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There’s a Killer in the woods. One
you can’t hear, One you can't see, One you can’t
escape.
The trailer for this film gives the impression that the
characters will be pitted against a killer in the woods but
in fact the greatest danger comes from within as one by one
they contract a killer virus and turn on each other.
Full of gore, Cabin Fever is a welcome and refreshing addition
to the horror film genre thanks mainly to its directors’,
Eli Roth, love of ‘classic’ shock horror movies
of the 70’s and 80’s. Letting a horror film fan
loose with a camera and a bucket of blood could easily have
gotten messy but Roth has managed to walk the line between
horror and humour with consummate ease, the blood flows freely
but doesn’t rain and the laughs he injects are genuine
and perfectly timed. He uses the comedy to pull you in and
at just the right moment shocks you, conversely when the tension
is becoming over-bearing he uses it to
release the pressure.
The characters are just the right mix of pure jock, geek,
snob and nice girls who are all dispatched with glee as the
their holiday descends further and further into the red mist
if sheer panic and self preservation.
Cabin Fever blends all of Roth’s influences into a refreshing
horror smoothie that slips down your throat like a half pint
of warm blood on a cold night in the cemetery as the dead
dance once more for your personal entertainment. Horror fans
should love this film and if they don’t I’ll be
sending out an army of zombies with axes to change their minds.
“Cabin Fever is fantastic. Fiendishly clever –
I loved it” -
Peter Jackson, director ‘The Lord of the Rings’
trilogy
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