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Critics Consensus: More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them.
Critic Consensus: More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them.
All Critics (140) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (53) | DVD (14)
... disgusting and brainless ...
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.
You won't want to eat, drink or be touched after a bout of Cabin Fever.
Cabin Fever starts small, and stays small, never reaching the transcendent Blair Witch heights of the biggest low-budget successes.
Movies about flesh-eating viruses don't come along every day. Cabin Fever, which opens today, demonstrates why.
Like much of Cabin Fever, the performances are competent and uninteresting.
A divisive moment between opposing tones of horror movies, and a relentless symbol of the director's unfiltered panache for the macabre.
...the somewhat anticlimactic finale ensures that Cabin Fever ends on a woefully forgettable note.
If you take away the shocking makeup-effects work of KNB EFX Inc. there's not much there at all.
...a nail-biting horror movie that has audiences alternately covering their eyes in fear during scenes of gory revelation, or guffawing out loud...
An unabashed homage to grungy '70s and '80s rural horror.
[Director] Roth hasn't an original creative bone in his entire body...
There is no other way to put it, but Eli Roth is a dick - a nihilistic, misogynist, homophobic and racist dick - and this piece of crap is like a horror movie made by Adam Sandler full of odious characters who are stupid beyond belief, and I couldn't wait to see that guy Bert get torn to pieces.
Super Reviewer
Cabin Fever unabashedly gives in to all of the horror genre's conventions and the result is an entertaining diversion, but nothing special. It's neither scary or very interesting thanks to bad acting and writing, but can sometimes be funny because of this. Other times I just wanted to punch people in the face for their sheer stupidity. All of this should come as no surprise if you are a fan of the genre. It's plenty gory and one scene in particular will stick with me for awhile. If you just want an old-fashioned horror film that has some positives and most of the negatives of the horror genre, give this a whirl. Otherwise I wouldn't really bother.
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.
[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] Definitely Eli Roth's most inspired, and most substantial film. But that's just damning it with very faint praise. Firstly, the acting is much better than I expected it would be, and the gore is disgusting and boasts some pretty impressive bloody corpse special effects. Especially considering the tiny budget it was made on. All this adds up to the construction of a cheesy 80's horror movie, which was exactly what Roth was trying to mimic. However he shows almost no creativity in Cabin Fever and for me he never demonstrated the extent of his talent. There was also very few shocks, and once I adjusted to the carnage, consequently, it wasn't that scary. But in the end it's interesting twist to the typical cabin in the woods story doesn't fully make it work. I think its designed brilliantly and has an environmental message, and I admire Roth's aspirations to not skimp on gore or sex, but it was unnecessary to the plot. To me, it just felt to me like a bunch of stuff i'd seen from some of the classic horror movies mashed in with one interesting premise. I honestly wish it could have been better, but redemptively, it was an honourable failure.
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