Cabin Fever

Plot synopsis:
A man (Arie Verveen) is walking in the woods and comes upon a dog that he believes to be sleeping. After poking it a few times, he pulls the dog up and notices that the dog's flesh is rotted, spurting blood on him in the process.Meanwhile, five college friends, Jeff (Joey Kern), Marcy (Cerina Vincent), Paul (Rider Strong), Karen (Jordan Ladd), and Bert (James DeBello) are driving in a van through rural Alabama on their way to the woods for they have rented a cabin in the woods. Along the way, they stop at a local convenience store for food where a young retarded boy (Matthew Helms) outside the store bites Paul on the hand. The locals standing nearby look at the outsiders in their town with suspicion and scorn.When they arrive at the cabin, Jeff and Marcy immediately retire to their bedroom and have sex. Paul and Karen go for a swim in the lake while Bert goes hunting for squirrels in the woods. He accidentally shoots the man who discovered the rotting dog in the beginning of the film while hunting whom he mistook for a squirrel. By this time, the man's face has become badly rotted. Scared, Bert shoots at him again in order to repel him and runs back to the cabin.That evening, the five kids build a bonfire and share ghost stories with each other. They soon encounter a local college kid named Grim (Eli Roth) who approaches them with his dog, Dr. Mambo. Though he acts a little eccentric, they allow him to join in when he offers them marijuana. However, once it starts raining, he leaves to take care of his camping equipment and the group retreats into the house.Later on that night, they hear a knocking at the door and discover it's the diseased man that Bert shot before. Desperate for help, the hermit comes after the group. He tries to drive away in their car, but vomits blood all over the windscreen and the seats of the car. After the man exits the car, Paul sets-light to the infected man and he runs aflame back into the woods where he dies in the lake.In the morning, a young deputy, Winston Olsen (Giuseppe Andrews), shows up at the cabin and promises Paul he'll call a tow truck. Jeff and Bert walk off down the lake shore when they come to a woman's house to ask for a ride into town. They soon discover that the woman was related to the hermit they killed so they leave quickly. During this time, Karen drinks a glass of water from the lake contaminated by the infected man and begins to feel ill. She goes to bed to rest. Paul later discovers rotten boils on her thighs. Karen is then quarantined in the tool shed outside.Fearing that they will soon also become infected with whatever is ailing Karen as well as the man the night before, the others begin to argue with one another over what they should do about their situation.The next day, they discover Karen's condition is deteriorating fast. Bert also realizes that he himself is infected with the virus. Bert drives off to find a doctor. When Paul and Marcy insist on helping Karen, Jeff runs off into the forest with the remaining beer (the only reliable drinking source). Marcy yells at him as he flees, upset that he has abandoned her.Meanwhile, Bert drives to the convenience store that the group visited earlier pleading for a doctor. He shows increasing signs of infection. The young redarded redneck boy on the bench then runs over and bites Bert again, thereby infecting himself. His father (Hal Courtney) comes outside and, rather than helping Bert, tries to kill him. Bert speeds off and the father grabs two of his redneck friends (Richard Boone and Tim Parati) who arm themselves with rifles to go after Bert to kill him.Now alone in the cabin, Paul finds Marcy sitting despondently on her bed. He tries to reassure her, but she reiterates that they are all doomed to get sick, to the point where "all you want to do is grab the person next to you and to have sex with because you know you're gonna be dead soon, anyway." She seduces Paul and they begin having wild sex. Paul expresses concern that they aren't using a condom. Marcy brushes him off without heed by saying "Don't worry, I'm healthy!" and continues riding him.After they finish having sex, Paul worries about whether Marcy has the disease or not. He goes into the bathroom and attempts to disinfect his penis by pouring Listerine over it. While washing her face, Marcy discovers, with worry, some red marks on her back where Paul grabbed her in the heat of their sexual encounter.A little later, Paul tells Marcy that he's going to bring back Jeff so that they can all walk back to civilization. Marcy urges him to stay, but Paul seems uncomfortable around her after sleeping with her and insists that he "has to get out of" the cabin. Now completely alone, Marcy has a bath and weeps. The marks Paul made on her back are shown to be developing into gruesome wounds like Karen's.Paul heads over to the