Cabin Fever (2003)

That was an excellent one.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

One of the worst I've seen. The car looks like a murder scene, the cop is clearly a nymphomaniac lesbian more interested in the blonde staying at the cabin. Then proceeds to blame the person who spilt 3 gallons of blood ok the car for making a mess of it. Just God awful, with annoying characters, and terrible wiring.

Cabin fever tells the story of a group of friends who have just finished college and decide to stay at a cabin for a week or something. When one of the friends stupidly decide to go hunting with a gun for squirrels,he shoots a man who looks sick and infected. Then the friends tell story's around a camp fire when they meet a man who has a dog and is very violent threw out the film. Then this infected man knocks on there door and remember the man that shot him,he tells them not to let him in as the man try's to open there trucks door,the friends run out with weapons and the truck sets in fire and so does the man. The next day,everyone is scared by it and one of the friends who has a crush on a girl gets into bed with her when he finds out she has the infection. The friends put her in the shed as she just wants to go home. The next day,the friends go looking around for help when a weird sheriff who loves partying tells them everything is going to be OK. Soon,everyone starts getting the virus and spoiler everyone dies in the end. I loved this film so much,so original and cool. I saw all the sequel which were all crap. I mean the prom come on,I also saw the remake and to be quite honest it was the exact same as the original but very very gory but it was OK. Cabin fever is a class teen horror film for horror fans.

I am a huge horror movie fan. I go to 24-hr film festivals, conventions, you name it. However, I just cannot stand this movie. I first saw it when it was released in theaters and HATED it, avoiding it and its sequels like the plague depicted therein. Tonight, 13 years after its release, I decided to give it another go.And I still just DO NOT get the appeal. Unlikable characters who garner no sympathy from me, intentionally weird supporting characters who seem to serve no real purpose other than to be inexplicably weird, and a plodding pointless story that has no real mystery to be explained or suspense as to what might happen. It reminds me of something a student might put together in an attempt to make a sloppy, unappealing homage to true pioneers of the strange in film like Lynch, Cronenberg, or even Tarantino. The difference is that those three (and others I'm not going to take the time to list) had a POINT to the oddities and strange, obnoxious weirdos they wrote and put out there for consumption. This film, like many of Zombie's films, feels like a cheap ripoff of much greater freak-shows on film.

Eli Roth's debut film as director shares some of the queasiness and disturbing atmosphere of his later HOSTEL horrors, albeit on a lower budget and with less intensity. Saying that, it's a darn sight better than HOSTEL PART II and even if it does share inevitable comparisons with the likes of THE EVIL DEAD and other set-in-the-woods shockers, that's not necessarily a negative. In fact I found CABIN FEVER to be a well-made film, focusing a little more on character than you'd expect from a teen movie and offering plenty of scares and tension during the running time. Okay, things fall apart twenty minutes before the end, and the film finishes on a silly joke rather than on anything more substantial, but nevertheless this is a thoroughly effective effort which definitely isn't for the faint-hearted! Essentially the old teenagers-in-peril plot is utilised once more yet despite this, there aren't many clichés to be seen. Instead the film has an ambiance of '70s grindhouse flicks or genuinely frightening early '80s terror tales. The acting from the various cast members is decent throughout and one of the main reasons to keep watching, and the camera-work is great, with some really inventive moments. Being an Eli Roth film, there are the inevitable gore effects, all of which are sickeningly convincing. Roth goes for the gross-out on occasion, offering a cringeworthy and infamous leg-shaving scene and a woman's face missing, and eventually body parts are strewn around the landscape in full-blown gore movie mode. Yet the idea of having a flesh-eating virus as the villain is a pleasingly fresh one, and it makes for many paranoid moments as the characters (and viewers) attempt to figure out who's infected and who's clean. If the cheap, anything-goes climax had been more inspiring, this would have been a top-notch genre offering; as it is, it's a worthwhile and decent effort.