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Posted By: CountOrlok at 10:04am, November 10, 2009
Overrated and stupid - I can't stand Eli Roth and his style of horror.
a mixture of 'The Evil Dead', 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' and 'Blair Witch Project', and yet a masterpiece.
Eli Roth's first film was such a genious, and to this day i still love it
Posted By: caseynight88 at 7:53am, September 22, 2009
Blood, sex, and more blood. This the recipe for Cabin Fever. Too bad it's missing the other ingredients that would have made it so much better.
Posted By: Bostic101 at 2:43am, September 13, 2009
Eli Roth you motherfucker..you did it again. Blood, Body Parts, Killer dogs, nowhere to run..ect. Just playing actually at first i felt this film would be a let down but as i watched it kept me wanting more. he took the basic settings for a weekend getaway into a blood fest (As usual) but still the movie was decent for what was expected.
PANCAKES!!!!! Yes probably one of the most bizare scenes I've ever seen in a movie PERIOD. On to the movie itself though it is great. I loved the homage to other horror movies such as last house on the left and texas chainsaw massacre, night of the living dead and I think there may have been more. This movie had some nasty stuff in it some of it even cringe worthy. Even though the ending is kind of all over the place and its kind of unclear what exactly eli roth was going for because the movie ends on such a weird but funny note this was a really enjoyable horror movie.
This is a well made film and it is entertaining, but it's a bit dull sometimes.
Posted By: ShadowHuntr at 1:26am, September 7, 2009
This movie was amazing, although I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who's a hypochondriac. Wonderful cringe factor and rather nicely fleshed-out plot. Lots of fun.
Posted By: VeryEvilDead at 9:42pm, September 1, 2009
Great horror comedy. Entertaining from start to finish and doesn't take itself seriously. Plain old fashion fun.
Posted By: TheBurning at 9:36pm, September 1, 2009
A Must See! Bloody well done. Lots of sex and lots of gore. And you'll be laughing ur ass off through out.
I really enjoyed this one. It was a new twist on the typical "cabin in the woods" scare flick. Plenty of gore & the look of the film was well done too. Its simplicity is what makes it work!!! Straight A to Z fright flick!!! Worth a look!
I think this is eli roth's best film, its soemthing we've seen millions of times, a group of twenty-somethings go to a cabin in the woods, but instead of the undead and demons, the villan is disease. Gory and at times humorous, great horror flick. The ending was pretty funny too. Check it out.
One of the funniest and most disgusting movies I've ever seen. It's got everything from man-eating dogs to 10 year old kids doing karate and biting people. If you haven't seen this, go check it out now!
A pretty decent film. It's got your gore, teen sex, and actually a couple of really funny parts. A pretty original idea, and a very fun movie.
Posted By: groundgamer at 12:24pm, August 22, 2009
Don't listen to all the good reviews below. Because this is just a porr atempt on The Hills Have Eyes. This isn't that good, it's average at best. The acting is horrible, and the only reason these guys below like this movie is because of the cheesey acting. Well, this is a horrible horror movie. It isn't scary, it's stupid. I was impressed with a few of the scenes, but not many. Cabin Fever isn't a good horror, it's not even close, and for that, I'm not even going to go into this review much. Lame.
Nothing makes me love a horror film more than originality and with that in mind, this movie delivers through and through. A group of friends out for some harmless camping fun in the wilderness get more than they bargained for in this absolutely awesome movie. Eli Roth has done a great job in creating a movie that will terrify even the hardest to scare, and all the while making sure the audience will get plenty of laughs along the way. Everything that a genre fan would want is packed into this film including, chills, gore, comedy and of course, nudity. The originality comes from the fact that we don't have a masked psychopath, or a cannibal family, or a grotesque monster or even wild animals that wish to tear our victims to shreds, instead we are faced with something far more terrifying in the form of a nasty flesh eating virus. Add the weird redneck witch hunters and the pancake kid into the mix and you've got a film that is sure to have you scrubbing yourself with bleach and anti bacterial soap every ten minutes or so. This film is just plain awesome and in my opinion was a tad bit under rated. Let's just hope some idiot doesn't decide to ::gulp:: remake this movie and destroy a seriously great genre classic.
