Cabin Fever(2016)
2016 · Travis Zariwny · 99 min
While staying at a remote cabin for a week-long vacation, a group of five college friends succumb to an infectious, flesh-eating disease.
Horror
4.7486 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Cabin Fever scares
There's a queasy, skin-crawling feeling that builds as the story goes, like something is wrong under the surface long before anyone admits it. The scares come less from jolts and more from watching a group of friends slowly realize their bodies are betraying them, with paranoia and distrust growing as fast as the infection. It leans hard into gross, squirmy body horror rather than mind games or ghosts, with the threat being something disturbingly plausible instead of anything supernatural. Good for viewers who don't mind graphic gore and want horror that feels sticky and physical rather than eerie or quiet.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Cabin Fever rates psychological 3/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 88 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 58 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A relaxed hangout start that slowly curdles into escalating gross-out dread, with a rough, punishing home stretch.
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How scary is Cabin Fever?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Cabin Fever rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be heavy on gore and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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