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Hurt Locker, The
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Goodbye Solo
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Tulpan
87
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86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
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83
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83
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82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
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82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
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81
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80
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80
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79
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78
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
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71
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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54
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54
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52
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
Gigantic
36
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35
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28
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28
Surveillance
22
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18
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16
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Cabin Fever
Lions Gate Films Inc.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and gore, sexuality, language and brief drug use
Starring
Jordan Ladd,
Rider Strong,
James DeBello,
Cerina Vincent,
Joey Kern,
and
Arie Verveen
Based on skin-curdling tales of the real life "flesh eating virus," Cabin Fever blends the elements of classic horror films of the 70's and 80's with modern day medical terror. (Lions Gate Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Eli Roth (also story)
Randy Pearlstein
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Eli Roth
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 20, 2004
Video: January 20, 2004
Theatrical: September 12, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Film Threat
Eric Campos
Gory, scary, smart and funny, this is definitely one of the best horror films Ive seen in years.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Completely -- and quite cleverly -- contrived, a cascade of stupid mistakes and miscommunication stirred into a visceral stew of gooey blisters and flaying layers of bloody flesh.

80
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
While Cabin Fever takes its horror very seriously, it still shows that it has a sense of humor.

80
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Roth never fully exploits the woods around him, and the homes of the locals are far too middle-class, but because so many clichés are discarded amid the flesh rot, even the patented "Night of the Living Dead" coda feels sharp-edged and genuine.

80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Sustains such a palpable mood of foreboding until the end.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
If this story has a moral -- though unlike many horror films, it doesn't seem to -- it's that humans are likelier to destroy themselves than help each other.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A ferociously entertaining and mean little horror movie that achieves the kind of outrageous vibe best enjoyed in a crowded, noisy theater.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Roth, who has taken more than a few cues from Raimi, David Lynch (whom Roth worked with), and George Romero (Night of the Living Dead), is working in a horror tradition that goes way back -- and he's working it with nasty glee.

75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
It plays on your knowledge of/expectations about generic horror movies and then either delivers the goods from an unexpected angle or pulls the rug out from under you.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
First-time director Eli Roth turns this cheapie into a greatest-hits of horror. It's a blast of good gory fun that just won't quit.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
So this is a first-level, unironic fright film, the sort whose tongue is removed from its cheek, coated in gore, and pointed right at the audience.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Cabin Fever may not be a horror classic, but it's definitely an ideal midnight movie.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
A refreshingly old-fashioned splatter movie.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Ultimately, Cabin Fever isn't going to win any awards for originality - it's too busy twisting the conventions of the genre back in on themselves for that - but it does provide a jarring battery of scares (often depressing ones at that) that make it severed-head-and-shoulders above the spate of recent shockers.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
A disciple of David Lynch's, Roth packs his story with horror, humor, hillbillies and sex. Roth caps his fast-moving story with a joke that's as oddly left-field as it is funny, but truth to tell, it is funny.

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Other than a few witty jokes and a game cast, there's nothing particularly special here.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
While many films of this kind are undermined by amateurish performances, the main cast is solid and some of the supporting performances (many from non-professionals) are small gems.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Roth puts a sardonic spin on the puritanism of the 80s slasher.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A big, dumb, crude, noisy, goose-the-audience bash and proud of it. It's not nearly as unsettling as ''28 Days Later.''

50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Hypochondriacs and germ freaks may dig it.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's so by-the-numbers and clumsy that it will only appeal to that little sect that's managed to wear out their "Evil Dead," "Friday the 13th," "Halloween" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" DVDs.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Doesn't have the gonzo wit of ''Re-Animator'' or ''Evil Dead 2,'' nor is it flat-out terrifying like ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' or even a zombie-come-lately like this year's ''28 Days Later.''

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
As a thriller, Cabin Fever falls short, filled with characters so obnoxiously stupid that just watching their skin slowly melt off doesn't seem like enough punishment.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Maybe Roth was too busy paying tribute to all his childhood influences to take the necessary steps, but even in this uneasy era of SARS and other airborne horrors, his flesh-eating virus movie never convincingly gets under the skin.

40
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The result is something neither scary nor funny.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie adds up to a few good ideas and a lot of bad ones, wandering around in search of an organizing principle.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This movie may appeal to the youthful, midnight-madness crowd, but there isn't enough in it to bestow it with classic B-movie glory.

30
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
Rather than steep his story in dread, ideas or something, anything, fresh and different, first-time director Eli Roth just pours on the blood, along with some recycled surrealism and plenty of giddy movie allusions.

30
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Uncertain whether to go for straight suspense or gross-out effects, genre in-joking or schlock cinema-of-parodic-excess, Eli Roth's backwoods horror opus Cabin Fever seldom sticks with any one tactic.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's just a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction.

25
Chicago Tribune
Ellen Fox
It's just a watery, undeservedly smug update of the low-budget, kids-stranded-in-the-sticks bloodfests of the 1970s and '80s.


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