![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of the film, Paul is dropped off by police officer Winston into a river, where his blood contaminates the locals’ water. By the end of the film, they are all (pretty much- Paul is barely alive in the final shots) dead, however, not a single person dies from the disease alone, they are all killed by a human or animal attack. As the film progresses, we see the five friends fight amongst themselves as they begin to panic at being stuck in the woods, surrounded by creepy locals in a contaminated cabin, without a means of escape. Ironically, it is this challenge that allows some of them to last longer than others. The night before, the friends made a playful dare to see who could last the longest only drinking beer. His blood, and therefore, the disease, infects there water. He runs off into the woods and, unbeknown to the friends, dies in a major water supply. ![]() By the end of the fight, their car is completely destroyed (completely because of Paul’s (Rider Strong) poorly aimed baseball bat swings) and the man is on fire. When the hermit tries to force his way into their cabin, the terrified friends fight back. ![]() Unfortunately, on their first night, an hermit infected with a contagious and fatal skin disease visits their cabin. Even more troubling, the part that the auditioning actresses were asked to read was from the scene in which Marcy explains her belief that people on a plane doomed to crash would want “one last screw.” The film began filming one month after the attacks.Ĭabin Fever tells the story of five friends and recent college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods to celebrate the start of the summer after graduation. Auditions for the role of Marcy occurred on Septemand, despite attempts to cancel the auditions, the confusion of the day made it difficult to contact all of the actresses, so the auditions went on as originally scheduled. It’s also helpful to consider this film’s proximity to 9/11. A number of potential financiers also dropped out or refused to support Cabin Fever for various reasons, including the “unsettling” content of the film (both the gore and the use of the n-word early in the movie) and an anthrax scare that impacted a few of the independent investors on the first day of shooting. It was also the most profitable horror film released in 2003.” In 2004, Saw would beat the film’s record for “highest grossing film over a similar low budget (grossing over $100 million with a budget of $1.2 million).” This is pretty surprising considering the fact that initial attempts made by Roth to sell the script were unsuccessful because “studios felt the horror genre had become unprofitable.” Studio executives expressed interest in the script only if Roth could make it feel more like Scream (1996), which he didn’t want to do. However, for Hostel, he purposefully didn’t allow himself to watch any movies while filming so that it would be entirely original.Īccording to Cabin Fever’s IMDB page, this film had the “lowest budget of any Lion’s Gate Film released in 2003, ($1.5 million) and was their highest grossing film of 2003 ($22 million box office). He made a conscious choice to include a number of references to his favorite horror films, like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, etc. Roth speaks about this process (and Hostel) Mick Garris’s podcast Post Mortem. Roth describes Cabin Fever as “everything as a kid that you wanted to do as a kid that just explodes in your first film.” According to Roth, the crew built the cabin themselves, so that the interior of the cabin appeared larger than the exterior (his homage to Evil Dead). Roth wrote whenever he found free time on the job. It is gruesome, but I love the pink razor detail.Įli Roth co-wrote the film with his friend and former NYU roommate Randy Pearlstein while Roth was a nighttime production assistant to Howard Stern during the filming of Private Parts (1997). ![]()
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