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Crappy film

Admirable film.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

On it's own it's an OK movie, but nowhere next to the best in the Wrong Turn franchise.Left for Dead goes back to the original inbreed slasher they had in the original, which is a good thing, and vast improvement over the last one.This time around the inbreed slasher family (I don't know if they have an official name) hunt down a bus filled with inmates from a near by penitentiary who attempt to escape after the inbreeds cause their bus accident only to wish they were back on the bus heading for prison.Not since John Carpenter's, The Thing has there been a horror movie with so much testosterone being hunted like oversexed teenage girls, but I guess A group of prisoners who have not been with a woman in a while can give off the same sent to a slasher.So the one thing this movie does well that the whole franchise is built on is doing things differently than other slasher films and not relying too much on the clichés.But the characters being killed are not that interesting, and are not played too well by the actors portraying them, so it falls really short of what it could be.On its own, it's mediocre but the weight of having it be a part of the wrong turn titles gave it shoes to big to fill, and it couldn't do it.

Having seen the first two in the series I though I'd chance on Wrong Turn 3 when it was shown on a cable station recently. Oh well, you win some you lose some.I knew that Wrong Turn 3 had been made for video so did not have any great expectations but it was quite clear that the producers had no real link with their predecessors in the franchise. The first Wrong Turns gave as much screen time to the mutants as the main characters and certainly Wrong Turn 2 gave some development as to why and how the mutants came to be, even though this was also a straight to video offering. Also the first two films were story driven with the first being an old fashion 'teens get lost' premise whereas the second was a satire on the reality survivor shows which seem to fill the schedules these days. It was clearly a cheaper affair but the writers clearly had some nouse and added lightness to the script that Wrong Turn 3 misses completely.It was no surprise to find that, according to IMDb, Connor James Delaney has not had his name attached to any other production since he got a pay cheque for this effort. If he got paid by the expletive he did quite well out of the deal. If he got paid for a coherent story then he is probably still paying backing the producers for breach of contract.Wrong Turn 3 quite clearly does not have the budget of its predecessors and this probably explains why the majority of the story takes place at night to hide the limited production values. The cast is the regular mix of B-movie unknowns with my interest only piqued by an early US role for Janet Montgomery whose American accent holds up better than the rest of the UK based cast whose accent drift around the world as they deliver mono syllabic lines interspersed with tiresome fight scenes, all the better for the fact that their white t-shirts are splattered with red 'blood' as they have been fighting with a meat grinder.And the story, for what it is, involves a group of inmates who are being transferred to another penitentiary early to prevent a planned break out. On their way they get knocked off the road by our friendly mutants and the rest is the standard run of the mill 'which one do you think will make it to the end' storyline. The writer and director add to the overall boredom by creating tension between the lead inmate Chavez (Tamer Hassan) and his nemesis Floyd (Gil Kolirin). The end result is that there is no tension. It is the constant third rate banter between these two as others around them die in fairly average fashion that makes this film very boring indeed. It is like watching two old blokes arguing over a wet paper bag.Declan O'Brien clearly has an agenda to fill in his role as director, and I see as writer of Wrong Turns 4 and 5, but this agenda does not include engaging with the audience.This is poor fare and if you have to waste 90 minutes of your time there are better ways to do so.

WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD is the third in a series of hillbilly slasher flicks that nobody wanted or asked for. However, despite the obvious limitations with this film series, I find the movies kind of fun: they offer simple, comic book-style story lines, loaded with cheesy acting and even cheesier gore sequences. In truth there's little to dislike about these films.The central thrust of the plot here sees a prison van attacked by a redneck mutant. The surviving prisoners and prison guards are forced to trek through the forest to safety, where they hook up with the sole survivor of another attack. The viewer's left questioning as to what's going to kill them first - tensions within the group, or the increasingly demented attacks from the mutant himself.It's hardly high art but WRONG TURN 3 is relatively amusing for its genre. The cast members certainly breathe life into their exaggerated characters, and I particularly enjoyed Tamer Hassan's turn as a Mexican (!) convict and crime boss. There's a little nudity and peril here, but most of the emphasis is on the violence, which is rubbery and explicit. Hardly disturbing, but kind of fun anyway, and the pacing is fast enough that you never have time to get bored or question the plot holes.

After reading previous negative reviews I still decided to give it a try. And I have to admit that I do not regret! Maybe it was not the most original piece but it was still entertaining enough from the beginning until the end. There was not too much talking (which is good for this type of movies), plot is simple but contains enough action. In my opinion it was not as good as the first movie, but it was much better than the second one. I do not like those "teenagers in trouble" type of horror movies (too many of those). Acting was not brilliant but it was decent enough for the prisoners. And I liked this money sharing part. Only those cops were not believable. In overall the movie was quite enjoyable!