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USA, Canada, Germany 2003
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Julian Richings, Kevin Zegers
Rating: R
Release Date: 30 May 2003
Running Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
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For most reviewers, I think, watching and writing reviews of bad movies are inevitable in their daily life. With so many movies from worst to great, you could develop some kind of 'immunity', with scary movies become so-so and so-so movies become awful. By that time excitement starts to become a rarity I suppose. Thankfully the year of 2003 delivered many great horror movies which would satisfy the gore hounds. Wrong Turn, unfortunately, delivered nothing new and certainly didn't please me very much. I guess I was lucky enough having only to rent this flick back then. Still though, if you're new to horror film realm and really sick of something called 'drama', I guess Wrong Turn could still make your day.
The story is simple. A medical student, Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is driving through a short cut in the hills of Greenbrier Backcountry, West Virginia because of a deadlock traffic jam. Deep in the woods he runs into a group of young adults who also got stranded because of their car's tires were flat by barbwire placed in the middle of the road. Chris soon gets acquainted with Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and her fiancé Scott (Jeremy Sisto), a tough girl Jessie (Eliza Dushku), and another pair of lovebirds, Francine (Lindy Booth) and Evan (Kevin Zegers). With no reception for their cell phones, they venture deeper into the woods only to be targeted and hunted by a family of mutant cannibal rednecks. What will happen to them? Could they get out of there alive?
It doesn't need too many words to outline this backwoods slasher flick. The good news is Wrong Turn is fast-paced, with no character-development, no drama, no sex scenes, and no delay, just straight to the point. You run, you chase, you kill. One hour and a half would feel so brisk. Unfortunately, even though there some shocking explicitly gory scenes including the graphical on-screen aftermath, still the story is too dull. Without caring to any of the character, our emotion would not get stirred up. Without any emotion involved, it's almost (almost!) like seeing a group of hunters hunt for some game. Once you get out of the theaters or pop out the DVD, it's likely you would forget Wrong Turn soon enough. Although when viewing it, stifling a yawn would be highly unlikely. And if you enjoy some shocks' only for shocks' sake, you might find Wrong Turn amusing. For me the only good part is how the tension is slowly built up in the shack in the middle of the woods. But I do grateful for one thing out of Wrong Turn... The sequel. A sequel which deserves much more marketing efforts for its great entertainment value. Yes, Wrong Turn would probably satisfy the slasher flicks newbies, but for seasoned horror aficionados, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) is the right turn for you.
>Inbred delight package!: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007); and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009).
>International Rednecks Vs. City Folks: Australian Dying Breed (2008), and the British
The Cottage (2008).
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
Twitter: @movielogy
posted: Mar 12th 2011 09:44 pm
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