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Wrong Turn (film series)

Wrong Turn is an American slasher film series created by director Rob Schmidt[1] and writers Alan B. McElroy, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (uncredited.)[2] The original script is similar to the X-files episode "Home."[3] The series consists of seven films, five of which share the same continuity, while the later two films are served as a reboot. The films originally focus on various families of deformed cannibals who hunt and kill a group of people in West Virginia in horrific ways by using a mixture of traps and weaponry. The reboot film features a centuries-old cult in Virginia who respond violently to outsiders who intrude on their self-sufficient civilization. The film series became known primarily as a direct-to-video franchise grossing $21.8 million in home sales.

Wrong Turn
The UK Box set containing the first five films.
Directed byRob Schmidt (1)
Joe Lynch (2)
Declan O'Brien (3–5)
Valeri Milev (6)
Mike P. Nelson (7)
Written byAlan B. McElroy (1, 7)
Turi Meyer (2)
Al Septien (2)
Connor James Delaney (3)
Declan O'Brien (4–5)
Frank H. Woodward (6)
Produced byStan Winston (1)
Brian Gilbert (1)
Erik Feig (1–6)
Robert Kulzer (1–7)
Jeff Freilich (2)
Jeffrey Beach (3, 5, 6)
Phillip Roth (3, 5, 6)
Kim Todd (4)
James Harris (7)
CinematographyJohn S. Bartley (1)
Robin Loewen (2)
Lorenzo Senatore (3)
Michael Marshall (4)
Emil Topuzov (5)
Martin Chichov (6)
Nick Junkersfeld (7)
Edited byMichael Ross (1)
Ed Marx (2)
Raúl Dávalos (3)
Stein Myhrstad (4–5)
Ludmil Kazakov (5)
Don Adams (6)
Cameron Hallenbeck (6)
Tom Elkins (7)
Music byElia Cmiral (1)
Bear McCreary (2)
Claude Foisy (3–6)
Stephen Lukach (7)
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox (1-6)
Saban Films (7)
Release date
2003–present
Running time
657 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$33.5 million
(Cumulative of 2 films)

Films edit

Film U.S. release date Director(s) Screenwriter(s) Producer(s)
Wrong Turn May 30, 2003 Rob Schmidt Alan B. McElroy Stan Winston, Brian Gilbert, Erik Feig & Robert Kulzer
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End October 9, 2007 Joe Lynch Turi Meyer & Al Septien Jeff Freilich
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead October 20, 2009 Declan O'Brien Connor James Delaney Jeffery Beach & Phillip Roth
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings October 25, 2011 Declan O'Brien Kim Todd
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines October 23, 2012 Jeffery Beach & Phillip Roth
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort October 21, 2014 Valeri Milev Frank H. Woodward
Wrong Turn January 26, 2021 Mike P. Nelson Alan B. McElroy James Harris & Robert Kulzer

Wrong Turn (2003) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn (2003 film)

In the first film, a group of six individuals are stalked by One Eye, Saw Tooth, and Three Finger. Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is forced to make a detour after a chemical spill on the road. He makes a wrong turn and crashes into another vehicle which had already fallen victim to one of the mountain men's road traps. While searching for help in the cabin belonging to the three monstrous mountain men, they are hunted down one by one. At the end, Chris and Jessie Burlingame (Eliza Dushku) survive.

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

The second film introduces new cannibals: Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. Three Finger and the Old Man are the only returning characters from the first film. This time, the cannibals hunt down a group of reality show contestants who are taking part in a survival reality tv show.

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead features a group of prison officers and convicts. The returning character Three Finger causes the transport bus to crash, allowing the convicts to escape and take the surviving prison officers, Nate (Tom Frederic) and Walter (Chucky Venn) prisoner. While fleeing, the convicts and their prisoners stumble across a lost truck which had been transporting thousands of dollars, as well as Alex Miles (Janet Montgomery), who has been lost in the woods since Three Finger killed the rest of her friends. Eventually, Three Toes (Three Finger's nephew) is killed by Chavez. Three Finger finds Three Toes's severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. The one remaining surviving convict, Brandon, convinces Nate of his innocence, and is set free. Nate returns later to the truck to steal the money that Chavez wanted. But Brandon shoots him in the back with a bow and arrow and takes the money for himself. An unknown cannibal comes up behind Brandon and bludgeons him with a crude club killing him and leaving Alex the only survivor in the film.

