“In 1974, Glenville Sanatorium was the site of a brutal and horrific crime, as three hideously deformed cannibals went on a merciless killing spree. Now, years later, a group of college kids having the time of their life make a fateful wrong turn, giving this family of blood-thirsty cannibals new prey to stalk. The abandoned medical wards within the sanatorium soon become killing fields as the panicked victims come face to face with a chilling choice: fight back or die.”
The first Wrong Turn came out in 2003, well after I had lost faith in mainstream horror films. I have still never seen it. But after accidentally seeing the first few minutes of Wrong Turn 2, I decided to give the franchise a shot. The first sequel starts off with a fun premise, but becomes overlong and predictable.
Wrong Turn 4, which the poster subtitles “Bloody Beginnings,” squeezes an origin story into the first ten minutes and then introduces the rest of the cast. The unnecessarily large cast in this film pretty much guarantees that we won’t get to know much of anything about any of them. And if you’re expecting anything more out of the fourth installment in a horror series about mutant inbred hillbillies, then you ought to turn back. That is, unless you’re interested in the most unbelievable lipstick lesbian couple ever recorded.