Wrong Turn [Region 2] | ![Wrong Turn [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O2ajRz7GL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Rob Schmidt
Actors: Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Desmond Harrington, Kevin Zegers
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $9.95
Rating:  376 reviews
Sales Rank: 202194
Format: Pal
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 6233002
EAN: 4042662330022
ASIN: B00018WKKY
Theatrical Release Date: May 30, 2003
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Sultry Eliza Dushku runs for her life in a snug white tanktop, pursued by inbred backwoods cannibals in Wrong Turn. Dushku (Bring It On, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a clump of other attractive young people (including Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto and Desmond Harrington of We Were Soldiers) get waylaid in the deep West Virginia wilds by a trio of grotesque mountain men, all given realistic ugliness by makeup artist Stan Winston (Interview with the Vampire, Terminator 2). Wrong Turn is the sort of movie where you know who's going to die by the order they appear in the credits, but fans of the inbred backwoods cannibals genre (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes) will find much to savor, particularly the scene in which Dushku and Harrington are trapped under a squalid bed while the inbred backwoods cannibals prepare one of their friends for dinner. Grisly. --Bret Fetzer
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 missing quality June 21, 2009
Adolfo J. Reyes (USA)
Dvd was sent without the cover. in blank a cover ,this item description was not like that. very unhappy and dissapointed.
 Very good and suspenceful March 21, 2009
marky77 (England)
I really enjoyed this movie it was extremely suspenceful in parts and I was glued to the screen. The charaters where beliveable and well-developed and well acted particularly by Kevin Zegers and Eliza Dushku.
Two cars collide on a short cut road - ostensibly they both took a "wrong turn" to get there - so two of thm stay by the cars to watch their stuff while the others head off into the woods in search for help.
Little do they know that a family of inbred cannibal rednecks live nearby and begin hunting them diown and killing them off one-by-one.
The deaths scnes were pretty good and there was quite a bit of gore and A LOT of suspence. It really makes you care about the characters, too. In slasher movies in normally rooting for the killer bu theres was times when I felt like screaming "RUN!!" at the screen.
Looking at reviews this is a love-it-or-hate-it movie. I loved it and would deffinatly reccomend it.
 Worthwhile lost-in-the-woods slasher flick January 29, 2009
! Durrkk (Ohio/PA border USA)
2003's "Wrong Turn" tells the story of six youths who turn down the wrong dirt road in the backcountry of West Virginia. They soon discover they are prey to inbred hillbillies who may be mutant and resistant to pain. Can they get out alive?
My wife's response to the film was a disturbed "I'm never going in the woods again!" By contrast, I felt it was entertaining and compelling but not scary or horrifying. Why? Because, although the story is presented in a serious, non-campy manner it's not realistic. The reason "Deliverance" (1972) was so unsettling is because the story actually COULD happen. "Wrong Turn" starts out this way but becomes increasingly unbelievable as the story unravels. Hence, unlike "Deliverance," I could never buy that I was viewing a potential reality.
Yet it starts out with enough believability that I was drawn into the story and the characters. By the time the unrealistic stuff started happening it didn't matter because the film successfully captures and maintains your attention.
No, it's not a great film by any means, but it's good for what it is, a slasher-in-the-woods flick.
I'm not usually a fan of slasher flicks in general, nor am I a gorehound, but I do love the "Friday the 13th" movies and films of the same ilk like "Wrong Turn." Why? I enjoy the youthful casts and the deep woods setting. It brings fond memories of my younger years (camping, hiking, etc.). The fact that there's a mad killer(s) on the loose just adds excitement and suspense.
But I never find them scary. Fun? Yes. A little creepy? Yes. Scary or horrifying? No. But my wife obviously disagrees because, again, she never wants to go in the woods again.
"Wrong Turn" was filmed in Dundas and Uxbridge, Ontario, with additional footage shot in Toronto and Hamilton (which I'm assuming is studio work since there are no urban scenes in the film). This area of Ontario has deep forests but is largely flat as many of the geographical-overlook shots reveal, but there are a couple of shots where they add cgi hills. I don't mind these locations but it would have been better if they actually filmed in Appalachia (it's only about 500 miles south of Ontario, after all).
As far as the cast goes, Desmond Harrington is a great leading male protagonist. He has character and isn't a smart-axx delinquent. He should go on to better things. He's that good. Eliza Dushku is good as his main companion, not to mention easy on the eyes. Jeremy Sisto and Emmanuelle Chriqui are also good protagonists. It's just nice to have a group of people you can care about and root for, rather than a bunch of unappealing and crude punks, if you know what I mean.
Another good thing about the film is it only runs an hour and 20 minutes before the credits role. Movies like this should't go on too long; it's unnecessary.
One other aspect I enjoyed is a 10-15 minute sequence that takes place high up in the trees at night as three of the kids try to evade the hillbillies (which I'm assuming was shot in the studio). The sequence isn't believable at all but it is totally original. I wasn't expecting that.
PERSONAL GRADE: B
satisfied January 27, 2009
Jean A. Gump (New Martinsville, WV)
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Inbreed Profiling December 20, 2008
Brand-X (Jackson, MS United States)
Why oh why must we always shade inbreeds in such a negative light? Do they all have to be psycho-criminal-antisocial halfwits? That's profiling - and profiling is bad! When will somebody finally portray a 13 fingered, one-eyed, limp-walking, shack inhabiting, drooling hillbilly as a positive role model? Maybe a doctor - or a clergyman - or a fireman - or a lawyer (oops! scratch that - the hillbillies would protest!)
Oh yeah, seriously this was a great film in this genre: suspenseful, a well-thought out script, and better than average acting. Although, I will admit I didn't mind seeing the whiny girl get it (that ain't a spoiler - you know she's going to)
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