![]() The pace picks up pretty quickly and never really slackens off, with some nasty gore or some natty nipples just round the corner at any given time. I guess what I liked about this prequel is that it didn’t seem to take itself too seriously and right from the get-go is suitably daft and out for a crazily nuts time. Well, without spoiling any of the later revelations for you, suffice to say the two men don’t exactly find the help they’re looking for and end up regretting the whole expedition… Next time go somewhere normal, like Mauritius! It doesn’t take long before two of the party are exposed to the virus while out snorkelling (yes, highly unlikely I know) and their flesh is sloughing off their bodies quicker than you can say ‘pass the cheesy dips’! While the infected ones wait on the beach the groom and his business partner, Dobbs, head off further inland to look for help, after previously spotting the research facility from the boat as they circumnavigated the island earlier. Just as well then that said friends have sprung a surprise on the groom and persuade him to go on a final bachelor party the night before the wedding (not a good idea at anytime, and I speak from experience!), a party which utilises a hire boat to get them to an uncharted island, which, you’ve guessed it, houses our patient zero, Mr Porter and his lovely viral passenger, a freakishly fast acting flesh-eating virus, which behaves like a souped up version of everyone’s friend, Mr Ebola! However, I digress, on with the review…Īfter quite a stylish and disturbing opening credits sequence, whereby a certain Mr Porter (played by Sean Astin) is picked up by some secretive US Government SWAT team and deposited in a secret research facility on a jungle strewn island in the Caribbean, the film then turns its attentions to a pre-wedding reception between the daughter of a wealthy local businessman and a young American man from a poor neighbourhood whose younger brother (Josh) and friends (Dobbs and Penny) are starting to annoy the bride and her upper class family. I would class him as a journeyman director who has done rather well off the back of his close association to a certain Mr Quentin Tarantino. I could never quite work out why Eli Roth’s directorial debut was as well received as it was and Roth, to my mind, hasn’t really produced any particularly outstanding films since. This prequel to the strangely popular first Cabin Fever (2002) movie is a mild improvement on the original film, although many will probably disagree with me. ![]() Starring: Sean Astin, Currie Graham, Ryan Donowho, Brando Eaton, Jillian Murray
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