Cabin Fever (2002)
With the recent release of Cabin Fever 2, I thought it might be a good one to watch, but first I’d like to see the first one of them, so I had NetFlix send out Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever. I believe this was Eli’s first film as a director. I quite enjoyed this – it made for a good Saturday evening entertainment and has me a little stoked that maybe Cabin Fever 2 might be at least partly as good.
Don’t get me wrong, this move isn’t great. It could have been better than it was, but it isn’t bad. It isn’t a typical horror movie, and you figure out what is really going on pretty early. But it does do thing you don’t expect and is entertaining the whole way through. I honestly expected a different kind of cabin fever going in to this – I didn’t read to much about it before hand.
One neat feature is the “Chick Vision” that lets you watch the movie and gray hands will block parts of the movie as you watch it through your fingers. This is for the scarier parts. I would have imagined though that chicks watching this wouldn’t hold their hands up until the scarier parts have already started, but in this feature they start up a little bit early … not totally a bad thing.
Just keep in mind that these guys are camping way out in the middle of nowhere in a rented cabin. The cell phones don’t work and there are all those “eerie” nature noises the city kids encounter. Add on top of this that Eli throws things at you, such as the deer and the dog scenes, will more than likely catch you off guard. Enjoy!
Rated R. 92 minutes (1 hour 32 minutes). Profanity – your typical wild weekend away college kids. You see topless females, but a movie like this kind of felt like it needed a few more – but still, no complaints. Lots of blood and goriness.
