The review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 62% based on 140 reviews, with an average rating of 5.92/10. The website's consensus reads, "More gory than scary, "Cabin Fever" is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them." On Metacritic, the film earned "ixed or average reviews," with a weighted average of 56 out of 100 based on 31 reviews. Peter Jackson, the director of "The Lord of the Rings" film series, was a notable fan of "Cabin Fever". Having seen the film from a print sent to him, Jackson suspended production on "" twice in his native New Zealand to have it screened to his cast and crew members. He complimented the film as "unrelenting, gruesomely funny bloodbath". Quentin Tarantino also expressed his admiration for "Cabin Fever", calling Roth "the future of horror".