Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Plot synopsis:
Reality show contestant Kimberly Caldwell is driving through the West Virginia back country searching for the location of her next project. While driving, she accidentally hits a teenager. She stops to check on him, but the teenager is revealed to be Brother, a cannibal, who bites her lips off. She attempts to escape, but runs into Three Finger, who splits her in half vertically with an axe. He and Brother drag her halves away.
Former U.S. Marine Colonel Dale Murphy is hosting a survival reality game show The Apocalypse: Ultimate Survivalist, in the West Virginia forest with contestants including: lingerie model Elena, wisecracking skateboarder Matt Jones also known as Jonesy, U.S. Marine officer and Iraq veteran Amber Williams, former high school football player Jake Washington and a goth Nina Papas. After Kimberly Caldwell does not show up, the show's producer Mara Stone reluctantly takes her place.
When the game starts, Three Finger kills Neil, one of the television crew. While Dale prepares for the games, Three Finger and another cannibal Pa, attack and knock him unconscious. Nina and Mara find a log cabin in the woods. Mara enters the cabin to try to find a telephone as Nina follows her. While they look around the house, they hear the occupants return, so they hide in a bedroom. They witness a female cannibal, Ma, giving birth to a deformed baby. Her daughter, Sister, spots Nina and Mara in the bedroom, forcing the two to escape through the toilet pit. They run into the woods, but Mara is hit in the head with a thrown axe by Pa. Nina searches for the others as the cannibals collect Mara's body.
After showrunner M and Elena have sex, he returns to the RV while Elena stays by a lake to tan in her underwear. When Elena hears the cannibals, she starts to get dressed as Sister emerges from the bushes and slashes her to death with a machete. While M is in the RV, Ma and Pa hijack it. Pa attacks M and captures him. Meanwhile, Dale manages to escape and battles Three Finger. After a short fight, Dale shoots Three Finger with a shotgun.
As Jake, Amber and Jonesy are eating some meat they found, Nina returns and tells her story. When Jake realizes it was Kimberly's leg they had been eating, he, Nina, Amber and Jonesy attempt to escape. Dale finds the old man from the first film in his cabin. The old man tells him how the cannibals' mutations were caused by inbreeding and effluent dumped in the river by the abandoned paper mill. He then reveals that he is their father and attacks Dale. After a brief skirmish, Dale kills the old man by blowing him up with a stick of dynamite. After finding the RV gone, the others run towards the woods and encounter Brother and Sister. After fighting the cannibals, Jake searches for Nina while Amber and Jonesy go for help. Jake rescues Nina from a pit and they jump into the river to escape Sister.
Nina and Jake enter the mill and find a garage full of vehicles stolen from prior victims. They find the RV, and Jake enters it and witnesses M being decapitated by Ma on a live feed monitor inside. Nina and Jake attempt to leave but the cannibals, after they had murdered Amber and Jonesy in a trap earlier, capture them. The abandoned mill is revealed to be the mutants' home. Jake is strung up and Nina is strapped to a chair with barbed wire. The mutants eat dinner and force feed Nina.
Dale sneaks into the compound and distracts the cannibals. As the cannibals are searching for him, Dale manages to kill Brother and Sister with dynamite attached to an arrow. He frees Nina and Jake, but is killed by Ma and Pa, who were incensed by the deaths of their children. Nina successfully escapes, but Jake wanders into a room fitted with an enormous tree debarker, where he is attacked by Ma and Pa. Nina returns to the mill and kills Ma and Pa with the debarker. Nina and Jake find Kimberly's abandoned car and drive away. Meanwhile, Three Finger has survived and is feeding the mutant baby with a finger and a bottle filled with polluted water, before the film cuts to black and Three Finger's laugh is heard.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
Without animals to hunt or fish to catch, the next generation chases travelers to feed themselves."Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" has an unoriginal story that I have seen many times, and seems to be a replay of parts of many other movies, like for example "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Hills Have Eyes", "Timber Falls", "Wrong Turn" plus breasts of a sexy girl and a collection of clichés of the genre.
The premise is nothing new, but the characters, gore and inventive kills make it well worth watching.The always cool Henry Rollins (who I'd pay money just to see reading the bible) plays a retired Army Colonel who is now hosting a faux-post apocalyptic reality game show.
Wrong Turn is a decent horror movie that I usually recommend to my friends, it had a fresh new feel for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre genre.
