Wrong Turn (DVD)

"Slasher" (from the verb "to slash") is the name of a particular horror sub-genre. In this type of movies, we usually follow a group of teenagers (generally high and horny) as they are massacred by a crazy or deformed (or maybe even both, and that's the worst case scenario... for the victims, not for the audience) killer. 70s are considered the Golden Age of slasher movies, with masterpieces like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Halloween"... both ruined by pointless sequels, but we'll talk about it next time. What's the point of this introduction? Well, I think it's impossible to talk about "Wrong Turn" without ...  Read the complete review

This film is currently showing on Film 4 - the channel that seemed a really good film channel before it became free to viewers last year. This is a review of the film and not the DVD... as if I'd buy that. "Wrong Turn" portrays the tale of a group of 6 pretty young things, three men and three women, out on a camping trip. They all come together when their two cars take the wrong turn in the back woods of Louisiana. One car runs over some barbed wire purposely left across the road causing it to skid and crash into another car heading in the opposite direction. Everyone survives the crash but it's not long before they run into trouble in the ...  Read the complete review

I've got to admit that I went into Wrong Turn with extremely low expectations. I'd heard the films reputation as the latest cheesy horror movie to hit the market, and well, we have to face facts here. The old story of a group of teenagers trapped in the woods with a group of crazed, cannibalistic inbreeds is hardly anything new. What else could I expect but a lame rehash of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Yet I found myself drawn to the watching the film, I'd had a bad day, was in a bad mood and just wanted something to complain about. Unfortunately director Rob Schmidt couldn't provide me with what I was looking for, he had to take the wrong turn himself and produce one of ...  Read the complete review

Take a trip to the back of beyond & start having a very bad day. Its far too much like a lot of other horror flicks in this genre. A bunch of people being chased through a forest by people who want to kill them for no reason at all. We start with 2 rock climbers getting brutally killed and you know the film is going to be pretty blood ridden. Then we see a guy in a hurry to an interview. He isn't ever going to get there but that's not important. It's the fact that he took a short cut. And was drink driving. (Yes, I saw the beer he was chugging from in his hand. Not many people notice that). Then crashes into a Range Rover because he ...  Read the complete review

Whilst trying to get to a very important interview Chris Flynn meets horrendous traffic that apparently wont clear up for hours. On an important deadline, he decides to turn back and find a shortcut, after a while he drives into an old gas station and tries to use the broken pay phone. Receiving a less than enthusiastic greeting from the shops owner, he just looks at a map attached to one of the walls, and discovers a shortcut through the woods, which should get him to his destination well in time. Whilst travelling through his new route, he smashes into a van, rendering his car unusable and hurting his back, on the crash site he meets the owners of the other car -who ...  Read the complete review