A horror tale - reminiscent of such 70s classics as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes" - that tells of six teens trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by cannibalistic mountain men.
The synopsis of this sounds like a million other films of the same genre.This one however has something so unique that its become my favourite all time movie and trust me Im a huge fan of this genre. To begin with most of the characters are instantly likeable - something that thse films usually lack making it even more unbelievable when they are murdered.The plot is believable and moves along at a fast, interesting pace. The hillbilly family and deformed but again this is done in such a way that its not too extreme - they actually look quite convincing not to mention terrifying. Thefact you rarely see a close up of their faces but just catch chilling glimpses adds to the fear factor in this film. Completely underrated film and top of the horror genre.
If you like your traditional 'group of teens trapped in the forest being chased and picked off by hillbillies' type movie then this is the best there is. Although the plot has been used before the murders are inventive and the baddies have to be seen to be believed - truly terrifying. My all time favourite horror.
"Wrong Turn" is without doubt one of the worst films of the so-called "horror" genre I have had the misfortune to see.
It is a formulaic, plotless, and one dimensional affair.
In an attempt to combine the truly frightening elements of both "Deliverance" and the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" this film fails torridly. In "Deliverance" the Appalachian hill-billies were genuinely disturbing; likewise are the family of inbreeds in "Texas Chainsaw": by being mirrors, or rather reflections, of individuals who exist in such remote places, they extrapolate the multifarious forms of human primitivism, degradation, and perversity.... However, in Wrong Turn this "family" are far more like the Simpsons in both behaviour and appearance, but, without the wit, the charm, or the socially conscious satire.
The characters are preposterously one-dimensional, lacking both substance and personality: They are nothing more than skeet flung out in order to be shot. And of course the obligatory moral hierarchy of slaughter is established when the pot-smoking teen who after receiving fellatio from his girlfriend is the first to die.
The film reaches the depths of bathos during a scene where our (I refrain from using the term heroes) hapless youths are hiding under a bed narrowly missing detection from mutants in their own dilapidated home. The objections I have to this sequence are legion. The negative points of this film are myriad. The reasons to watch this film are none - other than being an abject lesson in how films ought not be made.
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Chris takes a turning into an unmarked dirt road to avoid a traffic jam, he ploughs into the back of another vehicle after his tyres blow. As the two drivers swap details they notice that the road had been sabotaged with barbed wire... Four of the party leave to track down some help and Evan and Francine stay to look after the cars...
On the way to a job interview, Chris (Desmond Harrington) takes an unexpected detour down an old dirt road to avoid a traffic jam. A distracted Chris crashes into the back of a car stuck in the middle of the road, immobilised by barbed wire. The car belongs to five friends on a camping trip. Two of the group stay with the cars while the other four set out to find help. But they soon discover they've been led into a horrible trap when they find a old cabin in the woods occupied by a gang of disfigured cannibals.
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