local reservoir, and notices a body floating in the lake. He climbs down the ladder and moves the body with a stick. He sees that it is the infected hermit. The dock's ladder rots and gives way, causing Paul to fall into the infected water, ensuring that he is definitely infected by this point.Back at the cabin, Marcy is shown shaving her legs in the bathtub and notices they are beginning to deteriorate as the skin begins gorily peeling off. She runs outside, upset, and is attacked by a now infected Dr. Mambo. Paul returns to find Marcy's body ripped to pieces and Dr. Mambo eating a motionless Karen's face. The dog attempts to attack him too. However, Paul kills him with Bert's rifle. Now alone, Paul goes to check on Karen whose skin has now almost fully rotted off; she is barely alive. To end her suffering, he clubs and impales her with a shovel and then runs for help.Just then, Bert struggles back to the cabin with the rednecks in pursuit. When Bert's pursuers open the door, Bert tries to shoot one of the men but is killed by a shotgun round. Paul comes and successfully kills the store owner and his friends. After fleeing the cabin, Paul decides to look for Jeff. He checks a cave, thinking Jeff is inside, but only finds Grim's dead body.Paul then runs back to Bert's pursuers' car and drives into town. Along the way he slams head-on into a deer, damaging the windshield and the car. He continues on foot until he sees a roadside party thrown by local teens with Winston in attendance. Winston asks Paul about the tow truck just as a police officer gets on the radio warning Winston about Paul and his group whom are infected with a strange disease and that they are to be shot on sight. After all of the party attendees leave, Paul knocks Winston out with a stick. Paul is picked-up by a passing trucker and brought to the hospital.The sheriff and doctors interrogate him while he is lying in a hospital bed, trying to discover the source of the infection, but Paul is slightly dazed and unable to answer all their questions. When he is left alone, Paul pulls up his hospital gown to reveal the tell-tale marks of the disease on his belly. The doctors determine they are not equipped to handle the situation and that he should be transported to a larger, nearby regional hospital. His driver turns out to be Winston. Paul tries to warn him about the water in the reservoir but he can't speak well and only says "water". Winston says he will take him to get water.The next morning, Jeff comes out of the woods where he was hiding and makes his way back to the cabin. As he looks around, horrified that his friends are dead, he is suddenly shot to death by the redneck police. The murderous sheriff and his men take Jeff's dead body and pile it on top of the others, which are burned in a fire pit.While unconscious, Paul is dumped into a stream by Winston and left to die. Paul's body infects the water in the stream. Further down are two kids collecting water for their lemonade stand. They sell some lemonade to the sheriff, his deputies and more locals at the store. A natural spring water truck leaves the store with bottles of infected water in the truck... thus beginning the start of a possible epidemic infection.

Tags: comedy, suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, horror, flashback, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, romantic, revenge, storytelling

Review:
Every time it comes on I watch it and I begin to love this film a lot more.Cabin Fever is directed by up and comer Eli Roth.
He's a guy that loves horror films and mentioned in several articles this movie pay homage to his favorites like Evil Dead.Cabin Fever is about 5 college kids who had just finish test finals and are enjoying some relaxation and fun in a cabin in the woods but the fun is cut short when they learn a flesh eating bacteria disease is around.
Eli Roth hearkens back to a time when movies weren't always about psychological thrills,bad twist endings, and pretentious artistic "meanings", when they were about fun.
With their car wrecked and their mobile phones not working, they try to get help but their plans dramatically change when one of their number starts to show signs of having the same flesh eating virus that the stranger appeared to have.I remembered this film getting reasonable reviews when it came out so I decided to give it a try on DVD to see for myself.
The lack of emotional involvement between the characters means that it is not quite as gripping as it should be  instead they turn on each other really quickly and only once do you feel for them.The movie borrows heavily from other films (Evil Dead, teen movies, Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead) and in some ways it is not a problem, but in others it is a weakness  for example the climax of the action is obvious because it is clear what it is referencing.
