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The low budget meant that KNB EFX had to get creative with the makeup effects, and likely provided great experience with working on visceral gore on a small scale that would later come in handy when working on The Walking Dead.Īfter premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, Cabin Fever sparked a bidding war from investors, including some that’d previously passed on the film pre-production, and went on to become the highest grossing film released by Lionsgate in 2003. With the core trio of Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman, and Greg Nicotero as special makeup effects supervisors, and Garrett Immel as a key artist, it’s the gooey, grisly practical effects that elevated Cabin Fever into memorable horror that holds up over a decade later. It was through Lynch that Roth landed the expert special makeup effects studio KNB EFX Group to handle the gore, rotting flesh, and free-flowing blood effects for Cabin Fever.
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Perhaps the biggest stroke of luck came from Roth’s previous working relationship with David Lynch, with whom he’d met while working on his NYU thesis film and handled research for a project of Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti. It was only the beginning of the constant financial struggle, often causing halts in production that would last months while Roth and team attempted to scrounge up more funds to continue. When he finally secured investors, the 2001 anthrax attacks featured prominently in the news made one of the film’s investors get cold feet and pull out of the project a mere 3 days into production. It took six years for Roth to find producers willing to take on what would be a sure R-rated bet. The road to getting Cabin Fever made proved much more arduous and long. That roommate, Randy Pearlstein, wound up co-writing the script with Roth to deliver both scares and laughs. He gave an early draft to his college roommate expecting to terrify him, but he was perplexed to hear his roommate laughing instead. Merging this life experience with a formative horror film, The Evil Dead, sparked the idea behind Cabin Fever.
#Cabin fever film skin#
Roth wrote the script at age 22, while still in film school, based on his own gruesome experience with a mysterious skin infection at age 19 that left his skin coming off in bloody chunks when he scratched at it or shaved. The terrifying disease has catastrophic ramifications for the group in every possible way, from the physical to the social and psychological. It also happens to be extremely contagious.
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For the group of five college graduate friends that embarked on a weekend getaway trip to a cabin in the woods, it wasn’t a demonic presence or masked maniac they had to contend with, but one gnarly virus that quickly escalates from minor skin rash to widespread aggressive decay. Three years before Eli Roth helped usher in the subgenre of horror dubbed “torture porn” with Hostel came his gory feature debut, Cabin Fever.
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#Cabin fever film series#
For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans that revel in the carnage, this series is for you. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them.