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=== ''Cabin Fever'' contains examples of: ===

** 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.

** Another example happens earlier on where Paul is fondling Karen. He soon finds out that her legs are bleeding and infected, and he was actually touching one of the sores.

* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: Though not as bad as many horror examples.

* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: You just never should in general. Everything will want to eat you, including the bacteria.

** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303816/trivia Happened quite literally during filming.] Actor Rider Strong went wandering in the woods during filming. He stumbled upon a group of schoolgirls on a field trip who immediately recognized him and chased him all the way back to the film site.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Marcy starts the third day with her hair tied back in a ponytail - the only time thus far she hasn't worn it loose. Then, when her boyfriend abandons her, she unties it apparently because she's depressed. She gets a brief monologue about how death is coming to get them, yadda, yadda... and then it's under the bedcovers with [[The Hero]] for some wild, [[Out With a Bang|"we're gonna die anyway" sex]]. The next time we see her, 2 minute later, she inexplicably has her ponytail back. Apparently, the only reason her hair was let down was so we could [[Modest Orgasm|see it swishing]] while she did naked pushups.

** 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?

* [[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.

* [[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.

** Dennis randomly shouting "Pancakes!" when he bites Bert's hand and gets infected. Later, when he's being treated in hospital, the mascot bunny is actually feeding him pancakes.

* [[Jerkass]]: Jeff, who runs off and abandons his girlfriend after two of their friends have caught the virus.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Jeff, the jerkiest of jerk-faces in the entire movie, quickly abandons everyone and only looks out for himself, even in a rare moment that he actually COULD make a difference. He's the only one that survives. {{spoiler|Well, until the mob clearing out the infected gun him down when they don't realize he's clean.}}

* [[Billing Displacement]]/{{spoiler|[[Dead Star Walking]]: Rider Strong doesn't make it past the opening credits. He's still the top billed.}}

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: A bunch of people at the prom are drinking punch made primarily from waterborne necrotizing fasciitis, so while it's ''implausible'' that they all start projectile vomiting blood at the halfway mark, it's at least ''justified''.

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: The guy driving the truck of bottled water into town, who appears to have a stoma, starts choking while eating at a diner. Borderline dramatic. He tears his shirt open to reveal much of his chest and side have been eaten away by the virus. It's horrifying. He continues choking as a waitress attempts to perform an exorcism on him, and suddenly starts spraying the place with blood squirting out of his stoma. Uh...

* [[Death By Sex]]: The wisecracking best friend is treated to some oral sex. {{spoiler|The girl who administers it has a cold sore...which turns out to be the beginning stages of the disease. The disease spreads to aforementioned friend in a seriously disturbing way.)}}

* [[Fingore]]: The wisecracking best friend sees one of his fingernails coming loose as he is getting ready for prom. He sticks it back in with superglue.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: The punch a girl mixes up with the contaminated water looks unusually like blood...and the "contamination" depicted in the animated titles sequence.

* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: The ending animation shows a trucker drinking Down Home Spring Water. He pees in the bottle and throws it at some dumb kids in a convertible. {{spoiler|The kids are heading to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.}}

* [[Jerkass]]: Marc, who not only bashes an infected student's head in, but bashes Cassie in the head with a hammer and attempts to kill John.

* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: After Our Intrepid Protagonist gets some infected blood on his hand, he tries to forestall his own infection by cutting off said hand with a chop saw, with Cassie's help. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}

* [[Made of Plasticine]]: At the beginning, Paul is in the late stages of the virus and tries to escape the woods, leaving bits of himself behind on the trees and underbrush. He runs out onto the road, is hit by a school bus, and ''explodes'' in a splash of red.

* [[Prom Baby]]: Happens very gruesomely, wherein a random promgoer has an '''extremely''' messy birth in the school restroom after contracting the virus. There is blood ''everywhere'', including a rather conspicuous trail leading to the trashcan, suggesting a stillbirth. [[Take Our Word for It|The actual condition of the newborn is left as an exercise for the viewer.]]

* [[Senseless Phagia]]: To their credit, the promgoers do remark that the punch tastes like piss...

* [[The Stinger]]: Daryl and Dane (the only two characters who are clearly not infected) are seen watching a movie at home, and one of them says "Prom blows!"

* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: Played with. Paul is revealed to be still alive (albeit falling apart) at the beginning, only to get splashed across the front of a school bus five minutes in.

* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: Let's just pretend that it's possible for the quirky female love interest to change her mind about going to prom, finding tickets, picking out and ordering a really nice prom dress, and getting her hair styled in time at the last second.

** As Phelous pointed out, it seems pretty weird that Liz would treat Alex with disdain and even mock him for asking her to go to the prom with him...when ten seconds earlier she was quite willing to perform oral sex on him.