Bryce Hanson Horror Movie Talk Sep 18, 2025 5/10

This is a good old fashioned, dumb slasher. The only unique twist on the generic formula is that the antagonists are a family of inbred homicidal hicks. Oh wait, that’s not unique, that’s a rip off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 11, 2025 2/5

Even with an R rating, this just feels like a less original, watered down The Hills Have Eyes ripoff.

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Paul Lê Bloody Disgusting May 30, 2024 3.5/5

While not considered an outright classic from its own time period, the first Wrong Turn is a wicked love letter to ’70s brutality. Its unapologetic yet sincere approach has been long underappreciated.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Dec 31, 2018 2/4

...a repetitive cat-and-mouse midsection that boasts few compelling attributes.

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Barbara Ellen The Times (UK) Jan 3, 2018

This could have been a half decent cross between a Romero zombie movie and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but in the end the gore is so ridiculously overdone and the script so lame, that it undermines all sense of suspense.

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Steve Newton Georgia Straight Feb 9, 2014 3/5

This horror flick about young campers stalked and slaughtered by gruesome backwoods barbarians is a fairly decent crossbreeding of Friday the 13th and Deliverance.

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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Sep 27, 2009 F

The understatement of the year. Essentially, ax-wielding rednecks unite in a slasher flick that drives itself into a brick wall of no return.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009

It gives what it promises: violence, creeps, and solid performances from the great cast...

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Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 1/5

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 23, 2007 D

It's the usual quick-cut, this-is-all-we-can-show-you R-rated mayhem.

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Paul Sherman Boston Herald Jul 16, 2005 1.5/4

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Bill Clark FromTheBalcony Jun 26, 2005 B

A cut above the recent lot of slasher films...it does not feel as if it has to cater to audiences who want every plot point spoon fed to them.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness May 4, 2005 D

Headed in only one direction: straight into the toilet.

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Mar 5, 2004 3/5

Ao contrário da maior parte das produções do gênero realizadas nos últimos anos, este filme acaba se revelando acima da média graças à boa direção de Rob Schmidt.

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Blake French NutzWorld Jan 6, 2004 1.5/5

...talent does not matter much, just as long as the women?who, of course, all look like supermodels?wear skimpy, transparent outfits throughout the movie.

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Oct 12, 2003 4/10

Wrong Turn is basically a well-made waste of time.

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Bill Chambers Film Freak Central Oct 1, 2003 2/4

The grey area is whether it's Schmidt's fault or the zeitgeist's that the film doesn't resonate even ten seconds past the finish line

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Andrew Manning Radio Free Entertainment Sep 9, 2003 2/10

If giggling hillbillies fuel your nightmares, then there's a chance you'll be rendered sleepless by this inept, wannabe horror flick.

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Shannon J. Harvey Sunday Times (Australia) Aug 3, 2003 1.5/5

Was Wrong Turn directed by the kind of in-bred mountain men depicted in the film? The opening credits is the only device that drive the plot -- the rest is simply a squeal-inducing hunt movie.

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Mike Sage Peterborough This Week Jul 16, 2003 3/5

For a horror cheese-fest about six ill-fated teens on the verge of brutal maceration by inbred hick monsters, Wrong Turn is surprisingly worth the detour

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