Wrong Turn (2003 film)

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Wrong Turn
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rob Schmidt
Written by	Alan B. McElroy
Produced by	Stan Winston Brian Gilbert Erik Feig Robert Kulzer
Starring	Desmond Harrington Eliza Dushku Emmanuelle Chriqui Jeremy Sisto Kevin Zegers
Cinematography	John S. Bartley
Edited by	Michael Ross
Music by	Elia Cmiral
Production companies	Constantin Film[1] Summit Entertainment[1] Regency Enterprises[2] Newmarket Capital Group[3]
Distributed by	20th Century Fox[1] (United States) Constantin Film (Germany)[4] Summit Entertainment (International)[3]
Release date	May 30, 2003 (2003-05-30)
Running time	84 minutes
Countries	Canada[1] Germany[1] United States[1]
Language	English
Budget	$12.6 million[5]
Box office	$28.7 million[5]

Wrong Turn is a 2003 slasher film directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film stars Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers, and Lindy Booth. The film was released on May 30, 2003.

Plot[]

College students Rich Stoker and Halley Smith are rock climbing in a remote forest of West Virginia. When Rich reaches the top, he is suddenly murdered before he can help Halley up. Someone begins to yank Halley up the cliff, forcing her to cut the rope and fall to the ground. She attempts to escape but is caught in a line of barbed wire and pulled back into the woods, screaming.

Three days later, medical student Chris Flynn drives through the mountains of Greenbrier County on his way to an interview. When a traffic jam is caused by a chemical spill, he stops at a gas station to ask for directions from an elderly man and decides to go down a different route which he finds on the gas station's map. He collides with a flat tired SUV. The vehicle belongs to a group of youths on a camping trip: Jessie, Carly, Scott, Evan and Francine. The group soon realize that their tire puncture was not an accident as Jessie finds a strip of barbed wire tied to a tree. Evan and Francine stay to watch the cars while the others go to find help, but both of them are murdered by a figure in the woods. The remaining group find an isolated cabin and go inside to use the phone, horrified to find human body parts in the house. They are forced to hide inside when the occupants return home. Three cannibalistic inbred mountain men Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye enter the cabin with Francine's corpse and the hiding group watch as her body is dismembered and eaten.

After the cannibals fall asleep, the group attempts to escape but their captors awaken and chase them in the forest. The group find cars left from previous victims and try to make up an escape plan. Chris gets shot in the leg while trying to distract the cannibals, Scott attempts another diversion for the other three to escape but gets killed with arrows. Jessie, Carly, and Chris stumble upon an old watchtower with an old radio and try to call for help. The cannibals arrive and are alerted when the radio starts responding to the group's call. Unable to get inside, the attackers set the tower on fire. The protagonists escape by jumping out and into the trees, triggering a chase in which Carly is decapitated by Three Finger. Chris pulls a branch while Jessie lures the attacker for the former to release it, knocking him down. Jessie and Chris flee and hide in a cave until morning. The cannibals find them, pushing Chris down the hill and taking Jessie back to their cabin. Chris survives the fall and meets a police officer, but the officer is killed by Saw Tooth, who shoots him in the eye with an arrow. Chris hitches a ride underneath the truck as it is driven back to the cabin by Saw Tooth. Chris then drives the vehicle into the building and proceeds to fight the cannibals after freeing Jessie. They escape as Chris kills the cannibals by blowing up the cabin. The pair then drives out of the forest in the cannibals' pickup truck and stumbles upon the gas station nearby; Chris takes the map to prevent others from the same wrong turn before he and Jessie leave.

In the credits scene, a deputy sheriff who had received the radio call earlier investigates the remains of the destroyed cabin. Laughing insanely, Three Finger, who survived the explosion, rises and kills the deputy.

Cast[]

• Desmond Harrington as Chris Flynn
• Eliza Dushku as Jessie Burlingame
• Emmanuelle Chriqui as Carly Numan
• Jeremy Sisto as Scott Korbee
• Kevin Zegers as Evan Ross
• Lindy Booth as Francine Childes
• Julian Richings as Three Finger
• Garry Robbins as Saw Tooth
• Ted Clark as One Eye
• Yvonne Gaudry as Halley Smith
• Joel Harris as Richard "Rich" Stoker
• David Huband as Trooper
• Wayne Robson as Old Man
• James Downing as Trucker

Production[]

Development for the film began in 2001 when it was announced Summit Entertainment and Newmarket Group teamed to produce “Wrong Turn,” a 1970s-style horror pic to be directed by Rob Schmidt. Alan McElroy (“Spawn”) wrote the script.^[6] The movie was a co-production, Summit Entertainment and Constantin Films, with Stan Winston designing the creature effects and serving as a producer.^[7] Inking a deal with Fox-based Regency Enterprises, the co-financiers of Wrong Turn secured domestic distribution through Fox.^[8] Fox reportedly had trouble securing an R-Rating from the MPAA due to the film's intense violence with many of the TV spots for the film also refused approval, this is possibly one of the reasons why subsequent Wrong Turn movies were released straight to video.^[9]

Music[]

Two soundtracks were released; one contains the original film score, and the other contains popular music.

Soundtrack[]

Track listing[]

1. "In Stance" – Eris
2. "Bloody Fingers" – Jet Black Summer
3. "Every Famous Last Word" – Miracle of 86
4. "Never Said Anything" – The Belles
5. "Why Would I Want to Die?" – Grandaddy
6. "Haunted" – King Black Acid
7. "Three Murders" – Deadman
8. "Ex" – Tara King Theory
9. "Birthday" – Simple
10. "Even the Scars Forget the Wound" – Gruvis Malt
11. "He's a Killer" – DJ Swamp
12. "Bring the Pain"/"Multiple Incisions" – Candiria
13. "If Only" – Queens of the Stone Age
14. "Wish I May" – Breaking Benjamin

Score[]

Track listing[]

1. "Dark Forest"
2. "Wrong Turn Title"
3. "Mountain Men"
4. "Cabin In The Woods"
5. "Adventure Begins"
6. "Mountain Men At Home"
7. "Francine Dies"
8. "Jessie"
9. "Scott Becomes Prey"
10. "Bear Trap"
11. "Escape From Cabin"
12. "Jessie Taken Hostage"
13. "Fire In The Watchtower"
14. "Grim Discovery"
15. "Are We Safe?"
16. "They Got Carly"
17. "Killing Mountain Men"
18. "We Are Alive"
19. "Three Finger is Back"

Reception[]

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Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 40% of 83 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.22/10. The consensus is: "An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguish itself from others of its ilk".^[10] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C–" on an A+ to F scale.^[11]

Sequels[]

Wrong Turn was followed by several films including two sequels, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009), two prequels leading to the events of the original film, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011) and Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012), and a reboot, Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014).

In October 2018, a reboot simply titled Wrong Turn (2021) was announced.^[12] The film was written by original film's writer Alan B. McElroy and directed by Mike P. Nelson. Principal photography for the movie began on September 9, 2019.^[13]released on 2021

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