Okay, quick synopsis of Wrong Turn: A carload of six teens find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by “cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding.”
Intriguing? I don’t think so…but could it be good?
As far as horror movies go this one will go down as just another movie where you are saying, “Don’t do that!”
It is also a little odd that this mystery of disfigured mountain men continues despite the fact that they live in the only cabin that is in these woods and they keep a graveyard of all the SUVs of the campers they have killed. Regardless of these two facts the authorities have never been able to figure out these disappearances.
To top that off they are able to fall out of trees, be chopped with axes, shot in the head with arrows, beaten half to death and still live.
“Outside the realm of possibility” is the idea that has made horror movies forever, but they fall short when they add nothing new. Nothing new is exactly what Wrong Turn offers.
The acting isn’t too bad and even Scott played by Jeremy Sisto seems to have taken his acting classes from the infamous Jeff Goldblum, by adding similar witticisms that Goldblum added to Jurrasic Park. Then you have beautiful women with Eliza Dushku and Emmanuelle Chriqui, every thing a horror movie needs. The one place this movie strayed from the typical horror movie was no nudity, which really would have made it all to cliche, so for that I am thankful.
If you want to sit for 85 minutes to watch a horror movie that isn’t too great then you can risk this one, but I would recommend against it.
