Cabin Fever (4 Stars)

If "Evil Dead" wasn't enough to warn teenagers not to spend their free days in a cabin in the woods, they should watch "Cabin Fever". There's not just a danger of zombies and occult powers lurking in remote cabins. There are also new virus strains that break out in the woods. When I was younger I sometimes visited my father-in-law's cabin in the woods outside Lorch. That was in the 1980's before I saw "Evil Dead" for the first time. I know better now.

In "Cabin Fever" five teenagers, probably in their first year of college, drive to a remote cabin in the woods for spring break. A new, highly infectious virus has just broken out. A person's skin rots and he coughs blood. Anyone who touches the person or his blood is also infected. The hillbillies in the nearby town are no help. Rather than taking people to hospital they shoot anyone who's sick. That's one way of containing the virus.

This was Eli Roth's first film as director. There's nothing original about the film, it's just a patchwork of ideas copied from horror films from the 1970's and 1980's. Who cares? A film doesn't need originality to be good. It was a big box office success, earning 20 times its budget. The public loved it, and so did a lot of critics.

There's one thing that's common to all of Eli Roth's films: they're full of good looking young people, both male and female. The eye candy is a good contrast to the horror. At least they look good until they're infected by the virus. After that anything is possible. If you don't mind a moderate amount of gore you'll enjoy this film.

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