This is how Cabin Fever SHOULD have been made. If you are going to make a slapstick horror movie, borrowing classic elements from the genre (and truthfully, what horror movie doesn't?), then this is how you do it. Stick to your guns, and make it fun from the first shot, and don't let off the gas! Monster Man truly surprised me in that it is some good, cheesy fun, but with some great gore! And the part where Harley is stuck under the corpse in the half crushed car trying to get out, is laugh out loud funny! Is this a perfect film? Far from it, but you need to take it at face value. You are in on the joke from the opening moments that nothing is going to be taken seriously in this movie, and if you watch it with that frame of mind, I think you will enjoy it. I mean, really. A mangled faced dude driving a MONSTER TRUCK? That premise alone sets it up for failure if you are going to try to play it straight. But there are some creepy elements to this movie as well (their first "out of truck" confrontation with the driver in the woods comes to mind), and it plays off the comedy w/out overlapping in some cases, truly reminding you that this is a horror flick. All in all, there are better movies out there, but God it's so refreshing to see something unique besides the constant churning of re-makes, and re-hashes. *******/**********.
Review of Monster Man
