USA,
2002, 94 min
Shown in 2003
CREDITS
- dir
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Eli Roth
- prod
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Lauren Moews, Eli Roth, Sam Froelich
- scr
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Eli Roth, Randy Pearlstein
- cam
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Scott Kevan
- editor
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George Folsey Jr., Ryan Folsey
- mus
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Nathan Barr
- cast
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Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Rider Strong, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent
- source
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Lions Gate Films, 4553 Glencoe Ave., Ste. 200, Marina del Rey, CA 90293. FAX: 310-399-9157.
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COMMENTS
Eli Roth, Joey Kern in person.
OTHER
Five dimwitted, foulmouthed college students escape to a cabin deep in the woods for a post-graduation vacation. When a demented stranger covered with oozing, bloody sores appears, things turn very, very ugly. Soon one of the students gets sick, and her skin begins to bleed, boil and bubble. As this mysterious flesh-eating disease sets in, her companions turn on one another, trying to save their own lives. From first-time director Eli Roth, who worked as a producer for David Lynch, Cabin Fever is a brutal, nasty and nihilistic horror film. But it is also often genuinely hilarious—a rarity, as most horror/comedy hybrids fail miserably. With a propulsive forward motion, and many moments of perverse surrealism and casual sleaze, this is one of the most consistently surprising cult films to come around in a long time. Remarkably, none of the amazing special effects (by old-school F/X geniuses KNB) are computer generated. With nods to many hard-edged ’70s exploitation classics like Last House on the Left, Rabid, The Hills Have Eyes and I Drink Your Blood, Cabin Fever has a black heart, but an even blacker sense of humor. Watch out, the geysers of blood and guts are aimed straight into your face.
—Joel Shepard
FACTOID #107
Incubus, the only known film made in the Esperanto language (at least the only one starring William Shatner), played the 1966 San Francisco International Film Festival.
