| Wrong Turn | |
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 Promotional poster for Wrong Turn |
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| Directed by | Rob Schmidt |
| Produced by | Stan Winston, Brian Gilbert, Erik Feig, Robert Kulzer |
| Written by | Alan B. McElroy (story & screenplay) |
| Starring | Desmond Harrington Eliza Dushku |
| Music by | Elia Cmiral |
| Cinematography | John S. Bartley |
| Editing by | Michael Ross |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox, New Regency, Summit Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | May 30, 2003 |
| Running time | 84 min. |
| Country | U.S.  |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | Wrong Turn 2 |
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Wrong Turn is a 2003 horror film, directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film stars Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku.
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Cast
- Desmond Harrington... Chris Flynn
- Eliza Dushku... Jessie Burlingame
- Emmanuelle Chriqui... Carly
- Jeremy Sisto... Scott
- Lindy Booth... Francine
- Kevin Zegers... Evan
- Yvonne Gaudry... Halley
- Joel Harris... Rich
- Wayne Robson... Old Man
Plot
Medical student Chris Flynn (Harrington) is on his way to a job interview and is driving through the mountains of West Virginia. Due to a chemical spill in the road ahead, he decides to take a different route, leading him through an abandoned dirt road in the middle of the woods. He then crashes into a car stranded in the center of the road. The car he crashed into belongs to a group of friends on a hiking trip, which includes Jessie (Dushku). The car's tires were punctured by barbwire strung across the road. Two people stay with the cars, while the remainder of the group goes for help, only to find an old cabin isolated in the West Terre Haute woods. They discover that the cabin has many grisly horrors inside, such as entrails in a fridge and body parts in the bathtub. The cabin is home to a group of cannibalistic mountain men, who are horribly disfigured due to generations of inbreeding. The group realize that the owners of the cabin will not be friendly. A confrontation erupts with the disfigured men and the group flee through the woods. They spend a couple of days running from the mountain men, with two people from the group being caught. The remaining two people, Chris and Jessie, make it out of the woods alive and end up destroying the cannibals and their cabin. However at least one cannibal survives, as shown in the ending credits.
Response and Box Office
The film received mixed reviews from critics. It earned a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Many criticized it as the film having no originality, taking its plot from other horror films such as The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The New York Post called it a "dull, humorless slasher flick." The Boston Globe called it "A stultifying blend of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, boot camp, and maybe The Blair Witch Project, Wrong Turn is profoundly less than the sum of its influences." Positive reviewers considered it to be a fun, scary Friday night horror film. The Detroit Free Press called said "While this movie doesn't have the warped sensibilities of 1977's similarly plotted The Hills Have Eyes, it has decent performances and genuine suspense." Also Glenn Lovell from the San Jose Mercury News praised the film quoting "Schmidt makes us flinch the old-fashioned way — by giving us a box seat to the unspeakable." The film also did moderately well at the box office, debuting at #6 with $5.1 million. The film went on to earn a total of $15,176,515 at the box office. It also earned an additional $5.2 million with DVD rentals, bringing it box office total to nearly $21 million.
Soundtrack listing
Note: The following list does not include composed music
- Label: Lakeshore Records
- Release date: June 2, 2003
- Dream Syndicate - "Halloween"
- Queens of the Stone Age - "You Can't Quit Me Baby"
- Queens of the Stone Age - "If Only"
- Simple - "Birthday"
- Breaking Benjamin - "Wish I May"
