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Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn (2003)

May. 30,2003
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6.1
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R
| Horror Thriller

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

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TheLittleSongbird
2003/05/30

Judging from my other reviews, you would not think that horror films would be my thing, especially very gory ones. Actually aim to have a diverse taste in film, so seeing films from all decades and genres with no bias intended. Plus have seen my fair share of horror franchises where at least one film has been good.Found myself surprisingly enjoying 'Wrong Turn' when slowly working my way through the films. Despite the mixed to negative critical reception, to me flaws and all it is the best of the 'Wrong Turn' films by quite some way, was less impressed with the sequels. It doesn't get everything completely right, but it is a long way from a wrong turn and is instead a worthwhile one.'Wrong Turn' is in terms of story simplistic and derivative admittedly. It also has thinly sketched characters, cheesy dialogue and a run-out-of-ideas ending. A longer length would definitely have helped, there were times where the film's duration felt too brief. So those are reasons enough to dislike the film and consider it bad.However, quite a lot is done right in 'Wrong Turn' as well. It has a slick and atmospheric visual look and has a wonderfully mysterious and creepy setting. The make-up is also well done. One of 'Wrong Turn's' biggest stars is the special effects, which send a chill down the spine in how realistically horrifying they are.The music score is suitably eerie and Rob Schmidt adeptly pays tribute to 1970s exploitation cinema. While the story may not be perfect in how it's executed, it really does deliver on the creepy mood, the gruesome shocks and also the fun. There is a lot of gore here but mostly it is not used in a cheap way, there are times where it is not needed but generally the mood isn't compromised.Despite the lack of development for the characters, the acting is not bad at all. Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku and Emmanuelle Chriqui in fact give pretty ballsy performances.In conclusion, worthwhile. 6/10 Bethany Cox

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lorcan-61881
2003/05/31

Wrong Turn has become a very big thing,from theatrical releases,to straight to DVD sequels that did'int quite make it,I'm luckily here,yes me,your favourite reviewer,to review all of them. So,Wrong Turn follows the story of a man going for a job interview only to crash in to a caravan on a deserted road,with him and the group lost,they decide to team up only for three hillbilly brothers to come out and kill each one,one by one. Wrong Turn,at the time,when it came out in 2003,was a very original idea,the only two really things that matched it were Cannibal Holocaust and Hills Have Eyes. The film has a very slow pace but it does make up for it when somebody slowly dies like that arrow death,that was cool. Eliza Dushku,or whatever her name was,was brilliant in this,there were scenes were it felt like she was actually going to sh*t herself. Wrong Turn is a brilliant horror film I advise you should see

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unbrokenmetal
2003/06/01

In the opening scene, two climbers are killed by something lurking in the woods. When a bunch of young people try to avoid a traffic jam on the highway by taking a small road across the forest, they find out it is a Wrong Turn for anyone who takes it, as a trap with barbed wire was already waiting for them...A decent horror flick, although it surprises that it should be followed by so many sequels. It just hasn't got enough novelty value for that, since it's based on the same old "who knows what's hiding in those dark woods" story. I read here that 'Wrong Turn' was produced with 12 million bucks, whereas they spent only between 1 and 4 million each on the sequels, so if they look cheaper, that's understandable. Several of them are still worth watching though. I voted 8/4/6/7/5/4 for the 6 movies.

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captaincats
2003/06/02

SPOILER ALERTS**** Where to begin... you know you're in trouble when the creatures (mutant hillbillies in this case) are hid from your sight for most of the film's first hour. In a film clocking in at 84 minutes including credits that can't be good. What few shots you get of the monsters are fast, usually moving shots with no lingering of the camera on what appears to be very poor creature makeup effects. The mutant hillbillies almost look to be wearing rubber masks and bad hair wigs from the local secondhand store's Halloween costume isle. There are some major flaws in the teenage victims' character definitions specifically a lack of any depth or background of real note. The acting is pedestrian and given the script all that is needed. Just some teens on a camping weekend and a lost college med student meeting cannibal, mutant hillbillies that grunt more than talk. A major flaw is the young people's behaviour - when one of the teens gets killed the rest stand around waiting for their turn, they're awful slow to react for teenagers or 20 somethings. Most people would run like hell given some crazies want to eat them.The ending is totally unbelievable with the mutants refusing to die even though one gets run over by a speeding truck through a cabin door and blown up (at the end); another gets gutted - an arrow through the head and finally blown up (at the end); and the third falls 30 feet out of a tree - shows up later to get a severe axe wound to the chest area and survives the final massive explosion (with presumably no chest injury) to presumably kill in a future Wrong Turn movie sequel to come. There's no killing these 'hick' monsters - like some endless stupid nightmare void of reason and having no sense of cause and effect. That's Wrong Turn's biggest defect, lack of intelligent plot or characterization.If you like your horror movies on pilot control with no imagination, no thinking required and lame characters with little oomph, then this dud is for you. On the plus side, there are a few gruesome kills and some gross imagery that is horrific when you think about it but overall the acting is lame and the story unimaginative. Kind of like a Z grade "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" wannabe that is sorely wanting in the wannabe department. That's the worst kind of Z grade film. I give it 1 star out of 10. That star goes to the 2 or 3 gory kills/images. Don't pay to see this turkey or to rent it. Save your money for better movies.

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