Wrong Turn

Plot synopsis:
Chris Finn (Desmond Harrington) is on his way to a job interview and is driving through the mountains of West Virginia. There is then a chemical spill on the road, so being short on time, he decides to take a different route, an abandoned dirt road in the middle of nowhere. He then by accident crashes into a car sitting in the middle of the road. He then meets a group of five friends on a hiking trip who include Jessie (Eliza Dushku) whom are stranded on the road. Two people stay at the car, and another group goes for help, only to find a sinister cabin nestled in the West Virgina woods, that is home to a trio of cannibalistic mountain men horribly disfigured from years of in-breeding. They then make a mad dash for their lives through out the woods, only hoping to make it out alive.**************************************************************************************************************************************************************The movie begins with two college students, Halley (Yvonne Gaudry) and Rich (Joel Harris), who are rock climbing in the West Virginia Forest. Rich reaches the top, and looks at the view, while Halley continues to climb. Halley starts to struggle and falls, but her climbing line catches her. She calls for Rich to pull her up to the top of the cliff, but he doesn't respond. She sees Rich, lying dead, and then his body is thrown off the cliff. Then, someone starts to pull Halley up the cliff by her climbing line. She cuts the line and falls, landing on Rich's dead body. She manages to escape, and sees the trees moving and eerie laughs are heard. Halley almost reaches her car, but she trips over a piece of barbed wire, and is pulled back into the woods by an unseen force, screaming.Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington), a medical student, is driving through the mountains of West Virginia on his way to a job interview. Due to a chemical spill in the road ahead, he is forced to take a different route. He stops at an old rundown gas station and meets an old man. The old man gives him directions to the other route, then shows Chris a map detailing where to go. Chris takes the dirt road and drives off. As Chris is driving, his car begins to lose control and crashes into a Range Rover stranded in the middle of the road. The car belongs to a group of friends on a hiking trip: Jessie (Eliza Dushku), Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), her fiancé Scott (Jeremy Sisto), and a couple, Evan and Francine (Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth). Jessie find a piece of barbed wire in the woods that was tied to a tree across the road after their tires were punctured. Jessie, Carly, and Scott go to the woods to find help. Chris joins them, while Evan and Francine stay with the cars. After Evan and Francine partake in a round of oral sex, Evan starts to fix their car, while Francine gets in Chris' car. While Evan is fixing the car, he hears a sound from the woods and goes to investigate.After a while, Francine notices that he is missing, and she goes into the woods to look for him. As Francine ventures further into the woods, she finds his sneaker and gasps as she finds Evan's severed ear. As Francine stumbles back, a figure wraps barbed wire around her mouth, tearing it open. As Chris, Jessie, Carly and Scott try to find help, they find an isolated cabin. They go into the cabin and discover miscellaneous objects: barbed wire, car keys, odds and ends, and human body parts on the refrigerator and in the bathroom. They are horrified and try to escape, but they hear the occupants coming back and are forced to hide. Three cannibalistic mountain men, all whom are disfigured, enter the cabin and bring in Francine's dead body. Chris, Jessie, Carly and Scott silently watch in horror, as her body is butchered and partially eaten.As the cannibals fall asleep, the friends walk silently and reach the door. Chris holds the door open so Jessie, Carly and Scott can get out safely. As Chris keeps the door open, he checks the cannibals to make sure they are still sleeping. Unfortunately, "Saw-Tooth" (Gary Robbins) awakes and Chris runs. Jessie notices this, and she, Carly, and Scott run quickly with him. "Saw-Tooth" alerts the other cannibals and begins to chase them. The group hides in a clearing with many cars, which they realize are the cars of the mutants' victims. Chris makes a diversion and is shot in the leg with a shotgun. Scott saves him by using himself as a decoy, allowing Jessie and Carly to steal one of the cannibals' trucks. Chris gets into the truck, and they try to find Scott. Carly sees Scott in the forest. As Scott starts to get in the truck, he is shot three times in the back with arrows. The arrow almost hits the others, and Chris forces Jessie to drive and escape fast. The cannibals pick up Scott's