Wrong Turn
June 12, 2003
Wrong Turn
2003
Directed by: Rob Schmidt
Starring: Eliza Dushku as Jessie, Desmond Harrington as Chris, and some real-life West Virginia inbreds
J-Rock's Review:
Cheap knock-off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but dumbed down for WB viewers. The only reason to ever see this movie is Eliza Dushku.
The basic idea is this: one guy takes a turn down a dirt road in the backwoods of West Virginia - but wait, is there any part of WV that isn't backwoods? This guy runs into an SUV that's stuck on the same dirt road, and he meets up with 5 other kids who blew out a tire on some barbed wire. It just so happens that 3 of them are hot young chicks, including Eliza Dushku, who is not only hot in appearance, but her husky voice is sexy enough to give a blind man a woody.
Anyway, people start dying, and conveniently not one of the 20-somethings has a cell phone.
These morons look for a phone in a ramshackle cabin in West Virginia - smart move. But wait, it gets dumber! The chick in the green shirt above has to make pee-pee, and what better place to take a leak than a disgusting shit-filled cabin in the middle of nowhere. Damn woman, piss in the woods! So these morons continue to look around the cabin and find evidence of murder, cannibalism, and robbery - and they DON'T FUCKING RUN!! I mean, even if the jar of teeth in the bathroom wasn't sign enough of trouble, maybe the BODY PARTS IN THE FRIDGE would be???
At this point, I began rooting for the rest of the people to die. I know that the victims in these movies are supposed to be dumb, but the people in this flick are just mind-numbingly stupid! Oy!
Anyway, there are some halfway decent death scenes, then some other stuff happens, and there's a possible sequel twist at the end. Bottom line - there are no boobies to be found - only see this flick if you want to make fun of it.
Another note - just like this movie is a cheap knock-off of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the remake of TCM looks like a cheap knock-off of Wrong Turn, dumbed down for the WB crowd. The trailer makes me want to barf. I mean, Jessica Biel? Come on.