Similar in tone, style and pace to Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever, it’s a better companion piece to the original film, and far more watchable to boot. It’s a slicker, more professional looking movie, well-directed and acted throughout. Where Cabin Fever 2 was a low point in director Ti West’s so far illustrious career, Kaare Andrews’s Patient Zero is something of a return to form for the franchise. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is possibly the only time you’re going to see a reference to Anton Chekhov in relation to Cabin Fever 3… or giant rubber recreational devices, for that matter. Sure enough, the enormous rubber lovelength introduced in the film’s first act is used to particularly grisly effect during its (no pun intended) climax. Substitute that gun for a big black dildo, and you’ll find that Patient Zero follows Chekhov’s rule pretty rigidly. Idyllic, that is, until super-infectious Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee himself, only wearing a beard) sets loose a particularly nasty strain of flesh-eating virus, well and truly ruining the holiday for everyone.ĭrama and film students will be familiar with the dramatic principle behind ‘Chekhov’s gun’, which decrees that, if you’re going to put a gun on the stage in the first act, you’d better have someone use it by the second. The world’s worst skin condition returns, trading in the cabin in the woods and the high school prom for an idyllic Caribbean island, where a quartet of pretty young things can be found celebrating one of their number’s impending nuptials.
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