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A turn down an uncharted dirt road leads six young people into a night of pure terror in this horror story. Chris (Desmond Harrington) is driving through West Virginia on his way to a job interview wh... read more read more...en an auto accident slows highway traffic to a near standstill. Afraid he'll be late, Chris takes a detour down an old dirt road; a distracted Chris doesn't see an SUV stuck in the middle of the road before it's too late, and he plows into the back after his tires suddenly blow. The driver of the SUV, Jessie (Eliza Dushku), was out on a camping trip with four of her friends -- Evan (Kevin Zegers), Francine (Lindy Booth), Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and Scott (Jeremy Sisto) -- when their tires went out, and as Jessie and Chris compare notes on their accidents, they discover that the road has been sabotaged with barbed wire. With both parties in need of a telephone, Evan and Francine are left to look after the cars while the other four set out to find help. However, Evan and Francine soon discover they've been led into a horrible trap, and as Chris, Jessie, and their friends search for help, they find that they've fallen victim not to local pranksters, but a gang of inbred backwoods killers with a taste for blood. Wrong Turn was produced in part by Stan Winston, a legendary special-effects artist whose work has appeared in such films as Jurassic Park, Aliens, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Directed by: Rob Schmidt

Release Date: May 30, 2003

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DVD Release Date: October 14, 2003

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  • fb729949618
    November 15, 2011
    fb729949618
    Very unrealistic, it moves too fast and has really poor acting. Might get a scare or two out of you, but that's about it.
  • blkbomb
    September 18, 2011
    blkbomb
    Scott: We are never going into the woods again!

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

    Wrong Turn is easily the most unoriginal horror film I have ever had the displeasure of watching. The plot steals ideas from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, lines from The Blair Witch Projec... read moret and ends up basically being the ReRemake of The Hills Have Eyes. If you don't know what's going to happen next, you've probably never seen a horror film. If you are disturbed by this material, you have never seen a well done horror film. If you like this; either A, you are 12 years old and think every movie labeled horror that you see makes you a badass or B, you don't watch many movies. This movie is extremely unlikable and the scariest thing about it is that it doesn't feature Eliza Dushku's worst performance. Yeah, she has been worse. Watch The Alphabet Killer and you'll see what I mean.

    The acting isn't really even worth talking about. It's one of those movies where you don't care about the characters. I want the guys to die quickly and leave the very attractive girls for last. Yeah they are horrible actresses, but damn. Then I want the girls to have a nice lesbian scene(never happens), then they can dies. I'm not a pervert, but it is the only thing that would make the movie at all interesting. The characters are dull and stupid and the plot has been done before; what else should be looking forward to.

    The sad thing is that it seems like director Rob Schmidt thinks he is shocking and disturbing. I don't think that's true, but at least it seems that way. He has to know everything about this movie has been copy-pasted from better movies. It actually turns out to be pretty offensive to horror fans. He thinks we are going to enjoy this. He was sorely mistaken.
  • murphmann93
    June 24, 2011
    murphmann93
    Those creatures scared me so much. I was hiding under my covers and was genuinely scared. A great horror film!
  • StarCrossedVoyager
    January 21, 2011
    StarCrossedVoyager
    Predictalbe, annoying, bad acting and obvious. With that landscape they could have done SO much better.
  • 3niR
    July 9, 2010
    3niR
    Why maximum horror movies have the same idea like retard and ugly people kill normal people without any reason. I find it similar with "Hills Have Eyes". I wouldn't say that i was bored. It was okay enough to keep me watching till the end. And I must confess that the makeup was r... read moreeally good. I think I'll watch the second part. Not expecting to be spectacular but just to satisfy my curiosity :|
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    June 9, 2010
    TheDudeLebowski65
    I've seen this film under a different title. Hmmm what was the title? Oh yeah, The Hill's Have Eyes remake. The film starts of good enough and you think it will be good, but then thirty minutes in, it becomes very predictable as it follows basically the same pattern as the remake... read more of Hills Have Eyes. With that said, for those who don't care about such things there is plenty of things in this film to enjoy, there's plenty of gore and violence for the gore hounds. If you can get past the fact that this film isn't at all original, then you might actually enjoy this film. I thought that Wrong Turn was mediocre, but the violence and gore was pretty intense, if it had a better plot, then I would've enjoyed this film a lot better. Luckily the sequel was better, much better.
  • FilmFanatik
    January 10, 2010
    FilmFanatik
    A less than mediocre horror standard. If The Hills Have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho were never made, what would have been made over and over again the last 40 years? I'm pretty tired of this genre of horror films and this movie isn't much different than the rest... read more. People get lost in the middle of nowhere, cannibals/inbreds/psychos/rednecks kill them, rape them and eat them. Bleh.
  • SirPant
    September 17, 2009
    SirPant
    Enjoyable trashy horror.
  • matertenebraum
    July 17, 2009
    matertenebraum
    I decided to see this movie mainly out of boredom plus an eye-friendly cast was promised, so i basically thought it'd turn out to be another standard popcorn horror flick. Thankfully, what i discovered was notably more enjoyable.

