Plot
Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding."
Release Year: 2003
Rating: 6.0/10 (39,707 voted)
Critic's Score: 32/100
Director:
Rob Schmidt
Stars: Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Storyline 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, who intended to camp in the forest, and they decide to leave the couple Francine and Evan on the place, while Chris, Jessie, Carly and her fiancé Scott tries to find some help. They find a weird cabin in the middle of nowhere, where three violent cannibalistic mountain men with the appearance of monsters live. The two couples try to escape from the mountain men while chased by them.
Cast: Desmond Harrington
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Chris Flynn
Eliza Dushku
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Jessie Burlingame
Emmanuelle Chriqui
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Carly
Jeremy Sisto
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Scott
Kevin Zegers
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Evan
Lindy Booth
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Francine
Julian Richings
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Three Finger
Garry Robbins
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Saw-Tooth
Ted Clark
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One-Eye
Yvonne Gaudry
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Halley
Joel Harris
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Rich
David Huband
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Trooper
Wayne Robson
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Old Man
James Downing
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Trucker
Opening Weekend: $5,161,498
(USA)
(1 June 2003)
(1615 Screens)
Gross: $15,417,771
(USA)
(21 September 2003)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
In the scene when the four are running from the cabin after awaking the mountain men, Desmond Harrington broke his right ankle after landing on the opposite side of a log. This made it very difficult to shoot some of the scenes after his left leg is "shot" and he has to limp on his right leg.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When the rock climbing girl falls from the cliff her back is to the floor but when she lands she is facing the floor.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Rich:
Whoo! Whoo-hoo! Oh, yeah! Halley:
OK, you're great. You got the line?
User Review
What's worse than a leather-faced madman chasing you through the bush with a chainsaw? How about three!!
Rating: 8/10
What's worse than a leather-faced madman chasing you through the bush
with a
chainsaw? How about three!!
`Wrong Turn' stars Desmond Harrington as Chris Finn, a man who is late
for a
very important interview. Finn takes a back country road to avoid a
traffic
jam and ends up involved in a car accident with three debutantes (Eliza
Dushku, Lindy Booth and Emmanuelle Chriqui) and their boyfriends (Jeremy
Sisto and Kevin Zegers). The group splits up as they try to find some
help.
Unbeknownst to them, they are being stalked by an unspeakable horror.
Living
in the woods around the crash is a family of cannibalistic mountain men
who
are overtly grotesque from generations of incest. Before the group knows
it,
they are in a fight for their very lives.
`Wrong Turn' was in one word an utter shock to the system. There hasn't
been
a film this gory, grotesque and chilling in a very long time. Not since
the
1970's `Texas Chainsaw Massacre' has a horror film such as this been
made.
The best way to describe the experience is that if you took 2001's `Joy
Ride' and `Jeepers Creepers' added 1972's `Deliverance' then threw them
all
in a blender. You may come up with `Wrong Turn'.
The tension in this film is harrowing and relentless as it bats you back
and
forth. You are exhausted and maybe even queasy when you come out of the
theatre. But if you love horror films then you probably have an ear to
ear
grin as well.
I really liked some of the early editing of this film by director Rob
Schmidt, who allows the scares and shocks to come with brilliant
accuracy. I
also liked how Schmidt barely shows the mountain men throughout the film.
The parts we do see are horrific but the filmmaker relies heavily on the
chase and shock than on the gore. Schmidt could have easily dived down
the
gore shoot to hell but he made a wise choice that works in
spades.
It's the film's harrowing tension and atmospheric pursuit that
overshadows
the young stars that make up the cast. Dushku is strong and emulates some
of
her `Buffy the Vampire Slayer' character, Faith in her portrayal here.
Dushku loves to play debutantes with edge and her character here has a
lot
of it. I wasn't extremely familiar with Desmond Harrington before this
film
but he plays a good leading man. The rest of the cast play typical
generic
20-somethings from the horror film franchises of old. I have always liked
Lindy Booth but she has nothing to play with here and the same is goes
for
Jeremy Sisto. But come on, this isn't exactly an intelligently written
and
detailed drama.
I liked `Wrong Turn' purely because of its shock value and its no holds
barred return to classic horror. It is always in your face and it doesn't
let go till the credits. This film isn't for the faint of heart. What a
rush! (3.5 out of 5) So Says the Soothsayer.
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