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Wrong Turn

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wrong Turn makes right by Horror
Review: I have been a fan of horror movies since I was old enough to use the VCR. This is a genre I grew up with. Once I was old enough to see these movies in theatres, I lost much of my love. Most modern horror movies try to hard to be original and not enough to entertain. Movies like Wrong Turn make me want to see Horror movies again. It's sad that all we have are occasional films like this, and tired seqeuls like "Freddy vs. Jason." Is this movie predictable? Yes. Is it excessivly violent? Yes. Does it have an unlikly if not impossible plot? Yes. But why else would you see a slasher-horror movie? You don't go for Citizen Kane, you go for movies like Wrong Turn. Honestly, the best traditional horror movie I can think of in the last ten years(Non-traditional horror movies like 6th Sense arn't so much horror as they are suspense). Movie-makers, take note, this is what horror audiences want you to be making.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: awesome
Review: i went and saw this movie with my brother, my sister-in-law, and my mom on vacation in TExas. It was awesome. I love scary movies! This movie wasn't so much scary, though, as it was that i kept you on the edge of your seat. I'm not usually scared by movies..buti screamed about 3 times during this movie. However, I absolutely loved it and am trying to convince my best friend to watch it with me when it comes out on video (she's terrified of horror movies) lol. anywayz..i reccomend this to anyone who wants a good scare :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Surprisingly Great Horror Flick!!
Review: One of the best horror movies in a long time... Great sound and camera work too, which really added to the flick. Many scary moments, and if you want to see a decent-budget horror movie that combines The Hills Have Eyes and Deliverance (sorry no rape scene), then this is for you. If not, go watch Barney! :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best movie ever!!!!!
Review: If u want to see a real horror movie this is it. When i walked in the theater i saw all teenagers and I took mine to see it to. Well was i wrong it was fantastic i actually scared my self. it is nothing like what i thought.
A summary of the movie is.

This one boy has to make an appontment with a Doctor well there is a chemical spill on tfhe road so he asks a trucker for directions.
He tells him tto go down bear mountain road so he does well hes fiddling around with a cd when he hits some other peo When they meet they leave 2 behind . Well that was a mistake because later they find out there are some hungry cannibals in the woods. It is all up hill from there if u want a scare see this movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Wrong Turn? Raw turkey is more like it.
Review: Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt, 2003)

Poor Rob Schmidt. What a fantastic rags-to-riches story he was; he got his first big Hollywood job as a gaffer on the little movie that could, The Doom Generation, and worked his way up to director in five years, giving the world Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. Yeah, it was a first film, with all the hallmarks of same. But really, no limits, right? This guy could be the best.

And then came 2003, and he gave us Wrong Turn. There have been a rash of bad horror movies since the success of Jeepers Creepers, and not a one of them even has the fun factor of JC. Add Wrong Turn to the list. At least it tries to be slightly different, but it fails. Painfully.

Do you really need a plot summary? Take a passel of teens. Add in a creepy serial killer. Let the bodies hit the floor. In this case, the passel of teens is headed up by the delicious Eliza Dushku (Bring It On, This Boy's Life) and Desmond Harrington (Riding in Cars with Boys), along with other previously-rising Hollywood gen-y types like Jeremy Sisto (the title role in TNT's recent miniseries of Julius Caesar) and Emmanuelle Chiriqui (Snow Day), whose careers have likely been destroyed by their appearances in this movie. The Deliverance-style bad guys are played by three actors who are one step below character actors (you know, "I was in this film as 'truck driver #3!'"), with the only one who might've been recognizable without the makeup being Julian Richings, the Trent Reznor-lookalike janitor from similarly silly late-nineties horror flick Urban Legend. (If you're a longtime fan of bad horror, though, Gary Robbins had bad-horror-flick child-star status in the early eighties. Remember Humungous? Eh, you're probably better off...)

Crossing your typical slasher film with Deliverance sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Actually, it's a fantastic idea. And to be fair to the producers, they did line up a potential-wunderkind director, a cast of potentially above-average stars, and came up with some absolutely gorgeous rural-west-virginia scenery, even if it's the backwoods version of "we're trying to make Toronto look like New York again" ("West Virginia" actually resides in Dundee, Ontario, for the purposes of this movie). They went painfully wrong in not changing Alan McElroy's script nearly enough (when your first sold script is for the dreadful Halloween 4, and your newest script is for... Halloween 9, you're pretty well locked into cliché mode. Worse, he was also responsible for Left Behind and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever). In fact, I doubt anyone changed a single word. So you have a director and actors who, if you remove the "potentially" part, are at least capable. Blame this turkey on the script. And hope someone make another Deliverance-style gen-y horror film that actually does it right, because this one ain't it. **

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Lots of tension, but needs plot and character development
Review: Wrong Turn (2003) Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Desmond Harrington, Lindy Booth, Kevin Zegers, D: Rob Schmidt.

