Cabin Fever  2002
  Here we go: A bunch of college students go to a cabin in the woods to get drunk. They piss off a bunch of locals. They come down with some weird disease, they turn on each other. A bunch of shit happens, it ends. Cabin Fever is a movie that i put off watching for years. I finally gave in after seeing a copy of it at Target with a nifty hologram cover for only $5.50, i figured i couldn't go wrong, and well, I didn't. I got a decent enough horror movie with some fun gross-out imagery. It's got a typical group of college students, a typical love story, a typical scary cabin in the woods, and a typical bunch of militant rednecks. 
  There's some decent gore and gross out stuff as everyone gets sick. There's a bunch of blood and violence. It seems that some of the people were good actors, and played their roles straight, others were so over the top you couldn't believe any of it was real. Eli Roth (the director) played a stoner and was so over the top i thought i was watching Ben Stiller. I hate Ben Stiller. The sheriff or deputy or whatever wasn't believable in the least bit. I don't mind a movie that's a little campy but you have to know that going into it, you can't keep bouncing back and forth from reality.. There were just too many horror movie cliches, it's as if the movie is meant to be watched with the cast and crew just so they can nudge you and wink every so often.   I have to say i was impressed with Rider Strong who played Shawn on Boy Meets World, he was one of the few believable characters.
    It seems to me that ever since Tarantino got big we've had nothing but movie fans making movies and not film makers. Even when a movie is great the influences just stare you in the face and break you out of the reality of the movie and make you think about other movies. Cabin Fever isn't bad, but it's painfully obvious what the filmmakers influences are.  We get it already,  you like Sam Raimi, okay, yeah Evil Dead was great, MOVE ON. Too much comic relief can be a bad thing, Cabin Fever suffered from this. It  could have been a great horror movie. It's still good and worth snagging for cheap, but only with the hologram cover!

3.5 out of 5 skulls
Here's a cool screen shot: Enjoy!