History Film / CabinFever

* [[IAteWhat I Drank What?]]: Turned up to teabagging levels here. The punch that everyone is drinking at the prom is not only made with the contaminated bottled water, but it was also pissed in by an infected custodian. ([[BlatantLies It's complicated]]).

* CruelTwistEnding: "I MADE IT! I FUCKING MADE IT!" *gunshot*

* SocietyMarchesOn: The remake is largely the same as the original, the most obvious change being that the slurs and gay jokes were cut out.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Karen. [[spoiler: In advanced stages of the disease and gnawed on by a dog, she pleads for Paul to out her out of her misery. He cannot get the gun to fire, so he takes a shovel and attempts to decapitate her. He doesn't do it hard enough so she urges him to try again. He can't go through with it, so he douses her in gasoline and lights the shed on fire.]] To put it lightly, it was...not the MercyKill she wanted.

** [[spoiler: Rather than trying to kill Paul in the woods and later dumping him in the lake after he makes it to the hospital]], Deputy Winslow is convinced to let Paul go and flee into the woods.

* JerkAss: Marc, who not only bashes an infected student's head in but bashes Cassie in the head with a hammer and attempts to kill John.

* BaitAndSwitch: Done brilliantly. The store owner is asked what the rifle behind the counter is for, and he replies "That's fer niggers." Later, a group of black people walk into the store and he quickly grabs it [[spoiler:and politely hands it to them, because they dropped it off for repairs.]]

* DeadlyBath: The actual bathing is not shown, but Marcy tells the group she's going to take a bath after an argument earlier in the movie. Possibly how she initially became infected ([[spoiler: the virus is waterborne)]]).

** [[spoiler:Karen]] is ironically infected by [[spoiler:the man who loves her, Paul,]] who does so attempting to comfort her, not realizing that [[spoiler:the glass of water he's offering her]] contains the disease.
** [[spoiler:Bert]] seals his own fate by forgetting about his bet with Jeff and [[spoiler: drinking a sip of water]].
** [[spoiler:Paul's]] infection with the deadly disease is doubly ironic. Once because [[spoiler:Marcy explicitly assured him she was healthy while they were having unprotected sex]], while in reality she was '''un'''healthy and was passing her deadly sickness over to him. And secondly because [[spoiler: having unprotected sex with her in the first place]] went directly against his own advice to Marcy and Jeff earlier in the movie to [[spoiler:have'' 'safe sex' ''.]]
** [[spoiler:Jeff's]] death is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] DeathByIrony. After successfully evading the virus for two days, he stands upon the cabin porch, proudly proclaiming: "I fucking made it!", [[spoiler: only to be immediately gunned down by a squad of trigger-happy sherrif's deputies.]]
** [[spoiler:Paul's]] depicted ending is ironic, in that he tried to warn Winston that [[spoiler: the virus was in the water supply]], only for Winston to misinterpret his utterances of, "Water..." as pleas for some water to drink, subsequently leading to Winston [[spoiler: abandoning Paul by a stream]], under the strange belief that he was giving [[spoiler:Paul]] what he wanted.
*** Especially ironic in that [[spoiler:Paul's]] efforts to warn others of the danger ultimately led to him [[spoiler:contaminating the water supply of the whole community]].

** The director's cut version includes an extra scene that shows how everybody spends their last night in the cabin. Marcy and Paul are shown sleeping in the same bed, both fully clothed, due to how Marcy's relationship with Jeff has deteriorated throughout the night. This of course foreshadows Marcy and Paul [[CoitusEnsues "sleeping together" in the more biblical sense.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: After spending most of the movie being an incorrigible prick, [[spoiler: Bert sacrifices himself allowing Paul to kill the evil townsfolk.]]

** [[spoiler: Paul and Marcy's sex scene]] draws on the first two ''Film/{{Species}}'' movies in numerous ways:
*** The scene begins with [[spoiler: Marcy]] forcefully hurling [[spoiler: Paul]] down on to the bed, just like Creator/NatashaHenstridge did to Creator/AlfredMolina.

* InstantSeduction: Marcy somehow manages to turn a maudlin speech about how hopeless their situation is, and a pensive gaze into [[CoitusEnsues High Octane Nookie Fuel]]. No sooner has she finished telling Paul how doomed they both are, then the film cuts to a shot of them both naked, with Marcy throwing incredulous Paul down on the bed.

