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Summary: Wrong Turn
Review: G. MIKE"Wrong Turn" is directed by Rob Schmidt and brought to life with Stan Winston's creature effects. These two men are very well-known and could expect a good film from them. The cast is great. Eliza Dushku ("Bring It On") plays Jessie. Desmond Harrington ("Ghost Ship") is Chris Flynn. Jeremy Sisto (TNT miniseries "Caesar") and Emmanuelle Chriqui ("Detroit Rock City") play two engaged people. Kevin Zegers (Air Bud movies) and Lindy Booth (TV's "The Famous Jett Jackson") are boyfriend and girlfriend. There is also the creatures that chase down our main group of people. They are supposed to be terrifying, just like this movie. The problem is - either of them are not terrifying at all. The film opens with two mountain climbers who are killed off screen by some unseen force. Switch forward to Chris Flynn who is driving down the highway who is late for a meeting in Raleigh. There is an accident on the highway and it could take hours until it is cleaned up. Chris instead goes down a little dirt road which intersects with the highway in about 20 miles. Everything is going fine until he takes his eyes of the road and rams into another vehicle. Chris apologizes over and over to the people who owned the vehicle. He meets Jessie (Dushku), Scott (Sisto) and his going-to-be-wife, Carly (Chriqui), and Evan (Zegers) and his girlfriend, Francine (Booth). Jessie tells Chris that there tires were blown out from barbed wire. The barbed wire was put there intentionally they think. Without any transportation or way to call anybody, Jessie, Chris, Carly and Scott go looking for a gas station, while Evan and Francine stay back at the car. The four who leave find a cabin. The cabin is cluttered with human body parts, baby dolls, and other weird stuff. They decide to run, but the three owners of the house have just come home. They have also just killed Evan and Francine and the four decide to get out of there. They do, but our three enemies chase them through the rest of the movie. This is basically the plot. The plot is, of course, not original. It goes back to certain movies like the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Evil Dead". It still works effectively though. It isn't just a rehash of old movies. It has its own certain twists and turns. Also, the plot gets going very fast. I didn't remember any part in the movie where I wanted to just take a nap for a bit. No, this movie is very fast paced, which is a good thing for a horror movie. Usually, horror movies take 30 to 45 minutes to get the movie going. This one doesn't do that. This movie flies by. The acting in this movie was okay in the beginning. I really didn't think that are protagonists were real people. It seemed like they were forced to say certain lines. As the movie progressed though, they seemed like they were really scared. They cried when somebody was killed or got hurt. Usually, again, in horror movies, they never have any smart dialogue. This movie begins to catch on and has some great lines that make you feel you are in the woods. Desmond Harrington gives in a good performance as Chris. Eliza Dushku is good as Jessie. I didn't really like Emmanuelle Chriqui's performance. She was crying the whole movie and complaining about everything. Lindy Booth did good job as the mean-spirited girl. The two that stood out though were Kevin Zegers and Jeremy Sisto. The only problem with Kevin Zeger's performance was that he was in the movie for like ten minutes. He was very good for the moments he had. Jeremy Sisto did an also amazing job. He played the intelligent, funny, caring guy. He did a fine job. This movie isn't exactly scary. They say that it will never make you go back in the woods again. I don't think so. Frankly, I won't be scared if I go into the woods. The problem with the movie is the atmosphere. There are some great atmospheric moments, but overall they aren't terrifying. Yet, the whole movie is in the light. The only dark scene was a scene where our survivors have to jump from branches to branches of trees, while the sadistic creatures follow them. I have to admit though. It is a very intense scene. There were no real shocks expect for a few kills, but nothing horrific. There is gore in this movie, but not excessive. A lot of people say this is "a very gory movie". Yes, there is blood and some other disgusting things, but nothing too offensive. A lot of people do get killed violently in this movie though. So be prepared for some creative death scenes. Overall, this movie is a fun to watch film. It isn't very scary, nor is it very gory for that matter. The acting is on par. You will notice that the plot is not original, but go along with it. You might like it in the end. I enjoyed it, even if it didn't scare the socks of me. Rated R for very strong violence/gore, language, some sexual elements, disturbing images, and brief drug use G. MIKE
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Summary: Wrong Turn..Ummm. Eh, ok.
