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Cabin Fever
2002
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Director | Eli Roth |
| Studio | LIONS GATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins Watch now: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| 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 |
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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.
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Low budget horror, reminiscent of many similar movies of the 80s, that maintains the tension amid its gross moments of rotting bodies.
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34 out of 44 people found this review helpful
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.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
After seeing this get rave reviews I was expecting something a bit special. Unfortunately it was yet another rehash of the tired ol' cliche - teenagers in distress in woods. I've read the director waffling on about how he wanted to make a film that scared but all the time he undercuts any thrills with crappy humour and when all else failed, he'd tries for the surreal. <p> If I hadn't seen so many reviews saying that this was the film that was killing off the post-modern dreck ("Scream" etc), I may have enjoyed it a bit more but it really is nowhere as good as the '80's stuff (Friday the 13th etc) it yearns to be.
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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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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 ...
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