Wrong Turn
by Rob Schmidt
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Actor: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin ZegersDirector: Rob Schmidt
Brand: DUSHKU,ELIZA
Producer: Aaron Ryder
Producer: Brian J. Gilbert
Producer: Don Carmody
Producer: Erik Feig
Producer: Hagen Behring
Producer: Jefferson Richard
Writer: Alan B. McElroy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
DVD Reviews of Wrong Turn
DVD Review: One of THE worst horror movie I've ever seen!
Summary: 1 Stars
Lets begin with, well, the beginning. It starts off rather poorly, I must say. What happens is that two mountain climbers are....climbing a mountain. A small mountain, but one managed to reach the top before the other anyway. Well, what happens next is that he gets killed....almost completely silently. I mean, you don't hear a scream, any sounds of struggling, or anything signaling movement at all. Next is that someone with tremendous strength attempts to pull the girl (other climber) up and he's doing it really fast, except he only does it sporadically for some reason. She cut herself loose and tried to grab another rope, but she slipped and fell anyway. She somehow survived without any serious fractures or anything that would happen to a normal person who falls off a mountain onto hard ground. Anyway, while the person (or thing) was playing around in the bushes, the girl ran to her car, but of course, she didn't make it.
After showing us a few images and articles of inbred people, it flash forwards to our main story and, I suppose, our hero (his name is Chris). After meeting a sarcastic hick and a hick who apparently is the film's proverbial mystic indian (i.e. he knows about the danger, but he won't tell it for some damn reason), he heads into the same place where the aforementioned climbers died. Anyway, after proving to be an inattentive driver, he meets up with the other MTV-I mean, regular people who just happens to be incredibly attractive. After showing themselves to have as much etiquette as the sarcastic hick Chris met a while back, they're all off to a wild and crazy adventure as they fight back a bunch of inbred cannibals. Incredible premise, right? Oh, and remember those two hicks I mentioned? They'll be the only hicks other than the cannibals. Yup, you heard me. Apparently, the cannibals must strand nothing but attractive people because you'll probably never see them attack any hicks.
Okay, that's the story. Honest. However, despite their great attractiveness, you won't like most of them. Why? Because like I said, they're jerks. I mean, sure, Chris was inattentive and hit their car, but the fact is that their car was already useless and he offered to pay for everything. The only one that has a personality you could possibly like is Scott, who seems to be on some type of drug and I'm pretty sure it's not medicinal. The rest are a varied cast. One's a chain smoker, another's your token teen "girl of the night" (if you catch my drift), another's a seme female dog, then there's the drug smoker and his fiancee, the uke female dog, and finally, we have a snobby hero who just happens to go to medical school. In the same order, their names are Evan, Francine, Jessie, Scott, Carly, and Chris. Wow, such appropriate names, right?
However, character development is not the biggest problem in this movie. The biggest problem is that the horror is sporadic. What I mean by that is that horror tends to break out of nowhere and then it goes back into hiding. For example, one moment you're watching what the characters are doing, then suddenly you see someone get cut up, then you immediately return to the other characters and continue as if nothing happened. The director even had the nerve to input horror scenes that interswitch with romance scenes. What is this movie trying to do? I thought it was a horror movie? What the hell is this?
In lieu of all these terrible flaws, there follows many plot holes. These aren't your ordinary plot holes either, they are GLARING plot holes. I mean, it seemed as though the director didn't even bother to try with this movie. So many things didn't make sense and even more things seemed out of place. The cannibals' house act as more of a place to show off gore rather than a place that would fit the mentally insane. Then there's also the fact that it doesn't seem like this cannibal family ever attacks other hicks. In one scene, you'll realize this glaringly. It was so terrible, I just had to cry, and to top it off, you'll see this as an interswitch in-between horror scenes again.
And you know what tops everything? What REALLY REALLY tops everything? There were only THREE cannibals! Yes, that's right! There were only THREE cannibals! And one of them is a lanky little guy! Do you mean to tell me that four completely healthy teenagers could do absolutely nothing to fight off three inbred cannibals? They could find absolutely no weapon whatsoever that would completely bust open the skull of even the little lanky cannibal? That is a load of crock! I'm not the biggest guy in the world, but I could probably kill at least one of them! A steel pipe to the head should do it or does being a cannibal magically give them special healing abilities like how it heightened their sense of smell (in the movie, they can smell humans...)? But either way, none of the characters try anything even closely resembling that. Instead, they let the cannibals chased them all throughout the movie and kill them one by one (frankly, I'm surprised as many of them survived as they did). Hell, it isn't until near the end of the movie that they actually tried something and of all the things they could have used, they decided to use a tree branch. I swear, the stupidity of these people will just drive you insane! There was one point in the movie where they could have actually use a GUN to defend themselves! You know what happened? Nothing. Apparently, a big scissor is more useful.
What really piss me off about all of this is that when they finally did decide to kill the cannibals, they did it rather easily. No serious injuries, but just a few close calls. They did this with a MUCH smaller group too. It was just so ridiculous, I couldn't stand it. My God, this movie is absolutely horrible. It has a bad plot, an overused premise, and it even had a bad introduction! Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this trash!
Description of Wrong Turn
A group of teenagers on a road trip find themselves lost in the woods of West Virginia only to be threatened by mountain men disfigured through inbreeding.Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
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