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We Get A Review Of WRONG TURN 2 From Frightfest!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I met Joe Lynch about a year ago, and it was obvious as soon as we started talking that this is a guy who loves horror on a profound level. I’m sure some of you may say, “Who cares about a WRONG TURN 2?” and in a general sense, I’m right there with you. But having heard from Joe just what he had in mind, I am interested. I always root for a hardcore fan when they suddenly find themselves in a position to call the shots.
Has he got the goods to make his gore dreams come true? Well, the Frightfest audience got a chance to see for themselves this week:
Hey Harry. I saw WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END at London's Frightfest festival. If you use my review, call me Jack Torrance. Thanks!
WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END (MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!)
How many good DTV sequels can you name? Whatever you can think of, I bet you can only count them on one hand. Most of them have sucked ass. I thought DARKMAN II and DARKMAN III were excellent (so sue me) but there has also been AMERICAN PSYCHO II. And let's not forget SPLASH TOO. Actually, let's DO forget that.
So when I first heard there would be a DTV sequel to WRONG TURN, I wasn't exactly overjoyed. I thought WRONG TURN was fun and initially I thought I'd have to give the sequel a miss.
But then reports started coming in on the production which indicated that this might not be a typical throwaway cash-in sequel. I read an interview with the director, Joe Lynch, in which he was described as a "degenerate gorehound." He wanted to amp up the gore in the sequel. And speaking as a degenerate gorehound myself, I hate it when splatter movies don't deliver on the goods. I'm not saying every horror movie has to have buckets of gore and
blood. It wouldn't work for terrific movies like THE OTHERS or ROSEMARY'S BABY. But for a splatter flick, you want what it says on the tin! And then I read they'd cast Henry Rollins. Now I was definitely interested to see how this would turn out. So I went to the London Frightfest festival on Saturday to see the world premiere of WRONG TURN 2, with none other than director Joe Lynch in attendance to introduce the movie and take questions after.
WRONG TURN 2... fucking rocks big time! The audience lapped this up. We didn't cheer and applaud just certain kills - we cheered and applauded EVERY kill! The opening sequence has a wonderfully gruesome death that sent the audience wild. I don't want to spoil it for you (well, if you really can't wait to find out..SPOILER...two inbred cannibal mutants gut a woman, spilling her intestines, and then hack her in half straight down the middle. They each pick up one half of her corpse and carry it to their truck).
This is one of the most insanely gory movies I've ever seen. There's real variety in the kills. Amongst other things, there's characters exploding into fountains of blood and body parts after being shot with arrows that have sticks of dynamite strapped to them, arrows through eyes, stabbings, dismemberments, an axe in the head, and cannibalism.
It's not just the carnage that makes it fun. Henry Rollins OWNS this movie as a badass marine in charge of the pilot for a Survivor style reality show where six contestants take part in the backwoods of West Virginia, where they discover they're not alone. Surprisingly for a horror sequel, let alone a DTV sequel, the characters of the young wannabe reality stars are well written, there's funny banter, but Rollins is definitely the star. Once he starts fighting the mutants, we just went nuts.
After the screening, Joe told us that when he was 9 years old, he heard the term "video nasty" being used in the UK in the 80's to describe movies like Evil Dead. He said that right then he decided he wanted to make "video nasty" type horror movies.
He said Fox were so happy with the movie, they wanted it to go theatrical. But he said that would have meant cutting the more brutal kills just to get an R rating, and he gave as an example the kill in the opening sequence. He was adamant that people see it completely uncut. He said the version we saw was the uncut "street trash video nasty version" that will be released on DVD.
Joe said Fox are in very early development on WRONG TURN 3 but he wasn't certain if he'll come back for it.
This does deserve a theatrical release - it beats the living crap out of HILLS HAVE EYES 2. But if it's a choice between seeing a neutered version in the cinema and seeing it in all its uncut gory glory on DVD, then I can understand the decision to go for a DVD release only. After some terrible horror movies this year like THE HITCHER and CRAPTIVITY, WRONG TURN 2 is a fantastic gorefest and throwback to old school splatter.
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But sequels rarely are. Especially cheap ones.
