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One of my all time favorites.

Nice effects though.

Don't Believe the Hype

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is a great movie. It is very scary. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It also has a great story line. If it does not scary you no movie will. It will scary you. 6.1 is a good ratting. But this is such a great movie that 6.1 is underrating it. This is 10 out of 10. This movie is scary then Halloween and that is not easy to do. I am running out for things to say. And I need more lines. Great movie great movie great movie great movie great movie. See it see it see it see it see it. Sorry to have to repeat myself so much. But this a great movie. If you like horror stories then you will like this movie. See it. It is a great movie.

I saw this first in a theatre in 2003. Dint see any trailer n dint read bah it. The poster was enuff to raise my curiosity. Revisited it recently on a DVD. Seen all its sequels on dvds. Agree its nothing original, v already hav seen many like this n some superior ones like Texas chainsaw. ...., Hills hav.... n many other cannibal/inbred/hillbilly films but this film surprised me. It was really good. There is something very scary about lost in the woods n chased by hillbillies with brutal weapons. The director Schmidt kept the tension very high, constantly reminding us of both the isolation and the fact that civilization isn't that far away. The film has decent suspense, some nice tension when they're hiding in the cabin, a couple of nice jump moments and some really cool deaths one involving barb wire, a great tree-top cat and mouse game and a disturbing scene of desolated junkyard with discarded vehicles, most of which have blood splattered all over them and recognisable belongings spilling out of them, climbing ropes, picnic hampers, shoes, sunglasses, a child's doll. The gore effects are great. Even the chase sequence was tension filled. Some decent cinematography of the mountain side, deep forests n isolated gas stations.

A typical slasher movie that takes John Boorman's DELIVERANCE as its central concept, then delivers tons of action, bloodshed, and virtually no plot for the rest of the ninety-minute running time. It has to be said that WRONG TURN starts off well enough. Two climbers are brutally murdered in the wilderness, then there's a suspenseful car-ride/crash which almost had me bolting from my seat. The film builds in tension as unseen evil stalks our cast, but after the first major gore scene, things go downhill fast. The rest of the film is a chase between our heroes and the cannibal men which lasts right up until the last (gruesome) minute. It's not bad, but something we've seen a hundred times before, so those looking for originality should go looking somewhere else. They won't find any here.One very annoying thing about this film is the reliance on poor CGI effects in scenes you wouldn't expect to see them. In one shot the entire forest is done with CGI, it looks ridiculous, why the heck would they want to do that? In other shots, the cast are supposedly balancing on branches high above the ground, but the CGI influence is obvious again. Finally they climb a watchtower, but is it really a watchtower? Nope, just a CGI animation. I wish film-makers would get out of this annoying habit. When I saw Stan Winston's name in the credits, I thought I would be in for some GREAT make-up like he's done in the past. I was wrong. The mutants in this film have nondescript makeup, which looks very much like makeup. Director Rob Schmidt realises this and keeps their faces hidden as much as he can, but he's wasting his time. It doesn't pay-off, and it looks like Winston's losing his touch. About time he won back some credit – when's your next JURASSIC PARK gonna be, Stan? The cast is so-so. I liked Desmond Harrington's leading man, stern and authoritative throughout, never backing down, never losing his resolve. He's my kind of hero. Eliza Dushku is very pretty as the heroine, and kicks backside too, so you can't lose there. Jeremy Sisto is on hand to supply comic relief and he's great, it's a shame he dies halfway through the film but you can't have everything. The film has routine action but goes over-the-top in the gore effects which reach new heights of sickness. We get to watch heads being axed off (deeply unpleasant) and other implements impale the human body. I used to enjoy gore when I was younger, it seems a little bit too much here, and in bad taste as well. Still, it could be worse I guess. WRONG TURN's best aspect is the isolated forest setting, but even that seems too slick and glossy these days. I preferred the low-budget horrors that came out of the USA years ago, which really WERE filmed out in the wilderness (take RITUALS). That's where the real fear lies.

The thing about this movie, is that it doesn't try to be something it's not. It doesn't see itself as any better than it is, which is something you have to respect, on some level. Many people dislike this film, and I understand why. But personally, I liked it. It was paced well, and edited brilliantly. The plot is a little paper thin, but it's still good and there never is a boring moment. it constantly keeps you on edge. Compared to a lot of dumb horror films that were released during this era, Wrong Turn very much feels like a trip back to the 70's with it's style. However, that doesn't mean to say that it's a masterpiece. One problem i DO have with this film, is that a lot of these problems could've been solved if the characters had any common sense from the beginning, but no. It bases itself on the characters' mistakes, and I think that's stupid. Go into a creepy cabin in the middle of the deep woods expecting that somehow a PHONE will be in there? Light up a dozen glowsticks in a watchtower to make yourself as visible as possible? Okay.While the characters are alright and somewhat likable, many complain that they're too stupid to even be real. I'm a pushover, but yeah, I get where they're coming from. Sometimes they are too whiny or too bland. They don't have much of a personality. The killers thhemselves are often kept in the shadows, we don't really get much of a good proper look at them, but I like that. Sometimes, it's what we DON'T see that is scary. They're a bit silly, but I guess this situation could really happen. I'd recommend it.