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Cabin Fever (2002 film)

March 24, 2023

Cabin Fever is a 2002 American horror comedy film[2] co-written and directed by Eli Roth (in his directorial debut) and starring Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, and Giuseppe Andrews. The story follows a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a flesh-eating virus. The inspiration for the film's story came from a real-life experience during a trip to Iceland when Roth developed a skin infection.

Cabin Fever
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEli Roth
Written by
  • Eli Roth
  • Randy Pearlstein
Story byEli Roth
Produced by
  • Lauren Moews
  • Sam Froelich
  • Evan Astrowsky
  • Eli Roth
Starring
CinematographyScott Kevan
Edited byRyan Folsey
Music byNathan Barr
Production
companies
  • Deer Path Films
  • Down Home Entertainment
  • Tonic Films
Distributed by
Release dates
  • September 14, 2002 (2002-09-14) (TIFF)
  • September 12, 2003 (2003-09-12) (United States)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[1]
Box office$30.6 million[1]

Plot

Henry, a hermit walking in the woods, encounters his dog, dead from a blood infection, and becomes infected himself from contact with his dog’s blood. Meanwhile, college students Jeff, Marcy, Paul, Karen, and Bert take a vacation to a remote cabin to celebrate spring break. Bert leaves to hunt squirrels but accidentally shoots and further wounds the now disfigured and bloody Henry. Despite Henry's pleas for aid, Bert flees and remains silent about the incident.

The students gather around a campfire that night, where they are joined by a friendly drifter named Grimm and his pet dog, Dr. Mambo. When it rains, Grimm leaves with his dog to pack up his belongings. While the friends wait for Grimm, Henry returns, begging for help. When Bert shuts the door on the sick hermit, he tries stealing the group's car while vomiting blood. When Henry approaches Marcy and Karen, Paul accidentally sets him on fire. While seeking help the next day, Jeff and Bert encounter a butcher but leave after learning that she is Henry's cousin. Paul receives assistance from police Deputy Winston, who promises to send up a tow truck. Paul tries comforting Karen, who is upset over the killing of Henry. After calming her down, Paul attempts to have sex with her; as he reaches between her legs, he discovers an infection has spread in her groin. The group isolates her in a shed.

After fixing the truck, Bert coughs up blood but does not tell the others to prevent a panic. Bert drives off after Paul and Jeff discover that he has caught the disease. Jeff takes the remaining beer and leaves, terrified of becoming infected. Bert seeks help at a convenience store but angers the owner after his son, Dennis, bites him. Bert flees, chased by Dennis's father and two friends. At the cabin, Marcy worries that they will all contract the disease. When Paul comforts her, they impulsively have sex. Regretting the affair, Paul leaves while Marcy takes a bath, crying; as she shaves her legs, the flesh begins to peel off and she runs outside in a panic, where she is eaten alive by Dr. Mambo.

Paul discovers Henry’s body floating in the reservoir, and realizes that the infection is spreading through the water supply. Returning to the cabin, Paul finds Marcy's remains and Dr. Mambo feeding on Karen. After killing Dr. Mambo with Bert's gun, he bludgeons Karen with a shovel out of mercy. A dying Bert returns to the cabin pursued by Dennis's father and his two companions. The posse kills Bert, and Paul kills all three of them. Paul looks for Jeff; he instead finds Grimm's corpse in a cave. Paul takes the convenience store's truck, and, while driving, discovers that he is infected before hitting a deer. He reunites with Deputy Winston, who is partying with underage drinkers. Paul requests a ride to the hospital, but before the group departs, Winston is ordered to kill on sight several infected people on a killing spree.

Paul attacks but does not kill Winston. He runs towards the busy street, attempting to hitch a ride however he falls unconscious. A passing vehicle does stop to pick him up and drops him off at a hospital. The doctors unknowingly request him to be transported to another medical facility, by Deputy Winston.

Jeff, who has been hiding out and drinking in the woods, returns to the cabin the next day. Initially crying after seeing the remains of his friends, he becomes ecstatic upon realizing that he is the only survivor. As he raises his arms in victory, he is killed by local police, and his body burned with the remains of Bert and Karen. The sheriff asks Winston if he took care of Paul.

A boy and a girl get water from the lake for their lemonade stand, not realizing that a barely alive Paul is in the lake and the water is now contaminated. The sheriff and his deputies stop by the convenience store, owned by the children's grandfather, where they buy glasses of lemonade, tainted by the contaminated water.