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Wrong Turn was pretty good, will check this sequel out.
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I've never been comfortable with people who take so much delight in plain, unashamed gore. Is it right for an audience to "cheer and applaud" an on-screen death on the merits of how gruesome it is? Besides that, Wrong Turn was the essence of ass. This sounds no better
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I forgot.
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it started the revival of backwood horror and that delivered a bunch of watchable and even some great genre films.
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I also happened to be at this years Frightfest for the entire weekend and Wrong Turn 2 was one of the unexpected delights. I hated the first movie with a passion, and didn't really wanna see this one, but after the Joel (the Director) introduced himself to me outside the cinema by saying 'Maniac Cop 3 was amazong' I had an inkling that the movie might not be what I was expecting. It was a supremely funny, amazingly horrific whirlwind of a film. The performances are excellent and the overall look of the film is spot on. This is what the first one should have been but wasn't cause it lacked the balls. Watch and cheer!
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it was on tv here last. absolutely dreadful. It was on at the same time in the deep end with tilda swinton. That's RTE for you. One had the deep end and while two had wolf creek. Take the scene where the nutty outback resident stabs one of the females in the back cutting her spine and leaves her to bleed to death.
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utter crap.
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I enjoyed the first film, but had fears about this sequel. but so far from what I have read this is going to be awesome. Hope they round it off with a decent 3rd film as well.
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bring back that zombie cop!
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Used to sing for Led Zeppelin.
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Saw it on cable one night, starring Ray Wise. Thought it was going to be a slasher film, but it turned out to be a clever little TZ-type film.
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i think all the ladies out there would agree.
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Darkman 2 and 3 were some of the worst pieces of shit to come out in a long time. This reviewer is a goddamn moron.
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...a few weeks ago for the first time and I thought it was fun. It wasn't great, but it wasn't shit, it was just a fun horror movie. I will watch WRONG TURN 2, not on the cinema but i'll buy it on DVD.
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Sign him up- I'll pay to see him kick some republican ass!!!
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Of course you won't see it in the cinema (they just said it's not getting a theatrical release?
Also,if this film doesn't have Faith in it (the one redeeming feature of the terrible, terrible original) then why bother? -
I loved Wrong Turn!
It was fun...and that red head at the beginning was HOT!!!!!
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So DTV is now some sort of bastion for genuinely-great-movie-sequels-that-outdo-the-original-in-every-way-but-are-too-just-too-super-intense-for-the-cinema? And here I was thinking it was a cheap avenue for releasing shite. Gimme a break.
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was that it was obvious not just from frame one but actually just from the casting announcement that Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku would be the two survivors at the end while all the unknown actors and actresses would end up getting killed. That and the fact they ditched the whole necrophilia scene from the script even before filming started.
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New Orleans Mayors shows up in town, and declares god wants the mountain town to an all africa-american city, so all the mutants are forced to move out. Beats putting up with all the gang shootings.
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If such a thing existed back then. Empire Strikes Back, as well.
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What a fucking plant. As if you can over-dramatize yourself as a 'hard core horror fan', I cant believe he mentined "Splash Too".
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Isn't this film scored by Battlestar Galactica's Bear McCreary? Care to comment on his work for the film?
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An inbred mutant had to keep his family fed;then one day some tourists passing through; provided his family with some tourist barbecue.
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Rollins as a bad ass mother fucker taking no prisoners and beating the shit out of bad guys. I'm no "gore hound" or torture porn pervert, but this movie sounds interesting if nothing but for Mr. Black Flag himself kicking ass and taking names. If he's offed in the fist ten minutes i'm out.
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I have parsed this sentence multiple times, even in the context of the rest of the paragraph, and have no idea what this expression is supposed to mean. Is this British?
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Like Chevy Chase meets Leatherface!
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its hard to blow your load unless the gore is ever escalating
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"Wrong Turn" wasn't horrible, and it was worth a purchase once it hit the cheap bin. I've seen way too many movies of this type and there's a lot out there that make "Wrong Turn" look like "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre". This sequel sound slike it's a bit more fun than "The Hills Have Eyes" remake sequel, at least. "Wrong Turn 2" should be good for a night of beers and budget horror. I mean, most of us grew up watching crappy movies with our friends for laughs, right? So even if this film is crap, it at least has the potential to be entertaining crap. Plus, I like Rollins. He was pretty good in "Feast".
