CABIN FEVER
MPAA Rating:
 for strong violence and gore, sexuality, language and brief drug use
Starring: Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Rider Strong, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent | Directed by: Eli Roth | Produced by: Evan Astrowsky, Sam Froelich, Lauren Moews, Eli Roth | Written by: Eli Roth, Randy Pearlstein | Distributor: Lions Gate Films
Producer’s Synopsis: College friends embark deep into the mountains on a vacation filled with sex. 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. We could provide very specific details about the perversity of this film, but this disgusting movie really doesn't deserve the attention, and the description alone would be extremely offensive to most of our readers. Suffice it to say that this film does not deserve the admission dollars of followers of Christ or anyone else. Year of Release—2003 Negative - This movie is extremely gory and disgusting. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I think it is one of the grossest things I've seen, and the plot is lacking in substance. There's a lot of blood, sex, cursing, and drinking. They used the f-word so many times, I asked my husband why it was so necessary. Steer Clear!! Negative — As a suvivor of flesh-eating disease, I watched the recent DVD release of this gore-fest in the hopes of giving some context to my own real-life nightmare. The true gore was the gratuitous swearing, the silly sex, and the over-the-top despicability. Believe me, the only thing evident during an infection like the one depicted in the film is a helplessness before your Creator. Isolate this one, don't go near the featurettes, and maybe watch something a little more healthy. I should have. Negative - First of all this movie was not rated properly by the film industry. It did say it was rated "R", but that was for its gore. It said absolutely nothing about the nudity and pornographic-looking simulated sex between two of the teenagers. I would never have gone to see this film if I'd known (how lame it was for one) that there was nudity in it. Don't waste a minute of your life on this absurdity.
Positive - The bad: It has it all...and it's very graphic and very offensive. On moral grounds the movie is indefensible. It goes without saying that children should not see this film. Comments from young people
Negative - I went to see "Cabin Fever" with a group of friends, and not one of us managed to get through it without having to look away at least once. It is absolutely horrific, easily one of the most disgusting horror films
ever, with so much bad language it almost gets ridiculous to watch. For fans of extreme horror films, this will probably provide some entertainment, but you would do a lot better with much-less offensive horror movies such as The Ring; or for a strictly adult audience, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which provides twice the terror of "Cabin Fever," without the needless swearing or on-screen gore and sex. Movie Critics
"…filled with ugly behavior, profanity and obscenities. Avoid it like the Ebola Virus; it's sick." "…Over 130 f-words... God's name is abused at least 25 times... Vile. Gruesome. Exploitative. Mean-spirited. And just plain gross." "…gutting a squealing pig (on camera)... crass shots of animal eviscerations and virus-ravaged flesh... lack of character development" "…This is a wretched movie, and not in a good way. ...Marcy realizes that she's cut the flesh off her legs, and she starts crying, ...Then she staggers outside on her bloody, fleshless legs, and gets dismembered by a dog…" "…[Writer/Director] Roth has fun encoding his clear-eyed political polemic in southern-fried slapstick... These teens aren't punished for the pot they smoke or the unsafe sex they partake in, but for the conservative political ends they serve: themselves…" "…Sex/Nudity: Extreme | Profanity: Extreme | Violence: Extreme" |
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