If it's closer to $2 million, it may make back its budget and then some purely on the curiosity factor with horror fans, though it faces a tough weekend against the much funnier, equally violent dark comedy of Deadpool.īut how is it as a movie? Glad you asked, since I didn't sit through the thing for nothing. Precise budget details are difficult to come by at this time, but Cassian Elwes' Pelican Point Capital Partners, which produced, typically fund films between $2 and $15 million, and without any name actors this remake is likely on the lower end of that scale. Roth presumably sold the remake rights to make himself some money, and it uses his original screenplay, so no new writers needed to be hired. The Sean Astin starrer was released on VOD before very limited theatrical.so limited that its grosses are actually reported as $0, with a small $122, 091 in domestic video sales.
#Cabin fever original series#
In 2011, Dominican-based Indomina purchased the sequel rights to the series and announced production on two new installments, but only one was made: Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, which Indomina sold to Image Entertainment. It played a couple of horror film festival before basically going straight to DVD, and West, who has carved out his own horror niche since, disowns the film to this day.
The sequel, however, directed by then up-and-comer Ti West, was left on the shelf for a year when Lionsgate disagreed with his comedic take on the material. The first one was a bona fide hit, grossing over $30 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5 million, and allowing Roth to go on to helm the more successful Hostel series. That's understandable - rarely does a franchise get this far with so little overall success. Rather than the cabin being haunted by ghosts or demons, however, this particular location has been infested with a horrifying flesh-eating virus that slowly chews its way through the cast.It's entirely possible, probable even, that you didn't know Cabin Fever was a franchise beyond the original 2002 horror-comedy that introduced Eli Roth to the world and established a theme he would go on to milk forever: dumb young Americans think they know everything, get out of their comfort zone and in over their head.
#Cabin fever original movie#
It's been announced that Teen Wolf‘s Gage Golightly, Dustin Ingram, Samuel Davis, Matthew Daddario and Nadine Crocker will all be starring in the movie, but it's unclear what roles they will be taking.įor those unfamiliar with the original Cabin Fever, the movie centered on a group of five college grads who decide to take a weekend vacation in a cabin in the woods (a rookie mistake). Filmmaker Travis Zariwny is attached to direct the movie, while Roth is attached as an executive producer. As a result of this, the film is moving along incredibly quickly, and there are actually plans to start filming this week in Portland, Oregon. That's right: instead of taking the original idea and reworking in some kind of interesting way, the remake will instead once again use the screenplay that was co-written by Eli Roth and Randy Pearlstein. Deadline has the news of the developing Cabin Fever remake, including the bizarre news that the new film will be using the exact same script that was used for the original.
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