Sultry Eliza Dushku runs for her life in a snug white tanktop, pursued by inbred backwoods cannibals inWrong Turn. Dushku (Bring It On,Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a clump of other attractive young people (includingSix Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto and Desmond Harrington ofWe Were Soldiers) get waylaid in the deep West Virginia wilds by a trio of grotesque mountain men, all given realistic ugliness by makeup artist Stan Winston (Interview with the Vampire,Terminator 2).Wrong Turnis the sort of movie where you know who's going to die by the order they appear in the credits, but fans of the inbred backwoods cannibals genre (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,The Hills Have Eyes) will find much to savor, particularly the scene in which Dushku and Harrington are trapped under a squalid bed while the inbred backwoods cannibals prepare one of their friends for dinner. Grisly.--Bret Fetzer
Wrong Turn Delivers..... I simply loved this movie. For anyone who has ever seen the movie Deliverance, this film reminds you of it. When a group of friends find themselves stranded in the hills of West Virginia, they have no idea of the horror that awaits them. They find themselves among a group of inbred hillbillies who are deformed and grotesque and murderers! The inbreds set traps along an isolated road just waiting for their next victims. These friends now have to fight and run for their lives if they want to avoid being slaughtered. Great gore effects as we see the inbreds hacking up one of their victims. The acting was good in this film, especially Jeremy Sisto! who gave a great performance but to me, was killed off way to early in the movie!! This movie is gory, suspenseful, thrilling and frightful. The ending of this movie leads you to believe that there might eventually be a part 2. I sure hope so. A great movie to own for horror movie fans!!!
Good Entertainment, fun and exciting but no Academy Award winner If you're looking for an award winning movie you won't find it here, but if you just want something entertaining to watch, you've got it. The movie's bascially a cross between Texas Chainsaw Massacare and Deliverance. It's an enjoyable watch and will give you something to daydream about but it's nothing heart stopping.
In my opinion it is NOT anti-rural propoganda, as some of the other reviews have stated. It's just a story of some mutated wackos in WV who kill people. It doesn't make fun of rural folk any more than any other movie. Besides, there's been plenty of Urban based horror movies as well so i don't see what the big deal is. I'm a whole lot more afraid of the guy from SAW and he lived in a city.
Anyway, good movie to kill some time, but nothing spectacular. (Definatly worth bargain bin price!)There's a reason this movie is at bargain prices "Wrong Turn" should have been called "Captain America Has A Plan." Let's start with the opening credits- kind of eery-cool, with lots of newspaper clippings that you think might turn out to mean something. But on a step lower than "Identity," they, of course, fall into the mysterious black hole that is the plot of movies. Sure, "Wrong Turn" had the effect genius of Stan Winston, but so did "Darkness Falls," and look at how unfinished that creature looked. The music was loud, the cars were loud, the girls were loud (and annoying). We get it, we need to have our attention on the screen. But we really didn't. After all, there are four protagonists, so of course at least two have to die in a slasher film. I know you have to forgive a lot in this genre, and so many films before it (and after it, I'm sure) have pulled that off successfully, but "Wrong Turn" failed-- especially when it comes to the way in which they died- so primitively, so savagely, yet even in this backwoods forest with people who seem to have been raised by wolves (they had to have been since they were their own parents)- the main choice of getaway was still a car. A couple of cute laughable lines that are easily forgotten. What was even more laughable were the scenes in which the killers dismember (oh please I'm not giving anything away here you should not see this movie) the first semi-important victim. Blood drips everywhere. Yeah right. CSI they are not. A body cannot bleed post-mortem. So these killers, these wannabe junior doctors botched it basically. Then, the lead guy, who's real name is Chris, but let's call him Captain America, decides to have everyone climb into some watchtower, like twenty million feet above ground. Of course they trapped themselves there, and he convinces everyone to jump. They magically land on some tree branches and then get to tightrope their way across one of them. Then he and one woman (honestly I don't know her character's name because it didn't seem that important) stumble upon some waterfall, and everyone in the audience is just expecting them to have sex, but instead they fall asleep. Either way, it's letting their guard down while being chased. When that same woman is finally captured by the killers, they simply tie her to a bed and stare at her, which leads me to believe they were planning on keeping her because they need a woman to reproduce their psycho mummyman offspring. But no. She's the only semi-name in this picture, so she has to live. Whatever. The kicker is the set-up for a possible sequel at the end.
Does Captain America say anything useful? He tells the girls he "has a plan" and that's about it. Do we ever find out just exactly who these killers are or why they're doing it? No. I think it was meant to be implied that they were getting back at society, especially the beautiful ones, for shunning them and ultimately forcing them to live in that little horror house shack in the woods. But honestly, no one thinks so deeply about these types of movies, and no one is supposed to. No one was looking for the giant social message: inbreeding is wrong, incest is dangerous. And to think, this whole adventure began because stupid Captain America can't even be a concentrated driver.
