Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
Directed by	Ti West
Produced by	Lauren Moews Vilchik & Patrick Durham & Jonathan Sachar
Written by	Joshua Malkin (screenplay) Randy Pearlstein Ti West
Starring	Rider Strong Giuseppe Andrews Judah Friedlander Noah Segan Marc Senter Mark Borchardt Lindsey Axelsson Larry Fessenden Alexi Wasser Rusty Kelley Amanda Jelks Patrick Durham
Music by	Ryan Shore
Cinematography	Eliot Rockett
Editing by	Janice Hampton
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release date(s)	September 23, 2009 (2009-09-23) (Fantastic Fest)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever is an American horror film directed by Ti West and starring Giuseppe Andrews and Noah Segan.

Plot

A very disfigured Paul (Rider Strong) escapes from the creek and wanders through the woods, leaving pieces of his own flesh in the way. When he finally makes it to the highway, his body explodes when he is hit by a school bus. His remains are checked by Deputy Winston Olsen (Giuseppe Andrews), the local policeman from the previous film. Winston assures the shocked bus driver that he had hit a moose.

The creek Paul was lying in was connected to a bottled-water company and the infected water was distributed to the local high school.

John (Noah Segan), a senior at the high school, is deciding whether to go to prom with his long-time crush Cassie (Alexi Wasser) or stay home. His friend Alex (Rusty Kelley) is against going until he hooks up with a girl named Liz (Regan Deal). She then says if she can get off work that night, she'll meet him there.

John asks Cassie to go to prom but she refuses. Meanwhile, Winston is at a restaurant where a worker from the bottled-water company dies from the infection. He then realizes the creek got heavily contaminated and goes to the water plant to tell the officials that the water is contaminated. The worker he informs is quickly killed by a group of CCD (Contamination Control Division) soldiers in NBC suits. Winston leaves before they can get to him.

At the high school the infection begins to spread slowly. Alex is disappointed that Liz didn’t come, while John gets into a fight with Cassie's boyfriend Marc (Marc Senter). Principal Sinclair (Michael Bowen) then kicks John out. Cassie follows him and John confesses his love to her. Frederica (Amanda Jelks) dies in the pool from the infection and Rick (Thomas Blake, Jr.) is killed when he drowns after hitting his head on the side of the pool and falling in. CCD then force John and Cassie back into the school. The CCD locks all of the main exits from the school and kill Principal Sinclair when he demands to know what is going on. The infection then begins to kill the students in the gym at an alarming rate. Sandy (Lindsey Axelsson), the most popular girl in school is also murdered. The gym is then gassed from the outside. Cassie, John, and Alex watch in horror as all the students are killed. Winston is picked up by his cousin Herman (Mark Borchardt), ready to leave town.

Alex discovers he is infected and that the disease is incurable necrotizing fasciitis. The only way to stop the infection is to amputate the infected limb. However, Alex' infection is already too severe and he stays behind. John begins to show signs of the infection too and lets Cassie amputate his hand to stop it.

Cassie's boyfriend Marc then comes out of nowhere, hits Cassie with a hammer, and tries to kill John but Cassie kills him with a nail gun. The two leave the school only to be ambushed by the CCD. John stalls them, allowing Cassie to escape. She finds herself on the highway and stops Herman's van. Winston and Herman take Cassie with them, not knowing she is possibly infected.

The end of the movie shows Alex's date Liz at her work place. She is a stripper at Teazers. She spreads the infection to her customers, who in turn spread it further around the country and even to Mexico. She arrives home later that night, sick, and goes to bed, thinking "I should've fucking gone to prom." After the credits, Dan and Darren are shown watching TV and Dan says "Prom blows."

Cast

• Noah Segan - John
• Rusty Kelley - Alex
• Alexi Wasser - Cassie
• Giuseppe Andrews - Winston
• Regan Deal - Liz Grillington
• Marc Senter - Marc
• Michael Bowen - Principal Sinclair
• Lindsey Axelsson - Sandy
• Angela Oberer - Ms. Hawker
• Amanda Jelks - Frederica
• Judah Friedlander - Toby
• Alexander Isaiah Thomas - Dane
• Patrick Durham - Banker Lucas
• Mark Borchardt - Herman
• Larry Fessenden - Bill
• Lisa H. Sackerman - Sores Girl/Prom Goer
• Rider Strong - Paul (cameo)

Release

The film was released in spring 2010 The film premiered on 24 October 2009 at the Mann Chinese 6 theaters in Hollywood, California as part of the 2009 Screamfest Horror Film Festival Los Angeles. The DVD was released in the USA on February 16, 2010 and in the UK on February 22. The US Blu-ray release comes with the Unrated Directors Cut version of Eli Roth's Cabin Fever. After extensive re-editing and re-shooting by the producers, writer/director Ti West requested to have his name removed from the film and replaced with the popular pseudonym Alan Smithee. Since he was not a member of the Directors Guild of America, his request was denied by the producers and he remains credited as the film's director. West has since disowned the final product claiming that it is more a product of the producers and executives than that of his own. It is unknown if there will ever be a "directors cut" released featuring West's original vision.

Production

The DVD was released on February 16, 2010. The production companies are Tonic Films, Morningstar Films, Carr Miller Entertainment and Tunnel Post. The special effects are from Quantum Creation FX who created the make-up effects. Rider Strong and Giuseppe Andrews are the only two Cabin Fever cast members to come back for the sequel.

Soundtrack

The film music was created by Ryan Shore, he produced the official movie score of this film.

Sequels

Producer Lauren Moews has expressed interest in producing a Cabin Fever 3. She says if she finds the right director that she feels is worthy of filming it, then it will be green lit for production. No dates are known at this moment. The third movie, which will be released in 2013, is titled Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, which is about the virus spreading on a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea, and a fourth film, which will be released in 2014, is titled Cabin Fever: Outbreak. The fourth film will be about a family who travels to a Caribbean island and has to deal with the same virus. No director has been hired for either and both are being shot back-to-back by the companies Indomina and Hypotenuse Pictures.

External links

• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever at the Internet Movie Database