By now you've heard the casting news and plot outlines, and you've seen the blood-soaked pics, but what you probably haven?t seen or heard is Cabin Fever and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever star Rider Strong's official word on the film! And he's just confirmed with us that we can indeed look forward to ?a thousand buckets of blood? in Cabin Fever 2.

"In general, the first movie walks such a fine line between comedy and horror, and I think that people fall on one side or the other," says Strong, who gives details about the follow-up fever-stricken film. ?With the sequel I think they?ll probably end up more towards over-the-top comedy. Like all sequels, it had to get bigger, so rather than buckets of blood there were a thousand buckets of blood. If you thought the first one was funny, then the sequel is going to be hysterical. If you thought the first one was a straight horror film, I think you'll find that the second one is much more of a gorefest; an over-the-top gorefest that pushes the envelope."

When we asked Strong if he anticipated a Cabin Fever 2 after the first film, he replied, "Not at all. Not at all, Cabin Fever was such a fluke. We were just hoping that it would play at some festival somewhere until Lionsgate picked it up and had such a great run with that movie. It wasn?t until we finished filming and premiered at Toronto that Eli (Roth) started talking about sequels. He had 10 different sequel ideas that he was always talking about. In the end, he really wasn?t that involved and was just a producer on the second one."

After reminiscing over the unanticipated success of the first Cabin Fever, we got down to business talking about how funnyman indie-filmmaker Ti West differed from the hack-and-slash, torture-crazed Roth.

"They are very different in terms of directing styles,? said Strong. "Ti will grab the camera himself and Eli used lots of planned shots and longer takes. Ti was much more free. Cabin Fever was Eli's first movie and Ti has already made a few films and really has that low-budget style down. But I think they're both kind of crazy. They're crazy in different ways, but they're both pretty insane people and they're both motor-mouths which I thought was pretty funny."

After chatting with Strong, one thing is certain, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever will host more blood, gore and flesh-rotting, and even more sexy contaminants than the first. For the complete interview with Rider Strong, check back soon, since we got the latest on two recent Strong-starring Horrorfest titles, Tooth and Nail and Borderland, as well as Strong?s first venture into writing and directing an experience he shared with his brother!