| Wrong Turn | |
| Director: | Rob Schmidt (1) Joe Lynch (2) Declan O'Brien (3–5) Valeri Milev (6) Mike P. Nelson (7) |
| Producer: | Stan Winston (1) Brian Gilbert (1) Erik Feig (1–6) Robert Kulzer (1–7) Jeff Freilich (2) Jeffrey Beach (3, 5, 6) Phillip Roth (3, 5, 6) Kim Todd (4) James Harris (7) |
| Music: | Elia Cmiral (1) Bear McCreary (2) Claude Foisy (3–6) Stephen Lukach (7) |
| Cinematography: | John S. Bartley (1) Robin Loewen (2) Lorenzo Senatore (3) Michael Marshall (4) Emil Topuzov (5) Martin Chichov (6) Nick Junkersfeld (7) |
| Editing: | Michael Ross (1) Ed Marx (2) Raúl Dávalos (3) Stein Myhrstad (4–5) Ludmil Kazakov (5) Don Adams (6) Cameron Hallenbeck (6) Tom Elkins (7) |
| Studio: | Constantin Film (1–7) Summit Entertainment (1–6) Regency Enterprises (1, 6) |
| Distributor: | 20th Century Fox (1–6) Saban Films (7) |
| Released: | 2003–present |
| Runtime: | 657 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $33.5 million (2 films) |
Wrong Turn is an American slasher film series created by director Rob Schmidt[1] and writers Alan B. McElroy, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (uncredited).[2] The series consists of seven films, five of which share the same continuity, while the later two films serve as reboots.
The films originally focus on various families of deformed cannibals who hunt and kill a group of people in West Virginia in horrific ways by using a mixture of traps and weaponry. The reboot film features a centuries-old cult in Virginia who respond violently to outsiders who intrude on their self-sufficient civilization. The film series became known primarily as a direct-to-video franchise grossing $21.8 million in home video sales.[3]
| Film | U.S. release date | Director(s) | Screenwriter(s) | Producer(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrong Turn | May 30, 2003 | Rob Schmidt | Alan B. McElroy | Stan Winston, Brian Gilbert, Erik Feig & Robert Kulzer | |
| October 9, 2007 | Joe Lynch | Turi Meyer & Al Septien | Jeff Freilich | ||
| October 20, 2009 | Declan O'Brien | Connor James Delaney | Jeffery Beach & Phillip Roth | ||
| October 25, 2011 | Declan O'Brien | Kim Todd | |||
| October 23, 2012 | Jeffery Beach & Phillip Roth | ||||
| October 21, 2014 | Valeri Milev | Frank H. Woodward | |||
| Wrong Turn | January 26, 2021 | Mike P. Nelson | Alan B. McElroy | James Harris & Robert Kulzer |
See main article: Wrong Turn (2003 film). In the first film, a group of six individuals are stalked by One Eye, Saw Tooth, and Three Finger. Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is forced to make a detour after a chemical spill on the road. He makes a wrong turn and crashes into another vehicle which had already fallen victim to one of the mountain men's road traps. While searching for help in the cabin belonging to the three monstrous mountain men, they are hunted down one by one. At the end, Chris and Jessie Burlingame (Eliza Dushku) survive.
See main article: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. The second film introduces new cannibals: Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. Three Finger and the Old Man are the only returning characters from the first film. This time, the cannibals hunt down a group of reality show contestants who are taking part in a survival reality tv show.
See main article: Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead features a group of prison officers and convicts. The returning character Three Finger causes the transport bus to crash, allowing the convicts to escape and take the surviving prison officers, Nate (Tom Frederic) and Walter (Chucky Venn) prisoner. While fleeing, the convicts and their prisoners stumble across a lost truck which had been transporting thousands of dollars, as well as Alex Miles (Janet Montgomery), who has been lost in the woods since Three Finger killed the rest of her friends. Eventually, Three Toes (Three Finger's nephew) is killed by Chavez. Three Finger finds Three Toes's severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. The one remaining surviving convict, Brandon, convinces Nate of his innocence, and is set free. Nate returns later to the truck to steal the money that Chavez wanted. But Brandon shoots him in the back with a bow and arrow and takes the money for himself. An unknown cannibal comes up behind Brandon and bludgeons him with a crude club killing him and leaving Alex the only survivor in the film.
See main article: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings. This film provides the back story to the three original killers and shows their childhood. It also shows the three brothers story. The story focuses on a group of nine teenagers who take a wrong turn while riding their snowmobiles and are looking for their cabin. They end up in an old abandoned insane asylum which is still inhabited by Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye. The friends decide to spend the night in the insane asylum and they are attacked by the hilker brothers. By the end of the film, all nine teenagers are dead. The film served as a prequel to the first film.
