#Cabin fever 2002 movie#
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#Cabin fever 2002 skin#

Roth likened his experiencing of shaving with a skin infection akin to “peeling a banana.” One of the most gruesome and upsetting scenes in Cabin Fever is directly based on this experience, as his skin “peeled off” when he shaved. When he scratched, “chunks of flesh” fell off. While working on a horse farm, he came into contact with rotted hay and contracted an infection that caused him to break out in sores. The movie’s inspiration came from an experience he had while traveling in Iceland when he was 19. Roth infused the film with some personal history. He actually ran into a group of girls on a school field trip who thought they were seeing a recently murdered Shawn Hunter! When they realized it was Rider Strong filming a movie, they chased him back to set. Taking a break between scenes, Rider Strong (most famous for playing Shawn Hunter in Boy Meets World) went for a walk in the woods despite being covered in fake blood. As a flesh-eating virus begins to spread, relationships splinter and the group erupts in chaos.įilming took place at a cabin on a 3,200-acre Boy Scout camp in North Carolina where the Scout’s “Mountain Men” program used to be held. While the expected route for the film to take is that some sort of danger befalls the group from the outside, the actual terror comes from the water they drink.

#Cabin fever 2002 movie#

The movie is about five college friends: Jeff (Joey Kern), Marcy (Cerina Vincent), Paul (Rider Strong), Karen (Jordan Ladd), and Bert (James DeBello), who go to a dilapidated cabin in the woods to celebrate their spring break. As a guest on Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Rider Strong explained that Cabin Fever is about the horror of people turning on each other. He also hosts the series Eli Roth’s History of Horror. Roth went on to write and direct Hostel (2005), The Green Inferno (2013), and Knock Knock (2015), among other films. He wrote the film with his former NYU roommate, Randy Pearlstein, while he was working as a production assistant for the film Howard Stern’s Private Parts (1997). Cabin Fever (2002) was Eli Roth’s directorial debut.