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In honor of the release of Eli Roth’s 2003 Cabin Fever onto Blu-Ray, as well as the 2009 sequel Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever’s initial release onto DVD, Dread Central found this to be the ideal time to catch up with the star of the original, Rider Strong.

Strong took the time to speak to us about his experiences working on the original Cabin Fever (Blu-ray review here), what it felt like to come back for a sequel, and the skinny on his latest project, Darkening Sky.

Since I was most familiar with his television work on the ABC comedy “Boy Meets World” when Cabin Fever made its way into theaters, I asked the actor to talk about how difficult it was to make the jump from family television to one of the more gore-filled horror flicks of the last ten years.

“Cabin Fever wasn’t a surreal jump for me actually,...

In most films concerning extraterrestrial threats, the protagonists are always looking to the stars. The upcoming Darkening Sky , however, asks its hero to look inward. As star Rider Strong explains, "These movies are usually about somebody investigating something because they want to prove aliens exist. With my character [Eric Rainer], he's literally writing his thesis on the fact that it's all myth. But he's forced into it and goes deeper and deeper against his will. It harks back to X-Files and I'm the ultimate skeptic. I feel most of these movies are about having to prove [UFOs exist], because this starts happening, he starts questioning his own sanity." Darkening Sky rolled cameras at the end of the summer in and around Los Angeles with FX...

On the tail of the new abduction thriller, The Fourth Kind, is Victor Bornia’s Darkening Sky–an indie horror-thriller currently in post-production. The film stars Rider Strong (Cabin Fever, Cabin Fever 2), Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, CSI) and Sally Berman (Angels and Demons). Danica Stewart, Suzanne Ford, Tim Winters, Bella Difiore and Maitland McConnell also star. Darkening Sky is scheduled for a 2010 release. In the tense psychological thriller set against a twisted, sci-fi backdrop, Strong plays Eric Rainer, a troubled grad student searching for his girlfriend who has mysteriously vanished. Desperate for answers, he [...]

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We first told you about Rider Strong (Cabin Fever)'s new flick The Darkening Sky way back in August, and now, just in time for Afm, the flick has gotten itself a brand spankin' new trailer.

Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, "CSI"), Sally Berman (Angels and Demons), Daniel Kirschner, and Lashan Anderson have all signed up to join Strong in Victor Bornia's new flick.

Synopsis

When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the “modern mythology” of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting extraterrestrials, implanted objects, organ harvesting, and humans possessed by a malevolent alien presence unlike anything he has ever heard about... All while dealing with a growing suspicion that he is somehow the center of the aliens' plan.

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On the studio front this week, we've got The Fourth Kind , an alien abduction thriller, hitting theaters. On the indie front, a trailer has premiered today for a film which tells of an average Joe stumbling on an alien conspiracy. Nope, it's not another entry in The Arrival series; it's Darkening Sky , a film we alerted you to in August here , and we've got the trailer. Here, Cabin Fever 's Rider Strong plays Eric Rainer, a troubled grad student searching for his girlfriend who has mysteriously vanished. Desperate for answers, he meets a beautiful stranger (Danielle Keaton) who lost her boyfriend under similar circumstances. Together, they unravel the mystery, going deeper and deeper into a bizarre world of alien shape-shifters, implanted objects, organ harvesting, and humans...