Director: Mike P. Nelson
Notable Cast: Charlotte Vega, Matthew Modine, Adain
Bradley, Bill Sage, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Daisy Head
The Wrong Turn franchise has been something of a
pleasure of mine. While the first two films in the long-running slasher series
feature some creative and well-executed concepts, in two very different tones,
the rest of the four sequels have de-evolved into low-brow slasher silliness.
The ‘turn off your brain’ kind of entertainment one would expect from a
direct-to-home-video slasher franchise. The latest installment of the series, a
reboot with the clever title Wrong Turn (I hope you all can feel my eye
roll as I type that), aims to not only bring a new life into a franchise
treading water, but one that also aims for loftier goals of embedding a message
into the material. That’s right, no longer is this just a series of films about
inbred cannibals in West Virginia slaughtering people in questionable states of
clothing, but it’s going to say something about it.