With Evil Dead, Sam Raimi made a good, solid horror movie.
With Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi made a very funny horror parody.
With Cabin Fever, Eli Roth tries to do both, and comes up short either way. Cabin Fever has some intense moments, but they are undermined by too much comic relief. I think there was also supposed to be some social commentary in there, about the mistreatment of people with diseases, but that does not work either. Maybe the movie was just trying to be stupid. In that case, Eli Roth forgets the important rule: a movie is only bad enough to be funny if it is trying to be good. Try to make a bad movie and you just have a bad movie. Cabin Fever has a few shocks, a few laughs, but nothing that impressive.
With Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi made a very funny horror parody.
With Cabin Fever, Eli Roth tries to do both, and comes up short either way. Cabin Fever has some intense moments, but they are undermined by too much comic relief. I think there was also supposed to be some social commentary in there, about the mistreatment of people with diseases, but that does not work either. Maybe the movie was just trying to be stupid. In that case, Eli Roth forgets the important rule: a movie is only bad enough to be funny if it is trying to be good. Try to make a bad movie and you just have a bad movie. Cabin Fever has a few shocks, a few laughs, but nothing that impressive.