dead body and take it back to their cabin.Chris, Jessie and Carly hit a dead end in the road and have to continue on foot, but Carly stays and is still depressed from Scott's loss. Jessie and Chris comfort her and they continue to walk. They find an old watchtower and begin to climb up, and find a radio and use it to call for help, but do not get a response. They see the cannibals, who are armed with torches and reaching the foot of the watchtower. The radio starts responding their call, alerting the cannibals. The cannibals shoot and destroy the radio through the window. After the cannibals climb the ladder and get into the watchtower, they set it on fire. Chris, Carly and Jessie escape by jumping out of the window into a nearby tree. They begin to climb up, but "Three Finger" (Julian Richings) has already climbed up the tree before them. Chris and Jessie begin to climb higher as Carly rests. Chris and Jessie make it to the other tree, but unfortunately "Three Finger" sneaks up behind Carly and slices her head in half with an axe and her body falls through the trees, as Chris and Jessie watch in horror. They escape from the cannibals and hide in a cave near a waterfall until the next morning. Jessie wakes up from a nightmare, as Chris comforts her. Just as they find a road out of the woods, the mountain men find them and push Chris down the hill and capture Jessie and take her back to their cabin. Chris survives the fall and meets a sheriff, but before he is able to convince the Sheriff of what is happening, the Sheriff is killed by an arrow in his eye from the woods. Chris jumps into the police truck and tries to drive away, but cannot find the keys. Chris hides and watches as the cannibal loads up the Sheriff's body into the truck and drives it back to the cabin. Chris hitches along by hanging onto the underside of their truck.When the cannibals arrive at the cabin, Jessie is tied to a bed and gagged with a dog leash, crying. As she is about to get killed, Chris, driving the police truck, drives through the cabin and into "One-Eye". Chris unties Jessie, and Jessie shoots "Saw-Tooth" in the back with an arrow. She and Chris also fight "Three Finger", and finish him off by hitting him with an axe. Chris and Jessie notice that the cannibals are still alive, and they quickly go outside. Chris has only one shotgun shell left, which he shoots at the truck, blowing up the cabin with the cannibals still inside. Chris and Jessie, driving the cannibals' truck, stop back at the gas station. Chris, badly injured, gets out of the truck and destroys the map to the cannibals' cabin, so no one will ever go into the woods again. Chris gets back into the truck, as Jessie drives for the woods, and the credits roll.The credits are interrupted by a scene showing a deputy sheriff investigating and picking over the remains of the destroyed cabin. Unfortunately, "Three Finger", who survived from the explosion, comes up behind the deputy and kills him. The scene fades to black and insane laughter is heard, as the credits continue to roll.

Tags: comedy, suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, horror, insanity, humor, revenge, prank

Review:
But if you love horror films then you probably have an ear to ear grin as well.I really liked some of the early editing of this film by director Rob Schmidt, who allows the scares and shocks to come with brilliant accuracy.
But come on, this isn't exactly an intelligently written and detailed drama.I liked `Wrong Turn' purely because of its shock value and its no holds barred return to classic horror.
There's a big difference between the version shown in theatres and the unrated version: as usual, the theatre version is cut a lot, leaving out some pretty gruesome scenes that are not for the squeamish or faint-at-heart.The premise for the movie may be a little cliché (mutated, possibly inbred, group of people living in the remote countryside, wreaking havoc on innocent tourists), but, oh, the way it's carried out!
I liked it more than the original The Hills Have Eyes (haven't seen the new one yet).If you're into horror, I highly recommend the unrated version of Wrong Turn..
I decided to see this movie mainly out of boredom plus an eye-friendly cast was promised, so i basically thought it'd turn out to be another standard popcorn horror flick.
I of course will refrain from elaborating on these details so as not to spoil the viewing for those who have yet to see it.What I really liked about this film was that it didn't try what so many other horror movies as of the last seven years or so haave tried- and that is to be ironic.
Several scenes prove to be quite graphic.In this respect, I would have to admit that Wrong Turn doesn't have the makings of changing the world of movies as we know it, but it does however, have the capacity to push you to the edge of your seat.
