Low-Budget Horror Film a Career-maker for first-time moviemaker
Much-anticipated Cabin Fever brings old fashioned terror back to the cinema
By David Grove
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/lowbudget_horror_film_a_careermaker_for_firsttime_moviemaker_2661/
For years, Eli Roth, the 31-year old writer-director of Cabin
Fever, wondered
if the horror genre had a place in the world of independent cinema-or any cinema,
for that matter. It took six years for Roth to raise the financing for Cabin
Fever, a film he shot in the grainy backwoods of North Carolina in 2001 for "way
less than a million dollars." Eventually it sold to Lions Gate for a staggering
$3.5 million-along with the promise of a wide theatrical release and an additional
$15 million in advertising and promotion.