CABIN FEVER
Q&A with Cerina Vincent, James De Bello,
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Movie Interview by Reece De Ville

With director Eli Roth and actors Cerina Vincent, James De Bello and Joey Kern at the London press conference.

Did you have any idea how successful the film would become?

ELI ROTH: When you make a film, you’re always hoping for success. I didn’t make a film just to show in my parent’s house, you know, in their basement. Obviously, anything can happen when you’re making a film and it’s what I dreamed of. You make a movie dreaming that you’ll get to go all over the world with it and that it’ll play in theatres everywhere. It’s wonderful to be the guy that had that happen to him.

How has the response to the film been?

ELI ROTH: The people who are prepared for it, that think it’s going to be fun and disgusting and are ready to laugh and have a good time and get scared, they’re the ones who have an open mind and enjoy it the most. The thing that I didn’t expect, that’s truly overwhelming is the way that my favourite directors have responded. David Lynch loved it; Peter Jackson stopped production on LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING three times to screen it for everybody; Quentin Tarantino waited inline to watch it at the L.A film festival and invited me into his house to watch movies. Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, you know my favourite directors who are suddenly inviting me to lunch. That has been the most incredible, surreal, trippy thing. I love watching it with different audiences over the world. There’s a two second delay with the subtitles, which is fun to watch when the audience get the comedy.

There are a lot of references to other films in there, how deliberate was that?

ELI ROTH: Well, there’s certain things like the ass shot in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, that’s something that I was doing in the storyboards before the shoot. There’s certain things like structurally, where I sat down and looked at my favourite directors and their career trajectories and I thought Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson and David Lynch, all these people started by making small low budget ground making horror movies. And I said, so structurally, what am I going to do and so I looked at Sam Raimi’s THE EVIL DEAD; John Carpenter’s THE THING and Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and looked at what made these films so successful: how many characters were there; what were the relationship dynamics; at what point do they reach their destination; at what point does the first character die etc. At film school, I really learned how to dissect a screenplay in a movie and analyse it structurally.

There’s no question that I took certain scenes, but I wanted people to know that I wasn’t just doing a complete rip off, you know, as who cares about that!

How much research did you do into the virus?

ELI ROTH: A lot of it I based on things that happened to me. I had a number of horrific medical experiences beyond shaving my face off and the skin infection. I found out about a foundation behind one particular disease through High Society magazine, my favourite porn magazine, which said “Flesh Eater: Is this worse than AIDS?” and there’s pictures of before and after. I really did research it through survival stories on various websites. Two weeks before I went to Toronto, I found out about three fishermen who died from contracting this virus through the water. I mean even the part of the disease which I fictionalised in my head, spreading through the water, I later found out actually happened.

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