English trailer for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero

Here is the English language trailer for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero starring Sean Astin. The movie will be released on Blu-ray in the UK March 17. Still no word on US release date. Source

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Trailer for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (German)

The German web site scary-movies.de has posted the trailer for "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero" (dubbed in German with English subtitles) as well as the box cover artwork. According to them, the movie will be released in that country in DVD/Blu-ray/3-D Blu-ray with an over-18 rating on February 6, 2014.

A bachelor party cruise in the Caribbean encounters a medical-research island where a deadly virus, carried by an asymptomatic Sean Astin, has been unleashed. The passengers must struggle to find a way to survive before their own demons and the flesh-eating bacteria consume them all.

Comic book artist Kaare Andrews directed the film based on a screenplay by Jake Wade Wall (The Hitcher). Currie Graham, Mitch Ryan, Jillian Murray, Brando Eaton, Lydia Hearst, and Ryan Donowho also star.

No word on a US release yet.

Update: UK DVD release date is March 17.

Be sure to turn on captioning when watching the trailer!

Cabin Fever: Patient Zero behind the scenes photos

In honor of the premiere screening of Cabin Fever: Patient Zero at the Cannes Film Festival this month, here are some behind the scenes photos from it's filming last fall in the Dominican Repubic. Sean Astin stars as the eponymous patient, who carries a deadly flesh eating disease!

A tropical paradise, despite the blood! :-O

One more MEFCC video!

Another short video interview with Sean Astin in Dubai for the Middle East Film and Comic Con from Yahoo OMG Now. He talks about his role in "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero," filmed last fall.

Interview: Sean in the Dominican Republic

"I thought the sun did not come out in the Dominican Republic!" —Sean Astin

The Dominican Republic movie web site cinedominicano.net published an article about Sean's interview with Sergio Carlo and Karina Larrauri on Dominican radio 12Y2 last week. (Listen to the interview here.)

Sean discussed the recent "Rudy" reference in Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama "Newsroom," his iconic role in  "The Goonies," the Dominican baseball movie "Sugar," and told some behind the scenes anecdotes about filming "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero," a horror movie due for release next year.

Original article in Spanish

Translation into English via Google Translate

Sean talks Cabin Fever and more on Dominican radio

Photo by @OrSan

Sean was a guest on 12y2 radio show hosted by Sergio Carlo and Karina Larrauri in the Dominican Republic today. Much of the interview is in Spanish, but some is in English.

Sean talks about his costars in Cabin Fever: Patient Fever, and described his character: the only person immune to the effects of a deadly flesh-eating disease. Researchers capture (Sean's word!) him to study him in an effort to find a cure. Sean described a scene he filmed the evening before, of wading in a giant water tank filled with dead bodies. As he was filming in a cave set, he started subconsciously singing the aria from The Goonies to himself! He has been filming 13 hours a day.

Sean also answers questions from callers.

Here is his full interview:

The underground laboratory set.

Filming begins on Cabin Fever: Patient Zero

Production company Indomina has announced that filming has begun on "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero" in the Dominican Republic under the direction of Kaare Andrews based on a story by Jake Wade Wall, creator of "The Hitcher." The movie stars Sean Astin, Jillian Murray, Brando Eaton, Lydia Hearst, Mitch Ryan, Ryan Donowho, Graham Currie and local actresses Solly Duran and Claudette Lali.

The story involves a group of young friends on a yacht that runs aground on an island housing a mysterious research facility. Flesh-eating disease ensues!

Filming is expected to take four weeks.

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Sizzle reel for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero

This is the movie for which Sean is growing a beard. :-) Filming starts shortly in the Dominican Republic.

The movie, starring “Lord of the Rings” and “Encino Man” alum Sean Astin, tells the backstory of the flesh-eating virus that caused Rider Strong’s face to melt a decade ago [in the original Cabin Fever movie].

Friends start to show symptoms of a mysterious flesh eating disease in the Caribbean, the countdown is on to solve the mystery and find help. A mysterious and surprisingly unaffected stranger [Sean?!] may hold the clue to escape…  or may be the cause of their ultimate demise.

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Cabin Fever: Patient Zero to begin filming mid-October

The Hollywood Reporter reports that the prequel to the horror film cult classic Cabin Fever, "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero" is set to begin filming in mid-October in the Dominican Republic. Ben Hollingsworth has been replaced by Mitch Ryan, and Lydia Hearst (daughter of Patty Hearst) joins the cast as "a wide-eyed research grad student who is aligned with the film’s antagonist (Sean Astin)." The film also stars Brando Eaton, Jillian Murray and Ryan Donowho.

"The story kicks off when a bachelor party cruise in the Caribbean unexpectedly runs ashore on a medical-research island and a deadly virus is unleashed. The passengers must struggle to find a way to survive before their own demons and the flesh-eating bacteria consumes them all."

Synopsis for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero

“Marcus Bently [Ben Hollingsworth] is an alluring, suntanned, physically strapping young American man, who’s passion for sailing and diving inspired him to open a business leading undersea diving adventures with his best buddy, Dobs Towe [Brando Eaton?]. Marcus goes to the Dominican Republic because he falls in love with an heiress of a wealthy family, Catalina Arias, with whom he intends to marry – albeit with a slight case of cold feet. Catalina sets up a lavish bachelor party for Marcus and his friends aboard a luxury yacht, which ends up floating too close to an uncharted island. The island is a scientific research facility run by an inhumane Dr. Edwards, who is intent on finding a vaccine for a flesh-eating virus that could strip humanity literally down to the bones. Marcus and his friends must find a way to survive before the flesh eating disease consumes them all.”

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Sean Astin to star in Cabin Fever prequel

Sean Astin will star, along with Brandon Eaton and Ben Hollingsworth, in a prequel to Eli Roth's 2002 horror film cult classic Cabin Fever. "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero" is about a bachelor party on a cruise ship that runs aground on a medical research island in the Caribbean, accidentally unleashing a deadly virus.* The passengers struggle to find a way to survive before their own demons and the flesh-eating disease consume them all. The film will be directed by Kaare Andrews and is due to start filming August 13 in the Dominican Republic.

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Update: “With Sean, we wanted an actor with gravity who is also popular with the fanboy fan-base,” producer Evan Astrowsky said in a statement. “Coupling Sean with fresh faces like Ben and Brando gives ‘Cabin Fever’ the pedigree of cast we’ve always desired.”

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Trivia: The original "Cabin Fever" and its sequel, "Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever," starred Ryder Strong, who was in Sean's only other horror film, "Borderland."

* The terms "virus" and "bacteria" are being used interchangeably in various articles online. It is not clear which it is supposed to be or if the producers know the difference! The real flesh-eating disease in the news is bacterial in origin.