Wrong Turn (UK)

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It`s the last one you`ll ever make.
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 81 mins
Retail Price: £15.99
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Synopsis:
On the way to an important appointment, Chris (Desmond Harrington) takes an unexpected detour down an old track to avoid a traffic jam blocking his planned route. When he turns a bend and loses control, he crashes into a car immobilised by barbed wire in the road. The car belongs to five friends on a camping trip who appear to have been the victim of a prank and all they end up stranded in the woods...

Two of the group stay with the car whilst the rest go in search of help. Their hopes are dashed after arriving at a remote, sinister cabin hidden in the woods where they make a gruesome and terrifying discovery. The run down cabin belongs to a trio of grossly disfigured cannibalistic mountain men. The mutants have picked off the missing members from the group and bought them back to the cabin to be butchered and eaten. Realising there`s more prey out in the woods, they set out to find them all and the race for survival is on!

Special Features:
Commentary by director Robert Schmidt, Eliza Dushku and Desmond Harrington. Deleted scenes. Poster gallery. 4 featurettes.

Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English

Subtitle Tracks:
CC: English

Directed By:
Rob Schmidt

Written By:

Starring:
Kevin Zegers
Jeremy Sisto
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Eliza Dushku
Desmond Harrington

Casting By:
Clare Walker
Caird Urquhart
Amy McIntyre Britt
Jennifer Fishman
Anya Colloff

Soundtrack By:
DJ Swamp
Joshua Homme
Elia Cmiral

Director of Photography:
John S. Bartley

Editor:
Michael Ross
Jeff Consiglio

Costume Designer:
Georgina Yarhi

Production Designer:
Alicia Keywan

Producer:
Jefferson Richard
Stan Winston
Robert Kulzer
Brian J. Gilbert
Don Carmody
Hagen Behring

Executive Producer:
Patrick Wachsberger
Aaron Ryder
Erik Feig
Sven Ebeling
Don Carmody

Distributor:
Pathe

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5 / 10
4Impressive for its streamlinedness, this 76-minute teen horror flick wastes no time on characterisation and little time on setup - within the first few minutes we see a young doctor take a detour, only to bump into a group of good looking youngsters whose car is smashed and of course in their explorations for help they come across a family of inbreeding cannibalistic `mountain men`. The remaining hour has the ever dwindling group running for their lives in the darkened woods from the mutated psychos and of course every place they come across they`re quickly discovered by said freaks. It would be an original concept if it weren`t about three decades late.

Wrong Turn purports to be an homage to `70s horror, but even that decade`s run-of-the-mill fare wasn`t this telegraphed or repetitive, not to mention bereft of gratuituous nudity. Cabin Fever and House of 1000 Corpses paid tribute far better on every level.

Wrong Turn feels like a silly horror film from time to time, but there is enough blood, guts, gore, screams and inventive deaths to entertain any easy-going audience. At least video/audio quality is pretty good.
posted by Aslan on 31/1/2004 15:33