Wrong Turn (2003 film)
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Wrong Turn | |
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Directed by | Rob Schmidt |
Written by | Alan B. McElroy |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | John S. Bartley |
Edited by | Michael Ross |
Music by | Elia Cmiral |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Regency Enterprises[2] |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $12.6 million[3] |
Box office | $28.7 million[3] |
Wrong Turn is a 2003 slasher 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 Halley up the cliff, forcing her to cut the rope and falls to the ground. She attempts to escape but gets caught in a line of barbed wire and is pulled back into the woods, screaming.
Three days later, medical student Chris Flynn drives through the mountains of Greenbrier County on his way to a business meeting. En route when a traffic jam is caused by a chemical spill, he stops at a gas station to ask directions from an elderly man and decides to go down a different route through a dirt road to Bear Mountain. He collides with a stationed SUV whose tires have been punctured. The vehicle belongs to a group of youths on a camping trip: Jessie, Carly, Scott, Evan and Francine; who soon realized that their tire puncture was not an accident after Jessie found a strip of barbed wire tied to a tree. Evan and Francine stay to watch the cars as the others go to find help, but both of them are later murdered by a figure when they stumble into the woods. 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 before forcing themselves to hide inside when the occupants return home. Three cannibalistic inbred mountain men: Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye enter the cabin with Francine's corpse, and the hiding group watch as her body is dismembered and eaten.
After the cannibals fall asleep, the group attempts to escape. However, the cannibals awaken and chase them through the forest. The group runs into a clearing where they find cars belonged to previous victims. When Chris gets shot in the leg while trying to distract the cannibals, Scott creates another 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. Later, the cannibals arrive and are alerted when the radio starts responding to the teens' call. Unable to get inside, the cannibals set the tower on fire to burn the group alive, but they escape by jumping out of the window to the trees. In the subsequent chase, Three Finger catches Carly and decapitates her with an axe. Chris pulls a branch while Jessie lures Three Finger for the former to release it, knocking Three Finger off to the ground. 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 killed by Saw Tooth who shot him in the eye with an arrow. Chris hitches a ride underneath the truck as it is driven back to the cabin by Saw Tooth. Chris drives through the building and runs into One Eye before he releases Jessie and proceeds to fight the cannibals. They escape as 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 the gas station to take the map nearby.
In the post-credits scene; a deputy sheriff, who had received the radio call earlier, 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 Old Man
- James Downing as Trucker
Music
Two soundtracks were released; one contains the original film score, and the other contains popular music.
Soundtrack
Wrong Turn: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture | |
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Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
Released | July 1, 2003 |
Length | 47:01 |
Label | Lakeshore Records |
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
Wrong Turn: Original Motion Picture Score | ||||
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Soundtrack album by | ||||
Released | June 3, 2003 | |||
Genre | Film score | |||
Length | 45:43 | |||
Label | Varèse Sarabande | |||
Wrong Turn soundtrack chronology | ||||
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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
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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".[4] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C-" on an A+ to F scale.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7] Charlotte Vega will star in the reboot.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Wrong Turn (2003)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/news/ni0187314?ref_=nws_art_hd.
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(help) - ^ a b "Wrong Turn (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ "Wrong Turn". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ "CinemaScore". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- ^ Brown, Hannah (October 16, 2018). "'Wrong Turn' Reboot Details Revealed; Franchise Creator Writing Script". Screen Geek. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^ https://www.wcpo.com/entertainment/local-a-e/wrong-turn-reboot-looking-for-extras-in-cincinnati-shoot
- ^ Hamman, Cody (May 16, 2019). "Charlotte Vega to star in Wrong Turn reboot". Jo Blo. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
External links
- 2003 films
- 2003 horror films
- 2000s horror thriller films
- 2003 independent films
- 2000s serial killer films
- 2000s slasher films
- American films
- American horror thriller films
- American independent films
- American slasher films
- American splatter films
- Canadian films
- Canadian slasher films
- German films
- German slasher films
- English-language films
- Films about cannibalism
- Films set in West Virginia
- Films shot in Hamilton, Ontario
- Films shot in Toronto
- Incest in film
- Wrong Turn (film series)
- Constantin Film films
- Summit Entertainment films
- Films scored by Elia Cmíral
- Canadian splatter films