After you see a couple of mountain climbers get finished off. The plot basically follows a guy who takes a different route to get to his destination and ends up crashing into a car, luckily no one was in the car he crashed into and the people stranded team up with him after they find out that psycho hillbilly mutants are trying to catch them kill them and eat them. "Wrong Turn" had the right elements to make a great slasher film, the premise was good, even had a decent setting and the killers are down right creepy. But a lot of other factors falls short and it just becomes a generic slasher movie with stereotypical cast for this type of genre. From the annoying chick that drags everyone down with her, to the hero that puts everyone above himself, to the smart chick that kicks butt, to a couple of annoying pot heads. And a lot of them wasn't likable although some may disagree, as a matter of fact at the beginning of the film I was rooting for the mutated hillbilly psychos to quickly wipe out the annoying cast members, in till it was left with the cast that isn't as annoying. Especially the Bono wannabe that doesn't add anything to the film but be annoying and become a whinny little prick, he didn't even add anything to the blood and gore so overall he was a lame character. But the most annoying character of them all was this Indian looking girl, although I don't know her exact ethnicity she was really annoying to the point it gets aggravating. Besides the fact that she makes suggestions that will get everyone killed, she stops in the middle of running to say "Oh I can't do this, I can't" and she starts whining and throwing a tantrum like a kid, a spoiled little brat. But do the rest of the people that are trying to survive leave her? No they treat her like a little kid and keep trying to convince her to run. They should have just said "Okay, stay there and die than" and that would have shut her up and got her to stop complaining and wouldn't have dragged the rest of them down, but no it does not go that way and they keep encouraging her. Than she goes back to throwing a tantrum and wanting to kill herself, when they are in a watch tower. What they should of done was throw her out the window, cause not only was she dragging down the rest that are trying to survive but she really irritates the heck out of the audiences. These types of characters are okay if they get finished off early, but she actually lasts a while and says stuff like "Oh God! There no point in trying, we are all going to die!". Another flaw of this film is that the cast is too small and I usually don't have a problem with this type of scenario, but it just gets way too obvious who is going to live and who is going to die. The characters aren't even well developed and they talk about stupid and uninteresting stuff from the beginning just to drag on the running time of this short film. And although the premise was good, the environment was didn't have a scary atmosphere. Despite some flaws, the film did have some entertaining scenes, even if the murders were pretty sparse, not creative and very quick. The half hour build up was okay, and a predictable ending that comes next after. It might be a gripping film for some that just about any girl or people with weak stomach can handle.
6.2/10
6.2/10