... For the occupants of the cabin, the nightmare is only just beginning……
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There's a killer in the woods ... one you can't hear ... one you can't see ... one you ... more
can't escape.Fresh out of college, Jeff, Karen, Paul, Marcy and Bert head up to a remote cabin for a weekend of alcohol-drenched sex and sunbathing. When Karen gets sick, they grow paranoid that they have become infected with a flesh-eating virus.The struggle against the repulsive killer turns into a battle against friends, as fear drives them to turn on each other in the fight for survival.Director Eli Roth takes the horror genre back to its roots and reminds us of how risky and totally insane horror movies used to be.
Advantages: Nice idea Disadvantages: Poorly executed
...straight to an isolated log cabin where they revel in the solitude and new found freedom. Whilst the two couples spend some time getting a bit closer, the fifth member of the group, Bert, takes off into the woods with a shotgun and a serious intent to shoot some squirrels. His aim is pretty awful, but whilst he fails to bag himself any rodents he is horrified when a stray shot hits a man. As the man rises from the floor, it is obvious that there ... ...teenagers are settling into the cabin when there is a knock at the door, where a horrific sight greets them. The man that Bert shot has appeared once more, but this time he is in an even worse state. When he runs out to the truck and tries to steal it, the group grabs every implement to hand to try and fend off the crazed man. Eventually, a freak accident results in the wretched man becoming engulfed in a fireball and he runs off into the woods screaming ... more
Five teenagers break up from high school and take off to the woods for a vacation. Stopping only to stock up on food and drink, they make their way straight to an isolated log cabin where they revel in the solitude and new found freedom. Whilst the two couples spend some time getting a bit closer, the fifth member of the group, Bert, takes off into the woods with a shotgun and a serious intent to shoot some squirrels. His aim is pretty awful, but whilst he fails to bag himself any rodents he is horrified when a stray shot hits a man. As the man rises from the floor, it is obvious that there is clearly something wrong with him. His face is covered in blood, he can hardly walk and although he asks Bert for help, the teenager tells him to back off, lets off a few more rounds and scarpers into the woods.
That evening, after some drinks around the campfire, the teenagers are settling into the cabin when there is a knock at the door, where a horrific sight greets them. The man that Bert shot has appeared once more, but this time he is in an even worse state. When he runs out to the truck and tries to steal it, the group grabs every implement to hand to try and fend off the crazed man. Eventually, a freak accident results in the wretched man becoming engulfed in a fireball and he runs off into the woods screaming and burning. Understandably terrified by the whole experience, the teenagers settle down for a very unsettled night’s sleep, unable to discard the image of the burning man from their minds.
But it isn’t just the man’s memory that lingers. In an attempt to quench the fire of his burning clothes, the man pitches into the local reservoir, where he ends up face down. As his body floats in the water, his legacy disperses and makes its silent, but deadly way into the pipe that feeds the local water supply. For the occupants of the cabin, the nightmare is only just beginning……
Cabin Fever has appealed to me for ages, purely because I like the poster. It’s fantastic. Have you seen it? It’s very eerie, unlike the actual film that it advertises. I was REALLY disappointed with Cabin Fever because it had been hyped up to be something that it simply wasn’t. That’ll teach me.
Cabin Fever takes all the traditional elements of a slasher movie (group of sexed-up irresponsible teenagers, solitude, weird locals, simple act of stupidity) and puts them into a rather different context. Whilst you might be led to believe that the teenagers will end up being stalked and attacked by the poor bloke from the woods, the reality is rather different because it’s the flesh-eating disease inhabiting his body that actually starts to pick them off. One of the initial reasons that I was ultimately disappointed with the film was that I had been led to believe that the story would play like a traditional slasher with an eventual twist into the disease scenario. This never happened. It’s quite clear from the beginning that the story is about contamination.
It’s not a particularly good horror film either. One of the reasons for this is that it feels cheap. The make-up effects are surprisingly limited and reek of limited finances. There are few action scenes and it’s all just a bit silly really. There’s no suspense and the story descends into a confusing concoction of different elements that start to feel as though it were produced by Mr Film “Make It Up As You Go Along” Director. The blackly comical feel to the film means that there are few shocks and the film never really gets the chance to be frightening. Despite the isolated location and the sinister feeling of the woods, the teenagers never seem to feel at risk. There is never a feeling of tension or desperation and the story just bounces from one odd sequence to another.
