Noah Segan:  John
Rusty Kelley: Alex
Alexi Wasser:  Cassie
Guiseppe Andrews:  Winston
Rider Strong:  Paul

Release Date: February 16th, 2010
Studio: Lionsgate
Genre:  Horror / Thriller
Rated: Unrated      1 hr 30 mins

CAST:

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

May 4, 2010

Reviewer: Rottenbucher

DIRECTOR:

Ti West

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After languishing on the shelf at Lions Gate for almost two years, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever comes to us in the form of an unrated DVD.  Of course it is unrated. Lionsgate probably didn’t want risk the marketing ploy or bother paying the MPAA to attempt to rate this infected corpse.

What you have is two actors from the original making brief appearances while the remaining cast is made up of adults trying to pass as high school seniors ready bust a move at prom. Then there is the gruesome infection which makes its way into bottled water that somehow everyone in the town drinks.  Gorehounds will lap up the endless sanguine slop, projectile vomiting, smashed faces, disturbing swimming pool sex, sickly underage strippers, lopped off limbs, puss-filled penises and even a murky miscarriage. There’s no cabin here.  And a prom!? No quirky homage to Carrie? Wow.

Here is the problem: You have a lot of gore and most of it is pretty icky but it’s solely what the film is hinged upon.  If you take out the gore, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever is a lackluster high school love-triangle romance that is just plain painful. Director Ti West (House of the Devil) has claimed that the producers took the film away and heavily re-edited it. Even with the initial warning, the gobs of gore can’t make up for pointless plot and awful acting contained in whatever version of the film this may be.

Cabin Fever wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.  Neither is this nonsense.  While the first had some sort of charm being the first trashy retro/splatter style horror film of the Millennium, the sequel is nothing more than a vapid Direct-to-DVD cash in. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever is a tensionless icky flick where nothing here is scary or memorable. Avoid like the plague.