Cabin Fever (2003)

Best movie of this year hands down!

As Good As It Gets

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

saw this once before way back when and remember enjoying it. A lot of people don't like the work of Eli Roth. I don't think he is an amazing director or anything but I did enjoy Knock Knock and Hostel immensely. His films are often stupidly cheesy and full of graphic violence but I can appreciate that, the lowest form of entertainment. I knew I had to revisit this film after watching the terrible 2016 reboot (why the hell did that happen).The story of the film is quite simple. It's about 5 friends who are vacationing at a cabin. Little do they know that there is a type of flesh eating disease spreading around in the area that makes people's skin fall off. They also later find out that it is being spread through water. The film definitely is influenced by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Evil Dead but this film is definitely of that calibre. It's still a dumb enjoyable bloodfest. Which is what is expected from this director.The scares (the few that are present) don't really work and use the often played out jarring sound as something pops up. The blood and makeup is quite good. The skin falling off looks quite real and some of it really does make your skin crawl. The dialogue is so dumb and you get the typical prototype of dumb sex fueled teens who get themselves into trouble (as is par with horror films).The cast aren't particularly great although it was nice to see Rider Strong in a lead role. Jordan Ladd kind of faded into obscurity soon after. The film also has a cameo from Eli Roth, who basically plays an idiot. It's a truly dumb film but mindlessly entertaining. I don't think it's Roth's best (Knock Knock has definitely taken that cake) but it's an entertaining bloody debut.7/10

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.

This is not about being scary. It is about being gross. I do not like horror movie that having nothing to do with being scary. All are all about being gross. The story line in this film is awful. It got a 5.6 because of people who like horror movies that are bloody and gross. It is not scary at all. It is just hype. Do not wast your money. Do not wast your time. Do not see this movie. It is awful. It is just a big pile of pooh pooh. This is one of the worst horror movies made before 2009. In 2009 they stared making sequels. It is not hard to better then this awful movie. But there could not do it. Stay way from this movie it is a big pile of pooh pooh.

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.