In keeping with the latest trend to show affection towards the classic horror films of the 1970s, there are elements of this story that will be familiar. The demise of the poor guy in the woods represents the victim of hundreds of similar films (that will normally turn into the killer.) Ironically, this is still strictly true in Cabin Fever – he just infects all the kids rather than stabbing, slashing or burning them. There are a selection of odd ball locals, which, in keeping with film history, are introduced in the local store and provide all the sorts of clues that would have anyone else packing their bags and legging it back to civilisation as quick as possible. There is a brain dead police sheriff who totters off into the woods on his bike. You also have the classic selection of willing teenage victims. Two are horny and at it like rabbits. One is horny and desperate to be at it like a rabbit, whilst the other is wistful and saving herself. You then, of course, have the geek who wants only to shoot things, smoke dope and get the dog to lick his balls. To cap it all off, you even have the raft out on the lake, which is just crying out to be the scene of a suitably grim execution.
But you never get these things – and that’s why Cabin Fever is so disappointing. Apart from the unused tributes, it also suffers from terrible moments of cliché and downright stupidity. Mobile phones have no signal, cars won’t start, rabid dogs keep appearing and so it goes on and on. Were we enjoying the ritual slaughter of nubile teenagers it wouldn’t be so bad – but we’re not. Even the teenagers aren’t that good. Jordan Ladd and Cerina Vincent do plenty of screaming but ultimately go to pieces (!) Rider Strong is far too nasal and weedy and Joey Kern is just plain irritating. Giuseppe Andrews is convincing as deputy Winston but basically still just a nuisance.
So if I were to give Eli Roth (writer and director) some feedback and advice, how would I have done things differently?
For starters, the contamination of the man in the woods at the start gives too much away. I’d have lost that scene and just introduced him as a weird (and not obviously ill) hermit. I’d have introduced some tension by intimating that the teenagers were being watched in their cabin. I’d have played on this idea for a while, with partial glimpses and jumpy suggestions that there was “something out there”. And then I’d have got the hermit inside the cabin where, unrevealed to the audience, he would have somehow contaminated one of the characters. The contaminated character would then have subsequently died, quickly and painfully in a fashion that wouldn’t have been instantly obvious. This would have meant that the teenagers would be terrified as to what had happened and suspect that there was someone out to get them. In my version, the “killer” would have been a dark and malevolent force that somehow moved amongst the group, unsuspected until it was too late, occupying every dark corner of the cabin and picking them off one at a time.
But that wasn’t the version we got. So I remain fundamentally very disappointed. Cabin Fever simply isn’t sinister, nasty or gory enough and while some of the comical flourishes are quite witty, the film failed to gross me out or scare the wits out of me. A good horror film will always do one or both.
Advantages: good idea Disadvantages: rubbish acting, rubbish script, cliched direction, just plain weird ending
...see some people in the cabin next door, and even more surprised when I realised it was the dishy Paul (who looks a lot like Rider Strong who used to be in ‘Boy Meets World”, although it took me ages to work out where I’d seen him before) and four of his friends. I went over to say hi, and he told me that the 5 of them were on a trip after college ended, a sort of final party affair. He introduced me to the others – Marcey (an attractive brunette) ... ...Paul invited me inside the cabin again, and I noticed that every time he gave some water to Karen, I heard some spooky strings playing in the background. Of course, I know what was in the water, but they didn’t, so it was a bit tense. I didn’t know whether it really needed its own theme tune played every time though.
None of the other four drank any water, which I found pretty strange. Paul explained that Bert and Jeff had made a pact not to drink ...
pesky33 08.04.2004
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Advantages: The mass hysteria is conveyed through brilliant acting Disadvantages: Parts of it are surreal yet we are giving no answers. Why did that kid bite him?:s
...doesn't care who you are? Cabin Fever shows human nature in a brilliantly constructed, fast paced and delightfully gory couple of hours.
Group hysteria has always been the horror writer's most treasured plot device and Cabin Fever takes it to another level. When a group of students head out into the woods in pursuit of a little fun no one blinks an eye, but as the audience would expect from a traditional horror film it all ends in the inevitable. ... ...Although the plot of Cabin Fever can be somewhat unconvincing at times with a variety of startling coincidences they are soon forgotten about. Cabin Fever's director Eli Roth saw this films potential and has achieved the remarkable. Cabin Fever brilliantly shows us the mental break down of these 5 students as their long life friends slowly decompose around them. This allows issues such as euthanasia to be presented in a movie environment without ...
streetvibes87 15.12.2003
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Advantages: The strangest film you'll ever see Disadvantages: Not for everybody
...to find a remote mountain cabin where they can hang out and party like it's 1999. Unfortunately, they don't get the chance to party like it's 1999 (if that was the plot of the movie it would make for quite an interesting horror flick) and instead they bump into a man who is rapidly dying of a flesh-eating virus (which makes him look well rancid, naturally). Being the kind, concerned, thoughtful students they are they do the noble thing to a man clearly ... ...on fire and dump him in the river. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT == Before I go any further, it might be helpful to point out that me giving you plot details here really won't spoil your enjoyment of the film, I really am not giving anything away == PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT OVER.
