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Cabin Fever

Play trailer Poster for Cabin Fever R Released Sep 12, 2003 1h 33m Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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Bert (James DeBello), a college student vacationing with friends in the mountains, mistakenly shoots a local man (Arie Verveen) with a skin infection while hunting in the woods. Panicking, he abandons the scene and leaves the man for dead. When the man stumbles into a reservoir, he infects the water supply, and soon one of Bert's friends becomes infected. The friends struggle to stop the contagious, flesh-eating disease while on the run from a group of ornery backwoods locals out for revenge.
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More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader A protege of David Lynch, Roth puts a sardonic spin on the puritanism of the 80s slasher... Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Jamie Russell BBC.com Definitely unforgettable, it's destined for cult classic status. Rated: 4/5 Oct 22, 2003 Full Review David Keyes Cinemaphile.org A divisive moment between opposing tones of horror movies, and a relentless symbol of the director's unfiltered panache for the macabre. Rated: 3/4 Oct 26, 2016 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...the somewhat anticlimactic finale ensures that Cabin Fever ends on a woefully forgettable note. Rated: 2/4 Oct 8, 2016 Full Review Steve Newton Georgia Straight If you take away the shocking makeup-effects work of KNB EFX Inc. there's not much there at all. Rated: 2.5/5 Feb 9, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Deontae D Meh, It's not that good, It's my first time seeing this, I didn't really enjoy it, It is disgusting too, It's mostly about a contagious flesh eating disease, 2/5 👎🏽 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/12/24 Full Review Audience Member Eli Roth makes his directoral film debut 20 years after focusing on college students heading out to spend their summer vacation in the woods but unfortunately after running into a homeless guy they suddenly fall prey to a flesh eating virus devouring them 1 by 1 with no clue how to escape or work together the dialogue is funny especially when they say the F-word continuously there's gore galore! the girls are hot and the creepy atmosphere sinks in although many of these characters are pretty unlikable so if you’re not a fan of Roth’s schtick this isn’t for you, it’s just the way his humor works but he does have a love for the blood and grotesque Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/30/24 Full Review Craig B Cabin Fever is good, gory fun. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/26/24 Full Review Justin T I found this a very good horror comedy. You really grow to hate the main characters right from the beginning until the end. The gore is quite gross in places although nothing too strenuous except maybe the leg shaving scene. It is very fast paced so there is no room for getting bored or thinking about the characterisation. It is well worth watching and is very entertaining. It is funny as well as disgusting. It really is quite a memorable film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/10/24 Full Review Dan C The idea and premace of this film is very believable adding to the horror and unnerving vibe to this movie. However it's just not executed well with some very questionable/dumb decisions from survivors which leaves your head scratching in frustration. Overall: It's worth a watch but you won't be going back to this much. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/15/24 Full Review John C I remember watching ‘Cabin Fever’ in the cinema when it first came out. If you’d asked me what I thought of it after my initial viewing, I’d have said, “Yeah, it was okay,” and left it at that. It wasn’t until after I saw it did I keep hearing how it was a ‘homage to 'Evil Dead.’' Now, I’m a big fan of the 'Evil Dead' trilogy (excluding remake!) and I didn’t remember much in 'Cabin Fever' that could be considered a ‘homage.’ So I watched it again when it came out on DVD and I guess I saw what I’d missed the first time round. Basically, 'Cabin Fever' is hardly original – five college friends go to a remote cabin in the woods and meet a sticky end. However, it’s done just differently enough to make it worth watching. It’s not perfect by any means – there are still a couple of ‘plot points’ which I always objected to – namely because I felt that I could see them coming a mile off and I could tell that the writers were trying to make what happened a surprise. However, despite the odd wrong turn, the narrative is pretty good. It’s worth noting that the man responsible for some of the musical soundtrack to (the brilliantly-weird) 'Twin Peaks' did the music for this, too. And, like each other, they have more than their fair share of ‘weird/surreal’ moments which makes the whole thing stand out. The five characters aren’t that nice. You won’t really like them, but that doesn’t really mean that you won’t root for them. Even the annoying one with the really bad haircut is stupidly-annoying enough for you to enjoy watching him, but special kudos to ‘Bert’ who is a total wally and yet he’s still quite entertaining to watch. I won’t go into too much detail as to what happens to our five, daft teens as you probably already know or, if you don’t, it’ll hopefully be a bit of a surprise. But, I will say that it is a definite horror movie, therefore you’ll get more than you money's worth of gore from this outing. After all these years I’ve now watched 'Cabin Fever' a number of times and I seem to enjoy it more and more each time. Like I say, it’s not perfect, but if you’re looking for a nice little tongue-in-cheek film with plenty of gore and sets out not to take itself seriously, then this is it. And, yes, there were a fair few nods to Evil Dead which completely went over my head the first time round (just don’t ask me for ‘pancakes’ after this film). Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/22/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Bert (James DeBello), a college student vacationing with friends in the mountains, mistakenly shoots a local man (Arie Verveen) with a skin infection while hunting in the woods. Panicking, he abandons the scene and leaves the man for dead. When the man stumbles into a reservoir, he infects the water supply, and soon one of Bert's friends becomes infected. The friends struggle to stop the contagious, flesh-eating disease while on the run from a group of ornery backwoods locals out for revenge.
Director
Eli Roth
Producer
Eli Roth, Lauren Vilchik, Sam Froelich, Evan Astrowsky
Screenwriter
Eli Roth, Randy Pearlstein
Distributor
Cabin Pictures LLC
Production Co
Tall Pines Entertainment, Tonic Films LLC, Black Sky Entertainment, Down Home Entertainment, Deer Path Films, Tonic Films
Rating
R (Language|Brief Drug Use|Sexuality|Strong Violence and Gore)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 12, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 23, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$21.2M
Runtime
1h 33m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Surround
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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