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

This film provides the back story to the three original killers and shows their childhood. It also shows the three brothers story. The story focuses on a group of nine teenagers who take a wrong turn while riding their snowmobiles and are looking for their cabin. They end up in an old abandoned insane asylum which is still inhabited by Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye. The friends decide to spend the night in the insane asylum and they are attacked by the hilker brothers. By the end of the film, all nine teenagers are dead. The film served as a prequel to the first film.

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

It is revealed that Maynard is a serial killer who has 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 to break Maynard out of jail and kill off the college students and Sheriff Angela Carter (Camilla Arfwedson), while the rest of the town is at the festival. The film ends with Maynard and the three brothers escaping with the blinded young college student Lita (Roxanne McKee) as a captive.

Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort

In the sixth installment, Danny (Anthony Ilott) discovers his long lost family as he takes his friends to Hobb Springs, a Forgotten resort deep into the West Virginia Hills. Danny then has to choose between his family or his friends as they are being killed by his family one by one. The film doesn't follow the continuity of its predecessors and serves as a reboot instead.[4][5]

Wrong Turn (2021) edit

Main article: Wrong Turn (2021 film)

Internationally known as Wrong Turn: The Foundation, the second reboot film follows six friends hiking on the Appalachian Trail who become hunted by the Foundation when they inadvertently intrude on the community's land.[6]

Cast and crew edit

Principal cast edit

Key
  • A Y indicates the actor portrayed the role of a younger version of the character.
  • An O indicates a role as an older version of the character.
  • A V indicates the actor or actress lent only his or her voice for his or her film character.
  • A C indicates a cameo appearance.
  • An A indicates an appearance through archival footage.
  • A dark gray cell indicates the character was not in the film.
Characters Original films Reboot films
Wrong Turn Wrong Turn 2:
Dead End 		Wrong Turn 3:
Left for Dead 		Wrong Turn 4:
Bloody Beginnings 		Wrong Turn 5:
Bloodlines 		Wrong Turn 6:
Last Resort 		Wrong Turn
2003 2007 2009 2011 2012 2014 2021
Cannibals
Three Finger Julian Richings Jeff Scrutton Borislav Iliev Sean Skene
Blane CypurdaY		 Borislav Iliev Radoslav Parvanov  
Saw Tooth Garry Robbins   Scott Johnson
Bryan VerotY		 George Karlukovski Danko Jordanov  
One Eye Ted Clark   Dan Skene
Tristan CarlucciY		 Radoslav Parvanov Asen Asenov  
Pa   Ken Kirzinger  
Ma   Ashlea Earl  
Brother   Clint Carleton  
Sister   Rorelee Tio  
Three Toes   Appeared Borislav Petrov  
Humans
Maynard Odets Wayne Robson   Doug Bradley  
Chris Flynn Desmond Harrington  
Jessie Burlingame Eliza Dushku  
Carly Numan Emmanuelle Chriqui  
Scott Korbee Jeremy Sisto  
Evan Ross Kevin Zegers  
Francine Childes Lindy Booth  
Nina Papas   Erica Leerhsen  
Colonel Dale Murphy   Henry Rollins  
Jake Washington   Texas Battle  
Mara Stone   Aleksa Palladino  
Amber Williams   Daniella Alonso  
Matt "Jonesy" Jones   Steve Braun  
Elena Garcia   Crystal Lowe  
Officer Nate Wilson   Tom Frederic  
Alex Miles   Janet Montgomery  
Carlos Chavez   Tamer Hassan  
Floyd   Gil Kolirin  
Brandon Lewis   Tom McKay  
Williams "Willy" Juarez   Christian Contreras  
Crawford   Jake Curran  
Walter Hazelton   Chucky Venn  
Kenia   Jennifer Pudavick  
Kyle   Victor Zinck Jr.  
Sara   Tenika Davis  
Jenna   Terra Vnesa  
Daniel   Dean Armstrong  
Lauren   Ali Tataryn  
Bridget   Kaitlyn Leeb  
Claire   Samantha Kendrick  
Vincent   Sean Skene  
Dr. Brendan Ryan   Arne MacPherson  
Dr. Ann Marie McQuaid   Kristen Harris  
Mrs. Hillicker   Mentioned  
Sheriff Angela "Angie" Carter   Camilla Arfwedson  
Billy   Simon Ginty  
Lita   Roxanne McKee  
Gus   Paul Luebke  
Julian   Oliver Hoare  
Cruz   Amy Lennox  
Mose   Duncan Wisbey  
Danny   Anthony Ilott  
Jackson   Chris Jarvis  
Toni   Aqueela Zoll  
Sally   Sadie Katz  
Vic   Rollo Skinner  
Jillian   Roxanne Pallett  
Rod   Billy Ashworth  
Charlie   Harry Belcher  
Bryan   Joe Gaminara  
Jennifer "Jen" Shaw   Charlotte Vega
Scott Shaw   Matthew Modine
Darius Clemons   Aiden Bradley
Milla D'Angelo   Emma Dumont
Adam Lucas   Dylan McTee
Gary Amaan   Vardaan Arora
Luis Ortiz   Adrian Favela
Edith   Daisy Head
Venable
Ram Skull 		  Bill Sage

