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Fever became one of many “murder cabin in the woods” reference points for the meta horror satire movie The Cabin in the Woods (2011). For instance, when the friends drive to the cabin, the song playing on the radio was composed for The Last House on the Left (1972). Everybody around you is screaming ‘We’re Going Down! We’re Going Down!’ and all you want to do is grab the person next to you and fuck them, because you know you’re going to be dead soon, anyway.”Ĭabin Fever is remembered as a homage to the low-budget horror movie, with many references to other films hidden in plain view. Cabin Fever writer/director Eli Roth discussing the film’s focus on the paranoia that develops in the wake of discovering a communicable disease on Eli Roth’s History of Horror.Īn unrelated morbid fact about Cabin Fever is that auditions were taking place on September 11, 2001, and one of the scenes being read included the dialogue, “ like being on a plane, when you know it’s gonna crash. How do you stop the spread of a disease while still treating the infected people like human beings who are worthy of dignity and care? Roth was ahead of his time in suggesting that selfishness and paranoia would come to be more defining aspects of a pandemic than the disease itself. While it was made long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the themes of Cabin Fever deal with what we’ve all been going through the past few years. Eli Roth, on the inspiration for Cabin Fever She gave me steroid creme and luckily, my face cleared up. I went to see a dermatologist, who, judging by the horrified and puzzled look on her face, had never seen anything like it before. The strangest part was not only did it not hurt-it actually satisfied some strange itch underneath my skin. The next morning I attempted to shave and literally shaved half my face off. I looked down at my hand and saw chunks of skin. I woke up in the middle of the night scratching my cheek, thinking I had a mosquito bite.
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I had been cleaning out a barn and got a skin infection on my face. The initial idea for Cabin Fever came while I was working on a horse farm in Iceland when I was 19 years old. Neff says he needed 24/7 medical care for 13 days to get rid of the bacteria and says Cabin Fever‘s special effects are totally accurate. John Neff, a sound editor who played one of the victims in the film, once contracted flesh-eating bacteria himself during a routine surgery. He wasn’t the only one on the Cabin Fever set with personal experience with the subject matter.
Roth likened his experiencing of shaving with a skin infection akin to “peeling a banana.” One of the most gruesome and upsetting scenes in Cabin Fever is directly based on this experience, as his skin “peeled off” when he shaved. When he scratched, “chunks of flesh” fell off. While working on a horse farm, he came into contact with rotted hay and contracted an infection that caused him to break out in sores. The movie’s inspiration came from an experience he had while traveling in Iceland when he was 19. Roth infused the film with some personal history. He actually ran into a group of girls on a school field trip who thought they were seeing a recently murdered Shawn Hunter! When they realized it was Rider Strong filming a movie, they chased him back to set. Taking a break between scenes, Rider Strong (most famous for playing Shawn Hunter in Boy Meets World) went for a walk in the woods despite being covered in fake blood. As a flesh-eating virus begins to spread, relationships splinter and the group erupts in chaos.įilming took place at a cabin on a 3,200-acre Boy Scout camp in North Carolina where the Scout’s “Mountain Men” program used to be held. While the expected route for the film to take is that some sort of danger befalls the group from the outside, the actual terror comes from the water they drink.
The movie is about five college friends: Jeff (Joey Kern), Marcy (Cerina Vincent), Paul (Rider Strong), Karen (Jordan Ladd), and Bert (James DeBello), who go to a dilapidated cabin in the woods to celebrate their spring break. As a guest on Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Rider Strong explained that Cabin Fever is about the horror of people turning on each other.
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He also hosts the series Eli Roth’s History of Horror. Roth went on to write and direct Hostel (2005), The Green Inferno (2013), and Knock Knock (2015), among other films. He wrote the film with his former NYU roommate, Randy Pearlstein, while he was working as a production assistant for the film Howard Stern’s Private Parts (1997). Cabin Fever (2002) was Eli Roth’s directorial debut.
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