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Cabin Fever, 2002

Starring: Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd

Directed by: Eli Roth

Written by: Randy Pearlstein

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 93 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:5.4

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The mood of Cabin Fever is scary, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a plague, zombies, and a slasher. It features dark humor. Cabin Fever is a thriller and horror movie. Stylistically, it campy humor and is gory. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. Cabin Fever takes place, at least partly, in the woods, in the mountains, and at a college. It happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for teens and a boys' night.

Summary of Cabin Fever

Eli Roth makes an auspicious debut with CABIN FEVER. Taking an otherwise traditional set up for a horror film, Roth infuses it with enough energy and originality to make it feel completely fresh. Five friends, just finished with college finals, head for a cabin in the woods to party and embrace their newfound freedom. There's the cute but uptight Paul (Rider Strong), who yearns for pretty lifelong platonic friend Karen (Jordan Ladd); the attractive, but slightly stupid couple Jeff (Joey Kern) and Marcy (Cerina Vincent); and the brute jock, Bert (James DeBello). While shooting squirrels in the woods, Bert accidentally nicks a man, who appears to be suffering from a disgusting disease. Bert returns to the cabin, choosing not to share this information with the gang. But later that night, when the man knocks on their door, the beast is unleashed. Unlike most horror films which make the horror gruesomely visible, the evil in CABIN FEVER is invisible--and highly contagious. And when Karen begins to show signs of contamination, the bond between these close friends begins to unravel. Roth's blackly comic directorial debut shows clear influence from the early films of Sam Raimi (THE EVIL DEAD) and Peter Jackson (DEAD ALIVE).

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	9 March 2003
Runtime:	93 min

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Rider Strong

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

So this is a first-level, unironic fright film, the sort whose tongue is removed from its cheek, coated in gore, and pointed right at the audience. Full Review

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by: Rick Groen

The New York Times

Sustains such a palpable mood of foreboding until the end. Full Review

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by: Stephen Holden

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good until the very end (spoilers)

03.August.2011
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by: Isaiah
Isaiah rated this movie4/10Disappointing

good until the very end (spoilers)

i thought this movie was pretty good at the beginning, but as it neared it's final act i thought it started REALLY sucking. it had the classic five teens, the sex crazed couple, the "good" couple, and the drunk. so from the begining, it was very unimagined. also, not only was it just paying too much homage to evil dead (so much in fact that its just ripping off) but the editing and music just suck. it has the standard disease movie flies buzzing around music, and the jumpy jerky music (spoiler) every time someone drank water or you see a glass of water. the beginning of the movie, as i said wasn't that bad, but still had its terrible parts, like the locals, the weird cop, and the store owner. the only drama in this movie is if they are drinking - gasp - WATER. or if they are running away from the dog. however now i get to the worst section of all, the ending. (don't read if you haven't seen). the ending makes NO sense whatsoever not even in a cool trippy 2001 way. there was too much going on and too much clashing of genres. there was horror like when he hits the deer, but comedy when he goes and finds the cop covered in blood, it was a mess. when he goes to the hospital we see a man in a bugs bunny suit preforming an operation on someone. i was thinking "oh cool maybe we'll see some cool hallucination scenes." but no they never followed it up with anything. my only guess is its a confusing homage to the shining in the scene where mrs. torrence (i forget her first name) sees the bear costume guy blowing the other guy. there was also a confusing scene where "dennis" one of the locals (this is never explained) who bites everyone. (?) but he screams "PANCAKES!" does some random kung fu (you can read why on IMDb) and bites the infected guy. there also was a scene when someone swallows a harmonica, which you can hardly see in the first place, and starts coughing up blood (a symptom of the disease to make it more confusing) and in a cartoonish fashion starts breathing the notes. all in all, if its a late night and your bored, go ahead and watch it for a cheesy teen screams movie, but if your looking for an original, good movie, just watch evil dead, the movie this rips off from.

03.August.2011
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by: Isaiah

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I rented this movie based on the fact that Peter Jackson gave it high marks. Some of his earlier works were total gore-fests and quite campy. So I was expecting the same from this movie, the problem was that this movie didnt know whether it wanted... Read and rate it

09.December.2009
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by: ikiru
ikiru rated this movie0/10

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