CABIN FEVER (UMD/PSP) DVD

Cabin Fever
Five college buddies retreat to the woods for a little R & R and end up getting a horrific lesson in infectious disease in this low-budget shocker. Cabin Fever stars Rider Strong as the geeky Paul, who hopes to settle in around the campfire with his brash buds Jeff (Joey Kern) and Bert (James DeBello), and make the moves on the nubile-but-shy Karen (Jordan Ladd). Unfortunately, a wayward, forest-dwelling vagrant (Arie Verveen) stumbles into their lives, his skin badly desiccated by a mysterious virus. Fearing for their own lives, the quintet decide to do away with the man, with little success: He stumbles away from the campsite and into a nearby stream, where his disease quickly infects the local water supply. It isn't long before the oblivious co-eds get a taste of the man's illness, and in their desperation, each learns that he or she will stop at nothing to survive. Cabin Fever premiered at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, where it was snapped up by Lions Gate for a fall 2003 release. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

Cast Jordan Ladd as Karen James DeBello as Bert Rider Strong as Paul Joey Kern as Jeff Cerina Vincent as Marcy Arie Verveen as The Hermit Giuseppe Andrews as Deputy Winston Eli Roth as Justin

Crew Joe Adams - Casting Ayo Davis - Casting Jordan Beswick - Casting Corrigan & Johnston Casting - Casting Mitzi Corrigan - Casting Michael Lauer - Co-producer Bruce Cowen - Co-producer Paloma Candelaria - Costume Designer Katrina Migliore - Costume Designer Susan Deweese - First Assistant Director Eli Roth - Director Evan Astrowsky - Second Unit Director Ryan Folsey - Editor Jeffrey D. Hoffman - Executive Producer Susan Jackson - Executive Producer Gwen Pascale - Location Manager Nathan Marr - Composer (Music Score) Angelo Badalamenti - Composer (Music Score) Al Tuskes - Makeup Special Effects Kurtzman - Makeup Special Effects Ben Rittenhouse - Makeup Special Effects Chad Atkinson - Makeup Special Effects Michael McCarty - Makeup Special Effects Harrison Lorenzana - Makeup Special Effects Robert Freitas - Makeup Special Effects Lou Kiss - Makeup Special Effects Beth Hathaway - Makeup Special Effects Nicotero - Makeup Special Effects Berger EFX Group - Makeup Special Effects Scott Patton - Makeup Special Effects Connie Cadwell - Makeup Special Effects Shannon Shea - Makeup Special Effects Angelo Carbone - Production Designer Franco-Giacomo Carbone - Production Designer Franco Giacomo - Production Designer Scott Kevan - Cinematographer Sam Froelich - Producer Lauren Moews - Producer Evan Astrowsky - Producer Eli Roth - Producer Bradley Clouse - Recording Jeffree Bloomer - Sound Mixer Steven M. Weiss - Sound Mixer John Copeman - Stunts Coordinator Spike Silver - Stunts Coordinator Claudia Carey - Unit Production Manager Eli Roth - Screen Story Eli Roth - Screenwriter Randy Pearlstein - Screenwriter Eric Leach - Second Unit Director Of Photography David P. Earle - Sound Effects Editor Aaron D. Weisblatt - Sound Effects Editor William Cawley - Sound Effects Editor Marc E. Meyer, Jr. - Sound Effects Editor Steve Mann - Sound Effects Editor Joseph Tsai - Sound Effects Editor George Folsey, Jr. - Supervising Editor Richie Hooper - Animal Trainer/Wrangler Kim's Critters - Animal Trainer/Wrangler Chuck Hitch - Animal Trainer/Wrangler Anna Maria Cancelli - Makeup Supervisor Jessica Shortkoff - Makeup Supervisor Brian Richards - Music Editor Jennie Blackwood - Post Production Coordinator Lauren Moews - Post Production Supervisor Robbin Wood - Production Coordinator Timothy A. Carpenter - Re-Recording Mixer Bruce Barris - Re-Recording Mixer Lance Brown - Re-Recording Mixer Barry Caldwell - Script Supervisor Maria Berryhill - Second Assistant Director Martin Simon - Special Effects Coordinator Michael Shorr - Special Effects Coordinator Brian T. Best - Supervising Sound Editor Pembrooke Andrews - ADR Editor Pembrooke Andrews - Dialogue Editor Angela Catanzaro - Foley Artist Shelley Smith - Foley Artist Joan Shay - Key Hairstylist Richard Colwell - Lead Scenic Artist Lee Ivy - Scenic Artist Melissa Frye - Scenic Artist William Hicks - Set Decorator Timothy A. Carpenter - Foley Mixer Pacific Title - Title Design

Cabin Fever
The recipient of an inordinate amount of hype after a bidding war made it one of the hot buys at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, Eli Roth's quickie horror comedy may be a notch sicker than the average studio shocker -- and righteously so -- but don't mistake its lame stabs at humor for anything resembling actual wit. Cabin Fever seems less like an homage to Night of the Living Dead and The Evil Dead -- as some critics have suggested -- and more like a facsimile of those films' many rip-offs. Although the laughs don't come from the Scream school of self-aware in-jokes, Roth still indulges in facile ironies. He can't zero in on what his script's horrific flesh-eating virus is supposed to represent: Fever's coed campers are sex-obsessed, but the film isn't about hormonal horror; and though the main characters are full of anti-outsider, anti-rural-bumpkin vitriol, the movie shares their classist, myopic point-of view. Of course, subtext wouldn't matter if the film were genuinely scary, but Roth consistently undercuts the suspense with disingenuous splatter and throwaway ethnic gags that would have seemed dated in 1981. As far as 2003 virus pictures go, there's no question Roth's is better than the big-budget debacle Dreamcatcher, but one need only look to Danny Boyle's shot-on-the-cheap offering 28 Days Later for proof of Cabin Fever's inadequacies. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
 

Lauren Moews: Independent Spirit Awards, Producers Award (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: Additional Features: Full length movie Widescreen version DVD picture quality English and Spanish subtitles "The Rotten Fruit" - director's short Audio commentary with director MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 92 min