Overall, I really enjoyed this movie and I would suggest it to anyone looking looking for a good Friday night film! There were a lot of classic and campy elements to this film that I enjoyed. The atmosphere in this movie was superb. There was also a lot of action and they really came out the gate with the intensity from the beginning. It always kept you on your toes.
This so could've come out in the late 70's/early 80's no problem. Eli Roth has the old school horror vibe down for sure. Great effects, annoying characters (the good kind of annoying cause you want to see them die) and PANCAKES! make the film worth while.
ok, for 1 thing giving this movie more than 3 skulls is just dumb. It was a fun movie, definately watchable and enjoyable, but a great horror movie, no way, this was like slither, except in that movie they didnt jump back and forth between taking itsself seriously and treating it like a joke, it was just a joke with a horror twist. This was a descent movie, and the end was good when that infected guy got in the reservoir.
This movie is entertaining and funny. When this first came out on dvd my friends and I used to get drunk on Bacardi Hurricane and watch this every weekend.
Such a throwback to some of the greatest movies ever created,its fun, funny ,gorey,weird,shot in the woods in the fall,rednecks,disease,an evil dog,ryder strong getting crazy.hands down one of my favorites!
Posted By: uraniumwilly at 1:12am, February 21, 2009
CATCH ELI ROTH'S HOMEGAE TO 70'S HORROR FILMS: CABIN FEVER
Cabin Fever was Eli Roth’s first film and it was released by Lion’s Gate in 1993 on a super low budget of $1.5 million. Initially the film was passed over repeatedly for several reasons, the chief one being that horror movies at the time were seen as sink holes for the studios. After the success of Scream horror was back in but Roth still had a hard time as his homage to 70’s horror was not enough like Scream to attract attention. Roth also insisted on not trimming back on his violence and sex scenes and there is a scene where the “N” word is used, though it winds up being a setup for a closing gag that I felt was pretty clever, mocking the uptight sensibilities of the most likely predominantly white audiences. Lion’s Gate took a chance and it wound up being their biggest money maker for 1993 making almost $34 million.
There is really a lot of hype, good and bad, about this film. It is highly praised by one of my favorite sites Bloody Disgusting (which is where I “borrowed” the skull image I use for my rating system) and I tend to trust them. It has been praised by Tarantino and Peter Jackson and to get to the point it is a fairly good horror film and a return to doing the old tried but true “teenagers on a camping trip dies off one by one” theme done up in a more serious fashion. It is old and tired formula and there is so much “teenager vs. slasher/monster” crap out there being done in hands of inept film makers and some of the worst movies ever have been created using this simple, but effective, theme. Wait until my review of the horrible Spiker appears shortly. After I am able to go back and finish it. However the teenager/slasher theme is malleable and functional and, in the right hands, it can be used effectively. Roth does just that in this well directed, scored, shot and acted horror-comedy film.
We have all the standard teenage characters here: the party hard frat boy, the too handsome lover boy, the nice guy who never gets laid, the good girl and the slut. They are celebrating the end of finals week and head off to an isolated cabin in the woods to drink beer and have sex. Early on we are introduced to some of the locals who all seem to be a cross between the hicks in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance. Frat boy Bert (James DeBello) has no girlfriend so he opts to walk around with a rifle and shoot squirrels. While recklessly firing his rifle he slightly wounds a hermit who is sick and feverish. Bert freaks out and leaves him in the woods. Later the gang is drinking around the campfire and being told of the story of the bowling alley massacre by good guy Paul (Rider Strong). The group is startled by the appearance of stoner “Grim” (Eli Roth) and his angry dog Mambo. Later while in the cabin waiting for Grim to return with some weed the wounded hermit appears. He is obviously sick with something and when he recognizes Bert a conflict develops that eventually results in the hermit being accidentally set on fire. The group of college partiers is distraught now and has to decide what to do. They are concerned as well with catching the bloody contagion that the hermit spat up all over their truck.