Cast

Production

 
Director Eli Roth

Writing

Eli Roth co-wrote Cabin Fever with friend and former NYU roommate Randy Pearlstein in 1995 while Roth was working as a production assistant for Howard Stern's Private Parts.[4] Roth was inspired to write the script after getting an intense skin infection after working on a farm in Iceland.[5] Early attempts to sell the script were unsuccessful because studios felt that the horror genre had become unprofitable.[6] In 1996, the film Scream was released to great success, leading studios to once again become interested in horror properties. Roth still could not sell his script, as studios told him that it should be more like Scream.[6] Many potential financiers also found the film's content to be unsettling, including not only the gore but also the use of the word "nigger" early in the film.

Roth was inspired to write the script based on his own experience with a skin infection he contracted while traveling abroad.[7] Various elements of the script were inspired by Roth's favorite horror films, including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The Last House on the Left (1972), and The Evil Dead (1981).[8] David Lynch, whom Roth had worked under during the early stages of his career, had signed on to executive produce the film.[9][5] However, Lynch is not credited in the final product.

Casting

 
 
 
Top to bottom: Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, and Cerina Vincent

The auditions for the character of Marcy had been scheduled to take place on September 11, 2001.[6] The scene the producers had chosen for the auditioning actresses was the build-up to Marcy's sex scene with Paul. In the scene, Marcy is convinced that all the students are doomed and despite Paul's reassurances, she describes their situation as "like being on a plane, when you know it's gonna crash. Everybody around you is screaming 'We're Going Down! We're Going Down!' and all you want to do is grab the person next to you and fuck them, because you know you're going to be dead soon, anyway." Eli Roth and the producers tried to cancel the Marcy auditions, but the general chaos caused by the attacks made it impossible for them to reach many of the actresses who were scheduled to try out for the role.[citation needed] In October 2001, Jordan Ladd and James DeBello entered negotiations to join the film. Michael Rosenbaum was set to star in the film, but would later vacate the project.[9]

Filming

Filming on Cabin Fever began in late 2001 and lasted 24 days,[7][10] on location in North Carolina.[11] Production was stalled after one day of filming due to an anthrax scare.[12] According to Roth, filming was shutdown a second time due to a union dispute.[13] Cabin scenes were filmed at Catawba cabin, an isolated spot at Raven Knob Scout Reservation, near Mt. Airy, NC.[14] Roth originally wanted Cerina Vincent to show her naked buttocks during her sex scene with Rider Strong. Vincent, who had previously played a nude foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie (2001), was afraid that exposing too much of herself would lead to being typecast as a nudity actress and vehemently refused to bare her buttocks.[citation needed] At the peak of this conflict between the two, Vincent told Roth that if he wanted the shot so badly, he would need to re-cast the role with another actress. But they managed to reach a compromise, in which Vincent showed one inch of her buttocks on camera before Roth measured it for it to be precise. Bedsheets were then taped to her backside at the designated level and the scene was filmed.[15]

Music

Composer Angelo Badalamenti agreed to compose some musical themes for the film out of enthusiasm for the material. However, the bulk of the film's score was composed by Nathan Barr. Some of the music selected for the film was deliberately chosen by Roth for their connection to other horror films; in the opening scene for example, while the main characters are driving to the cabin, "The Road Leads to Nowhere", a song written and recorded for The Last House on the Left (1972), is playing on the radio.[16]

Release

The film premiered at the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September 2002 and was the festival's closing feature film.[17][7] After a successful run at TIFF, the distribution rights to the film was sold to Lionsgate for $3.5 million.[7] Cabin Fever was released in the United States on September 12, 2003; it landed at No. 3 during its opening weekend, grossing $8.3 million on 2,087 theaters (an average of $4,137 per screen).[18] The film ended its theatrical run with a gross of $21.2 million in the U.S. and Canada and $30.6 million worldwide,[1] making it the highest-grossing film released by Lionsgate of that year.[18]

Cabin Fever was released on VHS and DVD in March 2004, which includes audio commentary tracks with director Eli Roth and the main cast as well as a featurette entitled "Beneath the Skin", which provides a behind the scenes look on the film.[19] The Blu-ray was released in February 2010, featuring Roth's edited version of the film that was screened at TIFF.[20] The Blu-ray was created from the film's original camera negative overseen by Roth, and includes a brand-new audio commentary with Roth and the main cast as well as a gallery of rare behind the scenes photos.[7]

