The Franchise That Will Not Die - Wrong Turn!

[Darcy Parker]

Umbrella is releasing an SE Blu-ray of the first film on 11/2/22.

https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/coll...bby-cards-2003

Looks like Umbrella hired one of Arrow's shitty artists for that cover!

[Ian Jane]

Umbrella is releasing an SE Blu-ray of the first film on 11/2/22.

https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/coll...bby-cards-2003

[Ian Jane]

Some fancy German releases coming out in March.

https://www.pretz-media.at/de/mediab...ack-blu-raydvd

https://www.pretz-media.at/de/mediab...box-blu-raydvd

[Ian Jane]

Wrong Turn 1-5 Blu-ray collection down to $10 on Amazon.

https://amzn.to/2Rgvsfy

[Ian Jane]

Wrong Turn reboot in the works.

https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/31...damian-maffei/

[Alex K.]

Skipped ahead to Wrong Turn 6 because that's how I roll. Fun slasher. I get the feeling I'm going to repeat the line "Fun slasher." A lot during this overview. This one does things a little differently which was welcomed.

[Zaibatan]

WT2 was Joe Lynch's debut as a director. He's made some fun movies since. I saw MAYHEM at a festival last year and had a great time.

[Alex K.]

Wrong Turn 2. Goddamn what a fun movie. Still a fantastic slasher. Henry Fucking Rollins.

[Alex K.]

It seems to be a franchise that got better once it went straight to video. Which is incredibly rare.

[Jason C]

I enjoyed all of them but Part 3, which is a CGI shitfest. My favorite is part 4 which has a cool snowy backdrop. The kills in these films are brutal.

[Keeth]

I think I saw the first film in the theater & most of the others on Syfy. My issue is the backwoods family make-up looks awful. They look like trolls instead of deformities.

[Alex K.]

I decided to watch the entire series because reasons. It's kind of hypocritical, at least of me anyway, to enjoy something like Madman or The Mutilator and look down upon the Wrong Turn franchise. They're cut from the same cloth but they're just from different era's.

Starting with the first one. The first movie seems like Stan Winston's baby. His name is all over the credits and he's even listed as a producer. I guess it was his dream to do a back to basics backwoods slasher with a real budget behind it? At any rate it's pretty standard but not bad. The gore is good as expected from the late great Stan Winston. It would have been nice had it either been shot in a more stylistic way with shadows and color or go the opposite extreme and go ultra realism ala Deliverance or (the underrated) The Final Terror. Or you subvert the idea, which is something Joe Bob Briggs once suggested, where it's the country/redneck folk being oppressed by the city folk.

Unfortunately the first one falls short of the movies I mentioned. It needed a backstory for the rednecks. We don't need an explanation why they're doing this but some kind of lore, exactly the kind of lore like in The Burning or Madman or The Final Terror, would have given the movie some depth. Even the Mutilator had lore to it; we don't know why the father decided to go on a killing spree but we understand that he liked to hunt and went crazy after his wife's death. They could have gone further with the gore and exploitative elements. You can't have gorgeous women like that and not have nudity in a slasher. That's sacrilegious practically.

It reminds me more of Don't Go in the Woods in that we're just kind of thrown these characters and these villains and nothing is really explained or given time to gestate. But Don't Go in the Woods at the very least had a very high body count to make up for its faults.

I mentioned that I saw the 2nd one and will re-visit that in a bit.

[Ian Jane]

So it looks like this is happening...



http://brokehorrorfan.com/post/12011...that-popped-up

[Travis Sheldon]

I'll buy a Wrong Turn Blu-Ray box set from Echo Bridge.
Make it happen.

[Ian Jane]