Review: Well, well, well. Now I know some of you like the campy lost in the woods horrors where a bunch of deformed freaks are coming after you so I can understand you liking this movie for that reason. Aside from that, this doesn't give much in the line of horror. A few cool deaths, but this story has been done too many times for me to remain interested. Not to be completely pessimistic 'cause E Dushku is gorgeous, the other chic steals the show by her amazing body. See where I'm getting with this? Once you realize there's no story or horror, you try to make the best with what you've got. Anyway, its pays homage to the basic texas chainsaw massacre/deliverance audience and is slightly entertaining.
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Summary: A hommage to Deliverance and the Hills Have Eyes
Review: "Wrong turn" might not be cutting any new ground in its genre but it succeeds in what it wants to achieve as a film. Being a film that actually pays tribute to classics such as the "Texas chainsaw massacre", "The hills have eyes" or the 70s cult film "Deliverance" it will be inevitably compared to these and it will stand very well.
With the "familiar" theme of inbred humanoid-monstroid incest products living in the "woods" who hunt down a company of unfortunate teens who happen to be lost in "their" forest with the intent to use them as body parts for their gruesome collection, "Wrong Turn" is both edgy and entertaining with more emphasis on the latter. It doesnt degenerate in an unwilling parody nor does it become a joke of itself because it's paced very well (the director rarely pulls the foot off the gas pedal) and because the cliches are actually working in favor of the film. As the inbreds pursue their victims through the forest the characters that "fall" first happen (...) to be the most annoying. But the game is set before that when the lost teens find temporary refuge in the bizzarohouse of the inbreds and while hiding in there they witness mutilations, human parts in the fridge, and the brutal chopping-up of one of their own. Where "Wrong turn" succeeds most is at the combination of humor with gore. It's not exactly simple to maintain a balance between these two but the film does walk the rope succesfully.
For fans of this genre this is more than a welcome addition.
Edgy, fun, pacey, and not cheesy it's a cool option for those Saturday night horror-video sessions with pizza.
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Summary: Hmmmm...
Review: "Wrong Turn" is undeniably a different horror movie than many others that have been released in the past. However, it has some good qualities and some bad qualities. The movie concept is creative. The action/chase scenes keep the audiences on the edge of their seats. However, many scenes don't match one another very well(i.e. if someone was being chased by three serial killers, why sleep for eight hours). Some storyline details chance either when they shouldn't have and/or without explaining why. The writers gave the killers a creative and scary edge. However, no one knows their names and how they became the way they are. The movie only explored the fact that they kill, and they're after six campers. The acting is mediocre. Eliza Dushku has performed much better, but she still has potential. Those looking for a horror movie, "Wrong Turn" may be good to rent only once. There may be some mixed reviews toward this movie, but many will be entertained.
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Summary: This is not going to help West Va.'s tourist industry
Review: I was all pumped up about watching Wrong Turn, but while the movie is quite good, it just didn't manage to push any of my buttons. The overriding purpose of this film was to scare people, but I didn't find it remotely frightening in the least. It wasn't even as grisly as I expected it to be. The evil "mountain men" of West Virginia are more comical than anything else, with little to offer beyond peculiar ways of walking, ape-like gibberish, terrible housekeeping skills, and a supposed cannibalistic nature. But are these people really cannibals? I think it is an important question, and I'm not convinced that they are. They definitely have a fascination with body parts, assembling some lovely collections of jawbones and the like, they keep bloody bottles of something nasty in their refrigerator, they like to saw people up for some reason, and they make a pretty nasty kind of soup, but I didn't see anyone actually eating anyone. When they bring one of the movie's first kills back to their cabin, do they immediately begin preparing a chili con human being feast? No; they dump the body on a table and decide to go to sleep, in the middle of the day. Maybe I'm belaboring a point here, but there are just a lot of little things about this movie that kept me from fully embracing the action taking place. There is really no evidence offered that any of the characters actually took a wrong turn in anything other than a metaphorical sense. Chris Finn (Desmond Harrington) voluntarily took a certain old dirt road through the wilds of West Virginia because it seemed to be a shortcut, and all we learn about the group of friends trying to cheer up Jessie Burlingame (Eliza Dushku) is that they are lost. In any event, a collection of