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Judging from my other reviews, you would not think that horror films would be my thing, especially very gory ones. Actually aim to have a diverse taste in film, so seeing films from all decades and genres with no bias intended. Plus have seen my fair share of horror franchises where at least one film has been good.
While neither of the first two 'Wrong Turn' films were perfect or great, they were fun and effectively creepy films with a lot to recommend. The series went seriously downhill from the third film onward, with the fifth film being especially bad. In 'Bloody Beginnings', 'Bloodlines' and this, the flaws from 'Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead' are exactly the same, amplified and then more are made on the way while not having either thing that stopped the third film from being worse. Before anybody says anything, despite the series going so drastically downhill they were all seen because every film in a film series deserves a chance regardless of critical consensus.
Only Sadie Katz is anything close to acceptable, she is alluring and actually looks like she's trying. Like Camilla Arfwedson in 'Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines' however, everything else however is done so amateurishly that all her valiant efforts seem a waste.
The rest of the acting is a disgrace, there was a sense that nobody was even trying and it was painful to watch. The only things the cast succeed in doing is accentuating that their very sketchily developed characters are either bland, obnoxious or both and impossible to care for. Especially when their behaviour throughout is just so stupid and illogical. The script is the cheesiest, most stilted and most cliché-ridden of all six films.
Story is both derivative and takes simplicity to extremes, and ruins it further by failing to bring any kind of atmosphere to any of the components, just a lot of cheesy and predictable death scenes with lots of gratuitous gore that makes anything meant to resemble tension or terror feel nauseating or unintentionally funny. There is none of what made the first two films work, everything is just too cheap, too safe, too predictable and too clean. It had a decent premise to work from, but starts dull, un-scary and dumb and stays like that all the way instead of doing the thankful 180 that the second film did.
Visually, there is nothing slick, professional, inventive or atmospheric here, slipshod is a better word for it. The effects are not as bad as in films 3-5 but are still pretty cheap. The direction has no personality or professionalism of any kind, there isn't a sense of understanding the genre or how to overcome a less than lavish budget.
In conclusion, really bad. 1/10 Bethany Cox
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