Movie Info:
Writer: Connor James Delaney
Director: Declan O’Brien
Cast: Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Tamer Hassan, Gil Kolirin, Tom McKay, Christian Contreras, Jake Curran, Chucky Venice, Louise Cliffe, Emma Clifford, Jack Gordon, Borislav Iliev
Rating: R
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: October 20, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $19.99
They just keep getting dumber and dumber. When Wrong Turn was released, I saw it because I think Eliza Dushku is hot. It wasn’t bad as far as horror goes. However, there is a long standing problem with horror movies. The creators think they have a hit on their hands and develop 800 sequels! That would be great if the sequels were any good. I find most sequels are miss with the occasional hit.
For example, Halloween and Halloween 2 are both pretty good, but 2 is a continuation of the story in the original, so it works out. The third film was a bust. Four and five were okay, only because they played off the story in 1 and 2, but the rest of the sequels sucked. I feel the same way with A Nightmare on Elm Street (1 & 3 are good, the rest suck), Friday the 13th (1, 2, and 5 are good, the rest suck), Saw (anything after 3 sucks), The Evil Dead (1 was the best), and pretty much every other horror movie with sequels out there. Wrong Turn is no different.
This series follows the same path the Pulse movies follow. The first one was okay, but making sequels never should have happened. Wrong Turn 2 was bad enough, but taking this pathetic movie series to a third film was just too much. I was done after the first film. Seriously, when your horror movie is going direct to DVD, it is a sign that it is time to quit.
In all honesty, I’m not sure why this series has continued on. The original premise was freaky, but how many ways can you truly do hillbilly cannibals? Three Finger has more lives than Garfield. I thought he was kind of annoying in film one, but by three, I could hardly stand to watch him on screen.
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead Plot
Well, as you might have guessed, this movie takes place in the backwoods, just like the past two movies. Some stupid people end up in the woods, and they get killed. The end. Well, that’s pretty much the story for Wrong Turn 3. The movie has the sub-tag, Left for Dead for a reason. This series truly should have been left for dead.
A college student, named Alex, decides to go rafting in the middle of nowhere. Alex and her friends head into the backwoods domain of the cannibals, and guess what kids? Three Finger is back. This means that Alex and her group must fight to survive the terror of the backwoods. Of course, the cannibal knows the woods better than those who show up in them either on purpose or by accident. That’s just how these movies roll.
Speaking of accidents, a prison vehicle, transporting very dangerous criminals just happens to be traveling through the middle of nowhere, because that makes so much sense. Their prison guard, Nate, is on his last day of the job and possibly of his life. The crazy cannibal attacks the vehicle and the criminals get away, as does Nate. They just so happen to run into Alex in the woods, which is convenient for them, not her.
Of course, that’s not all. The criminals find a bunch of money in the middle of these nowhere woods and decide to keep it and survive. The money is their only reason for wanting to live. Of course, Three Finger is on the loose/on the hunt, so that is easier said than done.
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Inconsistent is the best way to describe the visual quality of Wrong Turn 3. The 1080p AVC encode looks good in the lighter scenes, but the darker ones fail more than I can explain. The light scenes tend to lean towards brighter colors and a basically vivid imagery. The darker scenes though are filled with grain, noise, and completely poor black levels. Much of the picture lacks detail and instead appears rather soft. If you want what looks like a television movie (nothing like Lost, but something more like what appeared on Lifetime in the 80s) then this is for you. Otherwise, I am pretty sure that this quality is not going to impress you in the least.
With a low budget feel for the visual quality, you shouldn’t expect too much when it comes to the sound. The DTS-HD MA 5.1 could sound much worse, but it’s not anything you’d hear on a high budget flick. The sound won’t wow you, but it’s much better than the visual quality. You will hear a bit of background noise when it comes to the wilderness (branches rustling and snapping, for example) and that does add something to the film, as little as it may seem. Some of the effects are unnecessary or they sound inaccurate with their placement in the movie. The music and the dialogue both get the job done fairly well. Spanish and French Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks are also included for Wrong Turn 3, as well as subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Korean, and Cantonese.
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Ah, special features. In some movies they are a blessing. They tell you things that you could only imagine and they keep a cast you love together for just a few additional minutes. There are other movies though that you hope do not include special features. Wrong Turn 3 is one of those movies. Hell, most of this franchise is one of those movies. Luckily, there are not too many special features packaged here with this movie. There are only three featurettes (none longer than 10 minutes in length) and a couple of deleted scenes.
The featurettes include “Action, Gore, and Chaos,” “Brothers in Blood,” and “Three Finger’s Fright Night.” None of them are particularly necessary or even important. “Action Gore and Chaos” is by far the longest featurette at nine minutes. O’Brien uses this time to talk about the stunts in the film and how they were performed. “Brothers in Blood” deals more with actor interviews and “Three Finger’s” is the shortest featurette in the bunch dealing with the choreography in the fight sequences. I found this one to be the most amusing, considering how inept those sequences seemed to be in the first place.
The only other offerings available is less than two minutes worth of deleted scenes. Two scenes were cut and neither were even a minute in length. As you can imagine there isn’t much to see or care about in either of these scenes. As it is, you should be commended if you managed to sit through the entire movie. Expecting you to sit through these special features would be asking far too much.
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Bottom Line:
Everything about Wrong Turn 3 sucks. The story has been done twice before. This is the same movie as its predecessors only the third time is definitely not the charm. For Blu Ray, the audio and visual qualities leave much to be desired and even the bonuses stink. I would usually say rent a film to see if you like it, but I don’t even recommend renting this movie. Avoid Wrong Turn 3 like the plague. Trust me! You won’t be sorry!
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Ashtyn Evans is a writer, advocate, free thinker, and all around cynical person. Always quick to find the negative in anything pop culture, she loves being a part of that which she despises. Ashtyn and Dominick own numerous blogs together, as well as a full-time writing business. In her spare time she is a full-time college student studying History and Psychology. She plans to one day give up her freelance career and be a full-time blogger, novelist, and domestic goddess. She can be contacted for writing projects, fan mail, or just to say hi. She really is friendlier than we make her look.
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