Wrong Turn
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Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
What critics thought
Wrong Turn landed with a thud among critics, who found it a derivative and suspense-free entry in the backwoods slasher genre. The gore was widely seen as excessive rather than effective, and the script too thin to generate any real dread — though a small number of reviewers found it a passable B-movie workout.
“This could have been a half decent cross between a Romero zombie movie and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre but in the end the gore is so ridiculously overdone and the script so lame, that it undermines all sense of suspense”
Barbara Ellen·The Times
“It's better than any of the official Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels. Which is probably a good thing”
William Thomas·Empire
“This was already tired stuff when cult fave Sleepaway Camp came out in 1983, and it's downright comatose by now”
Marc Savlov·The Austin Chronicle
“lazy would-be horror film”
Anita Gates·The New York Times
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorRob Schmidt
StarringEliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers
ComposerElia Cmiral
Wrong Turn
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
What critics thought
Wrong Turn landed with a thud among critics, who found it a derivative and suspense-free entry in the backwoods slasher genre. The gore was widely seen as excessive rather than effective, and the script too thin to generate any real dread — though a small number of reviewers found it a passable B-movie workout.
“This could have been a half decent cross between a Romero zombie movie and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre but in the end the gore is so ridiculously overdone and the script so lame, that it undermines all sense of suspense”
Barbara Ellen·The Times
“It's better than any of the official Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels. Which is probably a good thing”
William Thomas·Empire
“This was already tired stuff when cult fave Sleepaway Camp came out in 1983, and it's downright comatose by now”
Marc Savlov·The Austin Chronicle
“lazy would-be horror film”
Anita Gates·The New York Times
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorRob Schmidt
StarringEliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers
ComposerElia Cmiral
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