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Cabin Fever (2002)

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63

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 135
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 50

More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them.

52

Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 16

More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them.

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 231,312

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Five college buddies retreat to the woods for a little R & R and end up getting a horrific lesson in infectious disease in this low-budget shocker. Cabin Fever stars Rider Strong as the geeky Paul, who hopes to settle in around the campfire with his brash buds Jeff (Joey Kern) and Bert (James DeBello), and make the moves on the nubile-but-shy Karen (Jordan Ladd). Unfortunately, a wayward, forest-dwelling vagrant (Arie Verveen) stumbles into their lives, his skin badly desiccated by a mysterious

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Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Randy Pearlstein, Eli Roth

Jan 20, 2004

$21.1M

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Critic Reviews for Cabin Fever

All Critics (147) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (89) | Rotten (50) | DVD (33)

... disgusting and brainless ...

September 15, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comments (2)
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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You've got to love a horror movie that wears its bloody influences so happily on its sleeve, and then proceeds to roll it up and start swinging the axe in a different direction.

September 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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You won't want to eat, drink or be touched after a bout of Cabin Fever.

September 12, 2003
Mark Rahner
Seattle Times
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Cabin Fever starts small, and stays small, never reaching the transcendent Blair Witch heights of the biggest low-budget successes.

September 12, 2003 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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Cabin Fever gets the job done. It's appropriately gruesome and genuinely scary -- and, despite the body count and the way people die here, it has a wicked sense of humor.

September 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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Movies about flesh-eating viruses don't come along every day. Cabin Fever, which opens today, demonstrates why.

September 12, 2003
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
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...a nail-biting horror movie that has audiences alternately covering their eyes in fear during scenes of gory revelation, or guffawing out loud...

June 12, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

An unabashed homage to grungy '70s and '80s rural horror.

February 3, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

It's apparent on screen that Roth hasn't an original creative bone in his entire body as he brainlessly throws a variety of contrived elements that make a horror movie but never succeeds in assembling them and pulling it off...

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

What it loses by trying to be a comedy, it makes up by trying to be a showcase for the grotesque.

June 11, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

Tenta desesperadamente criar uma aura cult ao estilo Evil Dead, mas consegue apenas ser patético em seu racismo, sua homofobia, sua misoginia e seu senso de humor adolescente.

July 18, 2006
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Les références aux classiques de l'horreur, l'humour franchement drôle à certains moments et tout le gore réussiront peut-être à ne pas faire regretter l'achat du billet.

December 16, 2004
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama

Fever packs its share of jolts and none-too-shabby black humor, both worthy of a place alongside Romero

September 30, 2004
Jay Antani
Los Angeles Alternative Source: Los Angeles Alternative

The DVD has 5 commentary tracks and is packed with extras!

May 23, 2004 Full Review
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Like 2000's Ravenous, it mixes up the gruesome and the funny so that your own reactions - laughter tinged with outrage - startle you.

March 19, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS) Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

Roth slyly invokes the humor of the Evil Dead series while teasingly sidestepping splatter-movie conventions to (de)compose an impressive, disgusting debut...

March 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
Premiere Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Cabin Fever

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Eli Roth's debut feature echoes hints of old school Peter Jackson gross out horror. The only difference is, Jackson's films are classics and Cabin Fever will never attain that status. Though a good effort, and unlike Roth's following films Hostel, 1, 2 (the first was better, the second was garbage), this film does have decent enough scares throughout. The tactics used by Eli Roth in Cabin Fever are nothing really new, and have already been done before in many films. Cabin Fever mostly plays out like an homage to the gross out flicks of the 80's. The film will definitely appeal to gore fans as Roth crafts a film that focuses more on the gore than on the plot. In many cases, especially with Peter Jackson's earlier efforts and the bulk of Lucio Fulci's finest films, it does work very well, and the finished product is very good despite the lack of a credible plot. In Cabin Fever, the film does have high points, but the scripts limitations are apparent. Eli Roth said that one of his inspirations for Cabin Fever was The Evil Dead. Combining elements from that film with an infection / rash type of disease is an interesting idea. However Cabin Fever is a film that just relies more on old school splatter elements than great story telling, and with that said, this should be a good time for gore hounds. In a way the material that Eli Roth presents the viewer with here is nothing new, but sometimes that's all you need for an effective horror yarn. Despite this, Cabin Fever is a decent enough horror film, but its lack of good acting and paper thin plot won't make it a classic any time soon.
February 22, 2011
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Here is a film made so tongue in cheeck and over the top that you gotta admire it's bold craziness. Eli Roth has made confident if fragmented debut feature with his Cabin Fever.
While clearly not meant to be taken too seriously, Cabin Fever is still a quite scary at times and the atmosphere is extremely eerie and even surreal. In these days there are so many horror-films out there which forget to have fun and be playful. With this film Roth has gave us fresh take on extremely cliched cabin-horror theme.
There are even moments of odd comedy here that resembles the best parts of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Especially Giuseppe Andrews who plays the deliciously bonkers deputy WInston with constant partying in his mind, is a laugh out loud character with his pimp-moustache who seems to be lifted from Beastie Boys video. There is even support from composer Angelo Badalamenti at the soundtrack department that makes things even more far out with jazzy touches.
While Cabin Fever marked an interesting and promising debut for director/writer Eli Roth, he failed to capture the same atmosphere and approach with his next two torture-porn entries Hostel and Hostel 2. He is a director with potential but what he needs is a good script to work from.
September 7, 2009
emilkakko
Emil Kakko

Super Reviewer

Cabin Fever Quotes

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    1. Marcy: He's a doctor like a physician or a professor?
    2. Justin: Yeah, he's a professor... OF BEING A DOG!
    – Submitted by Tyler H (21 months ago)
    1. Dennis: Pancakes, pancakes!
    2. Bert: No, no pancakes.
    3. Dennis: PANCAKES!
    4. Fenster: NO PANCAKES!
    – Submitted by Virginia K (23 months ago)

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October 31, 2011:
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