For fans of the 2002 cult horror hit Cabin Fever, two things are for sure: never thinking about the word “pancakes” in the same way again, and preparing for a disappointing franchise. A few years after its less satisfying sequel Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, those expectations will be tested with not one, but two prequels.
Cabin Fever: Patient Zero and its follow-up, Cabin Fever: Outbreak, reveal the origins of the virus that plagues unsuspecting campers in director Eli Roth’s original movie. Both films will be shot back-to-back, with scribe Jake Wade Wall (The Hitcher) writing Patient Zero, and screenwriting team Adam and Deborah Marcus taking on Outbreak.
Filmed on location in the Dominican Republic, Patient Zero will introduce the disease to some cruise ship passengers stranded on a research island in the Caribbean, an appropriate premise considering the recent cruise ship mishaps going on in the news lately – kudos for the clever combination of gore and current events. Produced by Evan Astrowsky and Jasbinder Singh Mann of the Indomina Group, a DO-based producer, financier and distributor, the project is in final negotiations to secure Marvel comic book writer/artist-turned-filmmaker Kaare Andrews to direct. Andrews came onto the film scene with the supernatural creeper Altitude, and has since contributed to the horror anthology film ABC’s of Death. [THR]
No word yet on Outbreak‘s plot, but I’m going to guess that it will be gross.
Do you think Cabin Fever needs prequels?