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or dialogue...i know, lets creativley kill people!if you can't scare 'em, just gross them out!
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No footage, just an animated logo with dialogue.
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even if it were half decent, why not make a NEW and perhaps even ORIGINAL "video nasty"
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...and that is the ONLY reason I own that crap on DVD.
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Elisa who? Speaking, for instance, for myself, the only actor I knew in "Wrong Turn" was Jeremy Sisto. I still don't know the bald guy's name, though I do remember his character was a doctor - and yes, he was being set up as the "I will probably survive" character since the beginning, but then again, we've seen so much shitty "twist on old cliches" attempts from trash directors like Aja or Roth that it was actually refreshing to see a good old horror cliche again. Schmidt's film was a fun, solid throwback and homage to the backwood survival horror of the 70s and 80s (by the way, the Canadian "Rituals"/"The Creeper", with Hal Holbrook, recently came out on DVD... anyone want a spare copy? :) - it's only fitting that it paid homage to their traditional cliches, too.
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For a second there I thought it was just going to be stupid SHIT. NOW I see..
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It comes from a commercial they had over here in the UK for wood stain. Some dipshit would stand there and go 'Ronseal 5-year woodstain...stains your wood for 5 years', and then he would end it with 'Ronseal...does exactly what it says on the tin'. I didn't know this one had entered popular culture.
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plant plant plant
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Hot, Hot, and Friggin Hot. Only a minor, I said minor, breast job could make her hotter.
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When I first watched Wrong Turn I thought they should have gone with the more generic name "Dead End" instead. But, I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought that.
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considering how soon this is coming, i'm surprised there isnt a special edition of the first movie coming...come on fox, milk those dvds. btw, this sounds cool and i'll definately give it a rent since i like the first a lot.
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This sounds excellent. I'll have to catch up and see the first one.
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But i liked the first Wrong Turn, it was one of the better slasher/horror flicks that they keep releasing every month. This sequel sounds like it will be a good laugh as well.
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Now I am a huge Henry Rollins fan, watch the show, listen to the music stand up and what not. But there has not been much to his acting career that has me "definitely interested to see how this would turn out". Bad Boys 2, Jack Frost, Johnny Mnemonic, The New Guy. He has admitted that he will be in any movie just because, thats all I am saying, nothing against Henry. Just saying that his name being in a cast is more suspicious then anything.
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are you taking the piss, or just a month behind the rest of the world?
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A banner year for Mr. Rollins. And the DirectToVideo Best Actor Of The Year goes to.......The words "best" and DTV don't belong in the same sentence.
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'nuff said..... Sounds like Wrong Turn 2 might breathe some light into the endless abyss of DTV sequel schlock. I'm intrigued now by this review. Bring it on.
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Because not a single person on earth outside of yur website gives a flying fuck about this movie.
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Sorry mate but i thought Reeker reeked of shit.
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Wasn't Roland Joffe just a little overqualified for that?
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Please tell me you're kidding about Godfather 2 and Empire Strikes Back being DTV candidates had there been DTV at the time. This is by far one of the most idiotic things I have ever read in a talkback on this site (and that's saying something) so I can only assume that you were being sarcastic. If so, bravo. Excellent point. If not, well, um, wow, congratulations for outdumbing every single talkback I have ever read.
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And gets chopped up and eaten by Jewish Liberals. You could call it, "Oy Vey, did you make a wrong turn."
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I was at this viewing and frankly the film is a pile of crap.
Everyone at FF cheered every kill in every movie not just WT2.
I was hoping for great things as the opening scene is fantastic but after that it become the "entrails" movie. I think the stomach entrails are in every scene and are surprised to see they are not list as a supporting actor on the credits.
