Friday, December 28, 2012

Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn is a series of American horror films consisting of five films, initially created by Alan B. McElroy. The main plot follows various families of deformed cannibals who hunt a group of people in West Virginia, usually killing them all in horrific ways using a mixture of traps and weaponry for food. Four characters who have repeatedly appeared in the series are: Three Finger, Saw Tooth, One Eye and Maynard.
Wrong Turn was the only film in the series to receive a theatrical release. It was released in 2003 and grossed $28,650,575 off of a budget of $12.6 million. The following four sequels were all released Direct-to-DVD.

Overview

Wrong Turn

In the first film, a group of six friends are stalked by One Eye, Saw Tooth and Three Finger. Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is forced to make a detour after a chemical spillage on the road he had been travelling, he then makes a wrong turn and crashes into another vehicle which had already fallen victim to one of the families road traps. Whilst searching for help the group discover a the cabin belonging to the three inbreds. They're subsequently hunted down and killed one by one.

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

The second film introduces a larger family of inbreds: Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. Three Finger and the Old Man are the only returning characters from the first film. This time, the inbreds hunt down a group of reality show contestants who are taking part on a survival reality show. The Old Man from the first film, plays a much more dominant role in the second. Where it's discovered that he is in fact affiliated with the inbreds, completely changing the meaning of his role in the first.

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead features a group of prison officers escaped convicts attempting to flee to freedom after the returning character: Three Finger, causes their transport police bus to crash, allowing them to escape and take the surviving prison officers, Nate (Tom Frederic) and Walter (Chucky Venn). Whilst fleeing the convicts and their prisoners stumble across both a lost truck which had been transporting thousands of dollars, and Alex Hale (Janet Montgomery) who has been lost in the woods after Three Finger killed the rest of her friends. Eventually Three Finger is killed by Nate and Alex. The one surviving Convict, Brandon convinces Nate that he was innocent all along, and in turn is allowed to go free. Sometime later, Nate greedily returns to collect the remaining cash from the armored truck. Brandon appears and betrays Nate, shooting him in the back with an arrow. While Brandon is collecting the cash, a cannibal appears from behind him holding a crude club and kills him. It is unclear if the cannibal had somehow been Three Finger.

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

The fourth film is a prequel to the first film. It focuses on a group of twenty somethings which take a wrong turn in the snow whilst riding their snow mobiles looking for their cabin. They end up in an old abandoned insane asylum which is still inhabited by a younger Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye. The film provides back story to the three original killers and shows of their childhood. The group of friends decide to spend the night in the Asylum and they start to get attacked by the three brothers. By the end of the film only two of the friends remain, however they're killed after they accidentally ride into a barbed wire fence whilst escaping on snow mobiles, their decapitated heads are shown flying through the air before being picked up by Three Finger and frown in the back of his truck and driving away.

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines focuses on a small local town around a legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where college students gather for a wild night of music and mischief. After a car crash four college students, along with Maynard (Doug Bradley) are arrested. It is revealed that Maynard is a serial killer who's been on the run for over thirty years and is now in cahoots with the three cannibal brothers. He repeatedly refers to them as 'my boys' and his kin. Throughout the course of the film the brothers attempt break out Maynard and kill off the college students and Sheriff Angela Carter (Camilla Arfwedson) whilst the rest of the town are at the festival which takes place out of the small town. The film ends with the Maynard and the three brothers escaping with the blinded Lita (Roxanne McKee) as a captive.

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