Wrong Turn

Infobox_Film
name = Wrong Turn


caption = Promotional poster for "Wrong Turn"
producer = Stan Winston, Brian Gilbert, Erik Feig, Robert Kulzer
director = Rob Schmidt
writer = Alan B. McElroy (story & screenplay)
starring = Desmond Harrington
Eliza Dushku
music = Elia Cmiral
cinematography = John S. Bartley
editing = Michael Ross
distributor = 20th Century Fox (All US rights, UK DVD)
Pathé (UK theatrical)
New Regency
Summit Entertainment (non-USA)
released = May 30, 2003
runtime = 84 minutes
country = USA
language = English
followed_by =
Wrong Turn 3
amg_id = 1:283386
imdb_id = 0295700

"Wrong Turn" is a 2003 horror film, directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film stars Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/List?endings=on&&locations=Hamilton,+Ontario,+Canada |title=Internet Movie Database - List of Films shot in Hamilton, Ontario|accessdate=2008-01-29] and was followed by "" due to its commercial success. The film was entitled "Dead Camp" when shown on South Korean television.

Plot

The film starts with two college students, Halley & Rich rock climbing in the West Virginia forest. Rich gets to the top first while Halley continues to climb. She is having trouble so she asks for help up. All of a sudden, Rich is thrown off the cliff by unseen men. The killers then start pulling Halley up, but she cuts her rope and falls. She lands next to Rich's dead body, screams, gets up and runs off into the woods. The trees around her move and three eerie laughs are heard. Halley trips over a piece of barbed wire and is dragged away by the unseen killers.

Medical student Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is on his way to a job interview and is driving through the mountains of West Virginia. Due to a chemical spill in the road ahead, he decides to take a different route, leading him through an abandoned dirt road in the middle of the woods. He then crashes into a car stranded in the center of the road.

The car he crashed into belongs to a group of friends on a hiking trip, which includes Jessie (Eliza Dushku), Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Scott (Jeremy Sisto), Francine (Lindy Booth) and Evan (Kevin Zegers). Their car's tires were punctured by barbwire strung across the road. Francine and Evan stay with the cars, while the remainder of the group goes for help. Meanwhile the two who stayed behind are killed by the cannibals. Francine goes looking for Evan and finds his ear. She is then attacked and killed by a mountain man, getting barbed wire wrapped around her mouth.

Meanwhile, the others come across a isolated cabin. They discover that the cabin has many grisly horrors inside, such as entrails in a fridge and body parts in the bathtub. The cabin is home to a group of three cannibalistic mountain men, who are horribly disfigured due to generations of inbreeding.

They hide within the house when the cannibals come back home. The group is forced to watch as Francine is cut up and eaten. After the cannibals fall asleep the group tries to escape but accidentally wake them. A confrontation erupts with the disfigured men and the group flee through the woods. They succeed in stealing the cannibals' truck but Scott is killed when a cannibal shoots him with arrows.

Then the remaining three survivors hit a dead end in the road and continue on foot, meanwhile the cannibals track them. Eventually they end up at an old watch tower in hopes of finding a radio or rangers. There they find a radio but get no response. Someone responds just as the cannibals reach the tower and alerts the cannibals to the group's whereabouts. The cannibals then proceed to burn down the tower, but the three escape by jumping into a nearby tree. Unfortunately, Carly is killed by a cannibal who swings an axe into her mouth after he climbed up the tree.

The remaining two people, Chris and Jessie, climb out of the tree and hide in a cave until the next morning. They make their way through the woods and find a road down the hill. However, the mountain men find them, push Chris down the hill and capture Jessie and take her back to their cabin. Chris finds a police officer on the road who says he heard their call from the radio, however the policeman is shot in the eye with an arrow by one of the cannibals. Chris hides in a bush as the cannibal puts the cops body in the back of his car and drives back to the cabin, Chris hangs onto the bottom of the car. When they arrive at the cabin, Chris finds Jessie tied up to the table. He goes in and unties her and the two end up destroying the cannibals and their cabin by setting it on fire and they make it out of the woods alive. However, at least one cannibal survives, as shown in the ending credits.

Cast

*Eliza Dushku... Jessie Burlingame
*Desmond Harrington... Chris Flynn
*Emmanuelle Chriqui... Carly
*Jeremy Sisto... Scott
*Kevin Zegers... Evan
*Lindy Booth... Francine
*Yvonne Gaudry... Halley
*Joel Harris... Rich
*Wayne Robson... Old Man
*Julian Richings... Three Finger
*Gary Robbins... Saw-tooth
*Ted Clark... One-eye

Response and Box Office

The film received mixed reviews from critics. It earned a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Many criticized it as having no originality, taking its plot from other horror films such as "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)" and " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 film)". The New York Post called it a "dull, humorless slasher flick." The Boston Globe called it "A stultifying blend of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", boot camp, and maybe "The Blair Witch Project", Wrong Turn is profoundly less than the sum of its influences." Positive reviewers considered it to be a fun, scary Friday night horror film. The Detroit Free Press called said "While this movie doesn't have the warped sensibilities of 1977's similarly plotted "The Hills Have Eyes", it has decent performances and genuine suspense." Also Glenn Lovell from the San Jose Mercury News praised the film quoting "Schmidt makes us flinch the old-fashioned way — by giving us a box seat to the unspeakable." The film also did moderately well at the box office, debuting at #6 with $5.1 million. The film went on to earn a total of $28.7 million worldwide at the box office. [ [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wrongturn.htm Wrong Turn (2003) ] ]

Release Dates

*US- May 30 2003
*UK- June 27 2003
*Australia- July 31 2003
*New Zealand- February 12 2004

DVD

The special features on Wrong Turn are:
*Theatrical Trailer
*Featurettes
*Francine's death outtakes
*Extended waterfall sequence
*Audio commentary by director and lead actors

oundtrack listing

Note: "The following list does not include composed music"

* Label: Lakeshore Records
* Release date: June 2, 2003
# Dream Syndicate - "Halloween"
# Queens of the Stone Age - "You Can't Quit Me Baby"
# Queens of the Stone Age - "If Only"
# Simple - "Birthday"
# Breaking Benjamin - "Wish I May"

equels

Due to its great commercial success on DVD, the film was followed by the 2007 direct-to-video sequel "", which starred Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins and Texas Battle, and was directed by Joe Lynch. The sequel was also very successful on DVD and received positive response from the critics.

On June 30, 2008, [http://www.bloody-disgusting.com Bloody-Disgusting] learned that Declan O'Brien will be directing "Wrong Turn 3". Joe Lynch will not be returning for the third film. It has also been confirmed that Fox Home Entertainment has officially begun casting the third installment. No word on whether any of the surviving cast will be back.

References

External links

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*amg movie|id=1:283386|title=Wrong Turn
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