The first Wrong Turn was an adequate mainstream release horror movie, starring Eliza Dushku. The next two Wrong Turns were horrid straight to video shit fests that had decent premises but horrrrrrible execution.
This fourth installment spends the first 10 minutes showing us the origins of the hillbillies, and it's a pretty fun start. We segue into the future, but still our past, 2003 to be exact. I guess this supposed to be a prequel of sorts.
Anyway, in modern days we're treated to a very nice sex scene that features a male/female couple and a Black/Asian lesbian couple. All the chicks are smoking and it's a pretty lengthy scene that got my hopes up that this was gonna be a fun movie.
And for the first 40 minutes or so it is. The setup is fine enough, there are a bevy of hot chicks and the stage for some pretty nice gore is set. And then it all falls to shit.
The setup has a group of kids snowmobiling to a friends cabin in the backwoods when they get lost and stumble upon an old sanitarium that seems like a nice place to hunker down during the snow storm that's blasting through.
The 2nd half of the movie, once the kids realize they're in trouble, suffers from the same insane stupidity the previous films did. There really isn't a lot of chasing, they just sort of get picked off one by one, and we're treated to interminable scenes of hillbillies eating flesh that go on for fucking ever. The group is always arguing about what to do and always end up doing the obviously wrong thing. Someone gets captured, they hear his screams, and I swear they debate going to get him for a good 15 minutes. For 15 fucking minutes we see pieces of flesh being cut off the poor bastard intermixed with the rest of the group arguing whether or not to go get him. It literally had me screaming at the TV.
Then they rather easily capture the hillbillies and instead of just killing them, one of the girls argues that they don't deserve to die and guilts one of the dudes into not killing them. It's just so silly. At this point the movie becomes an exercise in futility, and we still got a long way to go.
Of course their dumb decisions come back to haunt them. There's just a mind numbing scene a little bit later when one of the men go missing, and moments later someone shows up with a sack over it's head. Subtle, this film is not. Of course the same girls who wanted to let the mutants live just a few hours ago have no problem knifing up sack head with vigor, only to remove the sack once they've gutted him and get a big surprise. Gee, I wonder........
There's a final chase scene out in the snow, and even after all they've gone through, the remaining group can't just stay the fuck together as they run away. I felt dumber and dumber the longer this fucking movie went on.
So yeah, the movie isn't really suspenseful, and while it's gory, you sort of get desensitized to it after a few moments. The scenes drag on and on, nobody does anything that remotely makes sense. It just sucks.
Outside of some very good sex scenes early and a good setup, this film offers nothing. Even the cast of hot chicks is mostly wasted in layers of clothing.
I guess I should hold out hope for the 5th installment because this many wrong turns has to eventually produce a right.
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