** [[spoiler:Paul's]] infection is an ironic echo of [[spoiler:Karen's]]. Both come about as a consequence of him attempting to give moral support to one of his overwrought female friends, and both occur accidentally through what was intended to be a'' 'loving' ''gesture ([[spoiler:Paul offering Karen a drink of water]] to calm her, and [[spoiler: Paul and Marcy making love.]])

* RevealShot: When a tense discussion breaks up, the camera pans on to the table to reveal a cup of tea where [[spoiler:Marcy]] had been sitting, indicating that she had drunk some of the infected water during the meeting.

* DeathBySex: The wisecracking best friend is treated to some oral sex. [[spoiler: The girl who administers it has a cold sore...which turns out to be the beginning stages of the disease. The disease spreads to aforementioned friend in a seriously disturbing way.)]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The punch a girl mixes up with the contaminated water looks unusually like blood...and the contamination depicted in the animated titles sequence.

* OhCrap: Winston when he realizes that the bottled-water company is delivering the infected bottled-waters after witnessing an incident at a restaurant.

* TwoPersonPoolParty: Which leads to much grossness when the virus is waterborne.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Let's just pretend that it's possible for the quirky female love interest to change her mind about going to prom, finding tickets, picking out and ordering a really nice prom dress, and getting her hair styled in time at the last second.

* FanDisservice: Hot woman in a bikini? Awesome. Formerly-hot woman in a bikini, suffering the late stages of a flesh-eating virus that causes her skin to slough off if you pull on her arms too hard? Not so much.

* KarmaHoudini: Winston the Party Cop. He [[IdiotHero repeatedly survives]] encounters with numerous infected people in the first two movies, most of the time not even being aware of the true danger of the virus or even caring, as he's preoccupied with ''partying''. At the end of both movies, he unknowingly ruins any hope of containment by accidentally spreading the virus ''even further''. He's avoided getting infected so many times that it's quite likely he must have some sort of natural immunity to it.

*** Paul actually contracts the disease from his [[TooDumbToLive unprotected]] [[DeathBySex sexual encounter with infected Marcy.]] (See DeathBySex below.) In addition, his first definite sign of being sick are small wounds he finds down near his crotch. Of course, this doesn't mean it's an STD going around, but Getting On Down with somebody who's dying from a waterborne infection is not really the best idea...

-> Which is an uncannily meta set of lyrics, considering that the main characters first discover the prospect of death bearing down on them when they look over Karen (played by '''Jordan''' Ladd) and see sickly wounds upon her leg.

** When Paul gets bitten by Dennis, he tells Dennis' dad there should be a warning sign about the kid. Guess what's there in the final scene?

* ButWeUsedACondom: Inverted. Paul and Marcy make a point of telling the audience they are doing the deed without a raincoat. Of course, [[TemptingFate riding bareback with a deadly disease spreading through the cabin is just asking for trouble.]] [[spoiler:Obviously, Marcy]] is already infected and is leaving [[spoiler:poor Paul]] with a bad case of Cabin Fever.

*** Karen is discovered to have the deadly illness when Paul is feeling her up - it's implied that her first wound was near her vagina, because that's the area Paul was touching her when he found the blood.

* DeadlyBath: The actual bathing is not shown, but Marcy tells the group she's going to take a bath after an argument earlier in the movie. Possibly how she initially became infected ([[spoiler:the virus is waterborne)]]).

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Though not as bad as many horror examples..

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:None of the four main characters live to warn somebody. The kids buying and selling lemonade made with contaminated water are infected with the virus and will most likely infect the rest of the townspeople, and the water is bottled and shipped to another part of the country.]]
* DroneOfDread: A sickly whine is used frequently. Mostly to overlay shots of the infected water, or to indicate the moment a character becomes infected, or realizes they are infected (or both, in one case).
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Paul feels Karen up whilst she's in a sickness-induced sleep, going as far as [[spoiler:fingering her. Somewhat subverted as it's not actually her vagina, and he comes away with blood-covered fingers.]]

* EthicalSlut: Though she's mostly known as the film's MsFanservice, Marcy was also one of the only two people who cared enough to comfort Karen and clean her up after she started vomiting blood. She also seemed to be the most remorseful of the group about locking Karen in the shed as she brought Karen dinner soon afterwards.

** Marcy's quote: "...All you want to do is grab the person next to you and fuck the shit out of them because you know you're going to be dead soon anyway." This turns out to be an eerily accurate description of her remaining lifespan. Pretty much all she does after that speech is grab the guy sitting next to her, have sex with him, and then die shortly afterwards.

