Those with a more continuous sense of movement - Grim's Gave, for example - are a good example of scoring with a chamber ensemble, proving you can build up momentum and excitement without a 100 piece orchestra. What is most frustrating is that a few tracks are surprisingly imaginative, for example, Die Redneck Die (The Redneck The - for Simpsons fans) which has a kind of sampled scream that has been manipulated and it's that kind of thing that works well. From track 7, we then have about 52 minutes of score, most of which is long string notes - low and eerie or high and eerie - or long synth notes, occasionally perked up with a bit of percussion. After that, there are a few songs which are quite amusing and likely included in the film for comedy value than anything else. The disc opens with a brief dialogue clip - the first of a few, but they are kept before and after the body of the score, although in this instance, the slightly weird dialogue is darkly funny and would likely perk the disc up a touch. This is not to say it's devoid of some merit, but it's largely synthetic, meandering and often deathly dull. Horror scores are difficult to enjoy at the best of times, but the music is evidently on a budget and receiving such a long album seriously hampers any chance Cabin Fever has of being enjoyable. Of course, because it's teenagers trapped in a cabin (hence the title), they all do copious amounts of bonking too. The film is about a flesh eating virus (apparently based on real ones) that ends with the victim bleeding all over, leading to hideous death.
To be honest, 76 minutes and 32 minutes of that song repeated over and over would likely be a greater listening pleasure than this horror score by Nathan Barr (probably most famous for being an assistant to Hans Zimmer) and the somewhat better known Angelo Badalamenti. My first thought when I saw the title Cabin Fever was of the hilarious song from Muppet Treasure Island.
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