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Cabin Fever

  • 2002
  • R
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
86K
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Cabin Fever (2002)
Body HorrorDark ComedySplatter HorrorTeen HorrorHorror

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.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.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
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    86K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,636
    473
    • Director
      • Eli Roth
    • Writers
      • Eli Roth
      • Randy Pearlstein
    • Stars
      • Jordan Ladd
      • Rider Strong
      • James DeBello
    • 845User reviews
    • 233Critic reviews
    • 56Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 12 nominations total

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    Jordan Ladd
    Jordan Ladd
    • Karen
    Rider Strong
    Rider Strong
    • Paul
    James DeBello
    James DeBello
    • Bert
    Cerina Vincent
    Cerina Vincent
    • Marcy
    Joey Kern
    Joey Kern
    • Jeff
    Arie Verveen
    Arie Verveen
    • Henry (The Hermit)
    Robert Harris
    Robert Harris
    • Old Man Cadwell
    Hal Courtney
    • Tommy
    Matthew Helms
    Matthew Helms
    • Dennis
    Richard Boone
    • Fenster
    Tim Parati
    Tim Parati
    • Andy
    Dalton McGuire
    • Lemonade Boy
    Jana Farmer
    • Lemonade Girl
    Dante Walker
    Dante Walker
    • Shemp
    Jeff Rendell
    • Fake Shemp
    Brandon Johnson
    • Ray Shawn
    Charee Devon
    • Cadwell's Crush
    • (as Cherie Rodgers)
    Bill Terrell
    • Happy Wednesday Band
    • Director
      • Eli Roth
    • Writers
      • Eli Roth
      • Randy Pearlstein
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    User reviews845

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    4Jmedlin93

    I don't get Eli Roth

    I wanted to like this movie. It has the recipe to be a campy classic, but to me its a painful mess. All of the characters suck. The dialogue is awkward and clunky. It almost feels like it was written by a teenager. The ending is especially frustrating. The movie tries to throw everything at the wall and nothing sticks. The deer flailing through the windshield was just cringe. The whole final chase was awkward and abrupt. To me, its more proof that Roth movies offer nothing more than gross out horror. The special effects makeup was pretty amazing. Especially considering the buget and when it was made. There are moments in this movie that were effective. The bathtub scene was tense. As was the first run in with patient zero. Unfortunately that doesnt do much to save this mess of a horror.
    Dethcharm

    It Gets Into Your Bloodstream...

    Director Eli Roth's CABIN FEVER starts out as if we're in for yet another story about killer hillbillies in the deep woods. Fortunately, Roth is just setting us up for a foray into hemorrhagic horror of the first order! The use of an Ebola-like, flesh-eating disease is both disgusting and innovative.

    The main characters are college kids out to party in the titular structure. As such, they range from annoying, to highly unlikable, to utterly detestable. In spite of this, one actually feels a bit of empathy toward them, once the sickening stuff begins.

    Love it or hate it, this movie is original...
    6mjw2305

    A Laughable Horror Flick, but i enjoyed it

    A group of college students head up to a remote cabin for a weekend of alcohol and sex, but when one of them becomes sick; they begin to turn on each other.

    Cabin Fever is funnier than it is scary, in fact it is questionable whether it is in fact scary at all, but it is certainly entertaining and it's packed with gruesome gore and corny lines. The humour is not present because it's a low budget production or the acting is wooden, the effects are actually pretty good and so are the cast. Cabin Fever was funny because it was meant to be, it never takes itself seriously for a moment and the script is deliberately loaded with cheesy lines.

    As a pure comedy its not great, as a horror movie its not great, but as an entertaining comedy horror flick is hits the spot, and it may well become a cult movie in years to come.

    6/10
    7tburke85

    Cabin Fever Better Than Expected

    Cabin Fever was better than I expected but there were some things that weren't that good. For the most part the movie was a well made horror film that tells the story of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one of them contacts a flesh-eating virus. The movie is a somewhat realistic look at how people would react to such a situation. The movie stars Rider Strong (from Boy Meets World), Jordan Ladd (Broken Lizard Club Dread), Cierina Vincent (whose "spolier" featured in two steamy sex scenes one of which is good and another is okay at first then it gets weird. For those of you who have seen it. You know what I mean), James DeBello (from Detriot Rock City), Joey Kern, and the rest of the cast of unknowns are believable in their roles. I didn't really like the ending which could've been better and the dialogue wasn't the greatest at times but overall Cabin Fever is an effective horror thriller better than others that have come out recently from writer/director Eli Roth the man behind Hostel and Hostel Part 2 which at least to me weren't as good as this one. So if you're in the mood for a decent horror thriller you can go wrong with Cabin Fever. It (for the most part) delivers on whats expected from these kind of movies.
    7Cluckewallist

    "Get Off My Property!"