Critical reception

Uproxx reported that Cabin Fever drew "better-than-average" reviews.[21] The performances from the leads were complimented by critics as "solid"[22][23] and "adequate".[11] Their roles, however, were met with negative reactions: IGN and the Los Angeles Times' Manohla Dargis described them, respectively, as stereotypical[10] and "monumentally irritating".[24] Furthermore, IGN and Dargis criticized the film's lack of scares, delivering more jokes and gore.[10][24] Stephen Holden of The New York Times and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone disagreed; Holden said Cabin Fever "finds an unusually potent blend of dread, gore and gallows humor",[23] and Travers called it "a blast of good gory fun that just won't quit".[25] Kim Newman in Empire and Maitland McDonagh in TV Guide awarded Cabin Fever three stars out of five.[22][26]

Reviewers observed the film's homage to low-budget horror and thriller films, including Night of the Living Dead, Deliverance, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Evil Dead (and its sequel), and The Blair Witch Project.[10][24][27] IGN said Cabin Fever "struggles valiantly to be both a worthy addition and simultaneous homage to these genres ... becoming instead a passably enjoyable slab of schlock", criticizing its failure to reinvent the films that inspired Roth's.[10] Conversely, Newman said: "There's a fine line between homage and simply stealing, but writer-director Eli Roth mostly manages the former".[26] Stephen Hunter in The Washington Post said Cabin Fever compared poorly to The Evil Dead and The Blair Witch Project, describing it as "a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction".[28] McDonagh said Cabin Fever was "more Straw Dogs than Night of the Living Dead", citing its theme of "degeneration of relationships under pressure".[22]

Some critics said Cabin Fever suffered from genre and tone inconsistencies,[11][29] with Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comparing the flaw to "kids on those arcade games where the target lights up and you have to stomp on it".[30] Ebert was critical that the film alternates between horror and "weird humor", getting nowhere; he said it "could develop its plague story in a serious way, like a George Romero picture or 28 Days Later".[30] Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly said, "Cabin Fever is what 28 Days Later would have looked like had it been made without style, subtlety, grunge-of-night video photography, or fashionable apocalyptic pretensions."[31] Ebert gave Cabin Fever one-and-a-half stars out of four,[30] and Gleiberman said it was "a big, dumb, crude, noisy, goose-the-audience bash and proud of it".[31]

The review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 62% based on 140 reviews, with an average rating of 5.92/10. The website's consensus reads, "More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them."[32] On Metacritic, the film earned "mixed or average reviews," with a weighted average of 56 out of 100 based on 31 reviews.[33] Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings film series, was a notable fan of Cabin Fever. Having seen the film from a print sent to him, Jackson suspended production on The Return of the King twice in his native New Zealand to have it screened to his cast and crew members.[34] He complimented the film as "unrelenting, gruesomely funny bloodbath".[35] Quentin Tarantino also expressed his admiration for Cabin Fever, calling Roth "the future of horror".[34]

Related works

Main articles: Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, and Cabin Fever (2016 film)

Roth revealed in a 2010 interview that he had written a treatment for the sequel to Cabin Fever as part of Lionsgate's distribution deal, pitching it as "a Song of the South horror movie filled with corpses and sex."[36] Since Lionsgate was unwilling to produce his idea, Roth entrusted Ti West to direct the sequel entirely from West's own version.[36] Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever was released in 2009.

A prequel to the two previous films, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, was directed by Kaare Andrews in 2014.[37] A remake of Cabin Fever was subsequently announced that same year, with Roth staying on as executive producer. Travis Zariwny directed the remake using Cabin Fever's original screenplay co-written by Roth.[38] Despite a mediocre reception upon its 2016 release, with critics calling it "pointless" and derivative,[39][40] Roth said he was genuinely happy with the remake.[41]

