50
The sole saving grace of Wrong Turn is its honesty. You get exactly what you expect -- blood, guts and people being taken to the killing floor. But just because it's honest doesn't make it good.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
20
The clear ambition here is to recapture the raw, explosively violent atmosphere of such hallmark 1970s shockers as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes." Nice try, but no cigar.
25
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
In these movies, it's always easy to figure out who's going to survive and make the killers cough up their own blood, but you still hope that the victims will go in the order of their performances -- worst actor first, etc. No such luck.
40
Lacks the creepiness and craft of the films that inspired it.
0
Low-end schlock that will likely land with a dull thud in the video remainder bin before the frost is on the pumpkin.
70
Dallas Observer by Luke Y. Thompson
Horror fans will have a blast, though it's unlikely anyone else will be won over.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The result is sheer, unadulterated nastiness with no apologies.
20
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
This was already tired stuff when cult fave "Sleepaway Camp" came out in 1983, and it’s downright comatose by now.
30
The film does, in the end, raise something of an existential dilemma: If you set out to make a new version of something you know to be bad, and you make something that is in fact bad, have you somehow succeeded?