    A group of horrible teens arrive at a small town the residents of which are even more horrible, and there's also superaids in the water supply. The superaids is incidental, and I'd argue it's even a red herring of a threat. The real threat is obviously how a supernaturally horrible human being everybody is.

    In the universe of Cabin Fever, no problem ever gets solved since it is always someone else's problem, until it becomes everyone's problem at which point no one has the power to solve it. It is a downward spiral, a representation of entropy that we are all very familiar with in real life and we know from our real life experience that any and every problem the characters in this film face will result in a major catastrophe due to people's unwillingness to deal with it at any of its stages.

    Although there are a few intolerably disgusting frames that might get to you, it's more comedy than horror. Because you can't really feel too bad for anyone dying in agony when they kind of all deserve it. I'd argue we shouldn't feel bad, neither for the characters nor for their reflections in real life. Just keep selling the superaids lemonade like the good "BUSINESSMEN" we all are and get over it.

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    • Trivia
      While filming a particularly bloody scene, Rider Strong decided to go for a walk in the woods between setups. Covered head to toe in blood, he happened upon a group of 35 schoolgirls, who were on a field trip. The girls screamed at the sight of this blood-drenched hiker, and then screamed even louder when they realized the hiker was the star of Boy Meets World (1993). The girls chased Rider through the woods. Strong eventually made it back to the film crew, and vowed never to wander off between scenes again.
    • Goofs
      When Marcy starts having sex with Paul, despite the fact that she throws him down on the bed from an upright position, when she falls on him there is a bed-sheet covering her ass. It's obvious that the sheet has somehow been stuck to her body, as it would have fallen off otherwise. (See trivia.)
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Old Man Cadwell: Hi, my nigga, how are you?

      Ray Shawn: What's up, nigga? What you doin? Where ya been, man, where ya been?

    • Crazy credits
      The Bunny Man ... We will never tell
    • Alternate versions
      Lions Gate cut 2 minutes from the film for the US Theatrical Release. However, the uncut version did play at a few festivals before Lions Gate bought it. This version was released in North America on Blu-ray on February 10, 2016. A full list of scenes cut are:
      • The scene where they are in the shop in the beginning is removed from the "uncut" version and is replaced with an extended scene of them driving the truck through the woods. Then they stop when Burt says he left something back at the store and they have a longer conversation about the map.
      • The scene of Rider Strong going behind the building to wash his hands after Dennis's bite and he pets the stray dogs is removed from the "uncut" version.
      • A different angle of Jordan Ladd's character Karen swimming away after the "kiss" scene on the dock with Rider Strong.
      • When it is discovered that Karen has the disease during an intimate scene, there is an additional scene that follows the "Don't...Leave...Me!" where Burt comes into the room and yells at her about how the truck isn't ready yet, and they have to finish cleaning up the bum's blood.
      • An extended scene of everyone arguing around the fireplace when Burt makes a joke about his burnt marshmallow.
      • A scene of Burt sitting outside guarding the shed with his shot gun. This immediately follows when they hear the dog trying to get Karen in the shed and they shoot a bullet and tell Karen that they will stay outside with her to keep the dog away.
      • The gunshot to Burt's head in the cabin is bloodier. In the "R" rated version it cuts away quick and only shows the aftermath from a difficult-to-see angle.
      • An additional scene where Rider Strong grabs the long-haired hick after the attack and drags him down to the cellar. He yells at the hick as he throws him down there and says "When they get here, tell them I didn't do it!", then slams the door.
      • The human-bonfire scene when they say "We got another one in the basement" immediately goes to a shot of the cellar door opening from the inside, then a bunch of shotguns appear and start shooting like crazy. We see blood all over the walls. Then they pour gasoline and one cop lights a match and cellar goes up in flames followed by more shots of blood and guts on the walls, ceiling, and floor.
      • The end is switched around a little. Instead of just the cops drinking the contaminated lemonade followed by a country song with the townspeople, the whole entire town shows up and has a cup. There is additional dialog among the townspeople, different shots, and it shows the FDA man walking around more testing and the Water supply truck is in view longer.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Once Upon a Time in Mexico/Anything Else/Dummy/Cabin Fever (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Shitstorm
      Written by Conor O'Neill

      Performed by Your Mom

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    • Release date
      • September 12, 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La cabaña Sangrienta
    • Filming locations
      • Mt. Airy, North Carolina, USA(cabin exteriors)
    • Production companies
      • Tonic Films
      • Down Home Entertainment
      • Black Sky Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $1,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $21,158,188
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,400,000
      • Sep 14, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $30,553,394
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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