Review of Wrong Turn (2003) by Deborah R — 10 Mar 2011
Well there isn't much to say about this film, it's about a guy ends up trapped in the woods with a bunch of stranded campers, and yes the woods are full of over-sized deformed cannibals, how original.
The film is semi-competently made, but who really cares? There is nothing interesting about this film, it follows the "Psychos in the Wilderness" conventions too much and it ends up being tedious.
It's not even that fun, there is a minimal amount of gore, no entrails, no severed limbs and maybe half a litre of blood spilled throughout, maybe. There is no nudity in this film, which sucks because the slasher genre was built around the acceptance of nudity and violence in film. It plays around the whole, "what you can't see is scarier" technique, but in doing so proves that just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's scary, and it also seems that they use this technique only during the violent bits, which makes it even more fail.
There is also a distinct lack of cheesiness and comic relief, the two comic relief characters are not funny and all they do is smoke weed and try to have sex before being killed.
There are much better films of this genre to watch, you have Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes (original and remake), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Wolf Creek etc. And once you see one of those films then you can pretty much predict what will happen in this one.
2 stars from me, don't waste your time or time will waste you.
This review of Wrong Turn (2003) was written by Deborah R on 10 Mar 2011.
Wrong Turn has generally received mixed reviews.
Was this review helpful?