To sum up this movie: take a bit of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a bit of The Evil Dead, a couple of elements from The Thing and Last House on the Left and you have Cabin Fever.
A horror movie about five teenagers going to holiday in a cabin in the woods after college where the nearest town is filled with hicks and everything is slowly getting infected by an unknown virus which starts to turn everyone against each other.
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 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.
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.
When Karen drinks tap water and gets the disease, the group begins their journey to hell."Cabin Fever" is a collection of clichés and parts of horror movies ("Evil Dead", "Outbreak", "The Night of the Living Dead" – the remake, "Braindead" etc.) that works very well.
I usually hate to add a comment to a film with so many similar entries, but "Cabin Fever" was such a horrible movie watching experience that writing something down about it may cleanse my mind of the crap it just ingested.One can certainly expect a B horror teen film to be stupid, pointless, badly written and poorly acted, but "Cabin Fever" deserves a special prize.
Almost aggressively puerile in its focus and lack of understanding of even the most basic human motivations, "Cabin Fever" is what you'd come up with if you gave a drooling idiot 1.5 million dollars and a crew and said, "Shoot something!" I would need 6 hours to catalog the inanities that make up the plot, but suffice it to say that the film has no act one, act two or conclusion, just a bunch of bad ideas strung together.
i feel asleep twice through sheer boredom and even after the third time watching it failed 2 see the significance of film it seemed like yet another long winded pointless horror that wasn't scary and looked more like a comedy with the added bonus of some blood and gore...
Released in 2003, "Cabin Fever" was Eli Roth's film debut; he would go on to make the 2005 horror hit "Hostel." "Cabin Fever" has become somewhat of a modern cult film due to its eccentricities and Roth's later notoriety.THE PLOT: Five college youths -- 3 guys and 2 girls -- take a cabin vacation in the sticks of NC where they are threatened by a serious disease where those infected spit out blood while their skin wastes away.
I just don't get what's so great about "Cabin Fever." The plot is good, as are other items, but the film leaves a lot to be desired, unless of course you're not looking for much intelligence or authentic horror and just want a fun, quasi-horror experience.
As good as she looks in "Cabin Fever" she's far more gorgeous in later films like 2006's "Sasquatch Mountain" and 2005's "It Waits," where she's more curvy with a fuller mane.
Don't get me wrong here because I actually prefer realistic cussing in film; in other words, I prefer that the characters talk like people in real life.
Maybe the cussing overkill is part of Roth's joke: "Let's go ultra R-rated and overdo everything that's watered-down in a PG-13 film." Regardless, this approach makes his protagonists sound like morons who have no right to step foot into an elementary school English class let alone be college graduates.BOTTOM LINE: While "Cabin Fever" has some positive elements -- Cerina Vincent, the NC backwoods cinematography, a couple of amusing parts and the end-credits song -- it's not horrifying at all because it's pretty much a big joke.
The story comes without structure, totally predictable, the writing is very unnatural, the characters act in a very incoherent way, there's a lot of make-up involved pretending to gross out the audience but that can't save a bad movie.
I think Cabin Fever wants to be a bizarre horror movie, but it's not bizarre, just stupid.
don't intelligent people watch movies or is it because this is a horror film and the viewers are incompetent?
if they do understand like they say, they should feel guilty...another thing, reviewers have to stop comparing movies that are classics by anyones standards, TODAY...that is, if it wasn't for people like me and others who enjoy these, Texas chainsaw massacre, night of the living dead, the old Vincent price, Boris Karloff's, Christopher lee, and corman productions would not be liked mainstream...again, this is and will be CLASSIC...known for the best attempt for bringing back 70's horror.
Mainstream people always want to butt in on things they don't understand, such as good horror...and to end this for all those Rex reed's out there, film theory is my thing and movies are a passion, don't stick your ignorant nose where it doesn't belong!
