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In a throwback to 1970's horror films such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes", "Wrong Turn" is an independently-made horror film about a group of five youths on a hiking trip in the Appalachians of West Virginia who become prey to a family of cannibalistic mountain men who have become horribly disfigured through generations of in-breeding.
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Review by Chad
Added: March 6, 2004
Suprisingly good movie right here. Based on the plotline, I was expecting either a really lame execution or a made-for-teen screamer, but got neither. There were a few borderline-Scream moments, but nothing too bad for the true horror fan.
The storyline is pretty basic. A doctor is trying to get to some sort of job interview, or get to his job, or something... it's not really explained, and it's not really important. The main highway is closed off due to an accident, so he goes to this gas station to find a phone. 404 on the phone, but he sees a map with an alternate route, which he decides to ignore before going back to wait on the highway... right. So onto the alternate, unpaved road, where he's distracted by a decomposing deer on the side of the road and runs into some campers. On through the woods they go, when they come upon a house, and that's when the movie starts. Pretty basic, but hey, it worked.
The effects and gore were done marvelously. The inbreds... who really are inbred, that's not just a clever tagline... had quite the makeup jobs going, albeit a bit overdone. Their house was also well setup, although it seemed more than just a little similar to Leatherface's crib, but I digress. And the gore... sweet mary, it was nice. Quite the good number of kills were racked up, and each had a good deal of blood shown. We had one lady strangled with barbed / razor-wire, an arrow through a guys eye (which was incredibly realistic), an axe through the mouth, cutting the top of the head off, and a few suprises thrown in later on. All nicely done.
There was only one thing that needs to be griped about. If you prefer not to read a minor spoiler, skip the rest of this paragraph. Go on, skip over it. Settled? Good. So at one point in the movie, the happy campers find a 5,000 foot high watch-tower to hide out in, find a phone, wahlah. Inbreds find them, come up the ladder, campers are trapped... what to do!? Jump out the window, down to the trees below, and grab branches to hold onto. Now... I'm not saying that would be impossible to do... But X number of people doing it, right in a row, and all making it safely, that's just horse manure. But again, I digress.
Overall, I'd go with a 7 or 8/10... Yeah, 8/10 should about do it.
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#1:
bluemeanie
- added October 11, 2007 at 5:59pm
Nothing scarier than cannibal rednecks, eh? It
worked for Herschel Gordon Lewis. More creative
than most would think, with villains that were
somewhat original, there are a few scenes in
"Wrong Turn" that really work, and a few scenes
that are just plain awful. I loved the sequence
in the ranger's station and thought it was very
well crafted. I don't like killing Kevin Zegers
off so early because he's hot. I don't like Eliza
Duskhu because the bitch can't act. Otherwise,
"Wrong Turn" was not terrible. Simply above
average. 7/10.
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#2:
Tristan
- added October 11, 2007 at 6:04pm
Screw Zegers, he's a bitch. Jeremy Sisto should
have been the star of the fucker. I want that man
to sit on my face. Anyway, I think this was one of
the best modern horror movies I've seen in awhile.
It's one huge adrenaline rush, and doesn't let up
for one second, not even when the credits roll.
Not the most original idea, but it certainly
entertained the hell out of me. 9/10
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#3:
bluemeanie
- added October 11, 2007 at 6:10pm
It entertained me also, but I didn't think it was
anything special. I liked a lot of what was done,
but disliked a lot of it too. Eliza Dushku is
TERRIBLE. And the lead guy is almost as bad, if
not worse. I also thought the ending was pretty
lame, compared to the rest of the film. And I
live in the South. I have been all over it. The
Deep South. I have yet to encounter people who
look as countrified as the people in this movie,
like the old man at the gas station.
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#4:
Tristan
- added October 11, 2007 at 6:24pm
I hated the path they took with him in the sequel.
It didn't really make sense, as far as this movie
goes. I think they just wanted to have another
recurring character. And I'm sure there aren't
people in Texas like the TCM family, but you just
have to take the movie for what it is. And I'll
agree completely that Eliza Dushku and the lead
guy were horrible. Her first line in the whole
movie made me laugh it was so terrible.
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