Characters edit

The Wrong Turn film series has featured several different cannibals. All of the cannibals are hostile toward the characters they encounter, showing no remorse for their victims. The cannibals are portrayed as mute, but show the ability to communicate with each other. They also show the mental capability to operate machinery and vehicles. The cannibals stay with each other in groups and appear to be the result of inbreeding.

Three Finger edit

Three Finger is the main antagonist of the Wrong Turn film series. He is a cannibal with great physical deformity caused by toxic chemicals he was exposed to at birth, alongside his two brothers. He is a skilled trap maker, crafting his traps so well that they often kill his victims before he can enact horrific acts of violence upon them.

  • In Wrong Turn (2003), he made his first appearance alongside his two brothers, attacking the medical student, Chris Flynn and the group of friends including Jessie Burlingame, Carly Marquez, Scott, Evan, and Francine, However, in the end of the film, Three Finger manages to survive as he was last seen killing the deputy sheriff as he investigates the destroyed cabin. However, his brothers were presumably dead.
  • In Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, he is seen killing Kimberly by cutting her in half with the help of Brother, a member of the cannibal family. Then, he and the mutant family begin their brutal assault on the rest of the contestants as he successfully killed Neil, a television crew member and captured Colonel Dale Murphy with the help of Pa. Later, he was seen torturing Dale in his cabin but Dale somehow manages to escape before engaging Three Finger in a knife fight. During the fight, Dale manages to shoot Three Finger in the chest with a shotgun and as the result, he was presumed dead, but he survives.
  • In Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead, he is trying to kill a group of hikers and prisoners, and he is killed at the end of the film, stabbed in the head with his hook and blown up on top of a car.
  • Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, the fourth installment in the franchise, is an origin story of the mutant cannibals showing how they came to be.
  • In Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines he is the antagonist alongside his two original brothers. During the series, he has been blown up, stabbed, impaled, and shot various times, and yet survives; he is also very skillful at creating traps that will instantly kill the victims before he finishes his cruel job on them. In addition, he also has the unnatural ability of regenerating.
  • In Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort, he returns alongside his two original brothers.

Saw Tooth edit

Saw Tooth, like his two brothers, first appears in Wrong Turn (2003). He is the biggest and strongest of the family and appears to be the leader of his branch of his family as he is the older brother to Three Finger and One Eye. He is killed at the end of the first film and does not appear again until the first prequel, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines and then Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort.

One Eye edit

One Eye, the least harmful of the three, first appears in Wrong Turn (2003). Just like Saw Tooth, he dies in the first film, and does not make another appearance until the fourth, fifth and sixth film.

