Guastini ( Sushi Girl, Silent Night) the film has some truly stunning, incredibly stomach-churning, and amazingly gooey flesh-melting FX. The other star of Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zeroare the special effects… gruesome is not the word. Give the man more bad guys to play I say. In fact I’d go as far as saying this is Astin’s Silence of the Lambs, as he delivers a tour-de-force performance that manages to balance villainy with his characters faux-innocence superbly. Turn’s out he’s quite a bit of a bastard even behind the glass walls of his containment room, reminding me very much of Anthony Hopkins deranged Hannibal. And that’s completely down to Sean Astin, who outshines the rest of the cast as the “patient zero” of the title who, as it turns out, is not as innocent as the credits sequence would have you believe. So what can I actually tell you about Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero? Well, first off, I enjoyed this film a hell of a lot, more so than the original film. If you’re even contemplating watching the third installment in a franchise that has suffered, both in terms of sketchy release patterns and poor word-of-mouth, as badly as the Cabin Fever series has then undoubtedly no review is going to sway you either way – for or against the film. The group struggle to find a way to survive before their own demons, and the deadly bacteria, consumes them all… The film sees a group of friends head out on a bachelor party cruise in the Caribbean who unexpectedly run ashore a medical research island where the franchises deadly flesh-eating virus was originally unleashed. So it came as somewhat of a surprise when a third film was greenlit and it was set to be a prequel to the first two movies as well.Ĭabin Fever 3: Patient Zero tells the story of the original viral outbreak and the titular (and immune) patient zero, played by Sean Astin in an atypical villainous role. But the film did well enough to warrant a sequel which, after wrangles between director Ti West ( House of the Devil) and the films producers – who re-edited the film to such an extent that West disowned the movie, was released in 2009. Slammed by even those who loved the original film, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever was a critical and commercial flop. I also remember when the film was eventually released there was somewhat of a backlash, after all it wasn’t much more than a mix of backwoods horror and “melt movie”. I distinctly remember the hype surrounding the release of the original Cabin Fever movie – written and directed by then newcomer Eli Roth, the film was touted as a new breed of horror, made for genre fans by a genre fan. Stars: Sean Astin, Currie Graham, Ryan Donowho, Brando Eaton, Jillian Murray, Mitch Ryan, Solly Duran, Lydia Hearst, Claudette Lali | Written by Jake Wade Wall | Directed by Kaare Andrews
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