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[BD Review] First Thoughts On ‘Cabin Fever: Patient Zero’ Isn’t Pretty…
I strongly disliked Kaare Andrews’ feature directorial debut, Altitude, which is why I found myself hesitant to get behind Cabin fever: Patient Zero, which is allegedly already out(?) in some countries, with a UK and Canadian release coming this March.
Anyways, Bloody reader ‘Dominik’ writes in from Germany with the first ever review of the prequel to Eli Roth’s indie masterpiece in which a yacht full of young partygoers stumble upon a research facility. When symptoms of a flesh eating disease appear, the countdown is on to find help.
Sean Astin, Brando Eaton, Lydia Hearst, Gillian Murray, Ryan Donowho and Mitch Ryan star in the prequel that’s still seeking U.S. distribution. It’s truly bizarre that it’s already out overseas but not even announced here in the States? I hope you have an all region player – if you even want to see it after this review.
REVIEW BY: DOMINIK
This is Dominik and I am writing in to Bloody Disgusting (the best horror website in the world) with my thoughts on the German release of the new Cabin Fever movie.
The worst thing about Cabin Fever: Patient Zero is the cast, which ruins the film’s believability. Not only are the main characters just poorly written, buy the scientists are wearing hilarious costumes and look to be no older than 22 years old. The government lets a bunch of kids run a top secret facility with a virus in containment? Not to mention they’re terrible at their jobs in containing it.
Even Sean Astin’s role as “patient zero” is wasted as he interacts with only a 20-year-old scientist with giant boobs and another teen doctor, while all the action takes place on the beach’s shore.
This is one of the worst horror movies I’ve seen in recent years mostly because it isn’t fun. It tells us audience members that it’s supposed to be a good time (like when a guy goes down on a girl and comes up with a mouth full of blood), but the directing and acting is tedium and nauseating. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero is boring, stupid, and awful.
The only redeeming factor to is the film’s outrageously bloody effects work that range from arms being pulled completely off, to faces being smashed to bits.
For a film wanting to reboot the franchise, they sure as hell found a way to infect it with a virus that rots from the inside out. Avoid Patient Zero before you become infected…with boredom.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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