No moneymaking horror franchise is going to be left for dead; they just go to Bulgaria or the like to film their next installment on the cheap.
Wrong Turn gets a third sequel and it may be gory, brainless fun but that doesn’t make it a good movie.
Prison guard Nate (Tom Frederic) is on his last day on the job before heading off to law school. Unfortunately, they decide to move Chavez (Tamer Hassan) to a more secure prison earlier than they planned and Nate is on the job.
The prison bus is traveling through the backwoods that Nate used to live around. Mutant cannibal hillbilly Three Finger (Borislav Iliev) lives in those woods currently and is looking to stock up the larder with his human prey so he crashes the prison bus. Chavez takes over the chain gang and takes Nate hostage.
The group runs into Alex (Janet Montgomery), a college student whose river rafting pals had been killed earlier by Three Finger. The uneasy group finds an old armored car that’s full of cash, but they’re being hunted by Three Finger for both vengeance, Chavez kills his little mutant kid, and dinner.
Usually when you have a three after your movie’s name, the bloom pretty much is off the rose. This is especially true when talking about horror movies. Wrong Turn the third isn’t exactly the best of the series, but it is watchable in a “lazy afternoon and flipping on SyFy (or however they misspell themselves these days) way.”
There are some creative kills and a nice boob shot (both that SyFy would’ve edited out I suppose). The makeup isn’t up to the bar set by the late Stan Winston in the first film and there’s some laughable CGI. All of the driving shots use digital back projection and are pretty terrible.
The makeup for Three Finger really isn’t very inspired either. The plot is also far too reliant on the prisoners wandering around the woods and bickering as to who is going to lead them to the promised land. It wasn’t a great flick, but it didn’t offend me as much as Stan Helsing did. Not that I should be expecting much out of something with a “3” on the end of the title.
Wrong Turn 3 is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1. 85:1) and is enhanced for 16x9 televisions. Special features include a three part making of, “Action, Gore, and Chaos!” (9 minutes), “Brothers in Blood” (5 minutes), and “Three Finger’s Fight Night” (3 minutes), and 1 minutes of deleted scenes. There are also some previews for other Fox products.
I’ve seen worse and I’ve seen better and Wrong Turn 3 certainly doesn’t plow any new ground in the inbred, mutant, killer hillbilly genre. I still rolled my eyes at some of the plot turns, terrible makeup and CGI effects, and over-the-top performances. However, it didn’t make me mad like the other film that I watched that night.
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is now available at Amazon . As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK. Visit the DVD database for more information.
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