![]() Paul later discovers rotten boils on her thighs. During this time, Karen drinks a glass of water from the lake contaminated by the infected man and begins to feel ill. They soon discover that the woman was related to the hermit they killed so they leave quickly. Jeff and Bert walk off down the lake shore when they come to a woman's house to ask for a ride into town. In the morning, a young deputy, Winston Olsen, shows up at the cabin and promises Paul he'll call a tow truck. After the man exits the car, Paul sets-light to the infected man and he runs aflame back into the woods where he dies in the lake. ![]() He tries to drive away in their car, but vomits blood all over the windscreen and the seats of the car. Desperate for help, the hermit comes after the group. Later on that night, they hear a knocking at the door and discover it's the diseased man that Bert shot before. However, once it starts raining, he leaves to take care of his camping equipment and the group retreats into the house. Though he acts a little eccentric, they allow him to join in when he offers them marijuana. They soon encounter a local college kid named Grimm who approaches them with his dog, Dr. That evening, the five kids build a bonfire and share ghost stories with each other. Scared, Bert shoots at him again in order to repel him and runs back to the cabin. By this time, the man's face has become badly rotted. He accidentally shoots the man who discovered the rotting dog in the beginning of the film while hunting whom he mistook for a squirrel. Paul and Karen go for a swim in the lake while Bert goes hunting for squirrels in the woods. When they arrive at the cabin, Jeff and Marcy immediately retire to their bedroom and have sex. The locals standing nearby look at the outsiders in their town with suspicion and scorn. Along the way, they stop at a local convenience store for food where a young neurodivergent boy outside the store bites Paul on the hand. Meanwhile, five college friends, Jeff, Marcy, Paul, Karen, and Bert are driving in a van through rural Alabama on their way to the woods for they have rented a cabin in the woods. After poking it a few times, he pulls the dog up and notices that the dog's flesh is rotted, spurting blood on him in the process. But we must all sense the answer, and it’s out there.Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.Ī man is walking in the woods and comes upon his dog that he believes to be sleeping. I cannot explain why we must have this in our lives, or why we feel mournfully deprived as we suffer without it. ![]() We need places where there are crayfish and herons and we need to hear coyotes and cicadas and spend time in muddy places where we touch the humidity. We need to do that essential thing all people have been doing forever, which is to be a part of nature. The fact is we all require some nature in our lives, even as we choose to stay indoors during a brutal heat wave. But eventually cabin fever sets in and those haters of winter who choose to not go outdoors now wish they were outdoors in the sunshine-but on a warm day. Those haters of winter busy themselves by interacting with computers and speaking on the phone with people who might commiserate. Nobody wants to be the weather statistic.įor those people who find all cold weather unpleasant under all circumstances, even on perfectly sunny days, sitting indoors for weeks during late winter is the self-inflicted penance. It’s perfectly sensible that one should decide to stay indoors during a lightning storm, for example, or when a barrage of hail is denting mailboxes. We are wise to stay indoors whenever we find the weather severely inclement. ![]() We all sit indoors in an overheated mood and listen to the air conditioner.īut we still wish we were out in the sunshine. But when the temperature rises above 106 degrees and it hasn’t rained in weeks and even the swimming holes down by the creek are disagreeably tepid, nobody has a choice. We hike and glide on skis and drill holes in ice and hang buckets on maple trees and we feel invigorated. The frozen landscape is now clearly visible and the intricacies of nature that cannot be seen in summer come forward. There’s still plenty to enjoy outdoors during a cold snap. When it’s cold outside anyone can still bundle up and enjoy the crisp air. We all sit indoors, day after day, and soon develop cabin fever.īut this cabin fever we get during summer is the worst kind. ![]() There’s not much difference in our behavior when it’s 106 degrees in the shade and it was 105 degrees yesterday and it’s expected to be 107 degrees tomorrow, and absolutely nobody can go outdoors and enjoy time spent in nature. A recent heat wave reminded me of the dead of winter. ![]()
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