Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn is a 2003 cannibal film directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film stars Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto and Kevin Zegers. The film was released on May 30, 2003.

Plot
College students Rich Stoker and Halley Smith are rock climbing in a remote forest of West Virginia. When Rich reaches the top, he is suddenly murdered before he can help Halley up. Someone then begins to yank her up the cliff so she cuts the rope and falls. She attempts to escape, but gets caught in a line of barbed wire and pulled back into the woods, screaming.

Medical student Chris Flynn drives through the mountains of West Virginia on his way to a business meeting. He stops at a gas station to ask directions, and an elderly man named Maynard tells Chris to go down Bear Mountain Road. He collides with a stopped car whose tires have been punctured. The car belongs to a group of college students on a camping trip: Jessie, Carly, Scott, Evan and Francine.  They soon discover their tire puncture was no accident and find barbed wire wrapped around it and realize someone did this intentionally.

Francine and Evan stay to watch the cars as the others go to find help, but both of them are later murdered by a huge mutant figure. The others find an isolated cabin and go inside to use the phone, but are horrified to find human body parts in the house and attempt to escape. However, they are forced to hide inside when the occupants return home. Three horribly disfigured cannibalistic mutant men, "Three Finger", "Saw Tooth" and "One Eye" enter the cabin with Francine's dead body, and the hiding students watch in horror as her body is dismembered and eaten.

After the cannibals fall asleep after a long meal, the group attempts to escape. However, the cannibals awaken and chase them through the forest. The group runs into a clearing where they find hundreds of cars that belonged to previous victims, and Chris gets shot in the leg by Saw Tooth but survives. Scott creates a diversion for the other three to escape but gets killed with arrows.

Jessie, Carly, and Chris stumble upon an old watchtower and find a radio inside, which they use to call for help, but they get no response. Later, the cannibals arrive and are alerted when the radio starts responding to the students' call. Unable to get inside, they set the tower on fire to burn the group alive, but the students escape by jumping out of the window. In the subsequent chase, Three Finger catches Carly and decapitates her with an ax. Jessie and Chris pull a branch back and while Chris holds it, Jessie makes noise to get Three Finger to chase her.  When he does, Chris lets the branch go, knocking Three Finger off and he falls to the ground, presumably to his death. Jessie and Chris manage to escape and hide in a cave until morning. The cannibals then find them, pushing Chris down the hill and taking Jessie back to their cabin. Chris survives the fall and meets a police officer, but the officer is shot in the eye with an arrow and falls dead. 

Chris hitches a ride underneath the truck as it is driven back to the cabin by Saw Tooth, and Jessie is tied to a bed and gagged. Chris drives through the building and runs into One Eye, untying Jessie and proceeding to fight the cannibals together. They escape and Chris kills the cannibals by blowing up their cabin. The pair then drives out of the forest with the cannibals' pickup truck and stumble upon Maynard to take the map nearby.

In the post-credits scene, a deputy sheriff investigates the remains of the destroyed cabin. Laughing insanely, Three Finger, who survived the explosion, rises to attack the deputy.

Cast
 Desmond Harrington as Chris Flynn
 Eliza Dushku as Jessie Burlingame
 Emmanuelle Chriqui as Carly
 Jeremy Sisto as Scott
 Kevin Zegers as Evan
 Lindy Booth as Francine
 Julian Richings as Three Finger
 Garry Robbins as Saw Tooth
 Ted Clark as One Eye
 Yvonne Gaudry as Halley Smith
 Joel Harris as Richard "Rich" Stoker
 David Huband as Trooper
 Wayne Robson as Maynard Odets (credited as "Old Man")
 James Downing as Trucker

Music
Two soundtracks were released; one contains the original film score, and the other contains popular music.

Soundtrack

Track listing
 "In Stance" – Eris
 "Bloody Fingers" – Jet Black Summer
 "Every Famous Last Word" – Miracle of 86
 "Never Said Anything" – The Belles
 "Why Would I Want to Die?" – Grandaddy
 "Haunted" – King Black Acid
 "Three Murders" – Deadman
 "Ex" – Tara King Theory
 "Birthday" – Simple
 "Even the Scars Forget the Wound" – Gruvis Malt
 "He's a Killer" – DJ Swamp
 "Bring the Pain"/"Multiple Incisions" – Candiria
 "If Only" – Queens of the Stone Age
 "Wish I May" – Breaking Benjamin

Score

Track listing
 "Dark Forest"
 "Wrong Turn Title"
 "Mountain Men"
 "Cabin In The Woods"
 "Adventure Begins"
 "Mountain Men At Home"
 "Francine Dies"
 "Jessie"
 "Scott Becomes Prey"
 "Bear Trap"
 "Escape From Cabin"
 "Jessie Taken Hostage"
 "Fire In The Watchtower"
 "Grim Discovery"
 "Are We Safe?"
 "They Got Carly"
 "Killing Mountain Men"
 "We Are Alive"
 "Three Finger is Back"

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 40% of 83 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.22/10.  The consensus is: "An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguish itself from others of its ilk".

Legacy

Wrong Turn was followed by several films including with two sequels Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009), two prequels leading to the events of the original film Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011) and Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012) and one stand-alone film Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014).

In October 2018, a new film titled Wrong Turn: The Foundation and served as a reboot was announced. The film will be written by series creator Alan B. McElroy and director Mike P. Nelson is chosen to direct. Principal photography for the movie began on September 9, 2019. Charlotte Vega will star in the reboot.

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Category:2003 films
Category:2003 horror films
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Category:American splatter films
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Category:English-language films
Category:Cannibalism in fiction
Category:Films set in West Virginia
Category:Films shot in Hamilton, Ontario
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