Typically déjà vu throwback to DELIVERANCE and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE has a med student-headed for Raleigh N.C. to catch an interview-taking the back roads where he plows into a carload of five youths stuck with a flat tire; they get lost in the West Virginia forest and quickly become the kill and food to filthy, disfigured inbreeds.

Not the best of its breed, but (as Fangoria magazine would agree) has its share of shocks, gore, and clichés, with a couple good scenes, including one in a treetop. Highest point is the sight of the always-attractive Dushku, who will make your heart skip a beat over the bloodthirsty hillbillies, and nadir is the lack in standard cinematic devices.

Running Time: 95 minutes and rated R for strong violence and gore, some language and drug use.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A simple modern horror classic.
Review: Wrong Turn is a very SOLID TEEN HORROR FLICK. Now that i think of it, there is almost nothin to qualify this as a teen horror flick than the young cast. It's smart. Not genius or intricately ccomplicated just smart and straight forward.

Wrong Turn will make u paranoid of going into the woods, i can almost guarantee it. I think that the setting was one of the strongest assets of the movie. The darkness, the vast-ness, hell even the beauty of the woods are all used to Director Rob Schmidt's full advantage. This leads me to the movies STRONGEST point, the directing job provided by Rob Schmidt. The most evident place to look for brilliant direction was in the tree scene. You'll kno what I'm talkin about once u see it. The camera seemleassly weaves through the branches and delivers the goods.

Every actor featured here is very charsmatic and fit their given roles perfectly, from the lead four to he creepy cannibal threesome. Major props to Eliza Dushku, she really knows how to convey emotion in her several breakdown scenes. And man, she can scream!!!!!

Another acomplishment of Wrong Turn has got to be the audience reaction. This movie pulled all the right strings; the whole time the audience was clapping, screaming, and cheering on each character. It helps that there are a handful of CLASSIC scenes thrown in here too. I'm all about the scene when the cannibals come home.... once again u'll kno when u c it.

In conclusion, Wrong Turn is a serious, solid, and intense piece of horror work that is a must see for fans of the genre.
9/10

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wrong turn makes a right turn for me!
Review: I love this movie! It's like an old, original, slasher movie. What does it for me the most in this movie is that it has no cgi computer effects. And it's fast paced and there's a killing every 15- 20 minutes. This movie freakin' rocks!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Finally, a scary movie without apologies
Review: This movie is so horrible. Horibbly scary, Horribly gory and Horribly good. It had me from the opening sequence to the very end. I was on the edge of my seat with my hands over my face. The only problem the movie had was with the killers. They are on the verge of being laughable. They really went overboard on trying to make them look inbred. If they had only held back quite a bit and made them look more human like and shown them less, it would have made a world of difference. That aside, this is one hell of a ride. Scary beyond the meaning of the word. Sickening gore and heaps and heaps of suspense. I don't really need to get into the story for it is as the title suggests. Wrong Turn. Oops, you went down the wrong country road for the last time!!!!! This movie does for the woods what jaws did for the water. ( a feat that should have been pulled off by blair witch, but was not) If ya throw yourself in to this movie, you will not be disappointed. It is well worth the time and effort put forth.
I cannot say it enough, this movie rocks!!!
enjoy!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Everything
Review: OK, I know there are some hardcore Rob Zombie fans that love everything with his name on it. And rightly so, he is a talented musician with an obvious love for the Horror genre. But you must admit that all the hype leading up to the release of HO1kC was just that....hype. Touted as being the film that would usher in a new age in horror. Well, it wasn't. But, "Wrong Turn" is all of that. Wrong Turn is politically incorrect(inbred and grossly disfigured cannibal hillbillies living in West Virginia), has some pretty inventive and gory mutilations, and a 70's horror movie feel to boot!

Stan Winston and his team have truly created a a 70's horror movie atmosphere with none of the wink and nod, music video vibe that was such a glaring mistake in Zombie's movie. Wrong Turn gets you interested from the very beginning and doesn't let go. There were people sitting around me in the theater that were actually wimpering in fear! No joke!

It's just too bad that such an exciting film never found it's audience in the theaters. If you are a horror movie fan don't miss the DVD release!


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