Wrong Turn (2003)

“Wrong Turn” is your average, mainstream horror flick filled with a cast of pretty people and a storyline that has a few thrills but nothing that really stands out. What it does show, with newspaper clippings and medical reports during the opening sequence, is how the inbred hillbillies of West Virginia have increased strength and a high resistance to pain. They also indicate that numerous people are reported missing every year in that area. Like other cannibal movies, it’s a family that is performing these dastardly deeds. And like other movies I’ve noticed, they like to leave a dead body lying around with a leg missing. Why?

Chris is on his way to a very important job interview but he’s running late. To bypass a messy accident on the highway, he takes the back road but ends up hitting another vehicle that was stop in the middle of the road. Everyone is ok but is quickly creeped out when they find a barbed wire tire trap that was laid out and ruined the tires of the first vehicle. The group of six breaks up; four walking around looking for a phone while two stay with the broken cars. The two quickly get killed (surprise!) by the cannibalistic hillbillies while the other four find the hillbillies house. There are piles of sunglasses, cell phones, watches, and other items collected by their victims over the years. The three hillbilly brothers come home, the four hide and hear/watch their dead friends get hacked up. Hacking up bodies is tiring, so when the hillbillies take a nap, the four survivors escape from the house. The rest of the movie is about the hillbillies chasing and sometimes killing the four remaining survivors. Of course Eliza Dushku makes it to the end, but that isn’t revealing much.