See also

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cabin, fever, 2002, film, cabin, fever, 2002, american, horror, comedy, film, written, directed, roth, directorial, debut, starring, rider, strong, jordan, ladd, james, debello, cerina, vincent, joey, kern, giuseppe, andrews, story, follows, group, college, gr. Cabin Fever is a 2002 American horror comedy film 2 co written and directed by Eli Roth in his directorial debut and starring Rider Strong Jordan Ladd James DeBello Cerina Vincent Joey Kern and Giuseppe Andrews The story follows a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a flesh eating virus The inspiration for the film s story came from a real life experience during a trip to Iceland when Roth developed a skin infection Cabin FeverTheatrical release posterDirected byEli RothWritten byEli Roth Randy PearlsteinStory byEli RothProduced byLauren Moews Sam Froelich Evan Astrowsky Eli RothStarringRider Strong Jordan Ladd James DeBello Cerina Vincent Joey Kern Arie Verveen Giuseppe AndrewsCinematographyScott KevanEdited byRyan FolseyMusic byNathan BarrProductioncompaniesDeer Path Films Down Home Entertainment Tonic FilmsDistributed byLions Gate Films Black Sky EntertainmentRelease datesSeptember 14 2002 2002 09 14 TIFF September 12 2003 2003 09 12 United States Running time94 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 1 5 million 1 Box office 30 6 million 1 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Writing 3 2 Casting 3 3 Filming 3 4 Music 4 Release 5 Critical reception 6 Related works 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksPlot EditHenry a hermit walking in the woods encounters his dog dead from a blood infection and becomes infected himself from contact with his dog s blood Meanwhile college students Jeff Marcy Paul Karen and Bert take a vacation to a remote cabin to celebrate spring break Bert leaves to hunt squirrels but accidentally shoots and further wounds the now disfigured and bloody Henry Despite Henry s pleas for aid Bert flees and remains silent about the incident The students gather around a campfire that night where they are joined by a friendly drifter named Grimm and his pet dog Dr Mambo When it rains Grimm leaves with his dog to pack up his belongings While the friends wait for Grimm Henry returns begging for help When Bert shuts the door on the sick hermit he tries stealing the group s car while vomiting blood When Henry approaches Marcy and Karen Paul accidentally sets him on fire While seeking help the next day Jeff and Bert encounter a butcher but leave after learning that she is Henry s cousin Paul receives assistance from police Deputy Winston who promises to send up a tow truck Paul tries comforting Karen who is upset over the killing of Henry After calming her down Paul attempts to have sex with her as he reaches between her legs he discovers an infection has spread in her groin The group isolates her in a shed After fixing the truck Bert coughs up blood but does not tell the others to prevent a panic Bert drives off after Paul and Jeff discover that he has caught the disease Jeff takes the remaining beer and leaves terrified of becoming infected Bert seeks help at a convenience store but angers the owner after his son Dennis bites him Bert flees chased by Dennis s father and two friends At the cabin Marcy worries that they will all contract the disease When Paul comforts her they impulsively have sex Regretting the affair Paul leaves while Marcy takes a bath crying as she shaves her legs the flesh begins to peel off and she runs outside in a panic where she is eaten alive by Dr Mambo Paul discovers Henry s body floating in the reservoir and realizes that the infection is spreading through the water supply Returning to the cabin Paul finds Marcy s remains and Dr Mambo feeding on Karen After killing Dr Mambo with Bert s gun he bludgeons Karen with a shovel out of mercy A dying Bert returns to the cabin pursued by Dennis s father and his two companions The posse kills Bert and Paul kills all three of them Paul looks for Jeff he instead finds Grimm s corpse in a cave Paul takes the convenience store s truck and while driving discovers that he is infected before hitting a deer He reunites with Deputy Winston who is partying with underage drinkers Paul requests a ride to the hospital but before the group departs Winston is ordered to kill on sight several infected people on a killing spree Paul attacks but does not kill Winston He runs towards the busy street attempting to hitch a ride however he falls unconscious A passing vehicle does stop to pick him up and drops him off at a hospital The doctors unknowingly request him to be transported to another medical facility by Deputy Winston Jeff who has been hiding out and drinking in the woods returns to the cabin the next day Initially crying after seeing the remains of his friends he becomes ecstatic upon realizing that he is the only survivor As he raises his