So when my boyfriend and I were looking for a film to watch, we came across Wrong Turn 2: Dead End at the video store, I was like oh, no, another crummy sequel to destroy a fine film.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is a fun and gory sequel that offers lots of blood and entertainment.A group is about to film another "survivor" type of reality show in the middle of the woods.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, the obvious sequel to the Terrific 70s Style Horror film Wrong Turn which starred the beautiful Eliza Dushku and Desmond Harrington (and which I surprisingly really dug and loved), was probably my most anticipated film ever for more than 2 years due to many different reasons, hence I was really looking forward to it and couldn't wait to see it.
However, it was taking FOX forever to properly release it, so I waited really long for it to finally come out on October 09th, and well, having finally seen the film, all I can say is - WOW, was the wait worth it!, since the film completely exceeded all my expectations, and turned out to be one of the best Horror Sequels I've seen since Aliens and Evil Dead II.
The film revolves around a group of 6 reality show contestants (we have the heroine, the black guy, the army chick, the funny guy, the nice girl, the slut, and the 7th contestant who is very brutally eliminated in the amazing and brutal opening scene of the film), their producer, and the host, who start getting killed off one-by-one while participating in the low-budget reality show by a group of sick, horny, and hideously deformed inbred hillbilly cannibals who plan on making them all their dinner.
However, unluckily for the hillbillies, the remaining contestants and the host start fighting back for their survival, unaware that the hillbillies have different plans for them and their body parts.Hvaing watched the film, I have to say that without a doubt one of the biggest highlights of the film is the gorgeous and talented Erica Leerhsen (whom you may recognize from the underrated Blair Witch 2 and the terrific Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake) who is simply terrific in the movie, and fortunately plays the most interesting and likable character with a saddening back story, and is great to see that she has actually has a decent-sized role as I always thought she was heavily underrated.Henry Rollins steals the show as well and kicks some serious ass in the movie, and let's face it -there's nobody else who would do it better than Rollins; the man is simply a genius and should get more roles like this.
Worth mentioning are other talented cast members, including Texas Battle, Aleksa Palladino, Daniella Alonso (who actually has much more to work with than in The Hills Have Eyes II), Steve Braun, Crystal Lowe, and Matthew Currie Holmes, and I have to say that Kimberly Caldwell is also great in her debut role, and delivers a fine performance in the brutal opening scene of the film.Despite that all characters are pretty stereotypical, you actually care for them (which is very rare in Horror movies as most characters in Slasher films are one-dimensional), and I have to admit it is pretty hard to predict who is going to survive or die, thanks to the writers, Turi Meyer and Al Saptien, who have made a surprisingly effective script.
Joe Lynch does an outstanding job as the director, and with his many homages to other movies (including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead II, Aliens, Rambo, The Blair Witch Project; mostly 80s Splatter flicks), and brutal death scenes (hint: opening scene), he is definitely one of the reasons why the sequel turned out so great.And how does Wrong Turn 2 do in comparison with the original?
Also, don't let the fact that this is a direct-to-video film put you away, as it's definitely the best straight-to-video movie I've ever seen, and just proves that sometimes even a little, direct-to-video sequel can live up to its proceeder, and even stand on its own.So in all - is Wrong Turn 2 completely flawless?
It's not flawless or perfect, but I still love it, so if you really are looking for a worthy sequel with amazing acting, great direction, brutal and inventive deaths, likable characters, and lots more, Wrong Turn 2 is definitely then the right turn, and an amazing Horror flick you should surely check out!
"Wrong Turn 2:Dead End" provides a really amusing way for our latest victims to end up in trouble.They're the contestants on a Survivor-style reality series.Because our six contestants and a few poor producers are actually tramping around the lair of mutant inbred cannibals...This tongue-in-cheek horror flick is nastier than the original,but the violence is more cartoonish."Wrong Turn" by Rob Schmidt was quite serious,in "Wrong Turn 2" the gore flows more freely.Henry Rollins is fun to watch as the tough survivalist who kicks some cannibal ass.The pace is fast,the characters are well-developed and the mutants look ugly.Give it a whirl.8 out of 10..
I mean come on, reality TV is old hat now never mind movies emulating it (badly).A group of dislikable nobodies sign up for a reality TV show which just so happens to be filmed in the same woods the inbred rednecks from the first movie inhabit and oh my god I'm bored just trying to explain it....All you need to know is the acting is awful, the direction and script are childish, it's predictable, boring and I can't honestly think of any redeeming features.Rewatch the original instead of wasting your time with this..