The acting in this movie was pretty good, especially considering it was a horror movie.The movie borrowed a little bit from a lot of different movies, most notably Deliverance, which one of the characters even mentions by name, but in todays day and age, when we have seen it all, it was a pretty good effort.
Good actors, a solid storyline that doesn't drag, great make-up and visual affects, and fast paced directing make this movie a must see for the serious horror fan.
:-) Wrong turn is a truly scary and very creepy horror film.
The scene in which she is taken back to the cabin and tied to the bed.....well, it's a great piece of acting just as good as any of our beloved scream queens from years past.The rest of the cast also delivers consistently throughout the film.
In hopes of getting to his final destination in time, Chris takes a back road through the woods of West Virginia to avoid the traffic jam and accidentally crashes into a car which belongs to a group of friends led by the somewhat bitchy heroine, Jessie Burlingame (Eliza Dushku).
Having two wrecked cars, the group decides to wander through the woods in hopes of getting help, unaware that they are about to get stalked and killed off one-by-one by a group of hideously deformed inbred family who has been living and feeding with human flesh in that area for more than 30 years.Having seen the film countless times before, I was always strangely fascinated by it, but I never truly understood why.
Having seen the film again now, I've finally realized what, and the reason is very simple - the film is just a very well-done homage to all those bad-ass 70s Horror films, and just combines the highlights of those flicks in one simple and highly-enjoyable Slasher film.Another reason why I probably like this movie so much is because of its fantastic and unique eerie atmosphere.
The other cast members, Jeremy Sisto, Lindy Booth and Kevin Zegers, are all great actors, but they don't have really much to work with here since their characters are basically wasted, though Emanuelle Chriqui really stands out and plays the supporting female lead role very good and convincing.
Even though you already know from the start who is going to survive, there's still plenty of tension and scares present throughout the whole movie, so if you think this is just another typical, gory Slasher flick - think again.One thing I'm very impressed with here is the directing.
Some of the dialog is a bit cheesy in parts, and the ending is really predictable, clichéd, and a bit rushed if you ask me, but the film still really impressed me and is definitely one of my favorite movies now.So in short - Wrong Turn is a movie you either love or hate.
I definitely belong to the first group for a couple of reasons, and even though I do realize Wrong Turn is not the best film ever, I love every second of it for one simple reason - it's a simple, highly enjoyable and scary no-brain throwback to 70s Horror movies, so if you're just looking for a fun and gory Horror film, Wrong Turn is then definitely a right turn, and an amazing film you should definitely not miss!
But the two differ crucially, the earlier film comes from a critical eye, a director who has watched society and sentenced it, while Wrong Turn is simply a fun horror film.
Acting is generally reasonable, a stone faced Desmond Harrington bears little charisma, but Emmanuelle Chriqui emotes to good effect, Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth make for amusing stoners and in the best written part Jeremy Sisto has chilled out but ultimately heroic ball.
I rented 'Wrong Turn 1 & 2' a couple of nights ago as I am a huge fan of horror films, and I thought that it wouldn't hurt to watch this even though I didn't know anything about the films.
Rating: ** out of ****Wrong Turn seemingly has all the ingredients necessary for an effective slasher: a good setting and decent premise, a very attractive and likable cast, memorable make-up and gore effect, and a refreshingly unironic tone that reminds us of the days when old-fashioned horror didn't rely on self-conscious humor to pass for entertainment value.
In that manner, Wrong Turn is actually a little nostalgic, not unlike the rest of the recent batch of backwoods horror flicks (Cabin Fever, House of 1000 Corpses, and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake).But aside from two solid setpieces, the movie rarely fulfills its (admittedly limited) potential.
This is about twenty-five minutes into the film, after we've already dispensed with the obligatory character intros (basically: 3 hot chicks and 3 hunky, but also surprisingly personable guys) and whatever reasons they have for being stranded in the middle of nowhere, West Virginia.Everything after that is typical cat-and-mouse filler, the killers (three inbred, cannibalistic hillbillies) searching for their prey while our protagonists run and hide behind trees.