Director Eli Roth's first movie, "Cabin Fever", has been considered a breath of fresh air and a wake up call for the horror genre; while it is certainly different from most of this generation horror movies, the movie has a few big flaws that hurt the film and make the experience no as satisfying.Let's start from the beginning, the plot is an quite clever take on the "alone in the woods" set up.
A shame indeed, because the cast ends up playing cartoons instead of real characters.The direction is remarkably good, with a definite style of its own although it clearly shows its influences, particularly Sam Raimi and his cult classic "Evil Dead".
It makes a good movie that is worth a watch.Eli Roth has a bright future, with a better script he certainly will deliver a masterpiece soon.
However, "Cabin Fever" is a good debut, a fine horror movie, but not the outstanding masterpiece the hype pretends it is.
The acting was horrible, the dialogue was much worse and the plot was about as solid and developed as a morning bowel movement after a night of spicy burritos and cheap beer.Apparently Mr. Roth hoped to `pay homage' to horror movies past, and I noted the `connections.' But if Sam Raimi, Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper were dead they'd be rolling in their graves.
Did we miss something?"Cabin Fever" as to be the most over hyped indi horror film to come out of a studio since the very crappy and very over rated "Blair Witch Project".As far as the plot to the film goes, a group of five college students get done with their finals and go off to celebrate at a lonesome cabin out in the woods.
The college students in "Cabin Fever" meet up with a blood-spewing infected who's been made all the more nasty with some disease.Sounds like a great set-up right?
What we get instead is a movie with too many plot holes, not enough horror, and a director who didn't know if he was making a spoof, a comedy or a horror film.I'm a huge horror fan, and I was really expecting so much.
"Cabin Fever" was just too much and too over the top to be taken seriously or scary.The only thing missing from this mess was a cameo by Bruce Campbell!"Cabin Fever is about as scary as a third-grade play.Who did "Cabin Fever" Director and Screenwriter Eli Roth have to sleep with to get Peter Jackson to claim that his horror film was the one that fans had been waiting a decade to attend?There is promise and potential around every corner in this film.
As soon as I recognized one of the actors (James DeBello, the guy who plays Bert) to be the same guy who had already annoyed the hell out of me in another useless movie, called "100 Girls", I knew that "Cabin Fever" was going to be a letdown.
Do that, and you'll have a general idea of what Eli Roth's "Cabin Fever" is all about.I never believed any one film was capable of creating this sheer agonizing excuse for a horror film.
There's no gore, nothing to make me wince, cringe or feel uncomfortable - AT ALL.The only thing that made me cringe about this film would be having to admit one day to people that I watched this film.This film has the worst humour, horror, cast and effects as well as some unforgiving continuity and in general the BIGGEST letdown in a film I've seen in years.
Why do they always have to humiliate a horror movie with comedy or an actor who LOOKS like he or she is acting.
After all, most of us realize this stuff could never happen but just for 2 hours on a Friday or Saturday night we TRUE horror movie fans would like to think that maybe it could or really did..
After a run in or two with some of the locals, the kids start getting infected with some sort of flesh-eating virus, and the battle for survival begins, with friendships put to the test, a very healthy helping of gore and nudity, heaps of randomness, and possibly the smartest character in a horror movie to date (when his friends get infected with the virus, he grabs a couple of six packs and takes off running).Performance-wise, 'Cabin Fever' is not outstanding, but certainly not terrible.
There are some random, usually quite amusing moments - the "party" deputy; Dennis, the Karate Kid; the old man in the shop; and director Eli Roth's cameo as stoner Justin ("Yeah, he's a professor...") - but you're given the distinct impression that these were thrown in purely to flesh out the script to make it feature length, and thus have no real impact on the story.
I consider myself to be a great fan of horror movies, past and present but this film is terrible, there are many flaws and additional comedy!!!
Now this isn't a great movie but maybe a good one.But I doubt you've seen so much blood ;it comes out in rivers from the people and even an animal or two in this film.The plot is nothing special---more silly sexed up teens meet some of the local weirdos while at the same time battle some sort of gross skin disease that is going around.At least this movie holds your attention throughout.It is well worth a 2 buck DVD rental and I hear part two is already in production.My only complaint is that the locals didn't have that dirty greasy haired look that I like.They tended just to dress funny.I like that unwashed inbred look on my yokels.Anyway see this film unless you have something better to watch like "Deliverance" which is the king of 'dangerous inbreds' movies..
