A group of young adults, including two couples and their obnoxious friend Bert, travel to a cabin in the woods for a weekend camping trip. While out making a failed attempt to hunt small critters, Bert encounters a very ill man covered in sores and blood. He decides he doesn't want to risk catching whatever the man has, so he scares him with a warning shot. The man falls into a ditch and Bert runs back to the cabin where he conceals the frightening encounter from his friends and hopes that it is over and can simply be forgotten. No such luck. The scabby character returns and the campers are left no choice but to ward him off with force, but not before he has spewed potentially contaminated blood all over the camp.
Now the five cabin mates find themselves desperately scrambling to avoid infection and growing ever more suspicious and paranoid of interactions with one another. When one of them becomes infected, they decide their only hope for survival is to escape the woods and find medical attention. Their efforts appear to be in vain as one after another they contract the strange flesh eating virus rendering them violently ill, grotesque in appearance, and eventually dead. Will anyone survive and what will remain of them if so?
The thing that is interesting about Cabin Fever is that it starts out by putting you under the impression that you are about to see a usual slasher flick. A bunch of college students heading out to the forest to party, getting into the usual sex, drugs, and booze is reminiscent of many well known slasher films. But things take an unexpected and interesting turn when it becomes apparent that the killer is an invisible and basically inescapable one. Even Jeff, the pretty boy character who figures he can make it alone and abandons the rest of his friends who are trying to work together to escape the woods, ultimately meets a violent end proving that it doesn't pay to be a selfish prick.
Cabin Fever may not be heavy on special effects, but it should get props for its well-done gruesome makeup job. The cast, including that guy from Boy Meets World, do a decent job of acting and the script is written so as to be believable that these could actually be college students. It gives you some characters to root for and some who you will hope have their skin devoured. Throw in a few good scares, a unexpected band of homicidal rednecks, and a very odd police officer, and you've got a movie that is worthwhile and different. Catch it!
4 shaving accidents out of 5
Rated 18A/R for strong violence and gore, sexuality, nudity, language and brief drug use.
Watch the Cabin Fever trailer.
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