Cabin Fever
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: September 12, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
9
Negative:
6
Watch Now
Stream On
Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie adds up to a few good ideas and a lot of bad ones, wandering around in search of an organizing principle. Read full review
30
VarietyDennis Harvey
Uncertain whether to go for straight suspense or gross-out effects, genre in-joking or schlock cinema-of-parodic-excess, Eli Roth's backwoods horror opus Cabin Fever seldom sticks with any one tactic. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
Rather than steep his story in dread, ideas or something, anything, fresh and different, first-time director Eli Roth just pours on the blood, along with some recycled surrealism and plenty of giddy movie allusions. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
This movie may appeal to the youthful, midnight-madness crowd, but there isn't enough in it to bestow it with classic B-movie glory. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It's just a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneEllen Fox
It's just a watery, undeservedly smug update of the low-budget, kids-stranded-in-the-sticks bloodfests of the 1970s and '80s. Read full review
More From This Movie

56 Critic Reviews

5.8 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 77 Project Hail Mary
2 75 Send Help
3 73 Hoppers
4 71 The Sheep Detectives
5 68 Crime 101
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL