Wrong Turn (2003)

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding." Wrong Turn is far from being a masterpiece for sure but it also has it's fair share of charm and Eliza Dushku was really great and if you've ever seen movies like 'The Hills Have Eyes' or 'Friday the 13th' you should know what to expect. The movie although pretty hardcore and that is also kinda smart and way more on the action and suspense unlike the horror and brutality. (7.5/10)

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.

Just seen this for the second time since it came out long ago, and its still a pretty decent horror movie. It doesn't break the mold but its definitely enjoyable.It features a pretty good cast, many of whom went on to become relatively big stars later on.. They are all good actors, none of which were annoying, so you weren't craving for them to be killed sooner rather than later!There is quite a few memorable nail-biting scenes and the tension is good, with some decent kills.Overall opinion: An above average horror film.Advice: Stay well clear of the sequel, and most likely the other ones too!

SPOILER ALERTS**** Where to begin... you know you're in trouble when the creatures (mutant hillbillies in this case) are hid from your sight for most of the film's first hour. In a film clocking in at 84 minutes including credits that can't be good. What few shots you get of the monsters are fast, usually moving shots with no lingering of the camera on what appears to be very poor creature makeup effects. The mutant hillbillies almost look to be wearing rubber masks and bad hair wigs from the local secondhand store's Halloween costume isle. There are some major flaws in the teenage victims' character definitions specifically a lack of any depth or background of real note. The acting is pedestrian and given the script all that is needed. Just some teens on a camping weekend and a lost college med student meeting cannibal, mutant hillbillies that grunt more than talk. A major flaw is the young people's behaviour - when one of the teens gets killed the rest stand around waiting for their turn, they're awful slow to react for teenagers or 20 somethings. Most people would run like hell given some crazies want to eat them.The ending is totally unbelievable with the mutants refusing to die even though one gets run over by a speeding truck through a cabin door and blown up (at the end); another gets gutted - an arrow through the head and finally blown up (at the end); and the third falls 30 feet out of a tree - shows up later to get a severe axe wound to the chest area and survives the final massive explosion (with presumably no chest injury) to presumably kill in a future Wrong Turn movie sequel to come. There's no killing these 'hick' monsters - like some endless stupid nightmare void of reason and having no sense of cause and effect. That's Wrong Turn's biggest defect, lack of intelligent plot or characterization.If you like your horror movies on pilot control with no imagination, no thinking required and lame characters with little oomph, then this dud is for you. On the plus side, there are a few gruesome kills and some gross imagery that is horrific when you think about it but overall the acting is lame and the story unimaginative. Kind of like a Z grade "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" wannabe that is sorely wanting in the wannabe department. That's the worst kind of Z grade film. I give it 1 star out of 10. That star goes to the 2 or 3 gory kills/images. Don't pay to see this turkey or to rent it. Save your money for better movies.