Welcome back to Behind The Scenes Saturday!!! I was finally able to acquire enough pictures to do a post on one of my favorite horror films, Cabin Fever! Cabin Fever was one of the first horror films that I grew up with and it’ll always have a special place in my heart. So, beware of the drinking water, find yourself a good mechanic, and enjoy these fun pictures and bits of trivia!!

(Trivia provided by IMDb.com)

(Pictures provided by google.com and IMDb.com)

(WARNING: PICTURES CONTAIN GRAPHIC SPECIAL EFFECTS!!!)

(SPOILER ALERT!!!)

• At one point during filming, Rider Strong (Paul) went wandering in the woods while on break. He was covered from head to toe in fake blood and he ended up stumbling upon 35 schoolgirls who were on a field trip. They first started screaming because they saw a man covered in blood. They screamed even louder when they recognized Strong. They ended up chasing him through the woods and when he made it back to the film set, he vowed to never wander off again.
• After filming was done, one of the crew members, Robert Jones took home one of the decapitated body props. On his way home, he was pulled over and held at gunpoint because the officers believed that there was a real corpse in his car.
• The film’s sound mixer, John Neff actually survived a real flesh-eating bacterium. He contracted it in a hospital during minor surgery. It took 13 days of non-stop intensive care medical attention to save him. Neff has stated that the makeup in the film was 100% accurate.

• The film’s director, Eli Roth got the idea for the film when he was working on a horse farm in Iceland. He got a bad skin infection from some rotting hay in the barn. The infection caused his face to break out in sores, bleed, and some of it would peel off as he was shaving.
• During Paul and Marcy’s sex scene, Eli Roth wanted Cerina Vincent to be completely nude. However, Vincent was worried about being typecast after appearing nude in Not Another Teen Movie, so she didn’t want to bare her rear end in the scene. This caused a lot of tension between Vincent and Roth to the point where Vincent told Roth to cast someone else for the role. Luckily, that didn’t happen and they came to a compromise. They would only show one inch of her butt in the movie. Roth took a ruler and literally measured one inch of her crack. Then the sheet was taped to her butt to make sure it didn’t slide off during her movement.
• During a break from filming, Eli Roth caught Matthew Helms (Dennis) practicing Tae Kwon Do. Roth learned that Helms was a black-belt and wanted him to show what he could do in the film. Thus, the famous “Pancakes” scene was created!

• Eli Roth intended to play Deputy Winston himself. However, Giuseppe Andrews really impressed Roth with his audition.
• For the role of Dr. Mambo, Eli Roth really wanted to use the dog from the Patrick Swayze film, Black Dog. Unfortunately, the dog was older, arthritic, and very tired. They tried to shoot some scenes with him, but after a full day of shooting, they only had about a minute of usable footage. They ended up replacing him with a real police attack dog. The dog was so vicious and unpredictable that no actors could appear with him on camera. The crew would even hide behind trucks during his scenes and the cameras had to be operated with a remote control.
• Joey Kern (Jeff) suffered eye injuries multiple times and had to frequently be taken to the hospital. This caused many last minute shooting reschedules and some of the daytime scenes in the cabin had to be shot in the middle of the night, including Marcy’s leg shaving scene and Marcy and Paul’s sex scene.

• Karen’s distress during her final faceless scene was genuine. Moments before filming the scene, Jordan Ladd looked at her gruesome mask in the mirror and she was driven to tears.
• Eli Roth and the film’s producer, Evan Astrowsky named the Sheriff (Richard Fullerton) Frumin, after their beloved N.Y.U. film school professor, Boris Frumin.
• Both of Eli Roth’s brothers had small parts in the film. Gabriel Roth played one of the sheriff’s shooters. Adam J. Roth played the Happy Bald Guy in the bowling alley massacre story.

• In the campfire scene, Marcy tells Paul that trauma bonds people, and Paul corrects her, saying that it bonds the people who go through it. This is actually foreshadowing as Paul and Marcy go through trauma together and bond to the point of sleeping together at the end of the film.
• One of the most iconic scenes is the Pancakes scene. After Dennis became infected and taken to the hospital, if you look closely, you can see the man in the rabbit costume offering Dennis some pancakes.
• In the end of the film, Winston mentioned another person in the basement that the cops needed to take care of. In the Director’s Cut of the film, it’s actually shown that Paul threw one of the dying rednecks in the basement before leaving the cabin.