    Yes, it is true to say that it does follow along ... read morethe same vein as many other horror movies in that many key aspects of it are quiet predictable. However, in spite of this, a distinct empathy can be felt for the majority of the protagonists, who you really don't want to fail victim to the insane, murderous, mountain psychos. Not alone this, but I feel that it is safe to proclaim, as i'm sure have and will many others, that the atmosphere is one of well created nail biting tension, which lasts throughout the duration of the film.

    In fact, I found the atmosphere that the movie exuded to be so compelling that I failed to notice certain flaws that would normally aggravate me in a film. I of course will refrain from elaborating on these details so as not to spoil the viewing for those who have yet to see it.

    What I really liked about this film was that it didn't try what so many other horror movies as of the last seven years or so haave tried- and that is to be ironic. It is just a horror movie, with the distinct and generally successful aim of scaring and entertaining. Its atmosphere undeniably achieves this, however its not alone, it is true to say that this film is not for the squeamish. Several scenes prove to be quite graphic.

    In this respect, I would have to admit that Wrong Turn doesn't have the makings of changing the world of movies as we know it, but it does however, have the capacity to push you to the edge of your seat. My advice is, if you're a horror fan, its well worth the watch!
  • 76Majikat
    August 12, 2008
    76Majikat
    Wrong Turn has all the ingreients for a typical Scary Teen movie, ie. it's not particularly scary and it's very predictable. 'The Mountain men' weren't very original and I felt needed to be scarier than they were, having said that, this was a lot more bearable than most. I'm no... read moret sure I'll hold out for Wrong Turn 2 though.

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Critic Reviews

John Monaghan
June 5, 2003
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

While this movie doesn't have the warped sensibilities of 1977's similarly plotted The Hills Have Eyes, it has decent performances and genuine suspense. Full Review

Randy Cordova
June 5, 2003
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic

It's gruesome and nasty and a heck of a lot of fun for people who get a kick out of Fangoria.

Scott Brown
June 4, 2003
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly

A blood-simple backwoods spatterfest that makes shameless use of the same old antirural moonshine Hollywood's been bootlegging for decades. Full Review

Anita Gates
June 2, 2003
Anita Gates, New York Times

Lazy would-be horror film. Full Review

Scott Foundas
June 2, 2003
Scott Foundas, Variety

A negative pickup by Fox, dumped into theaters on Friday without benefit of press previews, Wrong Turn is steeped only in frightless torpor. Full Review

Glenn Lovell
June 2, 2003
Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News

Schmidt makes us flinch the old-fashioned way -- by giving us a box seat to the unspeakable. Full Review

C.W. Nevius
June 2, 2003
C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle

The plot unfolds like a slasher-by -the-numbers kit. Full Review

Kevin Crust
June 2, 2003
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times

Suffers a fate similar to that of many other horror and supernatural thrillers released in the last decade: It leaves you with the feeling that you're watching an episode of The X-Files, only Mulder a... Full Review

Frank Buschmann
June 2, 2003
Frank Buschmann, Hollywood Reporter

It was a mistake to have one of the characters refer to the film Deliverance in this low-rent horror flick, because all it does is remind us of much better cinematic efforts.

Kevin M. Williams
June 2, 2003
Kevin M. Williams, Chicago Tribune

The sole saving grace of Wrong Turn is its honesty. You get exactly what you expect -- blood, guts and people being taken to the killing floor. But just because it's honest doesn't make it good. Full Review

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  • Carly (Chiriqui), Chris (Harrington), and Jesse (Dushku) steal the cannibals' car after escaping from the house and they end up driving it into a huge patch of mud, which forces them to abandon the truck. However, when Chris and Jesse set fire to the... read more cannibals' house, we can see the truck parked outside, as if it hadn't been caught in mud.
  • When Scott (Jeremy Sisto) is shot by one of the cannibals, you can clearly see a plastic tube pumping the fake blood to his "wounds" as he falls to the forest floor (look for a long thin tube near the actors' foot).
  • It's the last one you'll ever take.
  • Emmanuelle Chiriqui (Carly) dislocated her shoulder while filming her jump to the trees.
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