![]() ![]() Roth presumably sold the remake rights to make himself some money, and it uses his original screenplay, so no new writers needed to be hired. The Sean Astin starrer was released on VOD before very limited theatrical.so limited that its grosses are actually reported as $0, with a small $122, 091 in domestic video sales. In 2011, Dominican-based Indomina purchased the sequel rights to the series and announced production on two new installments, but only one was made: Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, which Indomina sold to Image Entertainment. It played a couple of horror film festival before basically going straight to DVD, and West, who has carved out his own horror niche since, disowns the film to this day. The sequel, however, directed by then up-and-comer Ti West, was left on the shelf for a year when Lionsgate disagreed with his comedic take on the material. The first one was a bona fide hit, grossing over $30 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5 million, and allowing Roth to go on to helm the more successful Hostel series. That's understandable - rarely does a franchise get this far with so little overall success. It's entirely possible, probable even, that you didn't know Cabin Fever was a franchise beyond the original 2002 horror-comedy that introduced Eli Roth to the world and established a theme he would go on to milk forever: dumb young Americans think they know everything, get out of their comfort zone and in over their head.
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