And because the cast is so small, you can't even enjoy a particularly large body count (half the main cast is killed off less than forty minutes into the picture).Wrong Turn is also missing much of what makes slasher movies fun to watch: explicit nudity and the occasional bit of gratuitous sex.
With a potentially excellent setting at his disposal, director Rob Schmidt fails to generate any creepy atmosphere in an environment where you'd think atmosphere would almost come naturally (to be fair, a lot of horror movies also seem to have this problem; the last time I saw a forest setting utilized perfectly was in 2003's terrifically frightening Dead End).
But as it stands, Wrong Turn is tolerable horror-fare and brutally honest Mapquest-motivation.Starring: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, and Kevin Zegers.
"Wrong Turn" is a pretty good recreation of the slasher-horror movies of the early '80, though this time around we have better production values (fancier camera moves, for one thing.) It's very predictable, but then again, what slasher isn't?
Speaking Of I Can See A Theme That Is Similar To Normal '70's Horror Movies.There Are Also Bad Points Like Emmanuelle Chriqui's Character Was A Whiny Idiot.
"Wrong Turn" had the right elements to make a great slasher film, the premise was good, even had a decent setting and the killers are down right creepy.
The mountain men prove to be some of the scariest movie killers that I've seen in a long time, probably because the film wastes no time in showing us exactly what they plan to do with their victims (we see this about a half-hour into the movie in a scene that is guaranteed to make at least half of the people who watch it really, really sick).
They also manage to be more relentless and even more beyond reason than most horror movie killers; they behave more like wild animals than people.The acting is considerably better than most movies in this genre.
I didn't find myself feeling much sympathy for the rest of the cast (they often act like typical slasher movie fodder, especially the two kids who get high and have sex shortly before being murdered), but they're at least more believable than the characters who usually appear in these movies.Overall, I would have to say that this movie was better than most of the horror movies that have come out lately.
Boy the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was an entertaining movie, but if you want to see a cheap, poorly made, imitation that sucks as much as the female actress breasts bounce in their t-shirts, then by all means, get this movie, because it blows.So this young stud, Chris, played by Desmond Harrington (We Were Soldiers,) is late for a meeting and there is a huge accident on the highway, so he back tracks and goes down this dirt road in bum-f*cked West Virginia where he runs into, literally, a van full of young adults, led by the unexplainable single Jessie, played by Eliza Dushku (True Lies,) looking for sex and fun.
"Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze"Whatever positive effect the above lyrics from the late John Denver's ode to West Virginia may or may not have had on tourism, it is totally negated by director Rob Schmidt's nasty little horror film, Wrong Turn.
Those who make films like Wrong Turn see this as a way to make up for the lack of any true suspense, the ineptitude of the characters being lined up for slaughter, and the total idiocy of the whole scenario.
One of the earlier films that would usher modern horror back to it's old school days was this fun and frightening little shocker.Car wreck leaves young people stranded in the West Virginia wilderness, and in the hands of a trio of murderous inbreds.Wrong Turn is an updating of the old fish-out-of-water horror theme that falls in the category of such films as Deliverance (1972), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), and Just Before Dawn (1981) and while Wrong Turn isn't quite as good as those horror classics it does have its own entertaining life.
Entertaining and nicely done all the way, Wrong Turn is a movie that won't disappoint genre fans.*** out of ****.
Scary, gory and more or less completely RELENTLESS, Wrong Turn marks a return to the true HORROR movie.
"Wrong Turn" is truly one of the worst horror films I have yet seen - and if you're interested in the fun of bad movies, this one is so bad it's just bad.
It's just nice to have a group of people you can care about and root for, rather than a bunch of unappealing and crude punks, if you know what I mean.Another good thing about the film is it only runs an hour and 20 minutes before the credits role.
Getting stranded in the Virginia backwoods, a man and a group of campers slowly come to realize they're being hunted and killed one- by-one by a family of deranged cannibalistic killers and must find a way of stopping them and get out of the woods alive.This here was quite the fun and highly enjoyable efforts.
Yes, there is a large degree of sticking to a formula but it does take turns you don't expect and is not that predictable - it does keep you in suspense, at least.One other indication that this is better than your average horror movie is the cast.