It is revealed that the water supply is contaminated and the virus is spread by drinking the tap water from the reservoir. They are visited by a strange local Deputy Winston (Giuseppe Andrews) who is more concerned with partying than information on the dead hermit or the blood covered truck. Good girl (read sexy, hot tease) Karen (Jordon Ladd) is the first to show signs of infection after frustrated Paul gropes between her legs while she is passed out. He pulls his fingers out to find them covered with more than just love juice. Panic sets in and Karen is quarantined in a shed where she deteriorates rapidly. The gang becomes paranoid and later a panicky Bert returns to the grocery store to seek help from the hillbillies there. Instead he incites the wrath of the locals when the storekeeper’s autistic son with the weirdest hair in the world the screams “pancakes” and does some ninja flips then bites his hand. The locals seem aware of the virus and feel the outsiders have now infected one of their own and decide to go to the cabin to take care of the infected city kids.
During that time pretty boy Jeff (Joey Kern) has high tailed it off on his own, taking all the beef which is all he has been drinking ergo he is contagion free. In his absence the always horny Marcy (Cerina Vincent) has tension relieving sex with Paul, after which he washes off his seldom used manhood with Listerine. She is infected by now and for some reason logical only in horror flicks decides to keep shaving her leg long after gobs of flesh have begun to peel of. Flesh eating viruses and razors obviously make a bad combination. Paul discovers the source f the infection when he later finds the hermit in the reservoir in a state of rancid decomposition. His luck turns really bad when he falls into the slimy water and lands right on top of the rotted hermit. The pace picks up and Marcy is eaten by the savage Mambo (played by a police dog who was so hard to manage none of the actors would work next to it) who is killed by Paul using the rifle. But he earlier caught Mambo munching on Karen, who is now all rotted but still alive. Paul decides that’s what shovels are made for and beats her over her head about ten times. I counted.
The hillbillies return and kill off Bert but are killed off in turn by Paul who has gone completely over the edge by now. He later crashes a party with Deputy Winston and his friends and pisses off the deputy for ruining their good time. this deputy loves a good party I gather. After Paul winds up in the local hospital where the doctor on duty decides he is terminal and contagious Deputy Winston maybe shoots him first (I am not sure) then dumps his body into the local river, where happy looking kids are filling up their water cooler. Jeff returns to the cabin and is horrified by what he sees there, but shock turns to joy when he relieves he has made it. While shouting out in exuberance he is shot to pieces by the local fuzz and thrown on a heap of bodies and burned. The film ends with a truck driving away to deliver bottles of the local natural spring water to stores and markets and the resolution t the "N" word gag that I guarantee will make you laugh. And how often can guilt ridden white folk laugh at the word nigger anymore?
The violence and sex scenes in the film are not all they are hyped up to be. Certainly tamer than Roth’s Hostel films that were to follow. But the movie is still very watchable and is creepy and tense at times while adding some doses of comedy here and there as well. I would not have minded more extreme violence and more sex, but it is certainly a notch above the wave of PG-13 horror films that have swamped movie houses and direct to DVD releases since Scream. I can easily give it 3 1/2 skulls and had it been put together just a little better it would have gotten 4 skulls. But for a movie made on a mere $1.5 million it delivers the virus infected goods.
Dying. Once upon a time this was my favourite movie, then I got taste. Although it is a good watch if you're in a "chilling" mood, just to watch something, it's not really award quality. What I liked was the dialogue, which had alot of humour which on a rare occasion makes a film quite good, which in this case it does.
The plot was pretty basic and simple, which was also a high point to the films watch factor. The gore really speaks for itself and the dialogue, well is impressive.
The acting, is where things are a little low. Rider Strong plays the lead, and his voice makes him sound gay. Jordan Ladd and Cerina Vincent are the main girls who's demises are probably the best in the movie.
Overall "Cabin Fever" is an OK watch, but nothing too special. My rating is 3/5
Posted By: jakejeckel at 2:38pm, February 18, 2009
It may not have been scary but it was creepy and one of my all time favorites.
Posted By: GRUDGE4life at 3:11pm, January 27, 2009
i think that this movie was good, but it was so freaky what happened and it all could have been avoided in the first place!
