Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding." Wrong Turn is far from being a masterpiece for sure but it also has it's fair share of charm and Eliza Dushku was really great and if you've ever seen movies like 'The Hills Have Eyes' or 'Friday the 13th' you should know what to expect. The movie although pretty hardcore and that is also kinda smart and way more on the action and suspense unlike the horror and brutality. (7.5/10)

Some travellers take a wrong turn in the backwoods of West Virginia and find themselves being hunted by a family of seriously deformed, blood thirsty giggling rednecks. Granted, this basic plot is hardly original and this film has shades of The Texas Massacre & The Hills Have Eyes. I originally saw this at the cinema on a first date but my mind was more on the girl that I was with than the film itself. Now, 15 years later, I have given it a second viewing, this time on DVD. And what a great film it is! It is well filmed and while it does pack in some serious gore it is also very suspenseful, the latter quality being lacking in so many modern horror films. Queens of the Stone Age appear on the soundtrack so more points in my book for that. This has spawned several sequels, most of them filmed in Eastern Europe, but while they have generally upped the gore content these lack the quality of the first movie. One of the best horror films in the first few years of the 21st Century.

I saw it when I was 12 years years and I couldn't sleep It was realy a good experience to watch it... He was the best one of the series who came later He freak me and scared me too mush It took me years to think about the story and those monsters And all the blood ....frankly I love it too mush and the others Just shared with it the same title *wrong turn* They disaponting me so hard Finaly I give It 9/10

A typical slasher movie that takes John Boorman's DELIVERANCE as its central concept, then delivers tons of action, bloodshed, and virtually no plot for the rest of the ninety-minute running time. It has to be said that WRONG TURN starts off well enough. Two climbers are brutally murdered in the wilderness, then there's a suspenseful car-ride/crash which almost had me bolting from my seat. The film builds in tension as unseen evil stalks our cast, but after the first major gore scene, things go downhill fast. The rest of the film is a chase between our heroes and the cannibal men which lasts right up until the last (gruesome) minute. It's not bad, but something we've seen a hundred times before, so those looking for originality should go looking somewhere else. They won't find any here.One very annoying thing about this film is the reliance on poor CGI effects in scenes you wouldn't expect to see them. In one shot the entire forest is done with CGI, it looks ridiculous, why the heck would they want to do that? In other shots, the cast are supposedly balancing on branches high above the ground, but the CGI influence is obvious again. Finally they climb a watchtower, but is it really a watchtower? Nope, just a CGI animation. I wish film-makers would get out of this annoying habit. When I saw Stan Winston's name in the credits, I thought I would be in for some GREAT make-up like he's done in the past. I was wrong. The mutants in this film have nondescript makeup, which looks very much like makeup. Director Rob Schmidt realises this and keeps their faces hidden as much as he can, but he's wasting his time. It doesn't pay-off, and it looks like Winston's losing his touch. About time he won back some credit – when's your next JURASSIC PARK gonna be, Stan? The cast is so-so. I liked Desmond Harrington's leading man, stern and authoritative throughout, never backing down, never losing his resolve. He's my kind of hero. Eliza Dushku is very pretty as the heroine, and kicks backside too, so you can't lose there. Jeremy Sisto is on hand to supply comic relief and he's great, it's a shame he dies halfway through the film but you can't have everything. The film has routine action but goes over-the-top in the gore effects which reach new heights of sickness. We get to watch heads being axed off (deeply unpleasant) and other implements impale the human body. I used to enjoy gore when I was younger, it seems a little bit too much here, and in bad taste as well. Still, it could be worse I guess. WRONG TURN's best aspect is the isolated forest setting, but even that seems too slick and glossy these days. I preferred the low-budget horrors that came out of the USA years ago, which really WERE filmed out in the wilderness (take RITUALS). That's where the real fear lies.