Synopsis: Stranded in the woods of remote West Virginia, six young people find themselves hunted down by cannibalistic killers.

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By Michelle Snow

Director: Rob Schmidt

Cast: Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Lindy Booth and Kevin Zegers

Eager to avoid traffic heading to a big job interview, Chris [Harrington] takes a back roads route that ideally should take him around the worst of the congestion. He ends up in an accident with a carload of twenty-somethings out driving around rural West Virginia to blow off some steam. Jessie [Dushku] and her friends aren't hurt, but when they get out to investigate, they find that their accidents may have not been so accidental. They soon find themselves being hunted by an inbred cannibalistic family and one by one they meet a gruesome end. 
This is a movie for fans of the 80's horror movies. Unlike most current movies, like the Scream franchise, which mix in humor and knowing winks at the camera, this movie harkens back to yesteryear's slasher movies. Take equal parts Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre and mix in a touch of Deliverance and you pretty much know what happens. 

But though the movie is formulatic and predictable, it does have a few really good scares in it. Most happen near the end of the movie, but the fact that a good part of the action takes place in the daylight hours makes you jump more because you think you should've saw it coming. There's also a great chase sequence through the treetops that was made all the more creepy by the fact that the camera would pan down to the ground and show the torches of the killers as they chased the gang.

The movie was also gorier than I expected. Not that it was a bad thing, in the context of the film, but squeamish types should definitely not view this film on a full stomach. 

Wrong Turn does what a horror movie should do. It scares you, grosses you out and makes you root for the survivors. Nothing more, nothing less. And it makes for a creepy time in the theater.
5 out of 10