Cross-genre films are, for the most part, hit-or-miss.  For every "From Dusk til Dawn" there's always a "Resident Evil."  "Cabin Fever" crosses two genres that never really came together (unless you count endless mediocre teen slasher flicks): sex comedy and balls to the wall gore.

While watching "Cabin Fever," the only thing I could possibly compare this to in recent memory is "House of 1,000 Corpses-" only this one is much more coherent (and not to mention loads of more gore).  This is an uncomfortable movie, but in a good under your skin way.

Let's face it, any version of a flesh eating virus is scary- even if it is covered on an hour long episode of "The X-Files."  Any disease that can peel your skin off, layer by individually painful layer, is quite eerie in my book.  Eli Roth manages to deliver a solid horror film, which packs with it a few jokes here (mostly sexual), a few homages there ("Evil Dead," anyone?), and a whole mess of fake blood (the shaving sequence is certainly the most skin-crawling scene of the batch).

The acting, for the most part, is pretty solid.  It's nice to see Rider Strong get a gig, and hopefully, if this film is well-recieved enough, he may get a starring role in another picture- he certainly deserves it.

Roth deserves some points as well- anyone who can take a half-hour idea like the flesh eating virus, and stretch it out into an hour and a half deserves to be commended.  I would love to see some future projects from this gifted young filmmaker.

Of course, there's always that bad part- the part where things don;t necessarily fall apart, but rather crack aroudn the edges.  I'm talking about the ending- the film goes from horror to comedy-horror to pretty much straight out comedy.  And, while some of it sticks, not all of it does.  Some is just groan-worthy. 

I reccomend "Cabin Fever" strictly for being able to take old horror movie cliches and give them a bit of a spin.

*** out of ****

finnally, rider strong is back in acting. the last time most people saw him was in boy meets world

When I started watching this I thought "alright a hardcore horror movie" and I was taking it pretty seriouslly until.....well two things stand out in my mind. First being when Cerina Vincent was walking towards the house and thus ensuing a shot taken right out of texas chainshaw massicure! Not that I didnt love the homage, but it just told me this movie is not meant to be taken seriously. Then came dennis......LoL Dennis, the most unexpected and random thing I've ever seen is when he screams pancakes and goes into slow mo karate kid mode! That alone is enough to see this! But all in all, not a masterpiece, but still awesome!  three grins!

PANCAKES!!!!

This movie annoyed me so much! I thought that this was going to be some hardcore 28 Days Later-esque horror movie. And I loved 28 Days Later! I was all set and ready to be scared....

Boy, was I not happy to see Dennis.

28 Days Later didn't have any Dennis! What was this? Some kind of joke? And then it hit me... Yes. That's exactly what this was! "Some kind of joke." It was a comedy-horror type thing. This was not what I had come to see and I wanted to be pissed, I really did... but I couldn't stop laughing! That's what annoyed me! I wanted to hate it, I didn't want to laugh, but... but.... but pancakes? I mean, come on.

I guess I would've been a little bit more upset if I didn't get to see it for free (cause I work at a movie theater) and I had to pay $9.00 to be tricked like that.

28 Days Later is the gayest movie i have ever seen. Cabin Fever was okay movie. And Rider Strong is set to star in Cabin Fever 2 coming out late 2004.

Zondaguy, not to bash you, but where are you getting this information from (I.e.: Rider Strong in "Cabin Fever 2" [despite the fact of his death], Hooper re-making "TCM 2" [last I heard, he wanted to re-make the original as well or just make a fifth part], and a third "Fast and the Furious" [that supposed title is ridiculous])?

I'm not a big fan of blindingly gory movies so this wasn't the movie for me .. and I knew that in the first five minutes when a guy discovers his dog is dead - and not from old age ... but it wasn't bad.