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Cabin Fever

2003 · 98 min

A grimy, gleefully nasty descent into flesh-rotting panic that lurches between gross-out shocks and deadpan small-town weirdness.

Directed by
Eli Roth
Genres
Horror
Tagline
Terror… in the flesh.
Overview
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

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Directed by
Eli Roth
Genres
Horror
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • isolation
  • death
  • corruption
  • madness
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror8
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

In this series

Cabin Fever Collection

  1. Cabin FeverMovie · 2003 This title
  2. Cabin Fever 2: Spring FeverMovie · 2009
  3. Cabin Fever: Patient ZeroMovie · 2014

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Genres
horror
Directed by
Eli Roth
Written by
Eli Roth, Randy Pearlstein
Starring
Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Cerina Vincent, Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Eli Roth, Julie Childress, Jessica Elder
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
98 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
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