![]() ![]() Paul and Karen go for a swim in the lake while Bert goes hunting for squirrels in the woods. When they arrive at the cabin, Jeff and Marcy immediately retire to their bedroom and have sex. The locals standing nearby look at the outsiders in their town with suspicion and scorn. Along the way, they stop at a local convenience store for food where a young boy (Matthew Helms) outside the store bites Paul on the hand. Meanwhile, five college friends, Jeff (Joey Kern), Marcy (Cerina Vincent), Paul (Rider Strong), Karen (Jordan Ladd), and Bert (James DeBello) are driving in a van through rural Alabama on their way to the woods for they have rented a cabin in the woods. After poking it a few times, he pulls the dog up and notices that the dog's flesh is rotted, spurting blood on him in the process. For me, the running time was really short and there were not enough scares throughout.A man (Arie Verveen) is walking in the woods and comes upon a dog that he believes to be sleeping. The reason I don't give this a really high score is because the pacing seemed jumbled to me. There is plenty of gore and plenty of scenes to make you squirm in disgust. The locals aren't so realistic and seem to be their for comic relief and body count (which isn't a bad thing). We do all that they do (well, not so much drugs.) and to me that makes them more realistic. Most of them swear, drink, have wild sex and smoke drugs and because of this may seem annoying and clichéd, on the contrary, Roth has captured the attitude of what teenagers were (and still are) like. The five teens are a mixed bunch (the dumb guy, the horny couple and the innocent couple). Roth blends horror with a small amount of comedy which suits this type of movie. A horror movie about five teenagers going to holiday in a cabin in the woods after college where the nearest town is filled with hicks and everything is slowly getting infected by an unknown virus which starts to turn everyone against each other. To sum up this movie: take a bit of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a bit of The Evil Dead, a couple of elements from The Thing and Last House on the Left and you have Cabin Fever. I, however, found this to be a rather enjoyable little film that just falls short of being great. There is additional dialog among the townspeople, different shots, and it shows the FDA man walking around more testing and the Water supply truck is in view longer.Įli Roth's debut, Cabin Fever, seems to be hated by the majority on IMDb and many other critics. Instead of just the cops drinking the contaminated lemonade followed by a country song with the townspeople, the whole entire town shows up and has a cup. Then they pour gasoline and one cop lights a match and cellar goes up in flames followed by more shots of blood and guts on the walls, ceiling, and floor. The human-bonfire scene when they say "We got another one in the basement" immediately goes to a shot of the cellar door opening from the inside, then a bunch of shotguns appear and start shooting like crazy. ![]() He yells at the hick as he throws him down there and says "When they get here, tell them I didn't do it!", then slams the door. An additional scene where Rider Strong grabs the long-haired hick after the attack and drags him down to the cellar.In the "R" rated version it cuts away quick and only shows the aftermath from a difficult-to-see angle. The gunshot to Burt's head in the cabin is bloodier.This immediately follows when they hear the dog trying to get Karen in the shed and they shoot a bullet and tell Karen that they will stay outside with her to keep the dog away. A scene of Burt sitting outside guarding the shed with his shot gun.An extended scene of everyone arguing around the fireplace when Burt makes a joke about his burnt marshmallow.When it is discovered that Karen has the disease during an intimate scene, there is an additional scene that follows the "Don't.Leave.Me!" where Burt comes into the room and yells at her about how the truck isn't ready yet, and they have to finish cleaning up the bum's blood.A different angle of Jordan Ladd's character Karen swimming away after the "kiss" scene on the dock with Rider Strong.The scene of Rider Strong going behind the building to wash his hands after Dennis's bite and he pets the stray dogs is removed from the "uncut" version.Then they stop when Burt says he left something back at the store and they have a longer conversation about the map. The scene where they are in the shop in the beginning is removed from the "uncut" version and is replaced with an extended scene of them driving the truck through the woods.This version was released in North America on Blu-ray on February 10, 2016. However, the uncut version did play at a few festivals before Lions Gate bought it. Lions Gate cut 2 minutes from the film for the US Theatrical Release.
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