Wrong Turn (film series)

Wrong Turn
Box set containing all 5 films.
Directed by	Rob Schmidt (1) Joe Lynch (2) Declan O'Brien (3-5)
Produced by	Stan Winston (1) Brian Gilbert (1) Erik Feig Robert Kulzer Jeffrey Beach (2) Jeff Freilich (3,5) Phillip J. Roth (3,5)
Edited by	Michael Ross (1) Ed Marx (2) Raúl Dávalos (3) Stein Myhrstad (4-5) Ludmil Kazakov (5)
Music by	Elia Cmiral (1) Bear McCreary (2) Claude Foisy (3-5)
Distributed by	20th Century Fox (2003) Summit Entertainment (2003–present) Fox Home Entertainment (2007-present) Constantin Film (2003–present)
Release dates	Wrong Turn May 30, 2003 Wrong Turn 2: Dead End October 9, 2007 Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead October 20, 2009 Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings October 25, 2011 Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines October 23, 2012
Running time	454 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	Total (3 films): $50,150,575

Wrong Turn is a series of American horror films created by Alan B. McElroy. The main plot follows various families of deformed cannibals who hunt a group of people in West Virginia, usually killing them all in horrific ways using a mixture of traps and weaponry for food. Three characters who have repeatedly appeared in the series are: Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye.

Films

Wrong Turn (2003)

Main article: Wrong Turn

In the first film, a group of six friends are stalked by One Eye, Saw Tooth and Three Finger. Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is forced to make a detour after a chemical spillage on the road he had been travelling. He then makes a wrong turn and crashes into another vehicle which had already fallen victim to one of the family's road traps. Whilst searching for help the group discover the cabin belonging to the three inbreds. They're subsequently hunted down and killed one by one, but at the end, Chris Flynn and one member of the group, Jessie, make it out alive.

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)

Main article: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

The second film introduces a larger family of inbreds: Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. Three Finger and the Old Man are the only returning characters from the first film. This time, the inbreds hunt down a group of reality show contestants who are taking part on a survival reality show. The Old Man from the first film plays a much more dominant role in this one. It's discovered that he is in fact affiliated with the inbreds, completely changing the meaning of his role in the first movie.

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)

Main article: Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead features a group of prison officers and escaped convicts after the returning character Three Finger caused their transport bus to crash, allowing them to escape and take the surviving prison officers, Nate (Tom Frederic) and Walter (Chucky Venn) prisoner. Whilst fleeing, the convicts and their prisoners stumble across both a lost truck which had been transporting thousands of dollars, and Alex Hale (Janet Montgomery), who has been lost in the woods after Three Finger killed the rest of her friends. Eventually, Three Finger is killed by Nate and Alex. The one surviving convict, Brandon, convinces Nate that he was innocent all along, and in turn is allowed to go free. Sometime later, Nate greedily returns to collect the remaining cash from the armored truck. Brandon appears and betrays Nate, shooting him in the back with an arrow. While Brandon is collecting the cash, a cannibal come up behind him, holding a crude club, and kills him. The Identity of the cannibal is unclear. However, the Director's Commentary of the fourth film confirmed that Three Finger died.

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)

Main article: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

The fourth film is a prequel to the first film. It focuses on a group of 9 teenagers which take a wrong turn whilst riding their snowmobiles looking for their cabin. They end up in an old abandoned insane asylum, which is still inhabited by a younger Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye. (The film provides back story to the three original killers and shows their childhood. It also shows how the three brothers and 7 other mutants escaped.) The group of friends decide to spend the night in the Asylum and they are attacked by the three brothers. By the end of the film, only two of the friends remain, but they're killed after they accidentally ride into a barbed wire fence whilst escaping. Their decapitated heads are shown flying through the air before Three Finger picks them up, throws them in the back of his truck, and drives away.

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012)

Main article: Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines focuses on a small local town during a legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where college students gather for a wild night of music and mischief. After a car crash, five college students, along with Maynard (Doug Bradley) are arrested. It is revealed that Maynard is a serial killer who's 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 out Maynard and kill off the college students and Sheriff Angela Carter (Camilla Arfwedson), whilst the rest of the town are at the festival. The film ends with Maynard and the three brothers escaping with the blinded Lita (Roxanne McKee) as a captive.

Cannibals

Three Finger
File:Three Finger Profile Picture.jpg
First appearance	Wrong Turn
Portrayed by	Julian Richings Jeff Scrutton Borislav Iliev Sean Skene

The Wrong Turn film series has featured various different cannibals. They're always hostile towards any humans they come across (with the exception of Maynard) and show no remorse for their victims. The cannibals are shown to lack the ability to utter any words, but can still easily communicate with each other and operate vehicles. The Cannibals also tend to stay in groups with other mutants and breed together to form families.

Three Finger

Three Finger first appeared in Wrong Turn alongside his two brothers, and has since starred in all four sequels. He is the smallest of the three brothers, and was killed at the end of Wrong Turn 3, stabbed in the head with his hook and blown up on top of a car. During the series, he had been blown up, stabbed, impaled, and shot various times yet survived.

Saw Tooth

Saw Tooth, like his two brothers, first appears in Wrong Turn. He is the biggest and strongest of the family. He is killed at the end of the first film and does not appear again until the first Prequel, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings and then Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines.

One Eye

First appears in Wrong Turn. Just like Saw Tooth, he dies in the first film, and doesn't make another appearance until the fourth and fifth film.

Other Cannibals

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 angry when she catches Brother spying on a human girl. Ma gives birth to a mutant baby before she (and the rest of her family) is killed. The movie ends with Three Finger caring for the baby. The baby becomes known as Three-Toe in Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. Three-Toe is killed by a group of convicts, and his head left as a warning. Three Finger finds Three-Toe's decapitated head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin.

Principal Cast

Character	Film
	Wrong Turn (2003)	Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)	Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)	Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)	Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012)
Three Finger	Julian Richings	Jeff Scrutton	Borislav Iliev	Sean Skene Blane Cypurda (y)	Borislav Iliev
Saw Tooth	Garry Robbins			Scott Johnson Bryan Verot (y)	George Karlukovski
One Eye	Ted Clark			Dan Skene Tristan Carlucci (y)	Radoslav Parvanov
Chris Flynn	Desmond Harrington
Jessie Burlingame	Eliza Dushku
Old Man/Timer	Wayne Robson
Nina Papas		Erica Leerhsen
Dale Murphy		Henry Rollins
Alex Hale			Janet Montgomery
Maynard Odets					Doug Bradley

Reception

Wrong Turn received mixed reviews, with a 40% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and from other critics. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End also received positive reviews. It currently holds a 78% fresh rating from review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 9 reviews and the highest rated film in the series.

Uncle Creepy of Dread Central gave the film 8 out of 10, stars stating that the film "is a hot ticket for some gore-soaked backwoods mayhem that gets even better with repeated viewings and lots of booze". Bloody-Disgusting stated that "what could have been a cheap and lazy cash-in turned out to be one of the year’s better genre offerings".

Although the third film Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead was a commercial success, the reaction to this film was mainly negative. All four of the reviews reported by Rotten Tomatoes are counted as negative. Bloody Disgusting said "If WT2 raised the bar, then WT3 lowers it right back down to where it was and possibly a notch or two lower."

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings entered the DVD chart at number 13, selling 45,928 copies in its first week. To date the film has sold 143,000 units in America. The fourth film received 20% rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

Like the previous installments, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines received mixed to negative reviews. The film was criticized for the special effects and the story line, however it was praised for Doug Bradley's performance.