What is all the hype about? It was gory, but that's it. Cheesy as hell, and terrible acting. I mean, common, the friend from Boy Meets World in a lead role? It just did nothing for me. I will not give it only one skull based on the scene when the kid does a jumping roundhouse kick off the stairs while yelling pancakes. That was classic.
Posted By: JWUnderwood at 12:49am, November 25, 2008
Not completely unwatchable. Not exactly a horror movie per se, but had a moment here or there. Suffered through it once and most likely would not again.
Great movie, and as an aside, anyone who tells people not to see a movie based on their own experience with that movie is not saving anyone anything, that person is just ignorant.
Posted By: gutsrgreat at 3:04pm, November 20, 2008
This movie is the worst. The acting is bad and the story is dumb. I saw this movie in theatres and walked out 1 hour later. I tell everyone i know NEVER watch this movie. It not even "good" beacuse its soooooooooo bad. Save your time and money, don't watch it.
Not a bad movie, quite liked the idea that the 'killer' is in fact a disease and not some guy with a knife. However, it had a quite a few bad point. One being the constant references to other horror films (Last House on the Left getting constantly referenced). My biggest problem with Cabin Fever was the absolutely fucking atrocious acting/characters. Does anybody get on like that in real life? The characters were a pack of arseholes, and the actors playing them were rubbish. Especially that police officer Winston, I mean what the fuck? And the guy who shot the sick guy near the start, if anyone needs to quit acting it's him. In all, an OK movie that could've been alot better if it weren't for the retarded acting, and the unbelievable characters and script.
Posted By: gorehound62 at 10:20am, November 15, 2008
this is the eli roth i like. the hostel films were not good, to say the least. this is a throwback to 80s horror films, which is pretty well done. there is an abunduce of gore, cheesy characters, and a karate kicking kid who likes pancakes. whats not to like. i truly beleive that if eli roth stuck to this style of horror, he would be considered a "great" director. this is the way a true horror film should be. a fun little ride that dosent take itself too seriously, and provides some good scares. not too sure what the sequel will be like, though.
Fuck this movie sucked. Can't get any more honest than that. I "throw back " to the 8o's? An awful rip off if you ask me. Not scary , not funny just plain ridiculous.Bad bad bad . Avoid at all costs
Posted By: fantasmagora6 at 6:18pm, November 13, 2008
this movie is the kind of movie that you whatch, laugh through, in the end you get so pissed off cause it was a waste of life itself...the slow mode, martial arts pancakes bit was proof enough of this...I bought it before I saw it...BIG mistake...the only thing in this movie that even resembled a good horror film was the gore...but I could have done without the shaving legs scene.
Absolutely bloody awful. The characters were obnoxious and tbh I was glad when they all died. I didn't like the *racist* moments in the film, doesn't matter how you dress it up, it is not acceptable to call anyone *nigger* in this day and age.
And wtf was the dumb kid who liked biting people all about and said *pancakes* all the time?
I actually walked out of the cinema after about an hour of this, it was that bad! I watched it again on dvd just incase it was better second time round. IT WASN'T!!!
Best place for this ... the dustbin!
Posted By: StayPuft138 at 4:34pm, October 22, 2008
It's a good concept for a film, unique and given that it was low-budget it was done rather well.
Posted By: WinterRaven at 5:49pm, October 13, 2008
If you're looking for straight up gore and sexual content this movie is for you. LOL. It's mostly got the gross out factor going for me so it is part of my collection and a good movie for a afternoon when it's just too nasty to go outside!
After reading such a glowing review from BD, I questioned myself as to why I disliked this movie so much when I saw it in the theater. Any member of this site could probably list 5-10 movies that they hate that I like...it's the nature of horror fans. I went to see this film with ZERO expectations because I did not even know what it was about, or the fact that it was a horror movie to begin with. That being said, I thought this movie was a indecipherable piece of garbage that somehow was sold as a horror movie. I just didn't like it it any way. If you are planning to see this because of all the hype, and because Eli Roth directed it, I highly recommend renting it before making a purchase. Maybe you will like pancake-lovng, mullet-sporting, spin-kicking kids that have nothing to do with the plot, or maybe you won't...it's you call. I personally wish I had my money back from 5 years ago...I could use it towards something truly scary...like Steel Magnolia's or Son of Mask.
i was really disappointed. it seemed to drag on, & the characters were so unlikeable i couldn't get into it.
