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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Sustains such a palpable mood of foreboding until the end. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    First-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. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    A disciple of David Lynch's, Roth packs his story with horror, humor, hillbillies and sex. Roth caps his fast-moving story with a joke that's as oddly left-field as it is funny, but truth to tell, it is funny. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A big, dumb, crude, noisy, goose-the-audience bash and proud of it. It's not nearly as unsettling as ''28 Days Later.'' Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Maybe Roth was too busy paying tribute to all his childhood influences to take the necessary steps, but even in this uneasy era of SARS and other airborne horrors, his flesh-eating virus movie never convincingly gets under the skin. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    As a thriller, Cabin Fever falls short, filled with characters so obnoxiously stupid that just watching their skin slowly melt off doesn't seem like enough punishment. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger 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
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It's just a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla 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
    Variety | Dennis 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

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