Director was called amazing talent and the future of horror,the film was getting four,even five stars in many film mags and it was simple-if you like horror movies like I do after reading so much about Cabin Fever I just had to see it.So I ordered a copy,got it,turned off the lights,got stoned and armed myself with tons of popcorn and Coke and everything else that goes with it.
Appalling acting, appalling script, A film that has no direction The story makes no sense The plot holes are enormous The reasons for the characters actions is beyond belief How anyone can say it's good is beyond me don't waste your time on this pile of crap, you`ll thank me for it Don't waste your money buying it Don't waste your money renting it The End. Awful!.
I wouldn't recommend it because there are many really good horror films out there to watch, so try to find them!!!.
"Cabin Fever" is a stupid, ridiculous horror movie that never takes itself serious enough.
Wildly shocking and amusing debute film for young director Eli Roth is perhaps the best example of current old-school horror around!Five youths retreat to a cabin in rural North Carolina, where they come in contact with a deadly flesh-eating virus!Packed with tension, gore, psychological terror, and dark humor Cabin Fever is a knock-out of a horror film and very clever in its premise.
Director/writer Eli Roth shows that he's a genre fan, making references to a number of classic horror films, not to mention using some of David Hess's original songs for Craven's Last House on the Left (1972).
At any rate, Cabin Fever was one of the most successful horror movies of it's year and is probably one of the most entertaining horror films in many years.
I give Cabin Fever in the sense of Ebert a thumbs up and a thumbs down, yes I didn't like it that much either but I wont ridicule the movie for its effortless attempt at it being original like some of the other posts, but I didn't like how they made the ending so similar to Night Of The Living Dead that it is just too fruity to be accepted!
I've just watched Cabin Fever for the first (and last) time & I simply cannot believe how bad this film is!!
The only redeeming part of the entire movie was when the credits rolled at the end.With no plot, a let-down at every turn, and acting that was itself a joke, Cabin Fever was nothing more than a studio's attempt at seeing how many people it could sucker into the theater on opening weekend.
In the tradition of the 'Eeeyuck' horror movies here comes Cabin Fever.
Cabin Fever (2003)If you want to see a really good horror movie, this one has come along for you!
I still have 27 minutes into this movie as I write this review.I watched it because it came up in a list of 'top 10 most gory films of all time', and also because it's Eli Roth who is usually pretty good at gore.
For starters, there hasn't been an ounce of gore so far, and I can't believe Roth would make something so boring!if you like dumb teenage 'horror' movies where nothing happens maybe it'll be your thing..
So really there's your movie, it's gore, and make up effects, great, but this isn't enough to sustain it from being a good quality horror film, to Roth's following, brilliant shocker, Hostel, which is still one of the most scariest horrors I've seen in I don't know when.
Cabin Fever is a disaster that fails to live up to its hype, and makes one wonder how Eli Roth ever got to direct another movie.
something i didn't like was the continuous use of the F word i mean it would have been way more enjoyable watching a great horror movie without all the cursing i also think thats y everyone says bad things about it is because of the cussing.
Compared to recent low and mid budget horror films like Saw and House of 1000 Corpses, Cabin Fever falls short in pretty much every department.
Cabin Fever had no discernable plot, some of the worst acting I've ever had the misfortune of witnessing, and turned out to be a comedy instead of a horror flick.
Witness the Roth of Eli. I was lucky enough to see Cabin Fever at a screening in Sydney where there was a Q&A session with director Eli Roth after the viewing.The film itself seemed to have many homages to the classic horror movies of the 70s/80s, which was reassuring.
What is worse, there are no real scares or laughs at any time.Watch this one only after all other movies have been eaten by some film-eating bug.
The plot was horrible, there was absolutely nothing scary about this movie, and it seemed like it would never end.My advice: don't waste 90 minutes of your life on this piece of crap..