![]() Next day they try to bring Karen to the truck, but it doesn’t work, so they drop a mattress to then haul her back into the barn, to leave her for good. Later, when good guy goes off to find help (the earlier encounter with a lady gutting a hog kind of only ok), his peeping on a woman getting ready for sex is totally misunderstood by her husband, shooting him off. Not only is the exiling of Karen to the barn, a tale as old as Homer, horrifically shown, with deep pathos, but then their inspection of their bodies for marks of the disease by the light of the fireplace is such a total inversion of the usual cabin doings, it comes off as desperately survivalist too. And, for the next one hour, you are caught up in a run of solid good scenes simply torn to pieces by rampant rupophobia (in so far as the major fear of horror in the 21 st century shifted from eroto- to rupophobia, this might be a key document in that moment). Though it has some trouble settling in, as the kids involved in going up to a country cabin do not seem to entirely mesh, their encounter with an old man at the grocery store turns out to be a misunderstanding (they think he means a gun he has is for shooting black people, when what he meant was he repaired for his clients, who are coming for it), and then there is a campfire scene where the stories and encounters of a bloke with pot do not seem to add up to much either, once Paul, I think, nice guy, trying to break out of the friendzone with Karen, after getting kissed by her on a diving dock, kind of makes a sleep attack on her, putting his hand down her pants, once, then, he comes up from such an intrusion with a handful of bloody goo, the movie entirely settles in (This has been preceded by the key encounter with the man in the woods, who has a disease, and when he threatens them at their front door, they set him afire, totally ruining their weekend, in guilt). While subjected to a very bad remake in 2016, this original Cabin Fever is a whole other kettle of fish, as they say.
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