The characters are a mix of jocks and bimbos, all of them clichéd in the extreme, although kudos to the scriptwriter for not killing off the black guy first like in most of these. Here, the villains are a group of mutant redneck types, and the main characters are involved in some kind of reality TV series which quickly turns deadly. The scripts are never up to much, but I love woodland scenery and it's easy to direct decent chase scenes when your characters are running through the trees or hiding out in the bushes. I admit to a certain fondness for these psychos-in-the-woods type films, even if the genre has been definitely overpopulated in recent years (SHROOMS, SEVERANCE, WILDERNESS, MANHUNT, EDEN LAKE and in particular BACKWOODS, which copies this film no end). From the opening kill, in which a woman is split in half with an axe, you know exactly what you're in for with this one. Indeed, WRONG TURN 2 is one of the goriest movies I've seen in recent years, a film packed full of brutal and grotesque deaths, all brought to life by the latest extreme special effects. Its sequel is a different beast entirely, as the filmmakers do away with any attempts at menace in favour of making an all-out gore fest. It's been a few years since I saw the original WRONG TURN and it's a film I don't remember much about: it was okay, middling in fact, entertaining in places and completely derivative. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Extraordinarily grisly sequel As a franchise, while the original brought freshness to the genre, it's sequel was stale. In Wrong Turn 2, it seem they were trying to up the extreme of these characters when it was not needed.īy itself it's more of a Stereotypical horror film with elements of Predator-like action, thanks mostly to Rollins. Just a little bit more creepy and creative in Wrong Turn. In this film, somewhat of an origin story is given to the inbreed family that does the slashing in the woods, but I have to say, the group that did the killing in the first film were far more better. Rollins plays the host of a stupid looking reality show were the contestants pretend they must survive a post-apocalyptic world, but they soon discover how real that scenario is, as they end up taping the show in the same woods as a group of psychopathic killers. Every time he was on the screen it was the right movie. So cool that Henry Rollins is in it and he was nothing but cool in the whole flick. Reviewed by subxerogravity 6 / 10 On it's own it's an OK horror flick, but not as impressive as it's original.
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