Review of Wrong Turn on Filmviews.net
Year2003 ReviewerChris Docker
A nice little 'slasher' movie (of sorts) - well, in the loosest sense, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre etc, the 'bump em off by numbers with gory detail' type plot. Wrong Turn has lots of gory detail as people lost in the woods are hunted down with relish by Not Very Nice types. Formulaic but at least it uses the formula well - snappy editing and camerawork ensure a high audience yelp factor. People with delicate stomachs will be revisiting their lunch before their opening credits have finished. (Cue a redneck two minutes in swigging what looks like pepto-bismol stomach upset medicine haha.) The whole movie makes great use of the American 'redneck' stereotype - the coarse, uneducated, plug-ugly, lowbrained backwood dweller. The film is set in West Virginia, a less than well-to-do area with miles of forest and home apparently to dubious rednecks (as opposed to Virginia, a well-to-do area with miles of forest and home apparently to dubious bible-bashers). Wrong Turn has an '18' certificate suggesting it might be a bit more scary than the sort of thing you can let kids see. It is.
Rating: 7/10;