Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
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Directed by | Declan O'Brien |
Written by | Declan O'Brien |
Based on | Characters by Alan B. McElroy |
Produced by | Kim Todd |
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Cinematography | Michael Marshall |
Edited by | Stein Myhrstad |
Music by | Claude Foisy |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is a 2011 American slasher film written and directed by Declan O'Brien. It is the fourth installment of the Wrong Turn film series and served as a prequel to the original Wrong Turn film.
The film was followed by Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012).
Plot[]
In 1974, at the Glenville Sanatorium in West Virginia, Three Finger, Saw Tooth, and One Eye; known as the Hillicker Brothers, escape from their cells and release the other patients. Together, they cause a riot and brutally massacre the orderlies and doctors.
Twenty-nine years later, in 2003, nine Weston University students – Kenia, Jenna, Vincent, Sara, Bridget, Kyle, Claire, Daniel and Lauren – spend their winter break snowmobiling on the way to their friend Porter's cabin in the mountains. However, they get lost in a snowstorm and are forced to take shelter in the Glensville Sanatorium for the night, where the Hillickers are living. Lauren remembers her brother's stories about the sanatorium and the cannibals, but her friends don't believe her. As the group goes to bed, Vincent continues to explore the asylum where he finds Porter's corpse before Saw Tooth kills him with a metal spike. The next day, with the storm still in full effect, the teens remain trapped. Jenna comes across the Hillickers butchering Porter's body in the kitchen and runs back to warn the others. After Porter's severed head is thrown at the group, Claire is hanged from a balcony with barbed wire by the trio and decapitated. The group attempts to flee the building but the spark plug wires from their snowmobiles have been taken out. Lauren skies down the mountain to seek help while the others barricade themselves in the doctor's office.
Kyle, Daniel, and Sara go into the basement to get weapons, but Daniel gets abducted, tied to a table in the kitchen, and slowly butchered and eaten alive. The rest of the group chases the cannibals and locks them in a cell as Kyle stays behind to watch the brothers while the others search for the spark-plug wires. When Kyle falls asleep, the brothers escape their cell and the girls accidentally stab Kyle to death after mistaking him as one of the Hillickers. The brothers appear and chase the girls through the building, forcing them to exit through a window but Jenna is killed before she can escape. The remaining girls are ambushed by the cannibals who used the group's snowmobiles to chase them outside, where Kenia gets injured and Bridget is killed by One Eye.
As the day dawns, Lauren has frozen to death in the snow storm not that far away from a highway. Kenia is still being chased by One Eye when Sara reappears and knocks the cannibal off the snowmobile, allowing the pair to steal it and escape. As they drive away, they run into a razor wire trap set up by the cannibals, decapitating them. Three Finger picks up their heads and puts them in their tow truck, before moving away from the sanatorium with his brothers.
Cast[]
- Sean Skene as Three Finger and Vincent
- Blane Cypurda as Young Three Finger
- Daniel Skene as One Eye
- Tristan Carlucci as Young One Eye
- Scott Johnson as Saw Tooth and Orderly
- Bryan Verot as Young Saw Tooth
- Jenny Pudavick as Kenia
- Tenika Davis as Sara
- Kaitlyn Wong as Bridget
- Terra Vnesa as Jenna
- Victor Zinck Jr. as Kyle
- Dean Armstrong as Daniel
- Ali Tataryn as Lauren
- Samantha Kendrick as Claire
- Arne MacPherson as Dr. Brendan Ryan
- Kristen Harris as Dr. Ann Marie McQuaid
- Dave Harms as Porter (credited as Dead Porter)
Release[]
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings was released to DVD and Blu-ray on October 25, 2011. The film entered the DVD chart at number 13, selling 45,928 copies in its first week. To date the film has sold 143,000 units in America, for a gross of $3.1 million.[3]
Reception[]
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 20% of five surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.2/10.[4] Steve Barton of Dread Central rated it 2.5/5 stars and called it "the Congo of slasher movies", an objectively bad film that is still enjoyable to watch.[5] Anton Bitel of Little White Lies wrote that although the film delivers what fans want, the characters are interchangeable and the plot is derivative.[6] William Bibbiani of CraveOnline rated it 7.5/10 and wrote, "Wrong Turn 4 is the kind of movie that knows exactly what it is and offers nothing less, and occasionally a little more."[7] Charles Webb of Twitch Film wrote, "There's not much to recommend the latest entry in this franchise, which, like all long-running horror series has already reached its point of diminishing returns."[8]
References[]
- ^ Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings Release Date. Horror-Movies
- ^ "What are the chances of Wrong Turn 7 in 2016?" (2015-05-07). HorrorSociety.com. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ^ Video sales, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011). The-Numbers.com. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ^ "Wrong Turn 4 (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Barton, Steve (2011-09-29). "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (Blu-ray/DVD)". Dread Central. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Bitel, Anton (2012-08-25). "Film4 FrightFest 2012 – Day 3". Little White Lies. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Bibbiani, William (2011-10-24). "Blu-Ray Review: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings". CraveOnline. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Webb, Charles (2011-10-26). "WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS Heads Backwards (DVD Review)". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
External links[]
- 2011 films
- English-language films
- 2011 direct-to-video films
- 2011 horror films
- 2010s slasher films
- 20th Century Fox direct-to-video films
- American films
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- American splatter films
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- Wrong Turn (film series)
- Constantin Film films
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- Films set in 1974
- Films set in 2003
- Films about cannibalism
- Films shot in Manitoba
- Films set in West Virginia
- Direct-to-video horror films
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- Films set in psychiatric hospitals
- American skiing films
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