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Lacking a Strong Fever

Cabin Fever (2002)

"Cabin Fever" is another one of those horror movies which somehow has become fairly popular amongst young horror fans, not quite reaching cult status but garnering more praise than maybe it's entitled to. It's mostly down to it being an Eli Roth horror, the man who also gave us the less than impressive "Hostel" a few years later and so as is often the case the name makes the movie more than it really is. So you've probably guessed by those opening statements that I was less than impressed with "Cabin Fever" seeing it as a poor homage to classic horror but failing to do the job properly.
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