Chris Flynn is driving his car for a job interview in another city. However, an accident with a trunk transporting chemical products blocks the highway and Chris looks for an alternative route through the mountains of West Virginia to accomplish his schedule. Due to a lack of attention, he crashes another car parked in the middle of the road with flat tires. Chris meets a group of five friends, wh... read more
Description:Sultry Eliza Dushku runs for her life in a snug white tanktop, pursued by inbred backwoods cannibals in Wrong Turn. Dushku (Bring It On, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a clump of other attractive young people (including Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto and Desmond Harrington of We Were Soldiers) get waylaid in the deep West Virginia wildsSultry Eliza Dushku runs for her life in a snug white tanktop, pursued by inbred backwoods cannibals in Wrong Turn. Dushku (Bring It On, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a clump of other attractive young people (including Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto and Desmond Harrington of We Were Soldiers) get waylaid in the deep West Virginia wilds by a trio of grotesque mountain men, all given realistic ugliness by makeup artist Stan Winston (Interview with the Vampire, Terminator 2). Wrong Turn is the sort of movie where you know who's going to die by the order they appear in the credits, but fans of the inbred backwoods cannibals genre (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes) will find much to savor, particularly the scene in which Dushku and Harrington are trapped under a squalid bed while the inbred backwoods cannibals prepare one of their friends for dinner. Grisly. --Bret Fetzer... (more)(less)
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This was one of THOSE films. When I first watched it a few years ago I thought it was terrible. However, after continuing to hear people say good things about it I decided to give it another chance. As with films like Freddy Vs. Jason, I liked it much better the second time around. The first time I was expecting something really scary, and the film, while tense, doesn't offer up much disturbing violence as far as backwoods horror goes. Things move at a quicker pace, including kills. Still, thi"
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"Oct. 7th (rewatch)
I met this film with a bit less fanfare than the first time around. Still, it remains an efficiently told and serviceable enough guilty pleasure, no matter how many country miles it remains from anything original. And hell, there are far worse "attractive young people in horror movie peril" performances out there."
Bad☆Alice added this to a list 7 months, 3 weeks ago