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Film Review: Wrong Turn

The latest in the Wrong Turn horror franchise, is the best yet.

One of the more interesting horror reboots to come out in recent years, Wrong Turn 2021 takes the Wrong Turn series (which comprises seven films now in total) in a radically different direction. It ditches the series’ simple set up of inbred and deformed cannibals hacking up lifeless meat-bags claiming to be characters, for something far more ambitious, thoughtful and ultimately horrifying.

The film follows a young woman named Jen (Charlotte Vega) and her friends as they are terrorised by terrifying mountain dwellers when their hiking trip along the Appalachian Trail goes horribly wrong. But instead of their attackers being inbred cannibalistic hillbillies like the previous films, this film gives us a nineteenth-century cult that has lived in isolation for generations called the foundation, something far more interesting, and no less terrifying.

The gore and violence is insane, the film is loaded with nerve shredding moments with the final act especially delivering on some of the best heart pounding moments of suspense and terror since Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man last year. The characters are so likeable and sympathetic and Charlotte Vega makes for one hell of a bad-ass final girl!

The film’s social commentary about biases and prejudices in a modern America overwhelmed by red states vs. blue states division (despite being muddled and confused at times) gives the film a timely feel.

And the gruesome, blood-drenched roller-coaster concludes with one of the most intense and ultimately satisfying conclusions you’ll see in the cinema.

A wildly different Wrong Turn film, Wrong Turn 2021 is easily the best of the franchise!

Wrong Turn is currently screening.

Reviewed by Jordan Ellis

UTTERLY RIVETING 3 stars

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