Maynard Odets edit

The Patriarch of the cannibals who appeared in the first two films and the fifth film.

Other Cannibals edit

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End introduces a family of four cannibals called Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. The two young siblings are shown to have an incestuous relationship; Sister even gets extremely jealous and angry when she catches Brother masturbating while spying on a human girl. Ma gives birth to a mutant baby before she (and the rest of her family) is killed. The second film ends with Three Finger caring for the baby. The baby becomes known as Three Toes in Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. Three Toes is killed by a group of convicts, and his head left as a warning. Three Finger finds Three Toes' severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. In the third film's ending, another cannibal shows up, killing Brandon. The sixth film introduces Sally, Danny, and Jackson.

The Foundation edit

The Wrong Turn (2021) reboot introduces the Foundation, a self-sufficient civilization who have lived on the Appalachian Trail since the 19th century. They are hostile to any outsiders intruding on their secluded community.

Venable / Ram Skull edit

Leader of the Foundation.

Cullen / Wild Boar Skull edit

A member of the Foundation

Morgan / Deer Skull edit

A member of the Foundation

Standard / Wolf Skull edit

A member of the Foundation.

Edith edit

A member of the Foundation.

Ruthie edit

A mute young girl and a member of the Foundation.

Reception edit

Box office performance edit

Film U.S. release date Box office gross Budget Reference
North America Other
territories 		Worldwide
Wrong Turn (2003) May 30, 2003 $15,418,790 $13,231,785 $28,260,575 $12.6 million [7]
Wrong Turn (2021) January 26, 2021 $1,251,184 $3,578,742 $4,829,926   [8]
Total $16,669,974 $16,810,527 $33,090,501  

Critical and public response edit

Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic CinemaScore
Wrong Turn (2003) 40% (82 reviews)[9] 32 (17 reviews)[10] C−[11]
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End 70% (10 reviews)[12] — —
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead 0% (5 reviews)[13] — —
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings 57% (7 reviews)[14] — —
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines N/A (3 reviews)[15] — —
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort N/A (1 review)[16] — —
Wrong Turn (2021) 65% (65 reviews)[17] 46 (7 reviews)[18] —

Music edit

Soundtracks edit

Title U.S. release date Length Performed by Label
Wrong Turn: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack June 3, 2003 45:43 Elia Cmiral Varèse Sarabande
Wrong Turn: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture July 1, 2003 47:01 Various artists Lakeshore Records
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) September 18, 2007 52:11 Bear McCreary La-La Land Records
Wrong Turn: The Foundation (Original Soundtrack)[19] February 25, 2021 65:01 Stephen Lukach Konigskinder Music

References edit

  1. ^ "Rob Schmidt | Director, Camera and Electrical Department, Actor". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  2. ^ "Wrong Turn". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  3. ^ "Wrong Turn and The X Files???". www.movie-list.com. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  4. ^ Whitworth, Spencer (October 3, 2021). "The Wild History of the 'Wrong Turn' Series". Collider. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
  5. ^ Wilhelmi, Jack (April 12, 2020). "Wrong Turn's Full Movie Timeline Explained". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2023. While there are six movies total in the Wrong Turn franchise, the sixth movie, which released in 2014 was intended as a standalone film under a different director, Valeri Milev.
  6. ^ "Wrong Turn Reboot Begins Shooting in Ohio". Prime Time. September 12, 2019. Retrieved September 18, 2019.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Wrong Turn (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  8. ^ "Wrong Turn (2021)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  9. ^ "Wrong Turn (2003)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  10. ^ "Wrong Turn". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2010-11-13. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  11. ^ "CinemaScore". Archived from the original on 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
  12. ^ "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  13. ^ "Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
  14. ^ "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on December 9, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  15. ^ "Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  16. ^ "Wrong Turn 6". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
  17. ^ "Wrong Turn (2021)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on August 9, 2021. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  18. ^ "Wrong Turn Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on May 17, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  19. ^ "Wrong Turn: The Foundation Soundtrack to be Released". Film Music Reporter. February 24, 2021. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
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