

Roth's directorial debut, the film's story was inspired by a trip to Iceland during the course of which he developed a skin infection. Struggling to deal with the sickness around them and their sense of complete isolation, these two young, consenting adults find themselves compelled to shed their inhibitions and seek comfort and distraction in each other's company.Cabin Fever is a 2002 American horror film directed by Eli Roth, about a group of college students who stay in a secluded cabin on a camping trip and subsequently find themselves falling victim to a flesh-eating virus note hence the title Cabin Fever, geddit?. The story follows the sudden impulsive affair between the two as it continues beyond the bounds of the movie. The unfortunate fate that befell Marcy afterwards, as shown in the movie, turns out to have just been a horrible nightmare Marcy had when she fell asleep after they had sex. "Need A Little Company" begins immediately after Marcy and Paul's brief hook-up in Cabin Fever. HeatAndChills Fandoms: Cabin Fever - Fandom In an atmosphere of heavy drinking, raging hormones and no rules, who knows where it all might lead? Language: English Words: 34,821 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 3 Kudos: 9 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 1,170 Tensions arise and as some relationships break down, new, unforeseen attractions find room to flourish. It is a week of carefree fun and indulgence.īut it turns out that even on vacation, mistakes have consequences. While Jeff and his girlfriend Marcy do what young, consenting adult do, Paul pursues a romance with his long-time crush, Karen and Bert lurks around the woods hunting squirrels. Language: English Words: 6,252 Chapters: 2/2 Comments: 1 Kudos: 9 Hits: 220Īn erotic AU Cabin Fever fanfic where the vagrant and disease which ruined the group's vacation in the movie have been taken out of the equation.Ĭelebrating the end of their exams, five college students rent a cabin in the woods for a week-long vacation. Along the way, she will have to face up to the mistakes she made back then, and wrestle with a tidal wave of emotions about those events which she has long kept buried. Now, years later, Marcy realizes that she must finally talk to Karen about the events of that week.

Stupid things were done in the heat of the moment. The ones who didn't get sick at first were terrified that they would get sick. They soon found themselves caught up in an outbreak of a deadly flesh-eating disease. Language: English Words: 7,157 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 2 Kudos: 6 Hits: 344Īfter finishing their exams, five college students went into the woods for a week-long vacation in a rented cabin. In fact, the significance of Marcy & Paul's sex scene may run so deep that it fundamentally changes the whole meaning of the film, once it is recognized. But careful examination of the film suggests that their affair played a far more relevant role in the overall story than many audience members realize. Many reviewers have panned Marcy & Paul's impulsive affair as a pointless and/or lazy detour in Cabin Fever's narrative. HeatAndChills Fandoms: Cabin Fever (2002)Ī non-fiction essay which explores the subtleties of Marcy, Paul, and their unforgettable love scene in Cabin Fever, in an attempt to decode one of the film's most enigmatic twists. Marcy & Paul - The Couple Who Should Have Been (Essay)
