Genre: Horror
Director: Declan O’Brien
Writers: Connor James Delaney, Alan B. McElroy
Cast: Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Borislav Iliev, Bill Moody
MPAA Rating: Unrated (R)
Summary: While rafting in the Bluefish River area, four college kids are attacked by the mutant cannibal hillbilly Three Finger. Only the teenager Alex succeeds in escaping running through the woods. Meanwhile, a group of dangerous criminals are transported from the West Virginia Grafton Penitentiary in a custody bus escorted by three security guards through the backwoods.
Run-time: 92 min
[This Review Contains Spoilers]
Damn it’s good to be back! Are ya familiar with the Wrong Turn series? If not it goes a little something like this. WT1: A bunch of kids are driving through West Virginia, make a wrong turn (duh) and wind up being hunted by a bunch of inbred cannibals, all proficient in weapons, but mainly bows and arrows.
Then we move on to WT2: Whole new story, same inbred family folk. This time Henry Rollins (bow) is the host of a “survivor” type reality show and the clan is picking them off one by one (i suspect due to their piss poor acting skills). At the end of this one, two of the cannibal kids have a baby of their own (because that’s what inbred folks do) with only 3 fingers on one hand.
Both movies were good for blood and boobs. Both movies had some great carnage. Neither movie was Oscar worthy to say the least, but they were both fun to watch.
So here we are at Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead. First of all, Fuck YOU Netflix and your very, very long waits. Who do you think you are, the god of all thing rental. Why if I was half the person I thought I was…….sorry, I get a little rental rage now and again.
WT3 begins after 3 Finger grows up and takes over for his dead family as king of the mountain. Right from the get go, we got a huge pair-o-boobs getting arrowed clean through. Loved the scene, loved the opening, but really, who doesn’t see it coming? They smoke pot AND have sex! That equals death in any movie.
Time shift to a bus load of convicts being transported to another prison. Said bus is taken off the road by 3 Fingers and the hunt is on. He does away with them in many, MANY vicious ways, including the best hard boiled egg slicer to ever grace the forest.
Somewhere along the way, the group stumbles across an old armored truck full of cash, so the lead bad guy forces them to carry the loot while they are on the run. Needless to say, it slows them down to a crawl making them even easier prey for the afore mentioned King of the Mountain.
A Towny sheriff comes to help with his lady deputy, but of course they are no smarter then anyone else in the movie, so they buy it pretty gruesomely. At least we assume the deputy does! They never fuckin show her! Seriously, she vanishes like the brother Chuck on Happy Days or the sister on Family Matters.
It all culminates in a battle royal between the lead convict and Ol’ 3 Fingers. Gallons of blood are spilled, skin is flayed, eyes are poked out and eaten… and of course we all know who comes out on top. Or DO we?
Once the shit is well sifted by the fan, and all is sorted out, the main character goes back for the treasure only to be “Faced” with a little surprise. Luckily, said surprise gets it’s own surprise to really stir the shit right back into the fan, leaving it open for yet a 4th block-buster trip to the mountains.
Although this one was filmed in Argentina, you’ll swear its West Virginia. I highly recommend watching this trilogy before any camping trip, especially if your planning a rafting trip down the Gulley River.
The DVD contains just a couple of deleted scenes, a making of, and some commentary.
Wrong Turn 3 is a great edition to a somewhat bizarre series.
I give “Wrong Turn 3” Three out of Five Cleavers
