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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, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, and Kevin Zegers. It had a $12.6 million budget and grossed $28.7 million. It is the first installment in a film series that has spawned two sequels and three prequels.
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Directed by | Rob Schmidt |
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Written by | Alan B. McElroy |
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Music by | Elia Cmiral |
Cinematography | John S. Bartley |
Edited by | Michael Ross |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $12.6 million |
Box office | $28.7 million |
It is followed by Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007).
Screenplay
College students Rich Stoker and Halley Smith are rock climbing in a remote forest of West Virginia. When Rich reaches the top, he is suddenly murdered before he can help Halley up. Someone then begins to yank her up the cliff so she cuts the rope and falls. She attempts to escape but gets pulled back into the woods, screaming.
Medical student Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) drives through the mountains of West Virginia on his way to a business meeting. He stops at a gas station to ask directions and the elderly man, named Maynard tells Chris to go down Bear Mountain Road. He collides with a stopped car whose tires have been punctured. The car belongs to a group of college students on a camping trip: Jessie (Eliza Dushku), Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Scott (Jeremy Sisto), Evan (Kevin Zegers) and Francine (Lindy Booth).
Francine and Evan stay to watch the cars as the others go to find help, but both of them are later murdered by a huge mutant figure. The others find an isolated cabin and go inside to use the phone, but are horrified to find human body parts in the house and attempt to escape. However, they are forced to hide inside when the occupants return home. Three horribly disfigured cannibalistic mutant men, "Three Finger" (Julian Richings), "Saw Tooth" (Garry Robbins) and "One Eye" enter the cabin with Francine's dead body, and the hiding students watch in horror as her body is dismembered and eaten.
After the cannibals fall asleep after a long meal, the group attempts to escape. However, the cannibals awaken and proceed chasing them through the forest. The group runs into a clearing where they find hundreds of cars that belonged to previous victims, and Chris gets shot in the leg by Saw Tooth but survives. Scott creates a diversion for the other three to escape but gets killed with arrows.
Jessie, Carly, and Chris stumble upon an old watchtower and find a radio inside, which they use to call for help but get no response. Later, the cannibals arrive and are alerted when the radio starts responding to the students' call. Unable to get inside, they set the tower on fire to burn the group alive, but they escape by jumping out of the window. In the subsequent chase, Three Finger catches Carly and decapitates her with an ax. Jessie and Chris manage to escape and hide in a cave until morning. The cannibals then find them, pushing Chris down the hill and taking Jessie back to their cabin. Chris survives the fall and meets a police officer, but the officer is shot in the eye with an arrow and falls dead.
Chris hitches a ride underneath the truck as it is driven back to the cabin by Saw Tooth, and Jessie is tied to a bed and gagged. Chris drives through the building and runs into One Eye, untying Jessie and proceeding to fight the cannibals together. They escape and Chris kills the cannibals by blowing up their cabin. The pair then drives out of the forest with the cannibals' pickup truck and stumble upon Maynard to take the map nearby.
In a post-credits scene, a deputy sheriff investigating the remains of the destroyed cabin. Three Finger, who survived the explosion, rises to attack the deputy along with his infamous insane laugh.
- Desmond Harrington as Chris Flynn
- Eliza Dushku as Jessie Burlingame
- Emmanuelle Chriqui as Carly
- Jeremy Sisto as Scott
- Kevin Zegers as Evan
- Lindy Booth as Francine
- Julian Richings as Three Finger
- Garry Robbins as Saw Tooth
- Ted Clark as One Eye
- Yvonne Gaudry as Halley Smith
- Joel Harris as Richard "Rich" Stoker
- David Huband as Trooper
- Wayne Robson as Old Man
- James Downing as Trucker
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Film score by Elia Cmiral | |
Released | June 3, 2003 (Score) July 1, 2003 (Commercial) |
Genre | Soundtracks Film scores |
Length | 45:43 (Score) 47:01 (Commercial) |
Label | Lakeshore Records 20th Century Fox |
Two soundtracks were released; one contains the original film score, and the other contains popular music.
Track listing (Commercial)
Track listing (Score)
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Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 41% of 80 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.3/10. The consensus is: "An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguish itself from others of its ilk".