Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever came from Ti West. The original Cabin Fever marked Eli Roth’s directing debut. How long until one of them is exposed to the contagion? How long until they stumble upon the creepy lab? How long until it collapses into flesh-dripping bedlam because Nedry cut the power to the Velociraptor fences or whatever? Meanwhile, Josh (Eaton), Penny, Josh’s brother Marcus (Mitch Ryan), and his pal Dobbs (Ryan Donowho, whose name might be some kind of SAG protest) arrive on the very same island to get high and have sex and confess to one another, as young, blandly attractive horror-flick victims must. It’s viscerally shocking, if predictable, the first time it happens the effect diminishes swiftly with repetition. Edwards (Currie Graham) attempts to create a vaccine, resulting in the first of many infected-blood-gets-vomited-into-someone’s-face scenes.
This was Astin’s superpower in Rudy, too: dogged determination! But he had a much more optimistic attitude in that movie, when he wasn’t locked in Hannibal Lecter’s glass cage, minus the air holes. The film opens with a bearded Sean Astin being held against his will in a secret island laboratory, because-as his white-coated captors keep explaining with a patience and good humor that could only be called “expository”-he’s the only person known to science to be immune to a virus that threatens to become a franchise-prolonging pandemic. Let’s just say “oeuvre.”Īnyway, Patient Zero takes a long time getting there and goes on for a long time afterward.
One begins to detect a theme in Andrews’ output. In that story, Peter’s beloved spouse Mary Jane Watson-Parker is dead, having succumbed to cancer contracted from repeated exposure to his radioactive semen. Previously, he wrote and drew Spider-Man: Reign, a Dark Knight Returns-esque tale wherein an aged Peter Parker un-retires from superheroics in a totalitarian future New York City like the one we were all promised. He’s the current writer and artist on Marvel’s Iron Fist: The Living Weapon, which one can only pray is less interested in vaginal trauma than Patient Zero is. Alas, Penny turns out to be spectacularly unwell.ĭirector Kaare Andrews-who, somewhat tellingly, contributed the segment titled “V Is For Vagitus” to the first ABCs Of Death anthology-is probably better known for his comic books than for his movies. He attends to his task with a diligence that any man, and especially any woman, will find honorable. But it is the raison behind (beneath?) this grossly indecent gross-out horror flick’s most inventive scene, wherein an actor by the contextually regrettable name of Brando Eaton-playing a frat-guy type attending his brother’s wedding in the Dominican Republic-attempts to console his panicking girlfriend Penny (Jillian Murray) after she happens upon some human remains. Decades from now, when writers for the likes of Sight & Sound, Cahiers du Cinéma, and Film Comment passionately debate the relative merits of the innumerable entries in the Cabin Fever franchise-agreeing only that the series’ longevity is damned ironic, considering that the only character to appear in every film is a contagious, disgusting, and lethal flesh-eating virus-the otherwise forgettable third entry Cabin Fever: Patient Zero will warrant a mention for one reason only: This is the film that attempts to do for cunnilingus what Jaws did for ocean swimming.
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