Review of Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009) by Thomas C — 02 Mar 2010

I was so disappointed when I heard that Eli Roth was handing this over to other filmmakers for a sequel. While they didn't do THAT BAD of a job, I'm sure Eli would hate it. At least it opens with the last film's "surviving" character (played by the SAME ACTOR, thank you) awakening in the river, still rapidly deteriorating from the flesh-eating virus that killed everyone in the first film.

His infected blood poisons the river, which is the water supply (this was alluded to at the end of the first film when some little kids go to the river to get water for their lemonade stand). Anyways, some water company bottles up the water.

This is all shown in a pretty amusing animated opening titles sequence. Then the focus is switched to high school students getting ready for the big prom, and I'm kind of shocked none of them have hillbilly accents (this takes place way down south, right?) Anyways, they start drinking the water and the outbreak begins.

And it doesn't help that at the actual prom the black janitor, who's infected, pisses in the punch bowl. He ends up pissing blood at the end of that. I think I'd rather have the flesh-eating virus than drinking the black guy's piss, but unfortunately, in this film, you get both.

The first film's hard-partying cop pussy-lover returns (played by the SAME ACTOR, thank you again), who knows what's going on and tries to stop it. I loved when he runs into Judah Friedlander at the water plant (who thinks he's there to arrest him) and he says "She said she was 18, man! I believe everything children tell me!" This would be the first of many pedophile jokes in the movie.

The first Cabin Fever had some mildly funny moments, but it turned out to be far more disturbing than anything. This one capitalizes more on the funny. The morbidly obese girl getting fucked in the pool by the hot-guy chubby chaser, the harelip teacher, the principal (Michael Bowen from Lost) cheating on his wife with the gay bear; lots of funny shit.

The gross-out scenes aren't that bad either. One of the kids mistakenly thinks he got an STD, and whips his bloody dick out and squeezes pus out of the head. Man, I hate when that happens. The main character later cuts of his hand in the metal shop room using the saw, thinking the amputation will save him.

Blood sprays all over him; proving that he is a dumbass. The Center for Disease Control shows up and quarantines the school. Well "quarantine" is a strong word. They pretty much just kill everyone.

Eh, it was probably just because they hated rednecks though. But, this was the best prom movie I've ever seen. By a mile.