| Bad Fever | |
| Director: | Dustin Guy Defa |
| Producer: | Dustin Guy Defa |
| Cinematography: | Mike Gioulakis |
| Distributor: | Factory 25 |
| Country: | United States |
| Runtime: | 77 minutes |
| Language: | English |
Bad Fever is a 2011 American independent drama film directed by Dustin Guy Defa.
A relationship occurs between a wishful stand-up comedian (Kentucker Audley) and a shady drifter (Eleonore Hendricks).
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 50%, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 3.4/10. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised the direction, saying: "Defa exerts delicate control over his incendiary material and evokes emotional terrors with a sympathetic directness; his raw-toned drama is quietly hectic and brutally poignant."[1]