), have rented a cabin in the woods. While driving to it they stop at a local convenience store for food. Outside the store Dennis, a mentally handicapped young boy (Matthew Helms), bites Paul on the hand. At the cabin, Jeff and Marcy have sex and Paul and Karen go swimming in the nearby lake. Bert goes hunting for squirrels in the woods, but accidentally shoots the man who discovered the rotting dog, mistaking him for a squirrel. The man's face is badly rotted. Scared, Bert shoots at him again to repel him before running back to the cabin. Later, the friends hear a knocking at the door and discover it is the diseased man. Desperate for help, the hermit tries driving away in their car, but vomits blood inside it. After the man exits the car Paul sets the man on fire and he runs into the woods, dying in the lake. A young deputy, Winston Olsen (Giuseppe Andrews), shows up at the cabin and tells Paul he will call a tow truck. Karen drinks a glass of water from the lake and begins feeling ill. That night she is quarantined in the tool shed once Paul discovers rotten spots on her thighs. Fearing that they will also become infected, the others argue about what they should do. The next day, Bert realizes that he is also infected with the virus, but does not tell the others. When Paul and Marcy insist on helping Karen, Jeff, wanting to avoid becoming infected, runs into the forest with the remaining beer, which is the only reliable drinking source. Bert drives off to find a doctor. Alone in the cabin, Marcy seduces Paul and they begin having wild sex. Paul expresses his concern that they are not using a condom. Marcy claims that she is healthy and they continue, but Paul later secretly attempts to disinfect his penis by pouring Listerine over it. Marcy discovers red hand-shaped marks on her back where Paul grabbed her in the heat of passion. Bert drives to the convenience store that the group visited earlier, pleading for a doctor and showing increasing signs of infection. Dennis stares at Bert and begins yelling, ?PANCAKES!!? He then grabs Bert?s hand and bites it, infecting himself. His father (Hal Courtney) comes outside and tries to kill Bert to prevent the disease from spreading. Bert speeds off and the father grabs two of his friends (Richard Boone and Tim Parati) who arm themselves with rifles before pursuing Bert. Paul walks to the reservoir in search of Jeff, and finds the infected hermit's body floating in the lake. Marcy notices her legs deteriorating as she is shaving them. She runs out of the cabin in horror, only to be killed by a dog. When Paul hears Marcy's screams he returns to the cabin to find Marcy's body ripped to pieces and the infected dog eating Karen's face. Paul kills the dog with Bert's rifle, then kills Karen with a shovel to end her suffering. Bert returns to the cabin, severely weakened by the disease, and meets up with Paul. They set a trap for the men from the store. Bert is killed after killing one of the hunters, then Paul takes out the other two. Paul runs back to the hunters' car and drives into town, angrily massacring a group of campers who are partying with Winston. He collapses on a highway and is picked-up by a passing trucker and brought to the hospital. The sheriff and doctors interrogate him, trying to discover the source of the infection, but Paul is unable to answer all their questions. The doctors determine he should be transported to a larger, nearby regional hospital. His driver turns out to be Winston. Paul tries to warn him about the water in the reservoir but cannot speak coherently and only says, "water". Winston says he will take him to get water. The next morning, Jeff comes out of the woods and realizes his friends are dead. He is suddenly shot to death by the police. They add his body to the others, which are burned in a fire pit. Unconscious and close to death, Paul is dumped into a stream where further down two kids are collecting water for their lemonade stand. They sell some lemonade to the sheriff, his deputies and more locals at the store. A natural spring water truck leaves the store with bottles of infected water.

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