arms in victory he is killed by local police and his body burned with the remains of Bert and Karen The sheriff asks Winston if he took care of Paul A boy and a girl get water from the lake for their lemonade stand not realizing that a barely alive Paul is in the lake and the water is now contaminated The sheriff and his deputies stop by the convenience store owned by the children s grandfather where they buy glasses of lemonade tainted by the contaminated water Cast EditRider Strong as Paul Jordan Ladd as Karen James DeBello as Bert Cerina Vincent as Marcy Joey Kern as Jeff Arie Verveen as Henry The Hermit Giuseppe Andrews as Deputy Winston Eli Roth as Justin Grimm 3 Adam Roth as The Happy Bald Guy Robert Harris as Old Man Cadwell Hal Courtney as TommyProduction Edit Director Eli Roth Writing Edit Eli Roth co wrote Cabin Fever with friend and former NYU roommate Randy Pearlstein in 1995 while Roth was working as a production assistant for Howard Stern s Private Parts 4 Roth was inspired to write the script after getting an intense skin infection after working on a farm in Iceland 5 Early attempts to sell the script were unsuccessful because studios felt that the horror genre had become unprofitable 6 In 1996 the film Scream was released to great success leading studios to once again become interested in horror properties Roth still could not sell his script as studios told him that it should be more like Scream 6 Many potential financiers also found the film s content to be unsettling including not only the gore but also the use of the word nigger early in the film Roth was inspired to write the script based on his own experience with a skin infection he contracted while traveling abroad 7 Various elements of the script were inspired by Roth s favorite horror films including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 The Last House on the Left 1972 and The Evil Dead 1981 8 David Lynch whom Roth had worked under during the early stages of his career had signed on to executive produce the film 9 5 However Lynch is not credited in the final product Casting Edit Top to bottom Rider Strong Jordan Ladd and Cerina Vincent The auditions for the character of Marcy had been scheduled to take place on September 11 2001 6 The scene the producers had chosen for the auditioning actresses was the build up to Marcy s sex scene with Paul In the scene Marcy is convinced that all the students are doomed and despite Paul s reassurances she describes their situation as like being on a plane when you know it s gonna crash Everybody around you is screaming We re Going Down We re Going Down and all you want to do is grab the person next to you and fuck them because you know you re going to be dead soon anyway Eli Roth and the producers tried to cancel the Marcy auditions but the general chaos caused by the attacks made it impossible for them to reach many of the actresses who were scheduled to try out for the role citation needed In October 2001 Jordan Ladd and James DeBello entered negotiations to join the film Michael Rosenbaum was set to star in the film but would later vacate the project 9 Filming Edit Filming on Cabin Fever began in late 2001 and lasted 24 days 7 10 on location in North Carolina 11 Production was stalled after one day of filming due to an anthrax scare 12 According to Roth filming was shutdown a second time due to a union dispute 13 Cabin scenes were filmed at Catawba cabin an isolated spot at Raven Knob Scout Reservation near Mt Airy NC 14 Roth originally wanted Cerina Vincent to show her naked buttocks during her sex scene with Rider Strong Vincent who had previously played a nude foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie 2001 was afraid that exposing too much of herself would lead to being typecast as a nudity actress and vehemently refused to bare her buttocks citation needed At the peak of this conflict between the two Vincent told Roth that if he wanted the shot so badly he would need to re cast the role with another actress But they managed to reach a compromise in which Vincent showed one inch of her buttocks on camera before Roth measured it for it to be precise Bedsheets were then taped to her backside at the designated level and the scene was filmed 15 Music Edit Composer Angelo Badalamenti agreed to compose some musical themes for the film out of enthusiasm for the material However the bulk of the film s score was composed by Nathan Barr Some of the music selected for the film was deliberately chosen by Roth for their connection to other horror films in the opening scene for example while the main characters are driving to the cabin The Road Leads to Nowhere a song written and recorded for The Last House on the Left 1972 is playing on the radio 16 Release EditThe film premiered at the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival TIFF in September 2002 and was the festival s closing feature film 17 7 After a successful run at TIFF the distribution