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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatEric CamposFilm ThreatEric CamposGory, scary, smart and funny, this is definitely one of the best horror films I’ve seen in years.
- 80Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonRoth never fully exploits the woods around him, and the homes of the locals are far too middle-class, but because so many clichés are discarded amid the flesh rot, even the patented "Night of the Living Dead" coda feels sharp-edged and genuine.
- 75PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyIt plays on your knowledge of/expectations about generic horror movies and then either delivers the goods from an unexpected angle or pulls the rug out from under you.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversFirst-time director Eli Roth turns this cheapie into a greatest-hits of horror. It's a blast of good gory fun that just won't quit.
- 75Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanIf this story has a moral -- though unlike many horror films, it doesn't seem to -- it's that humans are likelier to destroy themselves than help each other.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA big, dumb, crude, noisy, goose-the-audience bash and proud of it. It's not nearly as unsettling as ''28 Days Later.''
- 50Dallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufDallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufHypochondriacs and germ freaks may dig it.
- 40L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe result is something neither scary nor funny.
- 30VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyUncertain 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.
- 25Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneIt's just a watery, undeservedly smug update of the low-budget, kids-stranded-in-the-sticks bloodfests of the 1970s and '80s.