Cabin Fever

Reviewed by:
Paul Ulane

Cabin Fever successfully adds another notch to the slasher cliché bedpost, when a frisky clan of teens hits the woods in search of sex and booze only to wind up with a flesh-eating virus instead. (That’s what they get for not packing any Off!) But rotting corpses and severed torsos don’t come easy, a fact hammered home violently in the supplements. “Beneath the Skin” provides real snapshots of flesh-eating virus victims and the perfect recipe for splattered brains from the effects team. Director Eli Roth puts his early claymation work on display in “Rotten Fruit,” while “Pancakes” places one of Fever’s countrified bit-part hicks on center stage for his just turn in the spotlight. “Chick Vision” (gruesome sequences made girlfriendly) and “Family Version” (30-seconds long) finish up the extras, providing the only reprieve for those with weak stomachs—or as we like to call them, “us.”

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