Wrong Turn Reviews

Prepare to be scared

Everynow and again a film like this comes from nowhere, with little hype and manages to scare the living crap out of it's audience. Wrong Turn is one of those films.

It tries very hard to become a cross of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Deliverance and manages to pull it off. Unfortunately, it lacks the rawness and power of the previous films, but that can be overlooked considering that there is plenty here to keep one entertained and on the edge of your seat.

Wrong Turn is a very tense piece of work, and with a very short running time, manages not to outstay it's welcome and maintains it's pace.

A very surprising and underated hit.

brilliant

Really good thriller! The way things are put together works well, the killers are sick people in this title, if you wanna be in for a scare get this! i nearly s*** myself on plenty of occasions!!

What a suprise this film was. I expected a cheap, low quality horror film with the killer being some bizarre monster. What I got was a well thought out story that was just about plausible, and some nice grusome effects.

I'm usually dissapointed with these sorts of films as they are a bit cheesy but Wrong Turn delivered some good suspensful moments and is well worth a watch. Films like Cabin Fever have rencently been poor but this is much better.

RUN RUN ...SHUT HER UP!

I havent seen a film that had me shout at the telly so much..... EVER.

I read the reviews and didnt expect much at all, what a pleasant SURPRISE to find i LOVED it.

After a doctor is late for a meeting he quickly turns around and takes a short cut, only to bump into a car belonging to 5 teenagers. (So now both cars are useless!) They decide to head back for help and set back on foot. Getting lost they find a cabin and go knocking on the door for help.

I am not going to tell you anymore because i find some reviewers can really retell the story and spoil the viewing. I will say i was at the edge of my seat from beginning to end with my cushion to hand! I have watched it about 5 times over 2 yrs!

This is now one of my favourite films and i havent seen one like this since.

A reasonable detour

You know the drill. Fresh-faced medical student Chris is on his way to an important interview and gets stuck in traffic. He decides to take the titular wrong turn and runs (literally) into a group of equally fresh-faced twenty-somethings with a blown out tyre. Turns out someone had deliberately stretched barbed-wire across the road, and now the six companions find themselves stalked by the hunters.

Critics first likened this danger-in-the-woods flick to John Boorman?s rural classic ?Deliverance?, but ?Wrong Turn? owes much more to the daddy of horror flicks, ?The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?. It?s something of a shame then, since producer Stan Winston wanted this movie to be grounded in reality and to do for camping what ?Jaws? did for swimming. ?Deliverance? is gritty, earthy and profoundly unsettling. ?Wrong Turn?, however, is essentially one more glossy horror flick that lacks the punch and audacity that made the 70s a truly frightening decade for cinema. Oscar-winning FX maestro Winston has indeed created a grim trio of mountain men (Saw Tooth, Three Fingers and One Eye), and yet they fail to convince as living legends. The make-up effects are too overstated and the performances are cliched and melodramatic.

?Wrong Turn? starts out promisingly enough and with a welcome break from post-modern, self-referential, new-millenial irony, director Rob Schmidt delivers a suspenseful (and gruesome) intro to a truly horrifying scenario. You?re trapped in the woods, your vehicle is wrecked and your cell phone doesn?t work. Then you discover a family of in-bred cannibals who would love to have you for dinner.

Once their [slaughter]house is found, stark similarities to ?Chainsaw Massacre? kick in. A filthy hovel, a nauseating stench, bones and body parts stored in jars, refrigerators, bath tubs, etc. Then the mountain men bring back their first quarry, and we?re treated to the partial dismembering of a young victim?s body (mostly off-camera). It?s a tense and disturbing scene, genuinely unsettling, but from here on in, the movie descends into yet another stalk-and-slash number, with the most uninteresting characters (and there?s plenty to choose from) being picked off one by one. Main leads Eliza Dushku and Desmond Harrington play it by the book, but there?s actually very little to work with here. As the kids escape from the house and flee once more into the woods, plausibility is stretched to breaking point and the climactic scene is a who?s who of horror cliches.

Fair play to director Schmidt for ditching the irony and playing this picture straight. Unfortunately, the characters are predictable (you?ll know from the start who?ll survive) and the plotting is so simple it borders on the derivative. If you?re looking for a Friday night scare and don?t mind a bog standard stalk-n-slash affair, this is a worthy detour. Otherwise, stick to the highway.

Oh God

Oh God - if this film is rated so highly by so many people then the film industry is doomed.

'I know' say the writers, 'lets do a Deliverance meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre hillbilly romp, and say, why don't we incorporate as many cliches as possible into 81 minutes..'

Just about sums it up. Hundreds of people missing in one area, together with cars, trucks, entire police stations etc. Cause? Mutant super-strength hillbillies (if inbreeding gave you super powers why isn't it more popular?). Ever investigated? Nope. Are the main characters remotely interesting? Nope. Scary? Not a bit. The Ring is scary. This is risable. Complete tripe.

At least Deliverance's mutant Hillbillies were good on the Banjo.

More like a right turn!

One of the better Horror movies of the year, with more than a nod to the classic ?Deliverance?; it gets started immediately and doesn?t let up at any point.

There are a few interesting edits but mainly its very well made, quite gripping with lots of suspense. It?s pretty gory and doesn?t hold back if you don?t look away at least once I would be amazed, not for the faint hearted or squeamish. For a change you actually care about the characters in a horror film they aren?t just axe fodder you really find yourself cheering them on.

And even though you may think you can predict the ending you probably won?t

THIS IS ONE GORRY MOVIE. I JUMPED SEVERAL TIMES. ONE OF THOSE DONT GO IN THE WOODS TYPE MOVIES! THERES ALWAYS A HERO ISNT THERE!!!

your lost in the woods,wot would u do?

i reckon this film is one of the best horrors ever made.i bricked myself on a number of occassions as most of the scenes are totally original .

i would define this film to be a cross between jeepers creepers and the silence of the lambs,would you want to be chased through the woods,all alone,in the dark,with a number of cannibals following your tale.i wouldn't.u must see this film-if u dare?

Retro cannibal thriller

Although a slightly over familiar genre - cannibals in the woods - this is a great modern addition to the cannon that doesn't try to be any other kind of film (e.g. Desert Vampires or Deliverance style male anxiety drama). Starring two of recent television's greatest discoveries Eliza Dushku (Buffy's Faith) and Jeremy Sisko (Six Feet Under's Billy) this is a tense and creepy little film that delivers plenty of scares, shocks and thrills. Dushku has been around for ages (starring in True Lies nearly a decade ago) but inevitably post-Buffy, actors from that show who try to make the leap to the big screeen are compared to their career defining performances there. So far only Alyson Hannigan has shone in the (otherwise dreadful) American Pie movies as opposed to Sarah Michelle Gellar's only good movie (Cruel Intentions) which was 5 years ago, and the less said about the underwhelming part given to Emma Caulfield in Darkness Falls the better.

Although not given a particularly demanding role, Dushku acquits herself well here and I would be surprised if we don't see more of her on the big screen. Sisko on the other hand is one of the most intriguing characters in Six Feet Under and following a nice part in the equally chilling May, provides us with another top performance here - its only a shame that he isn't given the lead role rather than the bland Desmond Harrington who gives Pinocchio a run for his money in the wooden stakes.