Wrong Turn Movie Review

Wrong Turn is a 2003 horror movie directed by Rob Schmidt and starring Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku.

The movie begins in West Virginia. A man called Chris Flynn(Harrington) is driving along a road. He needs to get to a meeting. He asks for directions at a gas station and some old guy tells him to take a back road. He ends up crashing into a jeep with five passengers. He meets them. They are Jessie(Dushku),Carly, Francine, Evan and Scott(Jeremy Sisto). The group see that there was barbed wire in the road and that caused the crash. Jessie's tyres were punctured by someone. There is something weird going on. Evan and Francine stay with the cars while the rest of them go and look for help. Unfortunately, Evan and Francine meet a nasty end.

The rest of the group find a shack and they look around. They see human body parts. They are going to leave with a family of freaks come back to their horror shack. There are three- Three Finger, Saw Tooth and the charming One Eye. The group has to wait until they get a chance to escape but they get spotted by one of the freaks and they run off into the woods. Saw Tooth chases them and kills Scott and shoots Chris in the leg. Chris manages to escape. There are just three left alive- Chris, Jessie and Carly. They spot a watchtower in the woods and hope that there will be a radio there. They use it to call for help, but get no reply. The freaks find out where they are and proceed to burn it down. The three have to get out. Carly gets caught and dies.

Jessie and Chris have to try and get away from the hillbillies, but they know the area and they are on their trail. The local Sheriff turns up but he is quickly dispatched by the freaks. Jessie gets caught and brought to the shack. Chris rescues her and burns down the freak shack. He thinks that they are all dead and he and Jessie take one of the hillbilly cars and drive away. There is a post credit scene with a deputy Sheriff looking through the burnt remains of the shack. Of course, one of the freaks comes back and attacks him so we know that they will be back!!

This is entertaining and fun. The old hillbilly vs city slicker thing has been done to death but it is still worth watching. This is an enjoyable horror movie which will not amaze you, but will pass ninety minutes quite nicely. The cast do a pretty good job in this and there are some decent scenes. So, all in all, this is a standard horror movie with nothing really original, but it is fun and very watchable so I will recommend it to slasher fans. I will give it a 6/10.