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The seventh entry in the franchise, with its weird cultists, takes a few original steps off the well-beaten hillbilly horror path. T his horror is pretty crass and generic, yet there is occasionally a wacky gonzo energy to this film by director Mike P Nelson, the seventh movie in the Wrong Turn slasher franchise, which began back in in the classic s style of The Hills Have Eyes. This is also a reboot or summation in that it is called, simply, Wrong Turn, like the first one, without the number seven. Charlotte Vega plays Jen, a fresh-faced twentysomething hiking the Appalachian trail with a group of her friends. This film really is horribly violent, with people getting their skulls crushed, heads bashed in, ribcages collapsed and generally mutilated in all sorts of loathsome ways. It is by-the-numbers stuff, but the film starts to up its game when we find ourselves in the weird proto-postapocalyptic society in the hills that has stayed the same since the 19th century but which, apparently, was founded on non-racial lines in opposition to the Confederacy and the Union.

Wrong turn hillbillies

In the majority of horror franchises, there seems to be a trend of sacrificing quality to pad out runtimes with new and inventive kills. Unfortunately, the Wrong Turn series inevitably took this same route. Wrong Turn started with a fairly strong film, and an even stronger second film, before going completely downhill. While the majority are still fun to watch, the later films in the series are bogged down with way too many issues. So how do they stack up? There is so much wrong with this movie. Like, abhorrently wrong. This is our first introduction to Maynard in this form, as when we see him in Wrong Turn and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End , he is much older and has far fewer teeth. Honestly, it is completely unbelievable that in the five years between the second and fifth entries, Maynard goes from a nearly toothless, barely coherent Wayne Robson to a younger, relatively normal Doug Bradley. Wrong Turn 5 also features the worst cold open kill of the entire franchise. As a result, it sets expectations very low from the start, and then fails to even live up to those by at least offering some entertainment value. Looking like it was shot on a potato, and filmed on the most unrealistic-looking set to ever grace a film screen, Wrong Turn 5 is a complete waste of 90 minutes. Or at least hire some security? Ugh, this movie is all-around frustrating. In no way does putting this movie above Wrong Turn 5 mean it is any better.

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The Wrong Turn franchise has historically focused on the Odet family of inbred cannibals living in the remote Appalachian wilderness, but the latest installment, Wrong Turn flips the script with a totally new group of antagonists, The Foundation. Taking place in the Virginia Appalachian Trail, the movie continues the traps and brutal kills of its predecessors, but the antagonists of the film, The Foundation, are markedly different from the Odets. The Wrong Turn franchise is well-known for its cannibalistic backwoods family, a group of villains that play on the traditional stereotypes associated with Appalachian mountain folk and more broadly, hillbillies and people from the American South in general. The group is an isolated inbred family of brutal killers who set traps in the remote Appalachian forest to kill adventurous hikers and unsuspecting interlopers for food and sport. Wrong Turn is far from being the only movie to use the killer hillbilly as the villain in their story, nor the first, with Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre being two of the most famous examples. However, with the latest Wrong Turn installment in , the movies shift focus away from cannibals and inbreeding to a different kind of isolated Appalachian society.

Three Finger is the main antagonist of the film series 'Wrong Turn'. He is one of the mutants in the series and the only one who appears in all 6 movies. He belongs to the trio of original cannibalistic brothers, including Saw Tooth and One Eye. In the end of the third film, he is finally defeated by Nate Wilson who manages to stab him through the chin with a metal hook and out the top of his head and is burned. He is considered the main antagonist of the horror film series, due to being the mutant with the most appearances.

Wrong turn hillbillies

The Wrong Turn franchise has managed a six - soon to be seven - movie legacy that centers around a family of inbred cannibals. While they were only briefly explored in the first film, later installments sought to develop their twisted, dark history and get down to the roots of their existence. The first film released theatrically in , but all subsequent sequels went direct-to-video , though still saw a steady fanbase and popularity despite the lack of heavy promotion.

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Zombiehood68 AkaStve. Hilliker - Killed and eaten off-screen by the Odet Brothers, mentioned. Three Finger. Trey King - Impaled through the mouth with a spear by Three Finger. Crawford - Encased in barbed wire and then dragged along a road by Three Finger. Zigzagged in the 3rd film, where Alex survives and escapes the opening attack, but her friends don't. At least in Wrong Turn 6 the set is absolutely stunning, looks lived in, and has immense depth to it. However, Chris, Jessie, and Carly manage to escape shortly after. Soundtrack Dissonance : "The Blue Danube" plays over the scene of the escaped patients wreaking havoc throughout the sanitarium. Jackson Hilliker tells the brothers to remain calm and not go around killing guests yet, then snaps the woman's neck. Sign in to edit. He tells them to leave while they can while he stays.

The Wrong Turn franchise has historically focused on the Odet family of inbred cannibals living in the remote Appalachian wilderness, but the latest installment, Wrong Turn flips the script with a totally new group of antagonists, The Foundation.

Trey King - Impaled through the mouth with a spear by Three Finger. When Sheriff Angela sends a man named Mose to try and find them, he gets captured as well and is put inside a makeshift brazen bull to burn to death. Well, every single photo in this entire movie is blurred out in the subsequent release. When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia forest, a group of convicts and one a corrections officer meet a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered Lauren however volunteers to make an attempt to get help anyway with her skis since she's the best at using them, but fails and freezes to death off-screen. Jake Curran Crawford. You cannot go wrong with this one. Ambiguously Evil : It is implied that the elderly creepy gas station owner may have been involved with the cannibalistic mountain men. Kyle falls asleep however and the brothers escape, put a bag over his head, cut off his tongue, and send him after the remaining women of the group who stab him to death thinking he's one of them until they remove his "mask". Later, Three Finger and his brothers tracked down the remaining group as they investigate their cabin and manages to kill Scott. Marshal posing as a convict and the one convict whose guilt is called into question. Published by Maisy Flowers Certified horror addict and linguistics nerd, Maisy has been watching, reading, and reviewing horror since she was old enough to get a library card. Switch skin Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. At the end of the day, this film is nothing more than a beat-for-beat rehash of Texas Chainsaw 3D.