Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
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Directed by	Declan O'Brien
Produced by	Jeffrey Beach Phillip Roth
Written by	Connor James Delaney
Based on	Characters by Alan McElroy
Starring	Tom Frederic Janet Montgomery Tamer Hassan
Music by	Claude Foisy
Cinematography	Lorenzo Senatore
Editing by	Raúl Dávalos
Studio	Summit Entertainment Constantin Film
Distributed by	Fox Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	October 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is a 2009 American slasher film, directed by Declan O'Brien, and starring Janet Montgomery, Tamer Hassan and Chucky Venn. This film was released direct-to-DVD on October 20, 2009.

Plot

Alex (Janet Montgomery) and her friends Trey (Jack Gordon), Sophie (Louise Cliffe) and Brent (Charley Speed) go into the woods on a rafting trip. As they are camping, her friends are killed by Three-Finger as Alex watches.

Two days later, prison guard Nate (Tom Frederic) was assigned with Walter (Chucky Venn) and Preslow (Mike Straub) to transfer a group of prisoners: Willy (Christian Contreras), crank caller Crawford (Jake Curran), thug Floyd (Gil Kolirin), convicted killer Brandon (Tom McKay) and drug cartel Chavez (Tamer Hassan) to a distant prison. While driving, their bus is attacked by Three-Finger and crashes to the woods, forcing them to continue on foot. Preslow is killed and to complicate matters, Nate and Walter are overpowered by the prisoners, with Chavez taking charge and in control of the guns. While being chased through the woods, the prisoners use Nate as a guide to lead them to a watch tower that Nate recalls being in the area, to send out an SOS using the communications equipment they believe is in there. The group finds Alex and walks to an abandoned armored truck filled with cash. The money quickly becomes the prisoners' sole motivation for escape and survival. Chavez commands Walter to pick up some of the bags of money, but Walter refuses because of his injury. In a last ditch effort to regain control of the situation, Officer Walter pulls out a gun and tries to shoot Chavez. Unfortunately, the gun was not loaded and Chavez kills him. He forces Nate and Alex to carry the money and walk on foot.

Along the trail, they stumble upon a trap. The prisoners escape the booby trap set by Three-Toes, Three Finger's son. They then catch the son and behead him, leaving a trophy on the spent booby trap for Three Fingers to find as a deterrent. They soon realize it only enrages Three Fingers. Three Fingers hunts and murders Willy and Crawford. After Sheriff Carver is killed, Nate and Alex manage to escape. They are able to find the location where the watch tower once stood, only to discover it was burned down years ago. Chavez decides to get rid of Nate, but instead promises him another way to get out. They find Three Finger's truck and Chavez uses Alex as bait. Floyd betrays Chavez and steals the money as Chavez chases him down only to see Three Fingers lobbing a molotov cocktail at Floyd, killing him and burning all the money. Chavez then decides to give Alex to Three-Finger to improve his chances of survival. Three-Finger drags Alex into his truck and drives off. He secures Alex at his house and goes back out to hunt the rest of the survivors. Chavez finds Three-Finger and fights him, but Three-Finger soon enough overpowers him and kills him, by later stabbing a axe into his head and eating a piece of his brain.

Meanwhile, Alex has been tied up in Three Fingers' house, awakes and see Deputy Lane tied with barbed wire, who dies shortly after. Nate finds Three-Finger's house and frees Alex, but Three-Finger attacks him. Alex saves him by stabbing Three-Finger with a large stake. Nate and Alex take his tow truck and drive away, but Three-Finger follows them and leaps on top of the truck causing them to crash the truck into a tree. As the truck is set on fire, Brandon appears and pulls Alex out of the truck. When Brandon is helping Nate, Three-Finger attacks them but Nate manage to stab him in the head with a meathook and watches the truck blow up with him on top of it. After Nate releases Brandon free, the U.S. Marshall team arrives and rescues Nate and Alex.

Sometime later, Nate returns to collect the remaining cash from the armored truck. Brandon, who betrays Nate appears and shoots him in the back with an arrow with his line he said earlier "never trust a con". While Brandon is collecting the cash, Another cannibal appears from behind him holding a crude weapon with blood dripping. He walks towards Brandon and as the credits roll you hear Brandon scream and insane laughter.

Cast

• Tom Frederic as Nate
• Janet Montgomery as Alex
• Gil Kolirin as Floyd
• Christian Contreras as Willy
• Jake Curran as Crawford
• Tom McKay as Brandon
• Chucky Venn as Walter
• Tamer Hassan as Chavez
• Jack Gordon as Trey
• Louise Cliffe as Sophie
• Charley Speed as Brent
• Borislav Petrov as Three-Toes
• Borislav Iliev as Three-Finger
• Mike Straub as Preslow
• Bill Moody as Sheriff Carver
• Emma Clifford as Deputy Lane
• Mac McDonald as Warden Ladew
• Todd Jensen as U.S. Marshal
• Vlado Mihailov as U.S. Marshal Davis

Production

Filming began on August 4, 2008, in Sofia, Bulgaria, and ended on September 4, 2008. Joe Lynch did not direct, instead Declan O'Brien was announced to direct the third installment. Fox Home Entertainment was announced for casting Wrong Turn 3. The only returning character was Three Finger, however he was played by a different actor, the third in as many films with a fourth due to play him in 'Wrong Turn 4'.

Reception

Although it was a commercial success, the reaction to this film was mainly negative. This film received an 18% fresh from the Rotten Tomatoes community. Bloody Disgusting said "If WT2 raised the bar, then WT3 lowers it right back down to where it was, and possibly a notch or two lower." The movie has been noted for its terrible surprise ending, "They should have just ended with the police showing up. The ending after punches a major hole in continuity"

Home media release

The film was released direct-to-video on DVD and Blu-ray October 20, 2009. In its first week of release, the film grossed over $1,800,000; and has earned over $5,000,000 to date.

Prequel

Director Declan O'Brien began shooting Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings in February 2011 in Winnipeg. The majority of the movie was filmed at the abandoned Brandon Mental Health Centre in Manitoba. Shooting began February 2011 in Winnipeg. The fourth film serves as a prequel to the previous three. It was released straight to DVD/Blu-ray Disc on October 25, 2011.

External links

• Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead at the Internet Movie Database