rights to the film was sold to Lionsgate for 3 5 million 7 Cabin Fever was released in the United States on September 12 2003 it landed at No 3 during its opening weekend grossing 8 3 million on 2 087 theaters an average of 4 137 per screen 18 The film ended its theatrical run with a gross of 21 2 million in the U S and Canada and 30 6 million worldwide 1 making it the highest grossing film released by Lionsgate of that year 18 Cabin Fever was released on VHS and DVD in March 2004 which includes audio commentary tracks with director Eli Roth and the main cast as well as a featurette entitled Beneath the Skin which provides a behind the scenes look on the film 19 The Blu ray was released in February 2010 featuring Roth s edited version of the film that was screened at TIFF 20 The Blu ray was created from the film s original camera negative overseen by Roth and includes a brand new audio commentary with Roth and the main cast as well as a gallery of rare behind the scenes photos 7 Critical reception EditUproxx reported that Cabin Fever drew better than average reviews 21 The performances from the leads were complimented by critics as solid 22 23 and adequate 11 Their roles however were met with negative reactions IGN and the Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis described them respectively as stereotypical 10 and monumentally irritating 24 Furthermore IGN and Dargis criticized the film s lack of scares delivering more jokes and gore 10 24 Stephen Holden of The New York Times and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone disagreed Holden said Cabin Fever finds an unusually potent blend of dread gore and gallows humor 23 and Travers called it a blast of good gory fun that just won t quit 25 Kim Newman in Empire and Maitland McDonagh in TV Guide awarded Cabin Fever three stars out of five 22 26 Reviewers observed the film s homage to low budget horror and thriller films including Night of the Living Dead Deliverance The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Evil Dead and its sequel and The Blair Witch Project 10 24 27 IGN said Cabin Fever struggles valiantly to be both a worthy addition and simultaneous homage to these genres becoming instead a passably enjoyable slab of schlock criticizing its failure to reinvent the films that inspired Roth s 10 Conversely Newman said There s a fine line between homage and simply stealing but writer director Eli Roth mostly manages the former 26 Stephen Hunter in The Washington Post said Cabin Fever compared poorly to The Evil Dead and The Blair Witch Project describing it as a loud derivative grade Z horror film of no particular distinction 28 McDonagh said Cabin Fever was more Straw Dogs than Night of the Living Dead citing its theme of degeneration of relationships under pressure 22 Some critics said Cabin Fever suffered from genre and tone inconsistencies 11 29 with Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times comparing the flaw to kids on those arcade games where the target lights up and you have to stomp on it 30 Ebert was critical that the film alternates between horror and weird humor getting nowhere he said it could develop its plague story in a serious way like a George Romero picture or 28 Days Later 30 Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly said Cabin Fever is what 28 Days Later would have looked like had it been made without style subtlety grunge of night video photography or fashionable apocalyptic pretensions 31 Ebert gave Cabin Fever one and a half stars out of four 30 and Gleiberman said it was a big dumb crude noisy goose the audience bash and proud of it 31 The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 62 based on 140 reviews with an average rating of 5 92 10 The website s consensus reads More gory than scary Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them 32 On Metacritic the film earned mixed or average reviews with a weighted average of 56 out of 100 based on 31 reviews 33 Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings film series was a notable fan of Cabin Fever Having seen the film from a print sent to him Jackson suspended production on The Return of the King twice in his native New Zealand to have it screened to his cast and crew members 34 He complimented the film as unrelenting gruesomely funny bloodbath 35 Quentin Tarantino also expressed his admiration for Cabin Fever calling Roth the future of horror 34 Related works EditMain articles Cabin Fever 2 Spring Fever Cabin Fever Patient Zero and Cabin Fever 2016 film Roth revealed in a 2010 interview that he had written a treatment for the sequel to Cabin Fever as part of Lionsgate s distribution deal pitching it as a Song of the South horror movie filled with corpses and sex 36 Since Lionsgate was unwilling to produce his idea Roth entrusted Ti West to direct the sequel entirely from West s own version 36 Cabin Fever 2 Spring Fever was released in 2009 A prequel to the two