Very disappointing...

Best movie ever!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Some travellers take a wrong turn in the backwoods of West Virginia and find themselves being hunted by a family of seriously deformed, blood thirsty giggling rednecks. Granted, this basic plot is hardly original and this film has shades of The Texas Massacre & The Hills Have Eyes. I originally saw this at the cinema on a first date but my mind was more on the girl that I was with than the film itself. Now, 15 years later, I have given it a second viewing, this time on DVD. And what a great film it is! It is well filmed and while it does pack in some serious gore it is also very suspenseful, the latter quality being lacking in so many modern horror films. Queens of the Stone Age appear on the soundtrack so more points in my book for that. This has spawned several sequels, most of them filmed in Eastern Europe, but while they have generally upped the gore content these lack the quality of the first movie. One of the best horror films in the first few years of the 21st Century.

Wrong Turn has become a very big thing,from theatrical releases,to straight to DVD sequels that did'int quite make it,I'm luckily here,yes me,your favourite reviewer,to review all of them. So,Wrong Turn follows the story of a man going for a job interview only to crash in to a caravan on a deserted road,with him and the group lost,they decide to team up only for three hillbilly brothers to come out and kill each one,one by one. Wrong Turn,at the time,when it came out in 2003,was a very original idea,the only two really things that matched it were Cannibal Holocaust and Hills Have Eyes. The film has a very slow pace but it does make up for it when somebody slowly dies like that arrow death,that was cool. Eliza Dushku,or whatever her name was,was brilliant in this,there were scenes were it felt like she was actually going to sh*t herself. Wrong Turn is a brilliant horror film I advise you should see

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.

I saw on Netflix that this movie produced five sequels, which I found interesting enough to watch, but first I needed to refresh my memory on the original. Wrong Turn turned out to be a really good movie. It's a refreshing Slasher film that does things slightly differently.The kids get into a car accident that turns out to be a trap set by psychopathic killers. The accident happens early in the movie before we learn much about the characters. The action begins quickly, and I do mean action, as the group of slashers hunt down these kids, who wanted to get out of the woods more badly than any group of young attractive kids ever did, like animals. Eliza Dushku earned her place on the poster. She's not playing a victim at all as she tries to lead her friends out of the woods. Plus the Slashers in the movie were an interesting group of hillbilly freaks worthy of having sequels to keep the party going. So I get why they would make sequels to this movie, its a really great watch.