10 Best Wilderness Horror Movies

10. Cabin Fever

Starting off on an odd note, Cabin Fever is a rare horror where the wilderness itself, rather than its inhabitants, is the real source of the horror.

Released in 2002, Eli Roth’s feature debut manages the impressive feat of mixing wilderness horror with the body horror subgenre in a creepy story guaranteed to get under your skin. For the first half of this film, the set up seems to be a classic Hills Have Eyes/Deliverance style movie, where our band of unlikeable college kids will need to face off against weird, uninviting mountain folk.

But then comes the twist, as it turns out the mountain people are relatively harmless (if very unfriendly to outsiders and admittedly odd). It's actually, er, the flesh eating virus our heroes need to fight off. And by "fight off", the film means desperately do battle with and eventually gruesomely succumb to.

Sticky and sick, this one takes inspiration from the director's own childhood struggles with psoriasis, and marks a distinct contrast from his later hit Hostel, wherein the monsters are most definitely very human locals.