In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare. After an earthquake erupts in Chile, tourist discover that a neighboring prison in the area collapsed in the event, and all surviving criminals managed to break free. Soon they learn that the most terrifying thing, more threatening that Mother Nature, is what she created. Three Americans Gringo (Eli Roth), Ariel, and Pollo are traveling through Chile drinking wine. They scam their way into a party. Three hot girls sisters Monica and Kylie and Russian friend Irina also scam their way into the party. Gringo is divorced with a daughter and Irina has a son. The two groups spend the next day together and go to an underground party when an earthquake hits.<br/><br/>This is Eli Roth and his two douchey friends with 3 hot girls in a troubled South American country. The Zach Galifianakis wannabe is annoying without being funny. Zach is able to make his characters lovable. These are characters without any rooting interest. It adds to the douche factor with a Selena Gomez cameo as an entitled celebrity. It takes forever for the earthquake to happen and start the movie. It's not like Eli Roth is a great writer of dialog. It's over 30 minutes of boring drunk people and superficial arguments. The best thing is that Eli Roth marries his co-star in real life. There are some good kills but I couldn't care less about these characters. Quite the worst waste of 90 minutes I've experienced since Hostel 2. Just bad, unoriginal, characters you have little reason to care about, in search of shocks the film continually seeks for escalations but most of them, right down to the ending are predictable. The acting and dialogue weren't altogether bad but I'm really not sure whether in the end this was a bad comedy or a truly awful disaster movie.<br/><br/>You have to hope that in the end Eli Roth is not funded to make any more rubbish films - ironic to think some really good film makers get funding cut off at the knees for being un-commercial but this sort of junk gets made. Cabin Fever was OK, just to clarify this review is nothing personal…… There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust.
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