six worthy victims comes together (thanks to Chris' sadly deficient driving skills) on the all but deserted Bear Mountain Road, where things are just not right. Barbwire intentionally placed in the road in order to blow out tires is the first clue, but there are plenty more to come. Four of the six strike out on foot in search of help. Things start to go bad for the two left behind early on, although we don't yet get a good glimpse of the bad stalking the woods. After coming upon a dead end, our intrepid foursome investigates an old cabin in the woods, looking for a phone. The place is a pig sty, yet they stay in there long enough to make some pretty gruesome discoveries and to find themselves trapped when the residents of the humble abode come home. This is probably the best scene in the movie, as our heroes come face to face, quite literally, with true terror in the form of a mutilated friend tossed right in front of their hiding eyes. From this point on, the chase is on, and no one is guaranteed to survive. Some of the kills are rather nice, as kills engineered by famed producer Stan Winston certainly should be, but I wanted more, to tell you the truth. Even the decapitation scene that Winston is so proud of left me rather nonplussed. The tension and suspense should increase as we work our way toward an ending, but I found myself constantly distracted by little things that bothered me. It all starts with the trees; apparently, every tree in West Virginia has strong, hefty branches that are perfectly horizontal, connect to one another, and allow for easy human perambulation. Heck, a person standing on a limb can even fall down and land right on her back without any need to grab hold of anything in order to avoid plunging to a most painful death. Then there is the classic "guy hiding underneath the truck" scene. First of all, these dirt roads of West Virginia are bound to have many a dip in them, and there is no way anyone could ride a mere inch or two from the ground holding on to the bottom of an old truck sporting shocks that saw their better days many, many years in the past. Worse, though, is the fact that at one point I could detect no sign of anyone supposedly stowing away underneath the truck as it drove down the road. I really hate to give this movie a mere three stars. I love Eliza Dushku, and I really wanted to enjoy a movie that had such incredible horror potential. I'm sure this movie can provide frightening thrills to many a viewer, but it just didn't do it for me. An infamous episode of the X-Files built on a similar foundation of an inbred, mutated, disgusting family was far creepier and much more intense than Wrong Turn. The DVD itself is nice, housing both full screen and widescreen versions of the film and tagging on four short featurettes, a little poster gallery, a few deleted scenes, and a commentary by the major players. I just wish I could have truly enjoyed this movie.
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Summary: Inbreeding in West Virginia? Noooooo!
Review: Chris Finn is late for an appointment and stops at a gas station to use the phone (doesn't work) and checks out a map that shows a dirt road that leads around the large traffic jam blocking the only highway to his destination. Taking this backwoods shortcut, a short way up the road he literally runs into another vehicle in the middle of the road. Two couples and the requisite single female are stranded there when their car ran over a strand of barbed wire seemingly placed in the road on purpose. Finn, the single woman, and one of the couples leave the scene of the accident to try and find assistance, leaving the other couple behind at their vehicle. Now we have the formula of city folks looking for excitement in the country both stranded and divided, in the backwoods of West Virginia. Why would anyone look for a phone where there are no power lines whatsoever? Simple, to create this kind of suspense in a slasher/thriller movie in which the blood will soon fly and the city folks soon die. Spectacular mutants, a squealing stupid girl, stupidly brave and clueless men, and some nice knife and axe work blend together to give us this bloodily entertaining movie with just the right allotments of gore, cheese, and stupidity. Definitely entertaining splatter for those who appreciate the genre. Mmmmmmm. Long Pork. Don't check the fridge for any snacks!
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Summary: Wrong Movie!
Review: What a pathetique attempt of creating a horror-movie. This is a total rip-off from other horror-classics and I don't see the point of making a movie that resembles some other movie but is 20 worse than that other of which came in mind to me was the Texas Chains-saw massacre among others. It's an insult to the viewer so un-intelligent this movie is. No originality at all, just copied ideas all the way through.
This one is just lame. The whole story including every detail is totally predictable and the atmosphere of horror is lacking. Wrong Turn A.K.A Wrong Movie, looks so studied and calculated that it's almost more documentary than film. A documentary about how an attempt of making a scary movie goes. Give me a break...
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Summary: Greetings from West Virginia--Wish You Were Here!
