Wrong Turn (I) (2003)

Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding."

Director:

Rob Schmidt

Writer:

Alan B. McElroy

Stars:

Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui

3 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited 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
Garry Robbins	...	Saw-Tooth
Ted Clark	...	One-Eye
Yvonne Gaudry	...	Halley
Joel Harris	...	Rich
David Huband	...	Trooper
Wayne Robson	...	Old Man
James Downing	...	Trucker

Storyline

Chris Flynn is driving his car for a job interview in another city. However, an accident with a trunk transporting chemical products blocks the highway and Chris looks for an alternative route through the mountains of West Virginia to accomplish his schedule. Due to a lack of attention, he crashes another car parked in the middle of the road with flat tires. Chris meets a group of five friends, who intended to camp in the forest, and they decide to leave the couple Francine and Evan on the place, while Chris, Jessie, Carly and her fiancé Scott tries to find some help. They find a weird cabin in the middle of nowhere, where three violent cannibalistic mountain men with the appearance of monsters live. The two couples try to escape from the mountain men while chased by them.

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Plot Keywords:

west virginia | woods | group of friends | wrong turn | forest | 

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Taglines:

It's the last one you'll ever take.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence and gore, some language and drug use

Details

Official Sites:

West Video [ru]

Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 May 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Camino hacia el terror

Filming Locations:

Dundas, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$327,192 (Brazil) (5 March 2004)

Gross:

$656,153 (Brazil) (26 March 2004)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Summit Entertainment, Constantin Film Produktion, Media Cooperation One

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Emmanuelle Chriqui dislocated her shoulder performing her fall through the trees. You can hear her shoulder pop on the production track in the theatrical sound mix.

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Goofs

The Mustang has both front and rear Pennsylvania plates. PA doesn't use or require front plates, only rear ones.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Rich: Whoo! Whoo-hoo! Oh, yeah!
Halley: OK, you're great. You got the line?

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Crazy Credits

There's an additional scene halfway through the end credits, showing the fate of a state trooper who discovers a body in the burned-down cabin.

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Connections

References Speed Racer (1967)

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Soundtracks

"The High Cost of Low Living"
Written by Scott Nickoley and Jamie Dunlap
Courtesy of MasterSource

User Reviews

Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui & Lindy Booth I'd Have No Problem Being Stranded With.

Wrong Turn is about a group of 6 people (in two different cars) make a wrong turn (hence, the movie title) in the back woods of West Virginia. One car runs over some barbed wire which leaves them stranded in the middle of the road, when another car crashes into it due to not paying attention. They are in the middle of a forest where cell phones get no reception and not a gas station or any other convenience for miles and miles. Most of the group decide to walk back the way they came in hopes of finding help while a couple stay behind with the vehicles. This is where the mountain men begin their murder spree. They obviously began well before the movie started but for these 6 people, this is where it starts. It is also probably the most graphic and creepy part of the movie.

The special effects on the mountain men were great. They remind me of someone but I can not put my finger on it. They were creepy enough in the way they walked and grunted that they were not too much of a joke. I would probably run from these people if I was alone in the woods. Much better than the Boogeyman from Boogeyman, anyways. Some characteristics remind me of the main monster in Monster Man, though.

I thought the cast for this movie was great. I have always been a big fan of Eliza Dushku and the other two girls, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Lindy Booth, were no slouches themselves. In fact, if there were 3 girls to be stranded somewhere with, I would have no problem if it were these 3. You could certainly do a lot worse.

The only guy in the movie that annoyed me was thankfully knocked off first. It was like they were reading my mind. Jeremy Sisto and Desmond Harrington were pretty likable and did a good job overall. The acting in this movie was pretty good, especially considering it was a horror movie.

The movie borrowed a little bit from a lot of different movies, most notably Deliverance, which one of the characters even mentions by name, but in todays day and age, when we have seen it all, it was a pretty good effort. 8/10