We broke the news a few weeks ago that Travis Z’s Cabin Fever remake will be releasing in limited theaters and on Digital HD February 12th, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
We also shared the below image from the redo of Eli Roth’s 2002 film of the same name, this time starring Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Samuel Davis, Nadine Crocker, and Dustin Ingram.
The latest shot, above, gives a wink and a nod to Roth’s original, which Producer Evan Astrowsky teased when he spoke to Bloody Disgusting last.
“This film is actually a proper remake, we re-shot the same script Eli Roth and Randy Pealstein wrote,” Astrowsky told us. “We had long talks about changing this and changing that, then the other producers and I read the original and realized, ’this script is still f’in amazing…’
“But, what we did do was create a few great bread crumbs and easter eggs through out the film for the true fans to spot and enjoy.”
Easter eggs? Pun intended…
In Roth’s 2002 film, Paul (Rider Strong) hallucinates an operating rabbit that’s a duel homage to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
“Executive producer Eli Roth presents this reboot of his instant classic gorefest, which features all new characters and all new kills. This story is familiar: fresh out of college, a group of five friends retreat to a remote cabin in the woods for one last week of partying- only to become snacks for a gruesome, flesh-eating virus. What’s surprising are the ingenious new deaths, which offer a fresh spin on a horror-comedy milestone.”
IFC Midnight is behind the new Cabin Fever, which is a near word-for-word remake; Travis Z’s take is from a screenplay by Eli Roth & Randy Pearlstein (based on a story by Roth).
Back in March Roth said he was “blown away” by the remake.
The film was produced by Evan Astrowsky, Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros, and was executive produced by Roth, Cassian Elwes, Jerry Fruchtman, Peter Fruchtman and Ike and Jaclyn Suri.