previous films Cabin Fever Patient Zero was directed by Kaare Andrews in 2014 37 A remake of Cabin Fever was subsequently announced that same year with Roth staying on as executive producer Travis Zariwny directed the remake using Cabin Fever s original screenplay co written by Roth 38 Despite a mediocre reception upon its 2016 release with critics calling it pointless and derivative 39 40 Roth said he was genuinely happy with the remake 41 See also EditThe Cabin The Cabin in the WoodsReferences Edit a b c Cabin Fever Box Office Mojo IMDb Amazon Retrieved June 20 2018 Cabin Fever 2002 Eli Roth Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie via www allmovie com Cabin Fever 2002 AllMovie Retrieved August 13 2018 Eli Roth Talks Cabin Fever Hostel 3 Endangered Species Thanksgiving and More Dread Central February 11 2010 Archived from the original on December 28 2013 Retrieved December 22 2013 a b Cabin Fever Q amp A With Writer Director Eli Roth Cinema Retrieved May 4 2022 a b c Roth Eli Cabin Fever DVD Lions Gate Entertainment 2004 audio commentary ASIN B0000ZG054 a b c d e Rivera Jeff May 6 2010 Talking Cabin Fever with Eli Roth HuffPost Retrieved June 20 2018 Piatti Farrell Lorna 2017 Consuming Gothic Food and Horror in Film Springer p 39 ISBN 978 1 137 45051 7 a b Harris Dana October 7 2001 Lynch Has Fever For Roth Pic Variety Retrieved May 4 2022 a b c d e Dookey Spence September 11 2003 Review of Cabin Fever IGN Retrieved June 22 2018 a b c Harvey Dennis April 29 2003 Cabin Fever Variety Retrieved June 22 2018 Grimm Bob September 11 2003 Rider Strong Riding High Reno News amp Review Retrieved May 4 2022 Rivera Jeff May 6 2010 Talking Cabin Fever with Eli Roth Huffington Post Retrieved May 4 2022 gt The cabin and surrounding area were used as a set for the 2003 film Cabin Fever Camp Raven Knob April 29 2003 Retrieved June 22 2018 WENN Cerina Refused To Bare Rear Contactmusic com Retrieved October 14 2017 Tompkins Joe 2009 Lerner Neil ed Music in the Horror Film Listening to Fear Routledge p 110 ISBN 978 1 135 28044 4 Cabin Fever Miscellaneous Notes Turner Classic Movies Turner Broadcasting System Time Warner Retrieved June 20 2018 a b Lions Gate Films Cabin Fever Rages to 8 6 Million Opening at Weekend Box Office Cabin Fever Is 1 Horror Film in America Business Insider September 15 2003 Retrieved October 14 2017 Haflidason Almar March 14 2003 Cabin Fever DVD 2003 BBC Retrieved June 20 2018 Pereira Mike February 21 2010 Blu ray Review Cabin Fever Director s Cut Bloody Disgusting Retrieved June 20 2018 Eggertsen Chris October 31 2011 Cabin Fever catching on again with two more sequels planned Uproxx Retrieved June 20 2018 a b c McDonagh Maitland Cabin Fever Review TV Guide Retrieved June 22 2018 a b Holden Stephen September 12 2003 FILM REVIEW Something s Rotten Out in the Woods The New York Times Retrieved June 22 2018 a b c Dargis Manohla September 12 2003 Cabin Fever may leave audience cold Los Angeles Times Retrieved June 22 2018 Travers Peter September 8 2003 Cabin Fever Rolling Stone Retrieved June 22 2018 a b Newman Kim October 10 2003 Cabin Fever Review Empire Retrieved June 24 2018 Clark Mike September 11 2003 Cabin Fever wreaks havoc on babes in the woods USA Today Retrieved October 15 2017 Hunter Stephen September 12 2003 Cabin Fever A Little Buggy The Washington Post Retrieved June 22 2018 Russell Jamie October 6 2003 Cabin Fever 2003 BBC Retrieved June 22 2018 a b c Ebert Roger September 12 2003 Cabin Fever Movie Review amp Film Summary 2003 RogerEbert com Retrieved June 22 2018 a b Gleiberman Owen September 10 2003 Cabin Fever Entertainment Weekly Retrieved June 22 2018 Cabin Fever 2003 Rotten Tomatoes Fandango Media Retrieved February 13 2018 Cabin Fever 2003 Metacritic CBS Interactive Retrieved June 20 2018 a b Wood Jennifer M March 7 2016 14 Flesh Eating Facts About Cabin Fever Mental Floss Retrieved June 20 2018 Calhoun Bob February 20 2010 Straight to DVD Planet Hulk amp Cabin Fever 2 Salon Retrieved June 20 2018 a b Wixson Heather February 11 2010 Eli Roth Talks Cabin Fever Hostel 3 Endangered Species Thanksgiving and More Dread Central Retrieved June 20 2018 Foundas Scott August 1 2014 Film Review Cabin Fever Patient Zero Variety Retrieved June 20 2018 Fischer Russ October 20 2014 Cabin Fever Remake Will Use Eli Roth s Original Script Film Retrieved June 20 2018 Berkshire Geoff February 12 2016 Film Review Cabin Fever Variety Retrieved June 20 2018 Torfe Pat February 16 2016 Review 2016 s Cabin Fever Lacks the Soul of the Original Bloody Disgusting Retrieved June 20 2018 Miska Brad March 11 2015 Eli Roth Blown Away By the Cabin Fever Remake Bloody Disgusting Retrieved June 20 2018 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Cabin Fever 2002 film Cabin Fever at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cabin Fever 2002 film amp oldid 1144513629, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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