I mean come on, reality TV is old hat now never mind movies emulating it (badly).A group of dislikable nobodies sign up for a reality TV show which just so happens to be filmed in the same woods the inbred rednecks from the first movie inhabit and oh my god I'm bored just trying to explain it....All you need to know is the acting is awful, the direction and script are childish, it's predictable, boring and I can't honestly think of any redeeming features.Rewatch the original instead of wasting your time with this..
For once, we have a highly original plot slightly in the vein of Halloween: Resurrection, but far superior.The characters were all incredibly likable, and I love how there were several scenes that really give you an idea of personalities, character traits, and utilizes fantastic dialogue and some of the best and most creative gore sequences on film.Overall, Wrong Turn 2 is not simply some crappy direct-to-video waste of time--once again, this sequel is so far superior to the original, and a new horror masterpiece.
Gimme a break!Fortunately, the silly initial premise doesn't get in the way of this film ultimately becoming an extremely enjoyable (and very gory) film, and kudos must go to director Joe Lynch for making this sequel to the 2003 original such a fun ride.Amongst a cast of relative unknowns (horror fans may recognise some faces, but your average film-goer won't), Henry Rollins obviously stands out, as the ex-soldier turned show host who uses his military experience to turn the tables on his attackers.
It's a nice move that works well.Wrong Turn 2 isn't a great film, but it is a good one, and I recommend it to all fans of backwoods horror flicks..
And like I said above, some cool gore and make-up effects are the winning parts of this film as well.I suppose Wrong Turn 2 is a perfect follow up to the original.
While the movie was slowly turning a bit repetitive and boring with every next scene, I feel the director tear the screenplay in pieces and burned them, and start to pour everywhere He manages extra fake blood, guts, livers, hearts and all the organs you can think off, I think He even probably borrowed or stole from somewhere extra fakes.I mean how much blood and guts can one man or woman have, that combined with the unbearable bad acting and now already with ridiculous lines, goofs, lack of direction or logic, became funny, I started to laugh out loud while the pieces of people were all around, I laughed to the director and people who praised this garbage..
This is a DTV sequel to the 2003 film Wrong Turn.The film revolves around a group of young adults that participate in survival-like challenges as if the world was ending and deformed humans were roaming.Now,as I really dislike DTV sequels I must say this is a good sequel.Its better than the first Wrong Turn.This film has the 3 essentials to score big on my scale Gruesome,Gore,and Gross.This movie really was good enough to have the 3 essentials from my scale!
While the worst thing I can say is that the Morlocks were not the most believable as real human beings, if we can look pas that (it's horror, you know) then the movie really kicks you in the nuts (or ovaries).The lovely Erica Leerhsen takes the lead as Nina, Henry Rollins is awesome as the survivalist Dale (a much more natural role than he had in "Feast" and a significantly bigger part, as well).
After a killer opening with a nice death scene the movie does slow down a bit to set-up the storyline with the reality show contestants, but soon after it gets going and is an exciting, gore-filled time.
Aside from her character, the only others I liked were Amber, Mara, Jake, and especially Dale (played by Henry Rollins in a pretty cool role).The major problem I have with most of the endless line of Direct-to-DVD sequels being released is that the majority of them just copy the plots from the previous films.
Wrong Turn was a pretty original and interesting film back from 2003 which starred the lovely Desmond Harrington and the even lovelier Eliza Dushku, and was about a group of people who start getting killed-of by a group of hillbilly mutants in a very gross way.
The acting was great too and all actors do a good job here (yes, even the slut), but I thought Erica Leerhsen was the best actor in the movie and despite her character isn't a typical heroine, you want to see her live.
The director did a really good job too and the deaths are really effective as I already said, so I think if you love scary, bloody horror films, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is the best movie you could ever choose.
Every time he was on the screen it was the right movie.Rollins plays the host of a stupid looking reality show were the contestants pretend they must survive a post-apocalyptic world, but they soon discover how real that scenario is, as they end up taping the show in the same woods as a group of psychopathic killers.
In Wrong Turn 2, it seem they were trying to up the extreme of these characters when it was not needed.By itself it's more of a Stereotypical horror film with elements of Predator-like action, thanks mostly to Rollins.
The gore levels here are quite high, the hillbilly barbecue scenes in particular are somewhat stomach turning, and once this gets going towards the end the crappy junk TV elements are forgotten and this is as entertaining as any of the better horror B-movies.