** Marcy virtually shuts down completely after Jeff abandons her. Before she is assertive, selfless and driven. But afterwards all she does is have one last screw, resign herself to death and have a bath.
** Paul grows increasingly out of control after seeing [[spoiler:Marcy's mangled remains]]. Supposedly the hero of the film, he ends up [[spoiler: going on a killing spree, killing several people including his own love interest.]]

*** The scene begins with [[spoiler:Marcy]] forcefully hurling [[spoiler:Paul]] down on to the bed, just like Creator/NatashaHenstridge did to Creator/AlfredMolina.

*** The final part of the scene resembles the first sex scene in ''Film/SpeciesII'', where Creator/JustinLazard's second lover squeezes his back while they are having sex, only to discover he's grown alien tenticles. However, while the horror element is made evidant to the woman in Species II, in this movie the disturbing revelation that [[spoiler: Marcy has the disease]] is only revealed to the audience.

* {{iSophagus}}: At a party, a guy playing a harmonica gets it shoved down his throat after getting smashed in the face with a guitar. Cue him falling to the ground gasping for air complete with harmonica sounds.

* KarmaHoudini: Jeff, the jerkiest of jerk-faces in the entire movie, quickly abandons everyone and only looks out for himself, even in a rare moment that he actually COULD make a difference. He's the only one that survives. [[spoiler:Well, until the mob clearing out the infected gun him down when they don't realize he's clean.]]

* MusicalSpoiler: The sinister background music over [[spoiler:Marcy and Paul]]'s sex scene make it pretty clear that something dark is happening here ([[spoiler:namely, Paul catching the disease from Marcy]]), as if the [[AsYouKnow expository statement about their lack of condoms]] wasn't clear enough.

** Marcy's sarcastic remark to the men, the morning after they accidentally killed the sick hobo to stop him stealing their car.

* NotStayingForBreakfast: Despite Marcy's pleas for him to stay in the cabin, Paul is determined to wander off after their sexual ride, on a seemingly pointless mission. Of course, seeing as he suspected her of [[DeathBySex giving him the deadly disease]], you can understand why he was so eager to get away from her. Also see SexChangesEverything.
** If there is any doubt about his true motive for leaving being the post-coital awkwardness (as opposed to a genuine attempt to save his friends), take a look at the direction Jeff ran off in, and then take a look at the direction Paul returns from after he hears [[spoiler:Marcy's death screams]]. He went ''searching'' for Jeff in the completely opposite direction to where he last saw Jeff running!

** The ending [[spoiler:where the only remaining uninfected survivor is shot in the head by the arriving posse]] closely mirrors that of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.

*** The scene is set up much much the same way as Creator/AlfredMolina's sex scene with Creator/NatashaHenstridge. The guy walks in to the bedroom where the woman is waiting. The [[WomanScorned woman is upset that]] [[StalkerWithACrush things have turned out poorly with]] [[BastardBoyfriend her real romantic interest]]. So via some unlikely dialogue, [[CoitusEnsues she decides impulsively to bed the nearest alternative available]].

*** The scene that immediately follows the actual sex, where [[spoiler: Marcy]] washes up in the bathroom, is very similar to the scene in Film/SpeciesII where one of Creator/JustinLazard's lovers does likewise immediately after having sex. In both scenes the women discover symptoms that give them grave concerns for their health. Oh, and the character in Species II? Her name is [[spoiler: Marcy]]![[note]]Again, the similarities would've been even more apparrent if the scene had been filmed to Creator/EliRoth's design. Roth intended Creator/CerinaVincent to be wearing a robe in this scene, just like the [[spoiler: Marcy]] in Species II.[[/note]]

* BlatantLies: The bus driver claims he didn't see Paul, but Paul was standing in broad daylight in the middle of the empty road for a good 15 seconds. In fact the bus had to go over the yellow divider in order to hit him.

* BloodyHilarious: The guy driving the truck of bottled water into town, who appears to have a stoma, starts choking while eating at a diner. Borderline dramatic. He tears his shirt open to reveal much of his chest and side have been eaten away by the virus. It's horrifying. He continues choking as a waitress attempts to perform an exorcism on him, and suddenly starts spraying the place with blood squirting out of his stoma. Uh...
** The projectile blood vomiting prom scene. At least two of the shots are straight up visual gags.

