History Film / CabinFever

* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:The ravenous dog that kills Marcy rips her to pieces.]]

* 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.]]

* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:Marcy]] is chased and eaten by a rabid dog.

** Also, in one of the scenes in which she's taking a bath. [[FanDisservice It's lost a lot of its appeal by this point...]]

* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:Marcy gets ripped to pieces by a dog.]]

** At the end of the movie, Paul gets picked up by none other than Winston, who mistakes his croaked warning of "Water," for a request to ''see'' some and dumps him in a creek instead of driving him to a hospital like he was instructed. After the police unceremoniously gun [[spoiler:Jeff]] down, they go on to do absolutely nothing to stop a couple of kids from getting water from ''that very same creek Paul is in'' to make lemonade with... Is everyone in town mentally deficient in some way?!

** Ironic since the next person Dennis attacks, Bert, ''doesn't'' sit next to him and still gets bitten.

* When Paul shows up at the general store, Dennis is sitting on a swinging bench, minding his own business, and Paul, not knowing the kid is nuts, sits beside him. Dennis responds by biting his hand without warning or provocation. Paul rightly complains about the unwarranted attack and points out that Dennis is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Rather than confine or restrain Dennis in any way, the townsfolk put a sign on the bench saying, "Do not sit next to Dennis." Later on, Bert parks '''across the street''' because the cabin has no phone or radio, hoping he can get the townsfolk to contact the big city to get himself and his fellow tourists some help to deal with the disease. Dennis yells "PANCAKES!" before running over to Bert and biting his hand, infecting himself. Dennis' father then acts as if Bert attacked Dennis and essentially tells him, "This is all your fault, we're going to kill you."

** At the end of the movie, Paul gets picked up by none other than Winston, who mistakes his croaked warning of "Water," for a request to ''see'' some and dumps him in a creek instead of driving him to a hospital like he was instructed. They go on to do absolutely nothing to stop a couple of kids from getting water from that very same creek to make lemonade with... Is everyone in town mentally deficient in some way?!

* 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 walks into the store and he quickly grabs it [[spoiler: and politely hands it to them because they dropped it off for repairs.]]

*** Ironic since Dennis is now infected. "Do not sit next to Dennis", indeed.

* 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.
* CoolOldGuy: Old Man Cadwell who seems racist [[spoiler: but is actually PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy.]]

*** Burt's first disease wounds are discovered just above his crotch.

* CruelTwistEnding: "I MADE IT! I FUCKING MADE IT!" *gunshot* [[spoiler: Given what an ass he was, some don't think Jeff's sudden death was all that tragic]].

** [[spoiler: Karen]] is ironically infected by [[spoiler: the man who loves her, Paul,]] who does so while 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 sheriff'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]].
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Subverted with the unexpected LoveTriangle that develops between Karen, Paul, and Marcy late in the movie. Both ladies die within minutes of one another, leaving Paul (who ultimately dies himself) with no hope of ending up with either one of them.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: Marcy]] is chased and eaten by a rabid dog.

** During the campfire scene, Marcy tells Paul, "Trauma bonds people" and Paul corrects her, "It bonds the people '''who go through it'''." Throughout the remainder of the movie, Marcy and Paul go through trauma together to the point they end up having sex.

* When Paul shows up at the general store, Dennis is sitting on a swinging bench, minding his own business, and Paul, not knowing the kid is nuts, sits beside him. Dennis responds by biting his hand without warning or provocation. Paul rightly complains about the unwarranted attack and points out that Dennis is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Rather than confine or restrain Dennis in any way, the townsfolk put a sign on the bench saying, "Do not sit next to Dennis." Later on, Bert parks '''across the street''' because the cabin has no phone or radio, hoping he can get the townsfolk to contact the big city to get himself and his fellow tourists some help to deal with the disease. Dennis yells "PANCAKES!" before running over to Bert and biting his hand, [[spoiler:infecting himself]]. Dennis' father then acts as if Bert attacked Dennis and essentially tell him, "This is your fault, we're going to kill you."
** Then at the end of the movie, the local police show up and unceremoniously gun [[spoiler:Jeff]] down, assuming he's infected, and dump his body in the nearby creek. They go on to do absolutely nothing to stop a couple of little girls from getting water from that very same creek to make lemonade with... Is everyone in town mentally deficient in some way?!

* InternalReveal: Just after Marcy [[BlatantLies assures her reluctant sex partner that she's healthy,]] we're shown that his hands are leaving unusually nasty rashes as they squeeze her back - cluing us in, [[MusicalSpoiler as if we didn't already suspect,]] that Marcy was already riddled with the disease.
* ImmodestOrgasm: Jeff at the beginning makes a lot of noise.

** Dennis randomly shouting "Pancakes!" when he bites Bert's hand and gets infected. Later, when he's being treated in hospital, the mascot bunny is actually feeding him pancakes.

* JerkAssHasAPoint: Jeff was an absolute dick who cared only for himself, but he was correct about keeping himself away from the others who have been infected. [[spoiler: He ends up being the only survivor until the local cops kill him to cover up the infection.]]

* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: Marcy gets ripped to pieces by a dog.]]

* MistakenForRacist: [[spoiler: The shotgun that's "for niggers" isn't to shoot them. Rather, the store owner has some black friends from out of town, and the gun is theirs.]]
* ModestOrgasm: Despite the pulse-racing tempo of her [[GreatWayToGo doomsday fling]], Marcy reaches the grand finale with just a quiet gasp and a toss of her hair. Paul's reaction is even less noticeable (Though he's shot only from the back, so it's not like we're in a position to see him).

** [[spoiler: At the end of the film, the Sheriff orders the death of all the survivors and their bodies burned. However, Paul was in the later stage of the disease when he arrives at the hospital. Additionally, given that the doctors didn't even know what it was, he likely would have died there. Thus, if the Sheriff hadn't been so insistent about making them disappear, Paul's body would have never reached the lake and infected the town's water supply.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Marcy almost completely disappears after meeting her gruesome end. There are bits and pieces of her scattered around the surrounding forest, but her corpse is nowhere to be found. That dog must've been '''really''' hungry!

** 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!

* RightThroughHisPants: Marcy is topless but she is wearing panties during sex with Paul.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The bottled water truck driving off at the end of the movie is shown in the sequel to have delivered its deadly cargo to the population of a high school prom.]]

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

* When Paul shows up at the general store, Dennis is sitting on a swinging bench, minding his own business, and Paul, not knowing the kid is nuts, sits beside him. Dennis responds by biting his hand without warning or provocation. Paul rightly complains about the unwarranted attack and points out that Dennis is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Rather than confine or restrain Dennis in any way, the townsfolk put a sign on the bench saying, "Do not sit next to Dennis." Later on, Bert parks '''across the street''' because the cabin has no phone or radio, hoping he can get the townsfolk to contact the big city to get himself and his fellow tourists some help to deal with the disease. Dennis jumps up and yells "PANCAKES!" before running over to Bert and biting his hand, [[spoiler:infecting himself]]. Dennis' father acts as if Bert attacked Dennis and essentially tell him, "This is your fault, we're going to kill you."