Without animals to hunt or fish to catch, the next generation chases travellers to feed themselves .The movie start of with a really Good Gory death and the worst part of movie is when they are introducing teens and some will find the acting a bit goofy at times.but most of time the acting is really Good, this movie is full of blood and action packed until the end, I think this as to the Goriest movie of the year.The only downside was Hillbilly Cannibals they wear no were near as scary as 1st movie, but they are still really creepy.If you liked the first movie, you will love this movie Without a doubt the one of best horror sequel in years.I would give it a 9/10.
I always found the original 2002 film 'Wrong Turn' to be a modest backwoods slasher item, and this straight-to-DVD sequel doesn't add anything particularly new other than more blood, gore, perversion and mutilation to the survival trek.
From first time director Joe Lynch comes Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, the best direct to video film in quite a long time.
Steve Braun plays the joker of pack pretty well, Crystal Lowe was gorgeous playing the token slutty character but she played the part really well and I also enjoyed her in the (Black X-Mas remake), Aleksa Palladino made me really feel for her as the put upon plain girl whose treated like dirt and I felt sad when her time ended as she didn't get the opportunity to get her own back and Matthew Currie Holmes was extremely unlikeable and self absorbed but he did it well.All in all "Wrong Turn 2" is fun fast paced and slick all the right ingredients for a sequel, it's a pity that the further sequels doesn't follow suit..
Despite the low budget, the film even manages to better the first film.Don't get me wrong, the film has its faults but they can easily be overlooked when a movie, which with its budget shouldn't be good, turns out to be one of the best horror films of 2007.Definitely worth renting..
Now I enjoyed the first one, the girl was cute, the rednecks were freaky but all in all it was a relatively simply, low key Hollywood horror that pushed a few buttons and kept me entertained.I hoped a sequel would come, on paper it looked promising; a first time director, larger cast, lower budget, big papa Rollins to ham it up someone called Texas battle and its about a reality TV show...OK on paper it looked a tad dodgy but forget all that, these guys have made a sterling effort to give horror fans what they want, Its got it all really, the effects are spot on for the cash paid to make them, Henry Rollins is the man, I've never seen someone take apart the 'locals' so effectively, the supporting cast adds humour and booty aplenty.Give a first timer a couple of million quid, 20 unknowns, 3 cameras, a forest, an effects guy and a month to make something entertaining and you cant expect much better in my opinion.Good job 7/10.
wow.this is one of the worst movies i have seen in a long time.the disgust factor is way too high in this one.i think they were going for the cheap gross out to try to shock the viewer.for me,all they succeeded in was making me nearly lose my lunch.the plot in this one is wafer thin,even for this type of movie.i'd say it was a horror movie,but it's more of a splatter fest than anything else.i don't mind gore and graphic violence in a movie,if there is a point to it.but to me,there was no point for this level of disgust.the effects and makeup are not done very well here,in my opinion.the first Wrong Turn movie was entertaining with interesting characters and some semblance of a plot.and it wasn't as unnecessarily disgusting.Wrong Turn 2 isn't even close to being in the same league.Henry Rollins is the only saving grace to this movie.as a result,i give Wrong Turn 2:Dead End a reluctant 2/10.
If you want a decent load of gore, screwing hillbilly mutants, good ole monster family fun like in TCM2 and the best "chopped in half" scene in film history...
Wrong turn 2: dead end, was a huge surprise considering it was released direct to video, the first one was a big favorite among me and my friends, and then came the second one, it was such a big hit with everyone we found it hard to believe it was direct to video, it was everything you would want from mainstream horror films, it was more scary, had impressive gore effects, and had likable and dislikable characters, and a film like the hills have eyes 2 goes to theaters and doesn't come within ten feet of this filmOverall, set your expectations high, this film delivers far above the standards of many of 2007 mainstream horror films.9 out of 10.
The original Wrong Turn seemed like it would be just another Texas Chainsaw Massacre style horror movie...and indeed that's all it was; but it was actually surprisingly decent for what it was and I was pleasantly surprised.
I believe that it was not the sequel that many horror movie fans expected and that's obvious in the ratings of this film.Finally I think that "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" is a simple horror movie with which you can spend your time and nothing more..
Wrong Turn 2 is pretty much everything you'd expect from a straight to DVD sequel to a horror film.
I was very much surprised to find out that WRONG TURN 2 is in fact a pretty good sequel, especially if you consider it to be a Direct-to-DVD-movie.