Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

People are voting emotionally.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

First, I'm sick and tired of cannibal movies. They're stupid, poorly written and in this case, how can in bred morons out think everyone? Also, they're in the middle of lush country, full of game - so why the hell are they cannibals? Second, when they're killing and eating every nubile, fertile woman they catch, how are they breeding? LAST - How do they keep surviving? I'm sorry but an axe to the chest, that simply isn't a survivable wound. OK, maybe I'm looking a bit too deep at what is a really stupid film, but I have to do something to stay awake during this pap.

This is a good solid horror thriller. There is nothing original here. It has shades of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and is very similar indeed to the remake. The monsters are very creepy but they are never fully realised. The violence and sadomasochist-violence is excellent with realistic gross-out deaths. It is scary and jumpy and almost a step-up over older horror but that also means that it is a step down as the connection is gone and replaced with slickness. This is a fun slasher.

A typical slasher movie that takes John Boorman's DELIVERANCE as its central concept, then delivers tons of action, bloodshed, and virtually no plot for the rest of the ninety-minute running time. It has to be said that WRONG TURN starts off well enough. Two climbers are brutally murdered in the wilderness, then there's a suspenseful car-ride/crash which almost had me bolting from my seat. The film builds in tension as unseen evil stalks our cast, but after the first major gore scene, things go downhill fast. The rest of the film is a chase between our heroes and the cannibal men which lasts right up until the last (gruesome) minute. It's not bad, but something we've seen a hundred times before, so those looking for originality should go looking somewhere else. They won't find any here.One very annoying thing about this film is the reliance on poor CGI effects in scenes you wouldn't expect to see them. In one shot the entire forest is done with CGI, it looks ridiculous, why the heck would they want to do that? In other shots, the cast are supposedly balancing on branches high above the ground, but the CGI influence is obvious again. Finally they climb a watchtower, but is it really a watchtower? Nope, just a CGI animation. I wish film-makers would get out of this annoying habit. When I saw Stan Winston's name in the credits, I thought I would be in for some GREAT make-up like he's done in the past. I was wrong. The mutants in this film have nondescript makeup, which looks very much like makeup. Director Rob Schmidt realises this and keeps their faces hidden as much as he can, but he's wasting his time. It doesn't pay-off, and it looks like Winston's losing his touch. About time he won back some credit – when's your next JURASSIC PARK gonna be, Stan? The cast is so-so. I liked Desmond Harrington's leading man, stern and authoritative throughout, never backing down, never losing his resolve. He's my kind of hero. Eliza Dushku is very pretty as the heroine, and kicks backside too, so you can't lose there. Jeremy Sisto is on hand to supply comic relief and he's great, it's a shame he dies halfway through the film but you can't have everything. The film has routine action but goes over-the-top in the gore effects which reach new heights of sickness. We get to watch heads being axed off (deeply unpleasant) and other implements impale the human body. I used to enjoy gore when I was younger, it seems a little bit too much here, and in bad taste as well. Still, it could be worse I guess. WRONG TURN's best aspect is the isolated forest setting, but even that seems too slick and glossy these days. I preferred the low-budget horrors that came out of the USA years ago, which really WERE filmed out in the wilderness (take RITUALS). That's where the real fear lies.

Wrong Turn (2003) *** (out of 4)Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is driving through West Virginia on his way to a job interview in Raleigh when he runs into traffic. To try and make the interview, he takes an old back road and before long crashes into another car with five people. Soon four of them are tracking their way through the dense woods to look for help and come under attack by some redneck cannibals.This here is basically THE Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE meets BREAKDOWN but it actually works thanks in large part to Rob Schmidt extremely good directing, which tries to build suspense as well as throw in some gore. WRONG TURN was released during the period of torture- porn but it really doesn't go down this direction, although there are certainly some violent and gory kills. The main focus is clearly on the suspense and this is where the film succeeds and really stands apart from other slashers from this period.Many of the scenes in the film are built around long sequences where our good guys find themselves in bad situations, which usually include closed in spaces. There's a sequence where the four are trapped inside the killer's house. There's a sequence where they're trapped inside a watchtower. Another sequence in some trees as they try to avoid one of the maniacs. All of these scenes play out extremely well due to the direction but also some nice editing, a good music score and you get the added benefit of some fine performances, which make for characters that you actually like and want to see survive.Harrington and Eliza Dushku play the leads and both of them offer up good performances and they're certainly strong enough to carry the film. Emmanuelle Chriqui and Jeremy Sisto play the supporting couple and both of them are good as well. The actors playing the cannibals are also effective in the way they stalk their victims. As Michael Myers proved in HALLOWEEN, the way the killers move is very important and the ones here are very effective.The film has some pretty tense scenes but it also delivers on the gore front as there are various violent deaths that will please gore hounds. There's a scene with some barb wire that I'm sure will have some looking away. WRONG TURN manages to rise above most slashers of its time and makes for a very good horror movie.