it wasn’t the worst horror movie ever but it was bad . not to spoil it for anyone that wants to see it but the ending made absolutely no sense at all and you never find out how they got infected in the 1st place.

I was talking to a co-worker about the dearth of good horror movies in the last ten or so years and how they mostly start well but don’t play out on their initial promise (cf Jeepers Creepers).

All I could come up with was Dog Soldiers which isn’t great and the werewolves look like Bungle from Rainbow (sorry, UK children’s TV reference). He recommended Cabin Fever.

Cabin Fever is OK. I enjoyed it as a daft movie in the same vein as Evil Dead. Eli Roth is obviously a big horror enthusiast as he references this and about a million other movies throughout.

There are moments of surreal humour which seem out of place and begin to dominate towards the end. Eli Roth was working with David Lynch on another project at the same time as writing and making this movie and you can see the influence.

Sadly, my main criticism of this movie is not that it isn’t gory enough, or that it’s silly but simply it wasn’t scary enough. I still think it’s entertaining and a good effort.

Not to give anything away to those who haven’t seen this, but I have a few comments and a question.

First, I liked that this movie wasn’t your run-of-the-mill, ENTIRELY predictable, dumb-kids-in-the-woods-type horror. Roth has a twisted sense of humor that I quite enjoy. However, I still want to know what was the source of the problem to begin with. We know how it spreads, but where exactly did it start? Did I miss something?

I have watched Cabin Fever a few times, don’t ask me why. It’s a horrible movie but for some reason it’s stupidity amuses me. If you don’t want it spoiled for you quit reading now. Quite frankly, I am glad they all died. They deserved it. They were horrible friends. Would you put your dying friend in a shed alone with a killer dog on the loose? I don’t care if my friend’s skin was rotting off, my first concern would be for their health and not my own. I trust that none of my friends would deliberately hurl in my face and infect me. Besides, if all your friends were dying… would it really be so bad to go with them? Oh and the ending. My God. What the hell was that? Hillbilly Rap? It made me want to stick a red hot poker in my ear.

Even Boy meets World boy (who I assume we’re suppose to like) really pissed me off. He’s in love with this one girl forever, she gets the plague and so he bumps uglies with his friend’s girl? I would have pushed him into the lake myself. Atleast Rider Strong can actually act. I have no idea where they found the rest of the cast. You know a movie is awful when my husband makes fun of the acting. Bad acting usually doesn’t bother him that much. Especially in a movie that has boobs.

I just don’t understand how anyone would think this was any good. I saw it @ the theatre because it was a new horror movie, and my little brother liked horror movies.

But, come on. The kungfu kid @ the grocery store? WTF?

I went to the movies once two years ago with my friend’s girlfriend, one of her friends, and one of my friends who was interested in her friend. It was like a weird double-date with two non-couples.
The girls chose Cabin Fever to be the movie, and my friend and I had never heard of it, so we went along.
By the end of the movie both girls were genuinely repentant for having chosen it, as it was a bad movie. My friend and I, however, loved it. Loved it. And it only grew on me more later.
I own now.
And I love it.