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''[[Cabin Fever (film)|Cabin Fever]]'' (2002) is an American [[Horror]] film directed by [[Eli Roth]] about a group of college students who stay in a secluded cabin on a camping trip and subsequently find themselves falling victim to a flesh-eating virus [[Do Not Explain the Joke|(''Fever'', geddit?)]]. Roth's directorial debut, the story was inspired by a trip to Iceland, during the course of which Roth developed a skin infection.
Inspired by many of his favorite horror films, such as ''[[Evil Dead]]'', ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'', and ''[[The Last House on the Left]]'', Roth wanted to step away from what he saw as the "
''Cabin Fever'' was followed by a sequel [[In Name Only
* [[Body Horror]]: It's a horrifying flesh-eating virus. What do you expect to happen? {{spoiler|(And in the second movie, this is turned up to 11.)}}▼
* [[Cool, Clear Water]]: HAHAHAHAHA no. The virus thrives in the nearby river.▼
* [[Gorn]]: Again, horrifying ''flesh-eating'' virus.▼
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Winston the Party Cop. He [[Idiot Hero|repeatedly survives]] encounters with numerous infected people in both movies, most of the time [[The Gump|not even being aware]] of the true danger of the virus or even caring, as he's preoccupied with ''partying''. At the end of both movies, he unknowingly ruins any hope of containment by accidentally spreading the virus ''even further. Hes avoided getting infected so many times one has to wonder if he's immune to it. ▼
* [[The Plague]]: It is ''strongly'' hinted that the disease will reach pandemic levels.▼
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* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: All most people know about the movie is that it involves a virus, and that there are no pancakes in it.
** The latter being a myth - Look what the notorious bunny rabbit has in his hands.
* [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex]]: Watch Paul's arm when he embraces Marcy at the end of their sex scene. It's level with the top of her hip. So her crotch must've been pumping Paul's belly or chest, not his penis.
▲* [[Body Horror]]: It's a horrifying flesh-eating virus. What do you expect to happen?
* [[Brick Joke]]: "That's fer niggers."
* [[But We Used a Condom]]: Inverted. Paul and Marcy make a point of telling the audience they are doing the deed without a raincoat. Of course, [[Tempting Fate|riding bareback with a deadly disease spreading through the cabin is just asking for trouble.]] Naturally, one of them ({{spoiler|Marcy}}), is already infected and is leaving {{spoiler|Paul}} with a bad case of Cabin Fever.
* [[Candlelit Bath]]: Possibly the worst possible timing {{spoiler|(the virus is waterborne)}} and the worst possible outcome of shaving one's legs {{spoiler|(she winds up shaving off huge bloody patches of skin)}}.
** The actual bathing is not shown, but Marcy tells the group she's going to take a bath after an argument earlier in the movie. Possibly how she initially became infected.
* [[Coitus Ensues]]: Because when everyone around you is
▲* [[Cool, Clear Water]]:
* [[Coming and Going]]:
** Marcy and Paul's [[Coitus Ensues|impulsive romp in the sack]] is framed around a shot of motionless Karen
** Undertones of sex are
*** Karen is discovered to have the deadly illness when Paul is feeling her up - it's implied that her first wound was near her vagina, because that's the area Paul was touching her when he found the blood.
*** Burt's first disease wounds are discovered just above his crotch.
*** Marcy's first disease wounds are the rashes on her back that appear during her passionate sexual encounter with Paul.
*** Paul actually contracts the disease from his [[Too Dumb to Live|unprotected]] [[Death by Sex|sexual encounter with infected Marcy
* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Eli Roth|Roth]] plays the memorable character Justin.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-IaFKsIw4 Ooh, faced!]"
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** She keeps the ponytail for all of two short shots, before it's loose again when she has her [[Candlelit Bath|bath]]! WTF? Is she having a fashion crisis where she can't decide what hairstyle she wants to die in?
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: "...Goodnight, fucker..."
* [[Gainaxing]]: Check out the sideways jiggle that peeks out past Marcy's back while she's rocking Paul's world. It looks like Paul might quite possibly be the first man to ever get slapped in the face by a girl '''while''' he's getting laid.
* [[Great Way to Go]]: When her friends start succumbing to the disease, Marcy decides that what little time she has left would best be spent doing the horizontal mambo.
