Cabin Fever (2003) Movie Information:

Cabin Fever (2003) Directed by: Eli Roth Cabin Fever (2003) Written by: Randy Pearlstein, Eli Roth Cabin Fever (2003) Cast: Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent, James Debello, Arie Verveen, Giuseppe Andrews, Christy Ward, Michael Harding, Julie Childress

Cabin Fever (2003) U.S. Distributor: Lions Gate Films Cabin Fever (2003) U.K. Distributor: Redbus Film Distribution

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Cabin Fever (2003) Synopsis:

As a last hurrah after college, friends Jeff, Karen, Paul, Marcy and Bert embark on a vacation deep into the mountains. With the top down and the music up, they drive to a remote cabin to enjoy their last days of decadence before entering the working world. Then somebody gets sick. Karen's skin starts to bubble and burn as something grows inside her, tunneling beneath her flesh. The group is so repulsed, shocked and sickened watching their friend deteriorate before their eyes; they lock her in a shed to avoid infection. As they debate about how to save her, they look at one another and realize that any one of them could also have it. What soon began as a struggle against the disease turns into a battle against friends, as the fear of contagion drives them to turn on each other. The kids confront the terror of having to kill anyone who comes near them, even if it's their closest friend. The survivors have to find help before they're all killed by the virus, or by the local lynch mob out to destroy anyone who may have come in contact with it.

Cabin Fever (2003) Movie Review:

This black comedy is a teen metaphor for the current White House administration. Very little intelligence, with a lot of macho posturing. Lot’s of blood and very little sex, although there is one scene when the perfect-breasted babe does a reverse move on the male and does him from behind like Lynn Cheney when she puts the steely dan to the rump of the Vice-president. Kinky. At it’s core though, is a Grand Guignol cautionary tale of what will happen to future generations if that wart-faced, wicked Blair witch of the west, Gale Norton continues as Secretary of the Interior much longer. Super fun is bespoiled when the Super Fund funds meant for toxic cleanup in the U.S.A. go to rebuild Haliburton’s Iraq instead. The five suburban teens also gives us a glimpse of the outcome of the Bush educational policy. These kids are going to college? The horror!

It’s also story of docile, irrational, short-sighted, loud-mouthed mental midgets aided by inbred spawn from south of the Mason-Dixon (red states), the residue of “clean coal” energy policies created in secret by dickless bald little men from Wyoming, and toxic waste left to simmer in it’s own sauces to create flesh eating bacteria and make a sewer of America’s beauty. The “other white meat” is placed in jeopardy by this mysterious malady as Jesse Helm’s main constituents and financial supporters, the hogs and their lobbyists, are diseased as well.

The animal connection is further complicated when the dogs gone wild begin eating the sins of the female victims and do a better job with their tongues than the boyfriend dawgs did with theirs. OK, so there one reality check in this “feature.” The town even has its very own rabid, mullet-headed Dennis the Menace (whose real last name is Helms, I kid you not) who sees humans as pancakes. Beware the jaws that bite and the claws that catch…

More madness reigns and rains. Although a cadre of Ashcroft-trained militia try to resolve “the problem” in their own special way, they end up shooting the messenger, kind of like how Rudy’s rogues cured Amadou Dialo. The police problem in a rural hamlet is not as complicated as that of NYC or LA and is easily handled with some 5 cent lemonade. Party on Deputy Winston.

The acting, directing, and production qualities are strictly B-picture, straight to video grade. Second rate. Just like the current Administration. Another theme that is addressed throughout this forest of fear is that “icky” people are ignored and pushed aside by society. That attitude is consistent with the Administration’s policies as well. Not only is there no “big tent,” there is nothing but bewilderness.

Unfortunately, this film is a laugh riot while the real horror emanates from Washington, D.C. This wonderful end of summer dump romp when seen with The Order makes a great indigestion inducing double feature with the entrees of flesh eating and sin eating in one scrumptious meal. Just don’t go near the water. Bon Appetite!

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Cabin Fever (2003) review written by: TR Black