0.5/5 Screams.

AKA using the franchise as a hook and then ignoring everything fans loved from the original movies.

I was beyond excited when I heard that they were bringing back a trashy franchise that lives close to my heart – Wrong Turn. In 2003 audiences were introduced to the sexy blood baths, the unbelievably messed up ways people die, and a family of insane, inbred cannibals. I freaking love this franchise. I remember watching one of them for the first time around Christmas time, and I was just so immersed in the gore and effects and black comedy of it all. The low production adds to the shaky-cam, student-lead atmosphere. And if it weren’t for plenty of inventive kills, Wrong Turn would have been a much less popular franchise. You take away the gore and you’re left with idiotic cannibals and sex-obsessed teens wandering around the woods.

But, and it breaks my stone cold heart, THIS WAS NOT WRONG TURN FOLKS! This movie had the audacity to utilise the title of Wrong Turn as bait and then hit you with some strange love child of ‘The Ritual’ and ‘Slenderman’. I was so disappointed, I was waiting for my cannibal hillbillys to pop up and slash up some topless teens, but nope. This film is not ‘Wrong Turn’ so if you even want to watch this piece of crap please go into the (ha, not cinema anymore) living room with an open mind and tell yourself it has nothing to do with the franchise. Honestly, if I hadn’t seen title I would have had no idea this movie had anyyyy connections to the franchise.

Main point of advice: Do not watch this movie thinking it is Wrong Turn.

Also, I’m sorry but, what is with the young, gorgeous people. They jog and shit, I can barely get up my flight of stairs without needing an inhaler.

The whole production of the movie felt so far removed from the previous films, the lighting and camerawork are less gritty and comedic which was what made the first films so enjoyable. The traps aren’t as gory or as intelligent, or even as sadistically funny. Although i’ll allow the snake pit, that was a pretty good one.

One of my main issues with this fraud of a movie is that the film goes from nought to one hundred very quickly, we have no character building or tension building. I mean I wasn’t expecting a tonne of character developments but just a little bit.

Slight question for the main characters though…How can four teenagers get their phones stolen without even one of them noticing their TikTok hasnt pinged in a while of something,

Overall it was about humans, a cult. Yes, cults are scary and I admire the eyeless people as that was a shocking image (but the only one in the whole run time), Once again it just ISN’T WRONG TURN.

Sighs, the ending is even more infuriating. I wanted to slap the woman.

All in all… Don’t watch this film.