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Cabin Fever
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- Eli Roth
- Written by
- Eli Roth, Randy Pearlstein
- Produced by
- Sam Froelich, Evan Astrowsky, Lauren Vilchik, Eli Roth, Jeffrey D. Hoffman, Susan Jackson, Jan S. Owen
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Why it’s HorroRated
Cabin Fever is a smart film about how fear and paranoia destroy a group faster than the actual threat does. Eli Roth's debut uses the flesh-eating virus as a mechanism for watching people turn on each other and the dark humor throughout gives it a texture most straightforward horror films lack. A confident first feature.
Synopsis
A weekend at a lakeside rental turns dangerous when a sick stranger contaminates the water supply. Eli Roth uses the illness as a mechanism for watching people turn on each other, and the paranoia that develops around contagion is the film's real subject. A confident debut that launched a decade of Roth's particular brand of horror.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- August 15, 2003
- Runtime
- 1 hour 33 mins
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Content rating
- R
- Entry type
- Movie
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