* DeathBySex: The wisecracking best friend is treated to some oral sex. [[spoiler:The girl who administers it has a cold sore...which turns out to be the beginning stages of the disease. The disease spreads to aforementioned friend in a seriously disturbing way.)]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Only one student survives the sudden quarantine of her high school as the virus continues to spread across the nation with no chance of stopping.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When faceless government goons come in and start shooting everyone, you're supposed to cheer for the plucky survivors who escape, right? Except [[spoiler:by surviving and escaping, they've essentially doomed the rest of the world to ThePlague]].

** Most prom dresses are bought weeks or months in advance and her boyfriend had just dumped her so she had probably been planning to go before. Also not every Prom requires tickets, in fact where I live that's the exception not the rule. Even ones that do, the tickets can often be bought at the doors as you arrive.

--> '''Phelous''': So he got used...''by getting his cock sucked''? Seems a little backwards.

** Marcy's seduction of Paul is less forceful, and more vulnerable, while she really didn't seem to think that she might have been infected and when she notices the marks on her back, she seems more subdued, and frightened, while not trying to blame it on Paul. Paul himself also seems to have really been looking for Jeff, and not just grabbing a pretext to avoid Marcy afterwards.
** [[spoiler:Rather than trying to kill Paul in the woods and later dumping him in the lake after he makes it to the hospital]], Deputy Winslow is convinced to let Paul go and flee into the woods.
* BoleroEffect: In this version, Paul and Marcy's ''"It's like being on a plane..."'' scene is backed by sombre strings that reflects the bleakness of their situation. Drums sound as they tentatively kiss for the first time and as their activity becomes more and more passionate, the soundtrack becomes increasingly more powerful; quickly eclipsing it's slow beginnings with a much livelier tempo. By the time Marcy and Paul are naked and making love wildly, it has become a commanding tribute to their passion.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Marcy's seduction of Paul is less forceful, and more vulnerable, while she really didn't seem to think that she might have been infected and when she notices the marks on her back, she seems more subdued, and frightened, while not trying to blame it on Paul. Paul himself also seems to have really been looking for Jeff, and not just grabbing a pretext to avoid Marcy afterwards.

** Marcy has sex with Paul because she's upset that Jeff bailed on all of them. Paul is concerned that they aren't using a condom, but Marcy claims that she hasn't caught the virus yet. Afterward, Paul douses his genitals with Listerine to be sure - too late! Turns out she was wrong, as [[FridgeHorror we see her with handprint rashes on her back where he touched her immediately after they finish.]]

* RuleOfSexy: Many reviewers, both pro and amateur, have noted how improbable and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment out-of-place]] Paul and Marcy's sudden tryst seemed. Likely, it was written in because [[Creator/EliRoth Roth]] wanted his debut to return to the staples of classic horror (one of which being gratuitous nudity).

* WhamLine: Marcy delivers this when her lament over her hopeless situation [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment suddenly turns into a very assertive come-on to the guy beside her.]]

* TwoPersonPoolParty: ThePlague is waterborne. {{Squick}} happens.

* Pretty much all the tropes that occur in the original.

* [[CoversAlwaysLie Posters Always Lie]]/[[TheOtherMarty The Other Marcy]]: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4128892160/tt3832096?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_pos_13 One of the marketing posters]] is a stylized depiction of the sex scene between Marcy and Paul (it shows a [[ToplessnessFromTheBack naked woman, seen from behind]] with [[DestructoNookie another person's hands scratching bloody wounds into her back,]] which is exactly what happens during the sex scene). But the model in the poster is clearly not Nadine Crocker (the actress who plays Marcy in the movie), because Nadine/Marcy has numerous tattoos all over her body, whereas the woman in the poster's skin is clean (apart from the wounds, of course).

** When Burt gets bitten by Dennis, he tells Dennis' dad there should be a warning sign about the kid. Guess what's there in the final scene?

* OhCrap!: Winston when he realizes that the bottled-water company is delivering the infected bottled-waters after witnessing an incident at a restaurant.

* DeathBySex: Marcy has sex with Paul because she's upset that Jeff bailed on all of them. Paul is concerned that they aren't using a condom, but Marcy claims that she hasn't caught the virus yet. Afterward, Paul douses his genitals with Listerine to be sure - too late! Turns out she was wrong, as [[FridgeHorror we see her with handprint rashes on her back where he touched her immediately after they finish.]]

* EthicalSlut: Though BestKnownForTheFanservice, Marcy was also one of the only two people who cared enough to comfort Karen and clean her up after she started vomiting blood. She also seemed to be the most remorseful of the group about locking Karen in the shed as she brought Karen dinner soon afterwards.