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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 .. Read more

Starring Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent
Director Eli Roth
Genres Horror, Teen

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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).

Starring Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent
Director Eli Roth
Studio LIONS GATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate DVD: DVD Certificate 15.gif, Watch Online: Watch Online Certificate 15.gif (TBC)
Collections 100 Horror Films
Genres Horror, Teen
Language English
Released DVD: 15 Mar 2004
Watch now: 14 Sep 2009
Production year: 2002
Watch now £2.49
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of Cabin Fever

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Five college friends (none of them particularly likeable) are struck down at their forest cabin retreat by a deadly flesh-eating virus in Eli Roth's cultish, gory exploitation flick. Designed as an all-out gratuitous splatter-fest in the video nasty tradition, and borrowing heavily (too much so, in fact) from such genre staples as Night of the Living Dead and Last House on the Left, this delights in delivering toe-curling shocks involving masturbation, rotting faces and flashbacks to a bowling alley massacre. Roth's direction of the action is assured, but it's hard to know if this is a parody or a straight horror, or a mixture of both. This is really one for genuine horror aficionados.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Low budget horror, reminiscent of many similar movies of the 80s, that maintains the tension amid its gross moments of rotting bodies.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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    Rated - 2 stars

    What's British about It, Mr Lawrie?

    Reviewer Dave Lawrie (above) says we should support this film as it will support the British Film Industry. Sorry, what has that got to do with this film as it is an American production all the way!!!!!!! The film itself is the most overrated horror I have ever seen. Poor script, dreadful cutting, wooden acting, poor visuals, very average make overs. OK late at night movie, but any other time don't bother.

      • Laurie from East Grinstead, England
      • Posted 10 Apr 2004 13:22

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  • 2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Leave your brain at the front door

    I thought the story was original in the sense that it's not a teenage slasher movie with some guy in an apron and a mask chasing these teenage girls around. But like most American movies it is a bit like wham bam thank you mam and there is no real thought gone into the character development and screenplay.

      • Angelus2 from Berkshire
      • Posted 23 Dec 2004 11:37

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    Cabin Fever

    Hostel director signs up for Heroes

    • 25 Sep 2007

    Fans of Hostel and Cabin Fever writer-director Eli Roth might be excited to hear what his next project is likely to be. Roth, who is famed for giving movie fans a host of blood-soaked and gore-filled horror films, is to write and direct an episode of Heroes: Origins. The six-part series is a spin-off of the popular sci-fi show Heroes, which tells the story of a group of humans who find they have superpowers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Roth will helm an instalment of Heroes: Origins,... Read more

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