Posted By: Protecious at 4:58pm, September 30, 2008
a morbidly funny horror film is cabin fever, essentialy a virus movie that takes place in a cabin, with familiar setting like evil dead, but taking on an infection storyline instead of possession, it becomes contangeous, you find out why and all.
this movie was fun to watch and is entertaining for a horror film and has enough laughs in it.
If It weren't for the fact that this movie came out in 2003 I would have thought for sure that this one came straight out of the 70's or 80's, the golden age of horror that Eli obviously loves. The movie has tremendous camp value and if for sure a future cult classic. You either love this movie, or hate it. For me...I loved it. It has its shortcomings no doubt but for what it is it excels. Is it scary? I see a lot of people say it wasn't but it'll make me think twice before drinking untreated water! The movie plays on our most basic of fears. Disease, predation, rednecks. The movie however proves to be more funny than scary, if you have a certain strange scenes of humor. And I guess I do. From what Roth has produced so far Cabin Fever in my opinion remains his best and it'll be a difficult one to top. How can you help but cringe at the leg shaving scene?
my single favorite horror film of all time..i have watched this enough times,that i know it like the back of my hand.gore..check...black comedy..check..cerina vincent, godamn i fell in love with her after this fucking movie and started collecting all her stuff. music is awesome i could talk about this movie all day..also i have listened to all the commentaries on the dvd.After this movie i became a fan of eli roth for life.
I borrowed this movie from my niece (who loved it). Myself...not so much. As a matter of fact, I didn't like it at all. It wasn't funny or particularly scary. Most of the characters were so unlikeable that it was a relief when they died. The special effects were well done and the location was good. Unfortunately, the story didn't meet the same standards.
The movie was OK. It could have been realy great if they would have foucsed more on the fear of the flesh eating viris. But it did have some good moments, not eally scary though, just worth a view.
Its Eli Roth... he sells whatever sells good, in this case popular horror, girls with big boobs and some try to be funny moments... Its worth a view tho, but I really didn't like this one! Its the setting of Evil Dead 1 and 2, but without Ash and the evil force that live "into the woods" ;) anyway its a good movie if you like all of the other Eli Roth crap
NOT scary NOT funny NOT good!!!! I hated this movie but when it first came out I thought it was just the movie but after a few years I've realized it ELI ROTH!! HE IS THE WORST DIRECTOR EVER!!!! He does NOT know how to direct or write. I hate him and all his movies there all the same OVER DONE WANNA BE ARTISTIC GARBAGE!! Think THANKSGIVING!!!! I hated CABIN FEVER more then any other movie I have ever seen well maybe not any other I hate all ELI ROTH movies equealy! I give this wates of money and time a 0 out of 10! don't waste your time or money its not worth it!!!!!!!!
I have to say that I really liked this film. It was creepy! In that cheesy sort of way. I don't know how to explain it but I liked it. Not the best but definitely not the worst.
I agree to say that I don’t understand why people like this movie. I usually like the campy horror movies. This was my first Eli Roth movie and I saw this in the theaters. Should have known right away not to see any more. (Damn Hostel sucked even more) There was not a single redeeming quality to this movie.
I understand that the purpose of this movie was to be sort of campy and just incredibly gory... but I honestly could not stand it. Don't get me wrong -- I love movies like this... campy, gory, 80's-style horror. But this was just not that great.
I would just like to start by saying that Eli Roth is great, I completely agree with sixxchik . This movie was absolutely great, it made my skin crawl and there is not too many movies around that can do that to me so I have to give props. Everything down to the casting was perfect. Can’t wait to see the sequel.
i really liked this movie dispite that it got a little off track sometimes and it took a little while to get to the actually flesh eating eli roth is one of the best horror directors in my book
I loved this movie it was very unpredictable and you were never sure who was going to die of who was going to live it was very good movie and a MUST for horror film lovers
