Wrong Turn (2003)

"It has a sharp sense of how to stage unconventional action scenes...  Sight and Sound
"The two leads emerge as intelligent, capable characters, consistently exhibiting resourcefulness to outwit their pursuers...  Total Film
"A fun and frightening film.  Arizona Daily
"It manages to keep the suspense up through the final hour of the film...   Los Angeles Times
"...goes from just a little scary to terrifying.  Kevin Carr, Film Threat
"You get exactly what you expect -- blood, guts and people being taken to the killing floor.  Kevin M. Williams, Chicago Tribune
"Horror fans will have a blast...  Luke Y. Thompson, Dallas Observer
"...sheer, unadulterated nastiness with no apologies.  Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide
"A Wrong Turn has never been so terrifying...A must see!  Mike Pingel, HollywoodFYI.com

Features

DVD, Sensormatic, No Longer Produced

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Foxvideo
	Release Date: 9/6/2005
	Running Time: 85 minutes
	Original Release Date: 2003
	Catalog ID: 2009649
	UPC: 00024543096498
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: English
	Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
	Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
	Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
	Anamorphic Widescreen/Standard  1.85:1/1.33:1 [4:3]

Wrong Turn - DVD Review By: David Levine filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/4/2009 5:42 PM

Wrong Turn follows the same simple recipe of most other horror movies before it – take a half dozen clueless kids, toss them into a leafy forest patrolled by freaks, and blend everything with the finest red blood available. The concoction is a little salty, but mostly it’s just a bland imitation of earlier, finer creations. Chris Finn (Desmond Harrington) is on his way to a job interview when he turns off the main highway to get around a massive pile-up that has clogged the interstate. The dirt road he finds takes him into the woods where his trip comes to a halt when he crashes into the SUV of five wannabe-campers who are stranded with a flat tire....read the full review

	David Hubard
	Desmond Harrington
	Eliza Dushku
	Emmanu Chriqui
	Garry Robbins
	James Downing
	Jeremy Sisto
	Joel Harris
	Julian Richings
	Kevin Zegers
	Linda Booth
	Ted Clark
	Wayne Robson
	Yvonne Gaudry
	Elis Y. Lam - Art Director
	Jennifer Fishman - Casting
	Anya Colloff - Casting
	John S Bartley - Cinematographer
	Elia Cmiral - Composer
	Rob Schmidt - Director
	Michael Ross - Editor
	Erik Feig - Ex Producer
	Don Carmody - Ex Producer
	Alicia Keywan - Production Designer

Sight and Sound
"...[Schmidt] has a sharp sense of how to stage unconventional action scenes..." 08/01/2003 p.64

Total Film
"...The two leads emerge as intelligent, capable characters, consistently exhibiting resourcefulness to outwit their pursuers..." 08/01/2003 p.104

San Francisco Chronicle 6 of 10
In Wrong Turn, crazed filthy hillbillies kill and eat tourists. That way they don't pester the locals for directions. This is standard hack-and-giggle fare, with a few wisecracks mixed in with the gore. - C.W Nevius

BBC I-Films 7 of 10
Wrong Turn is stocked with victims you won't care about, chased by villains you won't believe.The photogenic fodder is four friends and a stranger (Desmond Harrington), who end up stranded in the country after a car crash. Vehicle-free, the group set out for help, but as they are in the woods, and this is in America, BAD THINGS are bound to happen. - Nev Pierce

Reel.com 9 of 10
Wrong Turn is tense, well directed, adequately acted and frequently funny, one scene involving a police officer will have more people howling than anything from Bruce Almighty. And the film's finale, which utilizes a little trick, "so stay seated once the credits start rolling", will garner a chuckle. It's no Ring and certainly no Chainsaw Massacre, but Wrong Turn makes some right moves in never being, thank goodness, Scream 3. - Kim Morgan

San Francisco Chronicle 5 of 10
In "Wrong Turn," crazed, filthy hillbillies kill and eat tourists. That way they don't pester the locals for directions. This is standard hack-and-giggle fare, with a few wisecracks mixed in with the gore..."I need to pee," one of the girls says. Her boyfriend replies, "I need to remind you of a little movie called Deliverance. "...In the end, however, there are too few wisecracks and too much gore. Worse yet, the plot unfolds like a slasher-by-the-numbers kit. Caught in the vast and empty wilderness under eerie circumstances, the group of attractive young guys and gals decides to . . . wait for it . . . split up...From there it is simply a matter of picking them off one by one -- dumbest and most obnoxious first. Naturally, the zombie hillbillies move at the speed of a glacier yet still manage to catch up with their frantic victims time after time. Chased through the woods, the girls fall down and whimper that they are never going to make it. When our heroes finally find a safe spot for the night, they make sure to turn on lights so the glow in the windows reveals where they are...And so it goes. Early on, when the gibbering mountain weirdos were just shapes and shadows, it looked as if this might have a chance. But someone spent too much on makeup to keep these "leatherface" wannabes a secret. The minute they step into the light, looking like "Men in Black" extras having a bad-hair day, the tension leaks right off the screen...Actually, there is one sincerely scary moment. At the very end there is a strong hint of a sequel. - C.W. Nevius

Variety 5 of 10
Another movie about mutant inbred cannibals? Already? Yes, it seems impossible, but here is Rob Schmidt's "Wrong Turn," arriving barely one month after Rob Zombie's "House of 1000 Corpses" and carrying with it a similarly cautionary, ecological message about the dangers of trekking off into the woods unawares. And though it substitutes for the likes of Sid Haig and Karen Black a fresher-faced cast of twentysomethings (led by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"s' Eliza Dushku), the clear ambition here is to recapture the raw, explosively violent atmosphere of such hallmark 1970s shockers as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes." Nice try, but no cigar...One might wonder what makes "Wrong Turn" so much worse than something like Victor Salva's equally derivative "Jeepers Creepers," in which similarly naive youngsters found themselves being pursued through uninhabited terrain by a malevolent creature. Simply that Salva showed an obvious affinity for and understanding of genre mechanics. "Creepers" was creepy -- it really knew how to work the audience, how to make so many things old seem new again--whereas "Wrong Turn" looks like the unprocessed spill-off of a recycling center...For the most part, pic's cast seems clued-in to what junk this is, though Harrington is so particularly expressionless that it's tough to tell whether he's bored or just bad. Only Sisto (whose demented Billy commanded the first season of "Six Feet Under") tries to make lemonade out of the movie's lemons with an enjoyably ticky turn that, regrettably, bites the dust mid-way through. John S. Bartley's underlit lensing (making Stan Winston's elaborate makeup frequently imperceptible) and Elia Cmiral's predictably plosive score contribute to a noticeably weak tech package. - Scott Foundas