Wrong Turn (2003)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 46
An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguished itself from others of its ilk.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 10
An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguished itself from others of its ilk.
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A turn down an uncharted dirt road leads six young people into a night of pure terror in this horror story. Chris (Desmond Harrington) is driving through West Virginia on his way to a job interview when an auto accident slows highway traffic to a near standstill. Afraid he'll be late, Chris takes a detour down an old dirt road; a distracted Chris doesn't see an SUV stuck in the middle of the road before it's too late, and he plows into the back after his tires suddenly blow. The driver of the
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Desmond Harrington
Chris Finn -
Eliza Dushku
Jessie -
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Carly -
Jeremy Sisto
Thomas Avon -
Kevin Zegers
Evan -
Lindy Booth
Francine -
Julian Richings
Three Finger -
Garry Robbins
Saw-Tooth -
Ted Clark
One-Eye -
Yvonne Gaudry
Halley -
Joel Harris
Rich -
David Huband
Trooper -
Wayne Robson
Old Man -
James Downing
Trucker
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All Critics (91) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (46) | DVD (31)
While this movie doesn't have the warped sensibilities of 1977's similarly plotted The Hills Have Eyes, it has decent performances and genuine suspense.
Top CriticIt's gruesome and nasty and a heck of a lot of fun for people who get a kick out of Fangoria.
A blood-simple backwoods spatterfest that makes shameless use of the same old antirural moonshine Hollywood's been bootlegging for decades.
Lazy would-be horror film.
A negative pickup by Fox, dumped into theaters on Friday without benefit of press previews, Wrong Turn is steeped only in frightless torpor.
Schmidt makes us flinch the old-fashioned way -- by giving us a box seat to the unspeakable.
The understatement of the year. Essentially, ax-wielding rednecks unite in a slasher flick that drives itself into a brick wall of no return.
It gives what it promises: violence, creeps, and solid performances from the great cast...
It's the usual quick-cut, this-is-all-we-can-show-you R-rated mayhem.
A cut above the recent lot of slasher films...it does not feel as if it has to cater to audiences who want every plot point spoon fed to them.
Headed in only one direction: straight into the toilet.
Ao contrário da maior parte das produções do gênero realizadas nos últimos anos, este filme acaba se revelando acima da média graças à boa direção de Rob Schmidt.
...talent does not matter much, just as long as the women?who, of course, all look like supermodels?wear skimpy, transparent outfits throughout the movie.
Wrong Turn is basically a well-made waste of time.
The grey area is whether it's Schmidt's fault or the zeitgeist's that the film doesn't resonate even ten seconds past the finish line
If giggling hillbillies fuel your nightmares, then there's a chance you'll be rendered sleepless by this inept, wannabe horror flick.
Was Wrong Turn directed by the kind of in-bred mountain men depicted in the film? The opening credits is the only device that drive the plot -- the rest is simply a squeal-inducing hunt movie.
For a horror cheese-fest about six ill-fated teens on the verge of brutal maceration by inbred hick monsters, Wrong Turn is surprisingly worth the detour
I got the feeling that a whole lot of talented people had gone and wasted their time on a project too bland to be worth it.
Wrong Turn has plenty of bad -ations: decapitation, mutilation, evisceration. But it's got an unexpectedly fun -ation - its hillbilly variation on Panic Room.
It's the kind of film where an actor from the WB walks through a run-down cabin, picks up a jar full of human teeth, goes, Ewwww, then still continues to look for a bathroom.
You had me at inbred, cannibalistic hillbillies! Wrong Turn is a hard film to not reccomend, but the film does nothing to distinguish itself in any way.
A tedious slasher picture with yet another Inbred Monster as its star villain.
With the tiniest bit of effort, Wrong Turn could have been a fun slasher flick, but no one involved seems to have cared about anything but a paycheck.
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This throwback nature slasher is likely to be a love or hate piece among most horror fans. Originality is definitely not the film's strongest point and it's numerous similarities with vintage pieces like "Deliverance" and "The Hills Have Eyes" are so obvious that one might dismiss it as a stupid, lazy, ordinary, ruthless, derivative slasher flick. But Wrong Turn is none of the above apart from the latter. If completely conventional Wrong Turn nevertheless manages to get everything you'd expect and would want from a wilderness horror movie right. It fits tab A into slot B perfectly well with some fairly inventive direction, good shock horror, a fun set up and some good gore. But the bonus in all this is decent performances of characters that you actually grow to care about as it unfolds. Personally I can't remember sitting through a generic slasher without wanting somebody to die within the first 10 minutes. But it never became innocuous and remained consistently scary. It's also very up front about the films it references which makes it's underlying playfulness and utter predictability that much more fun. The defining moment of the entire film for me, was when a character said "need I remind you about a film called Deliverance". Out of all the asinine shlock that's been released in the last ten years like the empty torture porn movies that have given horror a bad name I would much rather watch Wrong Turn to remind me that there are still some good people in the horror industry today. It's gritty, scary and hugely suspenseful. Though you can see the ending from miles behind it takes you through it's acts with the enormous energy the new slashers lack and is overall entertaining. I think at bare minimum all popcorn and vomit flicks need to be as well put together as Wrong Turn. The film is far from perfect, so that's really saying something.