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* [[Hand or Object Underwear]]: Marcy leaves her jugs hanging free and visible when we first see her washing up after her intense sex scene. But she soon covers them with her arms, while holding a small towel up to her face and keeps them covered for the duration of the scene.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]:
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* [[A House Divided]]: None of the characters actually die from the virus.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|The last shot is of the first shown victim lying in the river and bleeding into the water. It pans over to a truck of bottled water, presumably filled with [[Cool, Clear Water]] (see above) from the river.}}
* [[Irony]]: The brand of beer shown in the scene where Jeff takes all the beer and bails on his friends is the very real "Arrogant Bastard Ale".▼
* [[Immodest Orgasm]]: Jeff at the beginning makes a lot of noise.
* [[Improv]]: In the script, Marcy was supposed to be wearing the red robe while she washed her face after doing the horizontal mambo with Paul. She was going to lower the back of the robe so that we/she could [[Fridge Horror|see the rashes on her back.]] But [[Cerina Vincent]] found this situation awkward and improbable so [[Fan Service|she opted to film the scene topless.]] In the making-of:
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* [[Inescapable Horror]]
▲* [[Irony]]: The brand of beer shown in the scene where Jeff takes all the beer and bails on his friends is the very real "Arrogant Bastard Ale".
* [[Ironic Echo]]:
** Jeff gets into a shouting match with Marcy as he's abandoning her. He tells her is that she "can fucking rot", but it also sounds like he says "...You two fuckers (Marcy and Paul) insisted on helping her (Karen). So you two can fuck ''and'' rot. But not me." This becomes a prophetic speech as Marcy and Paul '''do''' fuck, and then rot. In fact, in Marcy's case this pretty much describes all she does after he leaves. Also, Jeff never gets the flesh-rotting disease, just as he insists. He's the only member of the group who doesn't get sick.
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* [[ISophagus]]: At a party, a guy playing a harmonica gets it shoved down his throat after getting smashed in the face with a guitar. Cue him falling to the ground gasping for air complete with harmonica sounds.
* [[Jerkass]]: Jeff, who runs off and abandons his girlfriend after two of their friends have caught the virus.
* [[Karma Houdini]]:
*
* [[Karmic Twist Ending]]: "I MADE IT! I FUCKING MADE IT!" *gunshot*▼
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* [[Made of Plasticine]]: A young woman is <s>torn apart</s> ''annihilated'' by an Alsatian. Sort of justified here, as the virus in question ''makes'' people [[Made of Plasticine]].
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Paul kills Karen with a shovel to put her out of her misery.
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* [[The Other Marty]]: Avoided. When [[Eli Roth]] pushed for [[Cerina Vincent]] to do the main sex scene completely in the buff, she balked and told him that he'd have to recast the role completely if he wanted the scene to show some substantial ass. Roth reached a compromise with Cerina.
* [[Out with a Bang]]: Marcy justifies a spontaneous affair with Paul by rationalizing that they will both soon be infected and dead from the disease, so why not? By doing it, she actually infects (presumably) healthy Paul with the illness she was carrying.
▲* [[The Plague]]: It is ''strongly'' hinted that the disease will reach pandemic levels.
* [[Psycho Strings]]: A double beat string motif is used during the scene where Marcy infects Paul by having sex with him.
* [[Scare Chord]]: After Paul is wheeled into the hospital, he has a dream of him and Karen before everything went down. There's very nice music, the final scene shows the two of them about to kiss...and then it smash cuts to Karen's flesh-rotted face with a JARRING scare chord playing.
* [[Sequel Hook]]:
* [[Toplessness From the Back]]: Not Marcy's best angle, but Marcy's angle when she's at her best. And damn, Paul, you really did a number on it!
* [[Sex Changes Everything]]: Subtle hints throughout the film show Marcy's relationship with Jeff decaying while she grows closer to Paul. [http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=168718 A scene cut from the cinema version even shows them sleeping together (fully clothed)] on their last night. On their last morning, they do everything together. Then, after Marcy finally gives Paul some face-time with her goodies, he can't get away from her fast enough.
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* [[There Will Be Toilet Paper]]: ...Just not nearly enough of it. Not enough in the ''world''.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]:
** I'd honestly like to take a poll of women to see how many, if when they were shaving their legs, the skin started to come off on the razor with noticeable amounts of blood and scraping noises to [[Squick]] pretty much anybody within the county out, if they would ''continue shaving their legs despite this.''
** Even forgetting about the deadly illness going around, getting hot and heavy bareback with a notoriously promiscuous woman doesn't reek of great judgement.
*** With the deadly disease floating all around causing bleeding wounds and rashes, why would Marcy assume the unusual marks on her back were from the rough sex?
** Quite frankly, the entire cast.
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