It is a splatter movie but it lacks ANY sort of suspense. There are no jumps at all cause you can see whats coming - even if you were in next door watching the simpsons!! And as for character development it is just a hotchpotch of stereo types. Army sargent? Check. Cheating boyfriend? Check. Tough as nails lesbien? Check. DTV? Check. -
but without that bird who was occasionally in Buffy, i'm not too interested !!
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I never said the deep end was terrible. just wolf creek and Wrong turn. Both movies were on at the same time which is typical of rte. I never said that the deep end was terrible.
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people who cheer when "SPOILER...two inbred cannibal mutants gut a woman, spilling her intestines, and then hack her in half straight down the middle. . . each pick up one half of her corpse, and carry it to their truck." Eh, maybe it's just me.
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blah, blah, blah Eliza Dushku, Eliza Dushku's pouty lips, Eliza Dushku's voluptuous body in tight clothing, blah, blah, blah. The End! (Was it a horror movie or what? Can't remember.)
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Shinining is the best. Great acting, great cinematograhy, stunning scenery, nicholson going nuts is a terrifying thing to watch. The documentary by one of his daughters, was absolutely thrilling, illuminating and informative. Jon Ronson(the men who stare at goats) is Putting together a documentary about kubrick, He was talking about and it sounded like it was going to be the defintive article. He met Kubrick and he wrote about the meeting in his new book called ordinary world. Ronson was given unprecedented access to Kubrick's archive. I cant wait to see that. As for the excorsist. That was banned in IReland for Many years. Untill very recently, when it was unbanned John Kelleher, the new irish censor. Saw Mark Kermodes documentary, which was superb. They showed the film after that. Its amazing how hype can kill a film sometimes. After waiting all that time to see it, I was kind of let down, somehow. I think it was because by the time i did see the movie it was so imitated, especially the head spinning and Lesley Neilsen' spoof that the original seemed outdated or something. For thirty years the talk was massive about the exorcist was massive. But then at that time , in the republic of Ireland you only had to look at the news to see the real horror of The ira's war with the british on the streets of the North. That was real Horror.
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and I LIKED the original. Also, nice to see some love for American Psycho 2. Funny little movie.
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...would probally make alot more sense to me if you could exchange the derision heaped upon Wrong Turn for the praise showered on Cabin Fever.
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but I love his stuff. This weekand a theater in St. Louis is showing the Shining at midnight and I'm definately going
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Oh, come on. You know you wanted to say that.
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and are assaulted by crazed lunatics.....you've made a......WRONG TURN!!!!!
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I agree that Wrong Turn was definitely better than the shitfest that was Cabin Fever (the ONLY good thing in that movie (apart from the sex scenes) was the 'niggers' gun joke)
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..and rented WRONG TURN. 90 minutes of my life I can't get back.
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The only reason I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching Wrong Turn was because I couldn't sleep and because of Emmanuelle Chriqui.
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buy your gas in Kentucky or Ohio or Virginia, and Makes sure that your car has its proper oil changes, and tune ups prior to rolling through West VA. appalachia. I mean seriously how many times does this need to be said.
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haters kiss my f ass
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Yeah, I said it.
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confusing are the RTE schedulers. Two movies on at the same time but on different channels owned by the same company. Thats annoying. Has anyone seen Felicias Journey with elaine cassidy. Now that is a great horror film it is directed atom egoyan. You have to have nerves of steel to watch that movie all the way to the end. Hoskins has never been better. That is one of the creepiest, most nerve shredding, I have ever scene. Sir william trevor is a genius. The story is about girl and boy. They both live a repressed conservative town in Ireland in the 1950's. He joins the british army, she is pregnant and a schoolgirl. She goes to follow him in grim industrialised birmingham and bumbs into the kindly but very sinister Mr shoreditch and I wont say anymore.
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was a pleasant surprise. Im looking forward to seeing this at Fantastic Fest.
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is a great but underrated horror movie. Hoskins has never been better in my opinion and indeed the actors are magnificent. What appears to be a story of doomed love, turns into something very dark, gripping and sinister. it is slightly predictable. But when felicias journey end it is utterly nerve shattering and packs a hell of a punch. you really have to have nerves of steel to watch it.
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It was really well-acted and quite unsettling. Good movie.
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