, and forced experimentation to this already grand cocktail of mental instability? Realize you carry something that violently kills whatever it infects and pray that it would have just taken you instead of your child? Blame yourself for the death of your kid, and eventually your wife? Yeah, that probably would never breed an unbalanced, apathetic, walking plague (PROTOTYPE! :D). I do find myself wishing the first movie followed Astin's group, now.
fair enough. but a proper build up to a dick is still a dick, though probably one of the most competent bits of character development in the whole series.
The problem isn´t, that he became a monster. The problem is that he was already monstrous the whole movie, which lessened the impact the twist ending could have had.
