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Wrong Turn (2003)

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Reviews Counted:78

Fresh:31

Rotten:47

Average Rating:4.3/10

Consensus: An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguished itself from others of its ilk.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $15,176,515

Synopsis: From four-time Academy Award-winning character effects artist Stan Winston ("Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Aliens") and the producers of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and... From four-time Academy Award-winning character effects artist Stan Winston ("Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Aliens") and the producers of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Resident Evil" comes "Wrong Turn," a film steeped in the traditions of classic '70s-style horror movies.

Chris (Desmond Harrington) has a job interview in Raleigh in three hours and he's making good time in his refurbished classic Mustang convertible ... until an accident miles down the highway turns Chris' three-hour trip into a six-hour wait.

Determined to make his critical appointment, Chris makes a hard U-turn and heads back up the West Virginia highway. Running low on fuel, he finds a dirt road that seemingly intersects the highway after about 20 miles. It's clearly a road less traveled, but to Chris it seems to be a quick fix to get around the highway traffic jam.

Not far away, Jessie (Eliza Dushku) and her friends, Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Carly's boyfriend Scott (Jeremy Sisto), Evan (Kevin Zegers) and his girlfriend Francine (Lindy Booth), stand quiet; stunned as they survey what's left of their road trip after the tires blow out, leaving them stranded deep in the middle of the woods.

Chris heads down the dusty, winding back road, as the green forest canopy overhead casts ominous shadows of twilight on his foreboding path. He loses control around the curve and by the time he can see the disabled Range Rover in front of him it is too late to stop or swerve. The rear wheels lock up and the mustang roars into the back of the SUV, scattering the people surrounding it.

Luckily, no one is seriously hurt in the collision but egos are bruised and tempers flare. Chris is apologetic and Jessie is the claming force when she discovers the barbed wire that was stretched across the road. The blown out tires were seemingly the result of a prank.

The group quickly bands together, determined to find a phone. Evan and Francine stay with the cars, as the other four make their way down the road. As they venture deeper and deeper into the woods, the idea of a prankster grows dim when they discover a mountain cabin filled with grisly hunting weapons and horrific souvenirs of the hunt.

They are now certain that whomever -- or whatever -- lives in the cabin are responsible for the barbed-wire trap. What the foursome doesn't know is that Evan and Francine are now dead, mercilessly mutilated by three gruesome mountain men. Facing an uncertain and possibly horrific fate at the hands of these men, the four friends are sure of one thing: they will never go camping again. -- © 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui

Starring: Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lindy Booth, Kevin Zegers

Director: Rob Schmidt

Director: Rob Schmidt
Screenwriter: Alan McElroy
Producer: Robert Kulzer, Erik Feig, Stan Winston, Brian Gilbert
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Schmidt makes us flinch the old-fashioned way -- by giving us a box seat to the unspeakable.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
06/02/03
Glenn Lovell
Glenn Lovell
San Jose Mercury News

The plot unfolds like a slasher-by -the-numbers kit.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
06/02/03
C.W. Nevius
C.W. Nevius
San Francisco Chronicle

Suffers a fate similar to that of many other horror and supernatural thrillers released in the last decade: It leaves you with the feeling that you're watching an episode of The X-Files, only Mulder and Scully never show up.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
06/02/03
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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It was a mistake to have one of the characters refer to the film Deliverance in this low-rent horror flick, because all it does is remind us of much better cinematic efforts.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
06/02/03
Frank Buschmann
Frank Buschmann
Hollywood Reporter

The sole saving grace of Wrong Turn is its honesty. You get exactly what you expect -- blood, guts and people being taken to the killing floor. But just because it's honest doesn't make it good.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
06/02/03
Kevin M. Williams
Kevin M. Williams
Chicago Tribune

A stultifying blend of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, boot camp, and maybe The Blair Witch Project, Wrong Turn is profoundly less than the sum of its influences.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
06/02/03
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

If you're unfortunate enough to head down the path of seeing this film, that will be the only Wrong Turn you'll likely remember.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
06/02/03
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

A movie that runs out of people to kill very quickly and seems in a huge hurry to be over.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
06/02/03
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies

It entertained me for 'what it was.'

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
06/02/03
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Bad directions are the least of its problems.

Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment Comment
06/02/03
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
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This sleazy slice of hicksploitation features a band of inbred mountain men so monstrous and foul, they make the toothless hillbillies of Deliverance look like the Vienna Boys Choir.

Full Review Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram | comment Comment
06/02/03
Scott Von Doviak
Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

[It] is better than the average entry in the subgenre because it eschews exposition in favor of thrills.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
06/01/03
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

There are a lot of things wrong with this movie, and no things that are right. It's just about as bad a movie as I’ve seen in all the years I’ve been reviewing films.

Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
06/01/03
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

Dull, humorless slasher flick.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/01/03
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

Sheer, unadulterated nastiness with no apologies.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
06/01/03
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

This was already tired stuff when cult fave Sleepaway Camp came out in 1983, and it's downright comatose by now.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
06/01/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

While I have nothing particularly against the horror sub-sub-genre that dotes on the dire doings of inbred hillbilly cannibals, my initial reaction is that it makes House of 1000 Corpses look like a masterpiece.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
06/01/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Takes itself and the horrific situation it puts its characters in seriously...A tense and frightful good time.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
05/31/03
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

The biggest problem with "Wrong Turn" is that it fails to build its own mythology

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
05/31/03
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Moderately suspenseful, but...a good horror movie like this requires one of two things: interesting heroes or at least a conceptually interesting villain. Here we are given neither.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/31/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather
 
 
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