So where were we? Ah yes, dead man in river with deadly virus. Anyways, whatever virus it is that has rotted this man away (and it is never explained, folks) flows into ...
Ryan74 26.09.2003
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Advantages: You could be eating nails. Disadvantages: It starts...
...few.
In this genre Cabin Fever doesn’t really deserve a place. It’s a shocker, it gory and its sickening. The scares are few and far between and all the characters are unlovable, vain, arrogant and selfish. Not one of them endeared themselves to me and so it happens that I didn’t really care whether they caught the disease or not. The premise is this. A group of horny teenagers rent out a cabin in the woods (sound familiar already). Horny teenagers ... ...sent them all to a cabin in the middle of nowhere for a good reason. The action picks up when the kids kill an old man dying from the disease, who has it, who doesn’t, who cares?
The director Eli Roth was clearly trying to pay homage to old gory shockers like the Texas chainsaw massacre, the concept was meant to be new and original, the directing pioneering. This looked to my untrained eye like a low budget, gore infested home movie that probably ...
Galien 21.10.2003
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Advantages: Wasnt a wash out Disadvantages: Seen it all before
...homage to that cheesy genre.’ Cabin Fever’ has all the essential ingredients of that era in the mix of arrogant, boisterous college kids, a rampant virus with zombie potential and piles and piles of Kensington gore.
There are references to the classic and creepy’Evil Dead’ and the ludicrous slasher films of those silly seventies a plenty, and it’s hard to see what original ideas director ‘Eli Roth’ has actually ... ...Miami Beach but an isolated cabin in the middle of a wooded nowhere to have lots of sex and beer, sitting around the cliché camp fire telling ghost stories.
When a deranged man stagers from the woods with his skin peeling and blistered like a Chernobyl cleaner, the guys decide to repel the stranger in need, finally setting fire to the poor sod when he attacks their prized ‘humvy’.
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talktothehand 10.04.2004
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Five college students, having just graduated, rent a cabin in the woods and look forward to enjoying a peaceful holiday. That quickly begins to look unlikely when one of them bumps into a stranger in the woods and shoots at him. He returns to the cabin later on and begs for help, obviously having picked up a horrible skin disease. When they refuse to help him, he tries to steal their transport, and eventually dies at their hands. Then one of the girls shows signs of having caught the disease and quickly goes downhill. When the others ask the locals for help, they get a little more than they bargained for. Will any of them leave the woods alive?
I haven't heard of any of the five actors that play the college students and I suspect this is for a very good reason - none of them are very good. It doesn't help that none of the characters ...
Advantages: There is none, and a lot of characters that have no purpose Disadvantages: Badly developed, badly acted, just plain bad
A horror film titled CabinFever, it actually sounds quite promising, perhaps a group of American teens forced to lock themselves up in a wooden shack to get away from the crazy killer that awaits them in the woods? Well, that would have been a lovely way for the film to go (in a purely horror genre sense) but instead I wish I hadn't sat down to watch CabinFever, because had I known there was no physical killer it probably would have put me off instantly. CabinFever premiered on Channel 4 last night and I feel sorry for anyone else, that like me, actually sat through the thing.
2002's CabinFever opening credits are very plain, and the music only slowly creeps in. I have to say in a way this was quite good at setting a frightening mood, the no sound factor was quite eerie but I guess for many people that could just get mistaken ...
Advantages: Suspense, must have classic, good excuse to cuddle up Disadvantages: Some confusion to plot, need plenty of fingers to peep through & cushions
Fantastic Stanley Kubrick at his best. Classic horror that I saw originally sometime ago and love the fact that its on DVD. Nicholson in one of his best known roles of 'madness at its best'.
Can really identify with the 'cabinfever' feeling of a family 'trapped' together - something like Christmas here.
Great story, stunning backdrop and suspense until the very last shot.
Only justifies the Stephen King novel - book,film, dvd -ideal viewing.
The best part of the film is the need to still hide behind a cushion and to check carefully the bath before getting in and I never liked topiary anyway.
Personally I'd watch the dvd for itself before compering it to the novel - makes more sense to me on screen. ...
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Five friends, just finished with college finals, head for a cabin in the woods to party and embrace their newfound freedom. While shooting squirrels in the woods, one of the friends accidentally nicks a man, who appears to be suffering from a disgusting disease. He 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.
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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 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 (BRAINDEAD).
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