FILM REVIEW
Wrong Turn
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Desmond Harrington, Eliza
Dushku, Jeremy Sisto, Lindy Booth
Classification: 13V
Running Time: 87 minutes
Opens On: 13 February
2004
Chris (Desmond Harrington)
has a job interview in Raleigh in three hours and he's
making good time in his refurbished classic Mustang
convertible ... until an accident miles down the highway
turns Chris' three-hour trip into a six-hour wait.
Determined to make his
critical appointment, Chris makes a hard U-turn and heads
back up the West Virginia highway. Running low on fuel, he
finds a dirt road that seemingly intersects the highway
after about 20 miles. It's clearly a road less traveled, but
to Chris it seems to be a quick fix to get around the
highway traffic jam.
Not far away, Jessie
(Eliza Dushku) and her friends, Carly, Carly's
boyfriend Scott, Evan and his girlfriend Francine, stand
stunned as they survey what's left of their road trip after
the tires blow out, leaving them stranded deep in the middle
of the woods. Chris heads down the dusty, winding back road,
as the green forest canopy overhead casts ominous shadows of
twilight on his foreboding path. He loses control around the
curve and by the time he can see the disabled Range Rover in
front of him it is too late to stop or swerve. The rear
wheels lock up and the Mustang roars into the back of the
SUV, scattering the people surrounding it.
Luckily, no one is
seriously hurt in the collision but egos are bruised and
tempers flare. Chris is apologetic and Jessie is the calming
force when she discovers the barbed wire that was stretched
across the road. The blown out tires were seemingly the
result of a prank. The group quickly bands together,
determined to find a phone. Evan and Francine stay with the
cars, as the other four make their way down the road. As
they venture deeper and deeper into the woods, the idea of a
prankster grows dim when they discover a mountain cabin
filled with grisly hunting weapons and horrific souvenirs of
the hunt.
They are now certain that
whomever - or whatever - lives in the cabin are responsible
for the barbed-wire trap. What the foursome doesn't know is
that Evan and Francine are now dead, mercilessly mutilated
by three gruesome mountain men. Facing an uncertain and
possibly horrific fate at the hands of these men, the four
friends are sure of one thing: they will never go camping
again.
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