i have hear some bad thing about cabin fever almost as much a i hear the cultish hype . a it turn out and the first film from the new impresario eli roth and it just a so so effort with the iq point drop a the film progress . there be bad movie out there and and surely more gory one ( while i be not sure how the hype meter get so high on the blood count for hostel and there be a good amount for genre fan here ) . the premise isn not necessarily bad either though represent kid go to a cabin for a week of partying and only to come across a very sick man and cover in blood and whom in a panic they set on fire . he wind up dead in the water that feed the reservoir and and soon the character all succumb to the flesh eating virus one way or another . the character and either the lead college kid ( include rider strong a the hero and james dibello a the goofy side bar ) or the supporting village folk be archetypal to the point of inertia and if not painfully so . a they meet their fate and the townspeople get pretty weird and and it just seem to be non sensibly thrown together without the many laugh while pancake kid come out of nowhere and and maybe might have be funnier in another movie or by itself and but in the context of the rest of the movie and it just doesn not work . there also a young police character who be even dumber and less convince than the others . and the family that go after dibello follow an incident have some possibility that aren not realize . but all the while and roth pump up his script with common sense out the window and sudden scare and fright with people hack up blood on one another and a killer dog ramble around . which isn not all for not either . now and unlike less troma horror movie or even less one of the 70 or 80 to which i be sure roth be a die hard fan he doesn not make it unwatchable . it also smart to not have any explanation for where the virus come from . but unlike those film too and he also doesn not really have a fine idea of what make for great campy horror time . his film try for that and of course and and only once or twice do he make it a goofy and bloody time ( i do like the random bunny strong see while on the gurney ) . it not even very poorly shoot a lot of the time ( albeit with it own contrived style choice ala red tint on the lens or that story with the bowling alley worker ) . it simply contain a lot of illogical scenario and choice make ( shave your leg with a deadly virus and uh huh ) and and it aim for fairly typical ground . if that your cup of tea and more power to you . but at the end i find it to be actually un exceptional genre territory that doesn not offend audience sensibility ala saw and but doesn not swing for the fence either a a clever b movie . roth also have the temerity to end the movie on a true note of what the hell a the santa claus beard convenience store clerk from earlier in the film serve a bunch of black people . it could work if he follow up on it with something well and or if he drop it altogether . same could be say for a lot of the movie . c .