See main article: Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines. It is revealed that Maynard is a serial killer who has been on the run for over thirty years, and is now in cahoots with the three cannibal brothers. He repeatedly refers to them as 'my boys' and his kin. Throughout the course of the film, the brothers attempt to break Maynard out of jail and kill off the college students and Sheriff Angela Carter (Camilla Arfwedson), while the rest of the town is at the festival. The film ends with Maynard and the three brothers escaping with the blinded young college student Lita (Roxanne McKee) as a captive.
See main article: Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort. In the sixth installment, Danny (Anthony Ilott) discovers his long lost family as he takes his friends to Hobb Springs, a Forgotten resort deep into the West Virginia Hills. Danny then has to choose between his family or his friends as they are being killed by his family one by one. The film doesn't follow the continuity of its predecessors and serves as a reboot instead.[4] [5]
See main article: Wrong Turn (2021 film). Internationally known as Wrong Turn: The Foundation, the second reboot film follows six friends hiking on the Appalachian Trail who become hunted by the Foundation when they inadvertently intrude on the community's land.[6]
- A indicates the actor portrayed the role of a younger version of the character.
- An indicates a role as an older version of the character.
- A indicates the actor or actress lent only his or her voice for his or her film character.
- A indicates a cameo appearance.
- An indicates an appearance through archival footage.
- A dark gray cell indicates the character was not in the film.
| Characters | Original films | Reboot films | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrong Turn | Wrong Turn 2: | Wrong Turn 3: | Wrong Turn 4: | Wrong Turn 5: | Wrong Turn 6: | Wrong Turn | ||
| 2003 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2014 | 2021 | ||
| Cannibals | ||||||||
| Three Finger | Jeff Scrutton | Borislav Iliev | Sean Skene | Borislav Iliev | Radoslav Parvanov | |||
| Saw Tooth | Garry Robbins | Scott Johnson | George Karlukovski | Danko Jordanov | ||||
| One Eye | Ted Clark | Dan Skene | Radoslav Parvanov | Asen Asenov | ||||
| Pa | Ken Kirzinger | |||||||
| Ma | Ashlea Earl | |||||||
| Brother | Clint Carleton | |||||||
| Sister | Rorelee Tio | |||||||
| Three Toes | Borislav Petrov | |||||||
| Humans | ||||||||
| Maynard Odets | Wayne Robson | Doug Bradley | ||||||
| Chris Flynn | Desmond Harrington | |||||||
| Jessie Burlingame | Eliza Dushku | |||||||
| Carly Numan | Emmanuelle Chriqui | |||||||
| Scott Korbee | Jeremy Sisto | |||||||
| Evan Ross | Kevin Zegers | |||||||
| Francine Childes | Lindy Booth | |||||||
| Nina Papas | ||||||||
| Colonel Dale Murphy | Henry Rollins | |||||||
| Jake Washington | Texas Battle | |||||||
| Mara Stone | Aleksa Palladino | |||||||
| Amber Williams | Daniella Alonso | |||||||
| Matt "Jonesy" Jones | ||||||||
| Elena Garcia | ||||||||
| Officer Nate Wilson | Tom Frederic | |||||||
| Alex Miles | Janet Montgomery | |||||||
| Carlos Chavez | ||||||||
| Floyd | Gil Kolirin | |||||||
| Brandon Lewis | Tom McKay | |||||||
| Williams "Willy" Juarez | Christian Contreras | |||||||
| Crawford | Jake Curran | |||||||
| Walter Hazelton | ||||||||
| Kenia | Jennifer Pudavick | |||||||
| Kyle | Victor Zinck Jr. | |||||||
| Sara | Tenika Davis | |||||||
| Jenna | Terra Vnesa | |||||||
| Daniel | Dean Armstrong | |||||||
| Lauren | Ali Tataryn | |||||||
| Bridget | Kaitlyn Leeb | |||||||
| Claire | Samantha Kendrick | |||||||
| Vincent | Sean Skene | |||||||
| Dr. Brendan Ryan | Arne MacPherson | |||||||
| Dr. Ann Marie McQuaid | Kristen Harris | |||||||
| Mrs. Hillicker | ||||||||
| Sheriff Angela "Angie" Carter | Camilla Arfwedson | |||||||
| Billy | Simon Ginty | |||||||
| Lita | Roxanne McKee | |||||||
| Gus | Paul Luebke | |||||||
| Julian | Oliver Hoare | |||||||
| Cruz | Amy Lennox | |||||||
| Mose | Duncan Wisbey | |||||||
| Danny | Anthony Ilott | |||||||
| Jackson | Chris Jarvis | |||||||
| Toni | Aqueela Zoll | |||||||
| Sally | Sadie Katz | |||||||
| Vic | Rollo Skinner | |||||||
| Jillian | Roxanne Pallett | |||||||
| Rod | Billy Ashworth | |||||||
| Charlie | Harry Belcher | |||||||
| Bryan | Joe Gaminara | |||||||
| Jennifer "Jen" Shaw | Charlotte Vega | |||||||
| Scott Shaw | Matthew Modine | |||||||
| Darius Clemons | Aiden Bradley | |||||||
| Milla D'Angelo | Emma Dumont | |||||||
| Adam Lucas | Dylan McTee | |||||||
| Gary Amaan | Vardaan Arora | |||||||
| Luis Ortiz | Adrian Favela | |||||||
| Edith | Daisy Head | |||||||
| Venable | Bill Sage | |||||||
The Wrong Turn film series has featured several different cannibals. All of the cannibals are hostile toward the characters they encounter, showing no remorse for their victims. The cannibals are portrayed as mute, but show the ability to communicate with each other. They also show the mental capability to operate machinery and vehicles. The cannibals stay with each other in groups and appear to be the result of inbreeding.
