Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
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Actor: Tom FredericBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
DVD Review: Could have, would have, shouldn't have.
Summary: 3 Stars
The title of my review refers to the fact that by all means, WRONG TURN 3 : LEFT FOR DEAD should have turned out better than it did. It could have, it would have and it should have. But in the end, it didn't. Honestly folks, I'm surprised this movie even exists. When I heard about a third film in the series, I was pretty excited! It was like a pleasant surprise for us Horror fans, who never really know when a series is going to continue or end. Sadly, this movie is a little disappointing.
The WRONG TURN series has always been considered by Horror fans to be nothing more than a "poor man's" version of THE HILLS HAVE EYES or THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Which by all means wasn't a bad thing considering us Horror enthusiasts usually take what we can get in terms of crazy, mutant, hillbilly, cannibalistic, redneck mountain men. When it comes down to that, we want to keep it simple. Blood, guts and mayhem in other words. Nothing Shakespearean by any means, just good 'ol fashion hillbilly Horror!
The first one in the series had a lot going for it. Stan Winston (ALIENS, JURASSIC PARK) did the special effects for the film, giving the mutants a disgusting sense of menace. It wasn't the goriest of the series (when the movie came out, film studios were still a little reluctant to release a movie that was unrated) but then again, it didn't need to be. The first WRONG TURN was actually pretty scary during some moments. Also, the acting was actually not bad either. I was pleasantly surprised after watching the first one when it came out.
The second film in the series wasn't anywhere as good as the first, but it was still fun. WRONG TURN 2 : DEAD END added more gore, more killer mutant rednecks and a lot more nudity! It was a sequel that would have made Jason Voorhees proud! Not to mention that it had Henry Rollins in it to boot. It was a passable follow up to the first movie.
Which brings us to the third entry, WRONG TURN 3 : LEFT FOR DEAD. I hate to say it (especially in a stupid comical way) but this movie should have been left for dead itself! I mean the way this movie turned out, I don't see how anyone involved with it could have felt satisfied with the finished result. The biggest problem with this movie is the directors lack of imagination. The movie starts out of nowhere and we don't even get a chance to know any of the characters before they're sliced to pieces. Once again, we don't need too much in terms of character development but a little more time spent with them (at the beginning) couldn't have hurt.
Does anybody even remember what happened in the second film? Didn't it involve a crew working on a reality TV show getting slaughtered in these same woods!?! Don't you think the big budget TV executives would have wondered where their cast and crew was after some time? Not to mention the local police and everybody's family members! The forest couldn't possibly be that large and eventually somebody would find those crazy mutant freaks. I dunno', maybe I'm digging too deep here.
Another problem I had with this movie is the lack of style. The camera work is very straight forward and basic. With no zest to it. Would it have killed them to at least throw a gritty camera lens into the mix!?! Something to make the movie look dark and sinister maybe? Most Horror movies today (in the 2000's) at least get that part right. In my opinion, such successful Horror films as HOSTEL and HIGH TENSION are well done and executed right. They filmed those movies with a camera lens that seems like a throw back to late 1970's Horror films, which I like a lot. WRONG TURN 3 doesn't even try to add interesting lens colors or camera angles to the movie. It's just there and in your face like a Porno.
There are a lot of problems with this movie and I don't want to beat a dead horse here. Let's talk about the plot now. Once again, it's pretty simple. Two prison guards are transferring a bus load of inmates through the woods and eventually their bus gets thrown from the road via rednecks in a dirty old pick up truck. As the prisoners make their way through the woods (of course a lot of macho "drama" ensues), they get picked off in gruesome ways one by one. End of story.
The movie does have some nice scenes of gore, although it would have been nice to see them shy away from some of the more obvious uses of CGI during a few of the deaths. If thats what you're looking for (a gory movie) then that shouldn't turn you away. It does give the audience tons of the red stuff. Also, the spooky music during some of the more strange moments was a nice and unexpected touch to an otherwise disappointing film. On the plus side, the make-up effects are really nice and some of the actors are actually pretty good. With a little more style, this could have been just as good as the second film in the series. Instead, because of it's faults, it stays at a number three.
Gore Hounds, check it out for nasty scenes of death! Bodies get chopped up, faces get sliced off and limbs are hacked off! Also, four people die within the first ten minutes of the movie! Not to mention the action is actually pretty good too, which is shocking considering everything else is pulled off so cheap. You can't say the special effects crew didn't try with this movie, thats for sure! With a little more time and thought, this could have been a fun third entry. Instead, people are just going to bash it, hate it and forget it. I really doubt if the series has any future after this movie. Oh' well. It could have, it would have and it should have. But it didn't.
I've said my bit. Over and out!
Description of Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
WRONG TURN 3 - DVD MovieWell, it doesn't waste any time: the opening sequence of Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead gets cracking with an eyeball-popping sequence of gory horror that signals the carnage-fest to come. (And the term eyeball-popping is meant to be taken quite literally here.) This sequel in the crazed-inbred-hillbilly franchise places a group of hardened prisoners, and a few guards, in the midst of foresty mayhem, along with the lone survivor of the opening attack on river-rafting teens (Janet Montgomery). So after the first few minutes the entire film takes place at night in a thick forest, which leads to visual monotony despite the periodic attacks from insane rednecks and skin-lacerating booby traps. (In fact, the most heroic character deliberately leads the cons in circles in the forest--not the most exciting narrative device.) The dialogue is clunky and some of the peripheral acting is Z-movie level, but give the movie credit for including a couple of authentic badasses: Tamer Hassan (from Layer Cake and Eastern Promises) as a furious gangster, and hulking Gil Kolirin. The indestructibility of the villains makes any chance of credibility impossible (who knew inbreeding would result in such superpowers?), so the only choice is to sit back and witness the various ingenious ways of killing. Which are many. The coda will probably have viewers outraged, but by then you know what kind of movie you're watching. --Robert Horton
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