Wrong Turn has three actors - Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Desmond Harrington - who went on to bigger and better things.
Wrong Turn was a surprise horror-what-happens-next thriller that kept me engrossed through out with few scenes giving me some chilling moments.Chris is running late for his job interview as he travels through highway to reach the destination.
You often see horror movies these days with melodramatic/stereotypical teen acting which generally makes me cringe but all the acting was passable.The tension and general design of this film is great and some very jumpy moments - but I think the key ingredient to this film is that is wasn't over-done to the point where it was believable.Good job, though I must at this point say that, wrong turn 2 and 3 are a big disappointment in my opinion; like with a good with/idea people tend to milk it and often destroy it, shame..
well I'm pretty sure it wasn't even planned to do one sequel to this, but the success of the first one spawned two other movies (at the time of writing, because I'm pretty sure there will be more "Wrong Turns" to take ...) The WT movies as such don't have that much in common actually, even the villains being exchangeable (sort of, like another day another "killer" kind of).
Wrong Turn is the film from when I started to love Eliza Dushku.
All she could do was complain and criticize everything, just like a certain friend of mine who just happened to recommend this title to me.The rest of the cast was pretty good, Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku, especially, both put forth really solid performances and even helped to make up for some of the movie's shortfalls.
It was hard to accept this as a really good horror because the cannibals sounded like a bunch of drunken retards on and off throughout the movie.If they had kept it more serious, it would have made for a better effect.
Dushku was so good in Wrong Turn that the DVD has a special feature solely on her, and maybe a little on her looks too.
In "Wrong Turn," a group of young people (probably a '90s influence) get stuck in the back woods of West Virginia, and get attacked by a family of cannibals.I love horror movies like "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," so "Wrong Turn" was a pleasure to watch.
This movie isn't playing in my little backwoods part of Tennessee, which is shocking because I am sure there are people around here that would think that their family WAS apart of film.
I liked the fact that you never got a really good look at the "family" for a long period of time.I have seen better horror movies and I have seen much worse.
Wrong Turn was a horrible movie, it was a great waste of time and money.
For a horror fan, when a movie like 'Wrong Turn' is released, I have to be there regardless of what I fear is going to happen.
This movie is doomed to join the likes of Jeepers Creepers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, cheap thrills of no value which deserve to be obliterated from the human psyche.The acting is poor, the plot is pointless, unchallenging and predictable and you can guess 90% of the time who is going to be killed next.
'Wrong Turn' is by no means any kind of horror masterpiece but it's entertaining, especially if you are a fan of 70s/80s slasher movies..
So if you like the story of some nice and beautiful young guys and gals getting in trouble with a bunch of a blood-thirsty and hungry degenerate family, this one may be your choice.Not outstanding but regarding the usual standards of the genre one of the good ones, and maybe the best of the whole Wrong Turn movies - to my knowing some unlucky people already took six times the wrong turn ;).
A nice budget & a studio fully behind this film helped create something very special & definitely not just another typical slasher.There's plenty of blood & guts splatter throughout this fast paced Horror Thriller that's not on long at all but that adds to the urgency of the situation of the surviving characters & the hunt is on fast & furious!!!Wrong Turn is a BRILLIANT Survival Slasher Horror that's full of suspense & action that is lovingly crafted from the old school mould of Horror a 10/10 exciting Horror & one I've been watching since video & now onto dvd!!!
Plus have seen my fair share of horror franchises where at least one film has been good.Found myself surprisingly enjoying 'Wrong Turn' when slowly working my way through the films.
I personally haven't seen that at all within survival horror and I think it was a good little plot point that I know I enjoyed.It's also refreshing to see that some of the characters – namely Jessie and Chris.
Compared to a lot of dumb horror films that were released during this era, Wrong Turn very much feels like a trip back to the 70's with it's style.
Wrong Turn is a American horror film directed by Rob Schmidt.
It IS, however, (or it was to me), rather funny that the story revolves around inbred cannibals in the mountains of Virginia, of all places...Anyway, if you're looking for an "Eh" B-film, this is a pretty good one.