Wrong Turn
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| Wrong Turn | |
 Promotional poster for Wrong Turn |
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| Directed by | Rob Schmidt |
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| Produced by | Stan Winston Brian Gilbert Erik Feig Robert Kulzer |
| Written by | Alan B. McElroy (story & screenplay) |
| Starring | Desmond Harrington Eliza Dushku Emmanuelle Chriqui |
| Music by | Elia Cmiral |
| Cinematography | John S. Bartley |
| Editing by | Michael Ross |
| Studio | Regency Enterprises Summit Entertainment Constantin Film Newmarket Capital Group |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (All US rights, UK DVD) Pathé (UK theatrical) Summit Entertainment (non-USA) |
| Release date(s) | May 30, 2003 |
| Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | Wrong Turn 2 |
Wrong Turn is a 2003 horror film, directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film stars Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,[1] and was followed by Wrong Turn 2 due to its commercial success. The film was entitled "Dead Camp" when shown on South Korean television. A third film will be released Straight to DVD sometime during 2009.
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[edit] Plot
Prologue: two college students, Halley and Rich, are rock climbing in the West Virginia forest. Rich reaches the top first, and admires the view. Halley asks for some help, but all of a sudden, she hears the sound of a struggle above, and Rich's body is thrown off the cliff. The killers then start hauling Halley up by her climbing line, but she cuts her rope and falls. She lands next to Rich's dead body, screams, then runs back towards her car. The trees around her move and three eerie laughs are heard. Just before she reaches her car, Halley trips over a piece of barbed wire and is dragged back into the woods, screaming.
The opening credits feature a montage of newspaper articles and photos about mountain men, genetic mutation caused by inbreeding, and a series of missing person reports, giving a clue to the nature of the killers.
Medical student Chris Flynn (Harrington) is driving through the mountains of West Virginia, on his way to a job interview. Due to a chemical spill in the road ahead, he is forced to take a different route. After receiving unhelpful instructions from an old man at a rundown gas station, Chris decides to take an abandoned dirt road through the woods. He then crashes into a car stranded in the center of the road.
The car belongs to a group of friends on a hiking trip: Jessie (Dushku), Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), her fiance Scott (Jeremy Sisto), Francine (Lindy Booth) and her boyfriend Evan (Kevin Zegers). Their tires were punctured by barbed wire strung across the road. Francine and Evan stay with the cars, while the remainder of the group hikes through the woods to find help.
Evan hears a noise in the woods and goes to investigate. When he doesn't come back, Francine goes looking for him and finds his severed ear sitting on the ground. She is then attacked and killed by someone from behind who wraps barbed wire around her mouth.
Meanwhile, the others come across an isolated cabin, filled with odds and ends, and then they discover human body parts in the refrigerator and bathtub. Before they can run, they hear the occupants coming back. They are forced to hide as three cannabilistic mountain men, all of them horribly disfigured, enter the house, carrying Francine's body, which they cut up and partially eat.
After the cannibals fall asleep the teens try to escape but accidentally wake them. As the group flee through the woods, Chris is wounded in the leg by a shotgun blast. Scott tries to decoy the cannibals in the wrong direction, allowing the others to steal the cannibals' truck, but Scott is shot in the back with arrows before they can pick him up.
The remaining three - Chris, Jessie, and Carly, hit a dead end in the road and have to continue on foot. They climb into an old watchtower and try to use the radio inside to call for help, but get no response. Just as someone returns their radio call, the sound alerts the searching cannibals below to their whereabouts. The cannibals shoot at the radio through the window, destroying the radio, and laughing maniacaly.
The cannibals set the tower on fire, but the three escape by jumping into a nearby tree. Unfortunately, one of the cannibals has climbed into the same tree, and kills Carly by cutting her head in half with an axe.
Chris and Jessie escape the tree and hide in a cave until the next morning, when evidantly both of them dream of the cannibals find them. Just as the find a road out of the woods, the mountain men find them, push Chris down the hill and capture Jessie and take her back to their cabin.
Chris meets a police officer on the road, but before he can convince the policeman what is happening, the policeman is killed by an arrow from the woods. Chris jumps into the police truck and tries to drive away, but he doesn't have the keys. The cannibal with the bow shoots more arrows into the truck, Chris driving away. Chris hides and watches as the cannibal loads the cop's body into the truck and drives it back to the cabin, Chris hitching along by hanging onto the underside.
When they arrive at the cabin, Chris finds Jessie tied up to a bed and gagged with a dog leash. He unties her and they fight with the cannibals, killing them by igniting a set of propane tanks inside, blowing up the house while Chris and Jessie escape into the woods.
The film ends with Chris and Jessie driving the cannibals' truck out of the woods.
The ending credits are interrupted briefly by a scene that shows a sheriff's deputy picking over the remains of the destroyed cabin. One of the cannibals comes up behind him and kills him with an axe, showing that at least one of them survived. The screen goes black, and you hear the cannabals insane laughter.
[edit] Cast
- Desmond Harrington... Chris Flynn
- Eliza Dushku... Jessie Burlingame
- Emmanuelle Chriqui... Carly
- Jeremy Sisto... Scott
- Kevin Zegers... Evan
- Lindy Booth... Francine
- Julian Richings... Three Finger
- Gary Robbins... Saw-Tooth
- Tyler Garling... One-Eye
- Wayne Robson... Old Man
- Yvonne Gaudry... Halley Smith
- Joel Harris... Richard "Rich" Stoker
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[edit] Sequels
Due to its great commercial success on DVD, the film was followed by the 2007 direct-to-video sequel Wrong Turn 2, which starred Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins and Texas Battle, and was directed by Joe Lynch. The sequel was also very successful on DVD and received positive response from the critics.
On June 30, 2008, Bloody Disgusting learned that Declan O'Brien will be directing Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. Joe Lynch will not be returning for the third film. It has also been confirmed that Fox Home Entertainment has officially begun casting the third installment. No word on whether any of the surviving cast will be back. The film will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray sometime in October 20, 2009[2]. The first trailer was released April 20.
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