Cabin Fever: Another Group of 5 Visit a Cabin in the Woods

Cabin Fever poster

While Cabin in the Woods is a big focus right now, I figured it would be a good time to jump back about 10 years and write about Cabin Fever. Cabin Fever was the first feature film Eli Roth directed. It starts with 5 college graduates that rent a cabin in the woods to get away from the stresses of the world. Of course that doesn’t work out or it would not be a horror film but a romantic comedy or something. The young folks or youts (My Cousin Vinnie reference) run into some homicidal locals and a flesh-eating virus. One thing that makes Cabin Fever stand out is what was happening in horror at the time. Films were beginning to be “watered down” and the ratings were being dropped to PG-13 ratings. This is a strong contrast to when I was growing up and movies like Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie” had to be edited just to be dropped to an R rating. Eli Roth saw this and refused to compromise on the violence or nudity. He believed them to be essential ingredients in 1980’s stye horror films.

Cabin Fever with Jordan Ladd

Well…word on the street is that Cabin Fever will have 2 prequels: Cabin Fever: Patient Zero and Cabin Fever: Outbreak. The first film will be directed by Kaare Andrews. Comic book fans may recognize Andrews as an artist and writer for Marvel who worked on The Incredible Hulk, Ultimate X-Men and Spider-Man: Reign. Kaare Andrews made his feature debut with the supernatural horror film Altitude.

Well…here are some interviews! I tried to get the trailer to put up, but apparently Lion’s Gate has it locked down tight. All the versions I found couldn’t be embedded so here is a link to the Cabin Fever Trailer.

An interview with Rider Strong and Jordan Ladd about Cabin Fever!

Rider Strong (shawn hunter from boy meets world, chick from Pepper Dennis, Paul from cabin fever) being interviewed about the movie cabin fever!

Eli Roth + Rider Strong Talk Cabin Fever Dir. Cut

Eli Roth and Rider Strong are interviewed about Cabin Fever Director’s Cut Blu-Ray release. Eli also discusses how Quentin Tarantino chooses him for Inglourious Basterds. Interview broadcast February 15th, 2010 on KTLA

Eli Roth on the Events That Inspired Cabin Fever

Eli Roth retells the somewhat gruesome personal medical story that proved to be the inspiration behind his breakout film “Cabin Fever”. This segment is part of a larger interview that has numerous segments included in our current exhibition, Can’t Lo…