Cabin Fever

Directed by Eli Roth

Starring

Rider Strong

Jordan Ladd

Lions Gate

Rated R

94 mins

Grade: A-

By Johnny Donaldson

Collegian Staff

“Cabin Fever” is hyped as the latest horror movie to “save” the genre (and now there seems to be some new revolution every other week).

However, it starts with a premise familiar to anyone who has ever seen “The Evil Dead,” “The Blair Witch Project” and “Friday the 13th.” Take a quintet of pretty young things and strand them in the woods, where they are beset by a deadly, marauding enemy intent on their destruction.

The enemy in “Cabin Fever” is not a masked madman, but a flesh-eating virus that besets the five college graduates looking for a weekend of sex and booze in a rural woodland cabin. One night they are confronted by a bloody and bleeding hermit. After beating and inadvertently setting him afire, they begin to develop, one by one, bleeding sores that rapidly cover their bodies.

The director, Eli Roth, is a former prot