Three Finger is the main antagonist of the Wrong Turn film series. He is a cannibal with great physical deformity caused by toxic chemicals he was exposed to at birth, alongside his two brothers. He is a skilled trap maker, crafting his traps so well that they often kill his victims before he can enact horrific acts of violence upon them.
Saw Tooth, like his two brothers, first appears in Wrong Turn (2003). He is the biggest and strongest of the family and appears to be the leader of his branch of his family as he is the older brother to Three Finger and One Eye. He is killed at the end of the first film and does not appear again until the first prequel, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines and then Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort.
One Eye, the least harmful of the three, first appears in Wrong Turn (2003). Just like Saw Tooth, he dies in the first film, and does not make another appearance until the fourth, fifth and sixth film.
The Patriarch of the cannibals who appeared in the first two films and the fifth film.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End introduces a family of four cannibals called Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. The two young siblings are shown to have an incestuous relationship; Sister even gets extremely jealous and angry when she catches Brother masturbating while spying on a human girl. Ma gives birth to a mutant baby before she (and the rest of her family) is killed. The second film ends with Three Finger caring for the baby. The baby becomes known as Three Toes in Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. Three Toes is killed by a group of convicts, and his head left as a warning. Three Finger finds Three Toes' severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. In the third film's ending, another cannibal shows up, killing Brandon. The sixth film introduces Sally, Danny, and Jackson.
The Wrong Turn (2021) reboot introduces the Foundation, a self-sufficient civilization who have lived on the Appalachian Trail since the 19th century. They are hostile to any outsiders intruding on their secluded community.
The leader of the Foundation.
A member of the Foundation.
A member of the Foundation.
A member of the Foundation.
A member of the Foundation.
A mute young girl and a member of the Foundation.
| Film | U.S. release date | Box office gross | Budget | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | Other territories | Worldwide | ||||
| Wrong Turn (2003) | May 30, 2003 | $15,418,790 | $13,231,785 | $28,260,575 | $12.6 million | [7] |
| Wrong Turn (2021) | January 26, 2021 | $1,251,184 | $3,578,742 | $4,829,926 | [8] | |
| Total | $16,669,974 | $16,810,527 | $33,090,501 | |||
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrong Turn (2003) | 40% (82 reviews)[9] | 32 (17 reviews)[10] | C−[11] | |
| Wrong Turn 2: Dead End | 70% (10 reviews)[12] | |||
| Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead | 0% (5 reviews)[13] | |||
| Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings | 57% (7 reviews)[14] | |||
| Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines | N/A (3 reviews)[15] | |||
| Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort | N/A (1 review)[16] | |||
| Wrong Turn (2021) | 65% (65 reviews)[17] | 46 (7 reviews)[18] |
| Title | U.S. release date | Length | Performed by | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrong Turn: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | June 3, 2003 | 45:43 | Elia Cmiral | Varèse Sarabande |
| Wrong Turn: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture | July 1, 2003 | 47:01 | Various artists | Lakeshore Records |
| Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | September 18, 2007 | 52:11 | Bear McCreary | La-La Land Records |
| Wrong Turn: The Foundation (Original Soundtrack)[19] | February 25, 2021 | 65:01 | Stephen Lukach | Konigskinder Music |