He wasn’t the only one on the Cabin Fever set with personal experience with the subject matter. 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. 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). There is additional dialog among the townspeople, different shots, and it shows the FDA man walking around more testing and the Water supply truck is in view longer.Cabin Fever (2002) was Eli Roth’s directorial debut. Instead of just the cops drinking the contaminated lemonade followed by a country song with the townspeople, the whole entire town shows up and has a cup. Then they pour gasoline and one cop lights a match and cellar goes up in flames followed by more shots of blood and guts on the walls, ceiling, and floor. The human-bonfire scene when they say "We got another one in the basement" immediately goes to a shot of the cellar door opening from the inside, then a bunch of shotguns appear and start shooting like crazy.He yells at the hick as he throws him down there and says "When they get here, tell them I didn't do it!", then slams the door. An additional scene where Rider Strong grabs the long-haired hick after the attack and drags him down to the cellar.In the "R" rated version it cuts away quick and only shows the aftermath from a difficult-to-see angle. The gunshot to Burt's head in the cabin is bloodier.This immediately follows when they hear the dog trying to get Karen in the shed and they shoot a bullet and tell Karen that they will stay outside with her to keep the dog away. A scene of Burt sitting outside guarding the shed with his shot gun.An extended scene of everyone arguing around the fireplace when Burt makes a joke about his burnt marshmallow.When it is discovered that Karen has the disease during an intimate scene, there is an additional scene that follows the "Don't.Leave.Me!" where Burt comes into the room and yells at her about how the truck isn't ready yet, and they have to finish cleaning up the bum's blood.A different angle of Jordan Ladd's character Karen swimming away after the "kiss" scene on the dock with Rider Strong.The scene of Rider Strong going behind the building to wash his hands after Dennis's bite and he pets the stray dogs is removed from the "uncut" version. Then they stop when Burt says he left something back at the store and they have a longer conversation about the map.
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