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Hillbilly Bloodbath... Honestly, the Best horror film of its kind since SCREAM...You ever watch a movie and know right away that somebody is going to die?Wrong Turn, is a suspense thriller much like the original 1974 cult classic, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" where a demented family east human flesh. Only, "Wrong Turn " brings a whole meaning to eating human flesh with their homemade back woods log cabin that looks more like a human delicatessen where body parts and renderings are pickled in jars like Claussen Kosher Dill's. There is no warning date, and the meat is not always refrigerated as this ferocious cannibalistic family brings a whole meaning to an all you can eat buffet. Wrong Turn , serves up a healthy portion of suspense, especially the scene where the four travelers stumble upon the family's home in the woods where the pots are boiling. The cabin is filled with all sorts of human memorabilia (literally ). By the time the four stranded stragglers figure out they are the main course meal, realizing they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, its too late. I the part where one of the film's lost travelers states, "Maybe I need to remind you of a little movie called Deliverance " right before knocking on the door of the human soup kitchen. At the beginning of the film while the introductory credits are rolling, we are shown scenes of missing people and pictures of human deformity.There are several motifs this film plays upon. One is Hollywood's fascination with inbreeding and deformity and the other, societies fears about missing people and what happens to them. I also the films pot shot at the cell phone industry. No matter how nice the cell phone, it won't work when you are lost and you really need it.And finally, the title of the movie, "Wrong Turn " wonderfully targets any driver's natural fear of getting lost on the road. Playing upon these basic fears adds a lot of credibility and the necessary fear factor that lures you into this horror flick. 【Desmond Harrington】Wrong Turn Movies【Eliza Dushku】 Inbred Hillbillies + "City Folk" = FUN What a movie....this is cool stuff. While not cinematic brilliance by any stretch of the imagination, it'll keep you on your toes.. It opens with a pretty clear idea as to what the actors involved are set against: while the opening credits roll we are treated to flashes of newspaper clippings of hideously deformed inbred mountain men,and stories of cannibalism.. In the opening scenes, a rock climbing couple are snared in gruesome traps by unseen attackers, while whoops and hollers are heard..... Desmond Harrington stars as Chris Flynn, medical intern driving through West Virginia on his way to an important job interview.A chemical spill on the freeway backs up traffic for miles, forcing him to take back roads to reach his destination, including a turn onto Bear Mountain Road, which is definitely, for him, and scores of others,it appears, a Wrong Turn. While speeding along, trying to pick up a dropped cd and gazing at a deer carcass, (Rule Number One For Surviving Horror Movies Of This Type: Keep Your Eyes On The Road ) Chris slams into an SUV sitting in the road, and it all goes to hell from there. The SUV comes with people of its own who come running out of the bushes (what they were doing in the bushes is never explained; their vehicle ran over some barbed wire and has a flat tire, yet they were all off in the bushes when Chris drives along.. Were they hiding? Peeing? Looking for berries?) and once they ascertain that Chris is alive, unhurt, and not going to sue, they decide they will have to hike back out of the forest to get some help for their vehicles. (Rule 2: Stay With The Freakin' Cars) This group of bush wandering twenty-somethings includes Eliza Dushku in the role of Jesse Burlingame, who has been whisked off for a weekend in the woods by her friends following a messy breakup with her boyfriend, Emmanuelle Chriqui playing a bubblehead named Carly, Jeremy Sisto in the role of Carly's fiance Scott, a loquacious, angsty, and gangly individual,and Lindy Booth and Kevin Zegers as Francine and Evan, a pair of walking hormones who hate the woods but are along anyway to flesh out the ensemble. So the group marches off down the road to find an outpost of civilization minus Francine and Evan, who stay with the cars and indulge in ransacking Chris' car and various types of horny twenty-something behavior. (Rule Three:Keep Your Hormones Under Control ) Evan dissapears into the woods, and Francine searches, and breaks Rule Four (Severed Body Parts On The Ground Means Run Away) when she finds a human ear lying on the trail , after which she falls victim to a garotte of barbed wire flung around her neck from behind. That's going to hurt. The rest of the intrepid crew find a cabin in the woods with smoke issuing from the chimney and decide to see if they can use a phone.Scores of junked vehicles are everywhere, tons of camping gear strewn about, and flies abound in droves, yet into the cabin they go where they discover, among other things,a refrigerator full of human organs, eyeballs, and entrails, jars of false teeth, various crude and rusty weapons, and a filthy bathroom; (Rule Five: Don't Use The Bathroom ) , that part was just a little ridiculous. And then a rumbling tow truck pulls into the yard, our wanderers hide, and three monstrosities drag Francine into the cabin and dismember her in a scene that is wonderfully depicted as reflected in Jeremy Sisto's eyeball....nice touch. The movie really belongs to Eliza Dushku's Jesse Burlingame ; she's moody and snipish at first, but thaws quickly, overcomes her terror when necessary, and like Chris, just won't quit, and darn it, she's good in this genre.. I'm hoping to see her in another action/horror role again.. So, the plot is weak, and half of the characters are flat and uninteresting.. Yet, the scenery is spectacular, the suspense rides a fine, tight edge, and the "jolts" show some fine artistry.... I sure did have a blast watching this movie, there is tons of gore, good looking chicks, and there is great acting. I could probably say almost anyone should be horrified by this movie. This is definetly a true horror film , and I really enjoyed it, any reason someone should not enjoy this film, would either be to grossed out, or to scared.My lover grossed out, and scared. But I was just scared. If you saw The Texas chainsaw massacre, and you got really scared well thats nothing compared to how scary this is, the first time you see it. This movie really is not that scary to me anymore. Because I have seen it 100 times, but I know there are scarier out there, but this one is definetly a screamer !!!!!The special effects are Gr8 in this movie too, they could'nt have done better, they were definetly top notch I was very impressed by how well they did. They almost looked to REAL It's worth a second look, perhaps even a third.