Review: Once again, I find myself liking the fact that straightforward horror films are being produced with a nod to fans, and lamenting the fact that all they can offer is countless references to better films of yore. On the one hand, Wrong Turn is touted as a "70s style horror film" (according to the director in the featurettes and commentary) so it's to the point, introducing the cast and then killing them. On the other hand, this isn't the 70s, movie audiences are savvier and more jaded, and you need some kind of original element and/or post reflexive sense to pull this off in the post-Scream era. Wrong Turn resembles one large part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one part Deliverance, and one part Predator, baked in a Friday the 13th 'Dead Teenagers in the Woods' pie crust. The cast looks smart, but their fate is sealed in an extended sequence detailing a tour through the 'Terrible Place', you know, that place in horror movies where bad things happen and would-be victims linger for a long, long time. On his way to a job interview in Raleigh, our hero Chris rams his Mustang into an SUV that has been taken out by barbed wire purposely strung across a backwoods road in the mountains of West Virginia. Enter victims: two couples and a single girl who is trying to...gasp...sob...get over a recent breakup by going on a fun camping trip. Trying to find a phone (the cell phone device of modern times rendered useless by being in, well, the backwoods) they get rocketed back a few hundred years when they come across a cabin that, it becomes obvious in a few seconds, is inhabited by some truly scary creatures. This sets up a long, long sequence of finding all sorts of neat things in this house of horrors like teeth in a jar, stolen merchandise from past victims, and a fridge full of organs and meat. Infuriatingly, one girl insists on using the bathroom in this disgusting hovel, even after it's painfully obvious that INSANE KILLERS LIVE IN THIS HOUSE. Even for a slasher flick, you have to wonder... The killers in question are a group of mutants who, through generations of inbreeding, have turned into a truly vile cast of deformed, homicidal, cannibalistic savages. They can't speak any known language, they have three fingers, humpbacks, and generally look like characters from The Dark Crystal on crack, yet they can drive, fire guns, and somehow not get discovered despite the regularity with which people disappear in the area. Just in case you were thinking that this is a deeply cynical, ridiculous job of stereotyping by the filmmakers, the DVD featurettes inform us that ALL THE DEFORMITIES ARE BASED ON REAL MEDICAL CASES! Whew! And there I thought they were taking artistic license. The film borrows heavily from the aforementioned films. The Predator bits are the extended hiding and moving in the tall tree tops, bathed in shadow to mask sets. And what a surprise, the film was even made in Canada, to shave yet a few more dollars off the clearly low budget. The cast is mostly game, and in particular Jeremy Sisto stands out as better than the material (before he inevitably checks out after uttering the line "We are never going into the woods again!") The approach the filmmakers seem to be taking is that this genre and setting is "new", and there is hardly a wink from the players to the audience to lighten it all up. At least the DVD is heavy on features, though quantity does not equal quality. The commentary is awful. There are long stretches of utter silence as it's obvious that director and two stars just have nothing to say about this movie. Unless you want to hear the gorgeous Eliza Dushku give a shoutout to her "Albanian peoples" you'll want to skip it. And the deleted scenes? Think about it, if they weren't good enough to make an 84-minute movie... Actually, only scene is really cut, but it's just an alternate take of Dushku's big acting moment. 'Acting' here means some fake tears, and a...lot...of...pausing...between...sighs...and...gasps...when...she...talks...about...her...dead...friends...This was decent fare for a slow day. Knock off a star if you don't like slasher flicks. Recommended for die-hard genre addicts, else this is strictly rental fare.
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Summary: Wrong Turn-not scary, but great fun--3.6 STARS
Review: While this movie is grotesque and bloody at some parts, its really not very scary. It has some great moments of suprise that make you jump, but overall it reminded me of a childlike horror film on the Disney channel.Eliza Dushku stars in this film. While she is nice to look at, her character is really annoying. You never really feel like shes one of the gang. She has this cocky in charge attitude that doesn't fit in with the other scared wussy kids. This movie is more like a action/horror flick. Overall this movie has cult classic potential. silly inbred cannibals, great outdoor atmosphere make this a memorable film. If you go into this film looking for a masterpiece super scare you might be dissapointed, but if you watch it for fun, you will will be pleased. The DVD extras are great and help you appreciate the film and the hardwork the crew put in to make this so enjoyable. acting=3.5 stars
FX=4 stars
ending=2.5 stars
atmosphere=4 stars
Directing and Editing=3.5 stars
storyline=2.5 stars
meaningfullness=NA
replay value=3 stars OVERALL=solid 3.28 stars Deffinetly worth a rent on a boring rainy day
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Summary: Good but fades out!
Review: This is a loose remake of texas chainsaw massacre. It is not bad but it gets cheesy at the end with the superhero killing all the bad guys. Overall: DECENT.
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