Review of Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009) by Lindsay Elizabeth M — 06 Jun 2010

He just can't wait to meat you.

In Wrong Turn, you had a Buffy alum, Zohan's love interest, and an actor who portrayed the famous Julius Caesar, run for their lives from a family of mutated cannibals. In the second film, Survivor wannabes dealt somewhat deadly blows with the said cannibal family, up to the point of successfully dwindling their numbers down to Three Fingers and the mutated baby. Now, in this installment, you have the last two survivors of the family terrorize a group of hardened criminals, the cops assigned to take them to prison, and the only survivor of a rash attack on the British rafters who went missing weeks ago. The film may feel like a ripoff of The Fugitive, but the presence of the ever wicked Three Fingers (Illiev) assures us that we definitely took a Wrong Turn.

The film opens with four British tourists rafting down a river. When they stop to make camp, Sophie (Cliffe) and Brent (Speed) start doing some foreplay, but are rudely interrupted when Three Fingers shoots an arrow through one of Sophie's breasts, also impaling Brent's hand in the process. Another arrow hits Sophie through the eye, skewering her eyeball. Frightened out of his wits, Brent runs, and Three Fingers hastily shoves Sophie's eyeball in his mouth. What he doesn't see is Alex (Montgomery), who is hiding in the bushes nearby. Brent and their other companion, Trey (Gordon), fall prey to the deadly traps hidden in the forest. In the next scene we are shown a group of hardened convicts being prepared to be transported to another facility, accompanied by Nate (Frederic) and Walter (Venice). Along the way, they are attacked by Three Fingers, and the bus crashes. The convicts, led by Chavez (Hassan), quickly take command of the situation, and force Nate to tell them the quickest way out. Things do not improve when they find an armoured car full of money, but before that they meet Alex, who was supposedly living in the woods all this time. With a mutiny slowly building up among the convicts, and a cannibalistic killer on the loose, Nate and Alex have to find a way to save themselves from both.... if they can.

Nice film in some points, but it gets tiring after the next half. They should have brought back Eliza Dushku in order to spice things up, but I don't really see how she would have fit into the storyline. Watch if you will.