Cabin Fever (2002)

A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

Director:

Eli Roth

Writers:

Eli Roth, Randy Pearlstein,

Stars:

Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello

5 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Rider Strong	...	Paul
Jordan Ladd	...	Karen
James DeBello	...	Bert
Cerina Vincent	...	Marcy
Joey Kern	...	Jeff
Arie Verveen	...	Henry (The Hermit)
Robert Harris	...	Old Man Cadwell
Hal Courtney	...	Tommy
Matthew Helms	...	Dennis
Richard Boone	...	Fenster
Tim Parati	...	Andy
Dalton McGuire	...	Lemonade Boy
Jana Farmer	...	Lemonade Girl
Dante Walker	...	Shemp
Jeff Rendell	...	Fake Shemp

Storyline

An offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus. As it spreads among the friends, their true feelings and personalities emerge as they struggle to survive the virus and each other.

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Plot Keywords:

Virus | Flesh Eating Virus | Woods | Vacation | Cabin In The Woods | 

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Taglines:

Cabin Fever... catch it.

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence and gore, sexuality, language and brief drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 September 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Cabana do Medo

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$219,056 (Australia) (5 December 2003)

Gross:

$219,056 (Australia) (5 December 2003)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tonic Films, Down Home Entertainment, Black Sky Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min 98 min (unrated director's cut)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Crew member Robert Jones took home the decapitated body prop once the film wrapped, and was pulled over while driving home by police officers who saw the corpse and thought he was a serial killer. The police held Jones at gunpoint until he was able to convince them the lifelike body was only a prop.

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Goofs

The Ford F-100 truck the rednecks have changes from a 1973 with round headlights to a 1978 with square ones.

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Quotes

[first lines]
The Hermit: Hey, boy. Hey, boy. Hey, boy. Unn? C'mon, boy. Hey. Hey. Hey, fella.

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Crazy Credits

Gabriel Roth ... Hospital Escourt

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Connections

Referenced in The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004)

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Soundtracks

"Ice Cream Man"
Written by David Hess and Stephen Chapin
Performed by David Hess

User Reviews

Not if they paid you a king's ransom!

So bad we just had to leave.

Yes, Cabin Fever is that kind of bad. Funny thing is that i knew it was going to be awful from the very opening scenes of the movie; a hillbilly comes straggling through the forest offers a dead rabbit to an obviously deader than dead corpse of a dog. The next scene is hardly an improvement; a 'deliverance'-like boy bites the hand of one of the idiotic main characters outside a hillbilly general store. One of the hillbilly's proceeds inform the group that "everybody knows that you shouldn't sit next to Billy" and then tells the bitten lad that there's a stream out behind the store where he can clean his wound. Of course savvy movie goers know that out in the country there's no such thing as running water, washrooms, non-inbred country folk, first aid kits, etc...

It's not scary, it's not funny, it's not even weird, it's just plain stupid. The main characters, a group of four semi-retarded teenagers, along with a completely deranged, lobotomized neanderthal, are fully and completely repulsive. In the span of approximately 5 minutes the neanderthal, who perpetually sports an FU baseball cap and is easily the most moronic of the group (not to mention in movie history), spies on his 'friends' making love, almost burns down the entire forest by pouring gasoline around the outside ring of a campfire, and shoots a deceased hillbilly with his b.b. gun.

Premise? Well there's something in the water that's turning people and animals into deceased ridden freaks. This may sound rather sophisticated for the average Vin Diesal fan, but don't be fooled; this is no 28 Days Later. Heck this makes Friday the 13th look like Citizen Kane.

A full twenty minutes into the film I started apologize profusely to my girlfriend; I choose the film, gravely misguided by a couple of positive reviews (including the NY Times!). At the point in the film when FU neanderthal started sharing his masturbation stories (detailing his dog's participation) I KNEW I HAD TO LEAVE! But, not believing that any movie could be so woefully repulsive and stupid at once, I stuck around a little longer.

Next scene, the aforementioned deceased hillbilly makes his triumphant return , much to the bewilderment of the G.O.I. (gang of imbeciles) who proceed to smash him to pieces (not to mention their only form of transportation) with baseball bats, machetes and butcher knives. If that wasn't excessive enough, one of the GOI decides to light the hillbilly on fire.

Then one of the GOI guys, molesting the blond girl in her sleep (no kidding), suddenly realizes that she's been infected and the GOI proceed to lock her up in a tool shed like an animal. They then disperse, ostensibly looking for help, but really just looking for Mrs. Goodboobies. This, of course, inflames Mr. Goodboobies who threatens to blow one of the GOI flock to kingdom come with a 12 gauge. The GOI member flees and I take it as a cue to leave this sinking ship before it hits the Marianas Trench of abysmal filmdom.

A funny endnote: I went up to the service desk to ask if I could be granted access to another feature. The guy working the desk couldn't believe that I left the film (he was really dumbfounded... perhaps he was just dumb) he kept saying it was the best horror film he had ever seen and how it was a homage to Evil Dead and TCM. I looked closely at him to see if there was any resemblance to the cast of GOI but didn't detect anything. I found this profoundly disturbing and wondered deeply at the state of humanity; is there any hope for us? Well I must say that my next choice was wise one and I saw a film(Bend it Like Beckham) that was so infinitely better it's hard to believe that they were made by the same species.

0/10