Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn finds its agile equilibrium in the balance between being a film of ideas and a film with a body count.

Efficient and enjoyable. A couple of horrifying and haunting moments. The whole thing doesn't make any sense at all, and it scores zero points for originality, but it has a really haunting final shot and it does exactly what it set it to do.

Wrong Turn has some decent booby-trap business but can't find enough that is different to enliven the weary concept. But for the horror hardcore, keep watching once the credits roll.

Just because the film takes itself too seriously doesn't mean a viewer has to.

It's a bit silly and queasy, but the narrative motor keeps humming.

[Wrong Turn] is a brutally uncompromising descent into unflinching terror that kept me on the edge of my seat.

Having no allusions about Wrong Turn's prospects, my low expectations were surpassed.

How rare that the seventh film in a long-ignored series can reinvent the premise so cleverly.

If they'd tightened these ideas up just a tad, mainly by sharpening the viewpoint, then this movie might be a new modern classic. As it is, though, it's mainly a sometimes exciting detour.

Pure and simple survival horror. [Full review in Spanish]