A guy is driving through the mountains of West Virginia when he, due to some problems, decides to take another route. He ends up on a lonely dirt road and while driving without paying too much attention he accidentaly happens to crash into another car. The car belongs to a group of people who are stranded on the road and together they go to look for help while two of the people stay behind to wait in the car. Deep in the woods, they soon discover a cabin and go there to ask for help. They find no one in the cabin for the time being so they start looking around there and discover some gruesome things that seem to belong to the owners of the cabin. Then the actual owners show up and after what the people have witnessed they decide to hide which they do and get to witness some more horrible stuff. And they know they have to try and make it out of there alive.
This movie was a really cool surprise since I was expecting another boring pointless teen horror flick and then it turned out not to be. Wrong Turn actually turned out to be fast paced and had a hell of a lot of suspense and horror to offer.
It has this TCM feeling to it without being a rip-off and the monsters or disfigured people in it are really adding a lot to the movie itself. It has all this tension that a lot of other movies never manages to deliver and that's one thing that makes it really good to watch.
The tension is there in your face the whole time and you can't help to wonder what's gonna happen next. And this is the good thing about this movie, it actually grabs you and pulls you in and lets you share the tension with the unfortunate people who happened to stumble into their worst nightmare.
The monsters are actually a bunch of inbreds but the way they look and the way they act you know it would be hell if they would catch you. The movie is also very graphical and gory which makes it even better (or worse depending on how you see it).
Eliza Dushku is a pretty girl who has done some shitty movies but that's no reason not to watch Wrong Turn. Here she actually do a fine acting job and so do the other actors.
It's not your typical teen horror flick, it's much more brutal and effective than that, and that's why I would truly like to recommend it.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2003
DIRECTOR: Rob Schmidt
WRITING CREDITS: Alan B. McElroy
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui
COUNTRY: USA, Germany
RUNTIME: 84 min
RATING: 8/10
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