High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cabin Fever is a 2002 American horror film about a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a flesh-eating virus. The film was the directing debut of filmmaker Eli Roth, who co-wrote the film with Randy Pearlstein. The inspiration for the film`s story came from a real life experience during a trip to Iceland when Roth developed a skin infection. The film`s title is a double entendre, referring both to the phenomenon, which is seen in the declining of the student`s friendships, and also to the illness spreading through the cabin, although fever is not one of the disease`s symptoms.