Cabin Fever

Eli Roth's directorial debut can be a bit dense at times and is full of shameless clichés, but has gained a cult-following over the years for being a halfway decent horror movie made at only a 1.5 million dollar budget. Five college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods (already two clichés in just half a sentence) fall victim to a flesh-eating virus. Idea came from Roth's experience of developing a facial rash from rotten hay during an Iceland trip. Sound mixer John Neff survived the real flesh-eating bacterium, which took 13 days of non-stop intensive care to cure. Despite the real-life inspirations from Roth and Neff who maintain the make-up in the film is 100% accurate, the movie never hooks the viewer into the story's reality.