Nightmare on Elm Street and even
Leprechaun before it, any long-running horror franchise must ultimately face the ultimate issue: where do we go from here?
Beginning with the original
Wrong Turn in 2003, the cannibal-slasher series found an impressively dedicated cult fanbase in the following decade, resulting in five sequels of varying quality. 2014’s
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort was ultimately the final voyage for the infamous cannibal hillbilly family; the future of the franchise was left uncertain.
Cue a sigh of relief that there’s not only a brand new take on
Wrong Turn available now for your spooky viewing pleasure, but it’s also clear that director Mike P. Nelson and screenwriter Alan B. McElroy (who penned the original) have taken great efforts to reimagine the franchise from the ground up.
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It was 2003 when Wrong Turn was released featuring Eliza Dushku on an upward curve fresh from Buffy and Angel. Directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B McElroy, it was a par for the course rural horror of city kids lost in the forest against inbred mountain types. It was no great shakes but successful enough to warrant a sequel then that getting out of control, as tends to happen. As many more or less successful horror franchises are now getting the reboot treatment it’s no surprise that Wrong Turn is too.
It’s fair to ponder that with a title like Wrong Turn the writer and filmmaker has plenty of options. Why stick to the forest when a wrong turn anywhere could lead to trouble. Most cities have a few areas like that. As it is original writer McElroy and director Mike P Nelson stick with mountains and forests but a few things have changed.
26 Feb 2021
Perhaps in one of the lower tiers of horror film franchises The Championship compared to The Premier League of
Friday The 13th – creator Alan B. McElroy’s series is built around families of flesh-eaters hunting people in West Virginia through a series of imaginative booby traps and improvised weaponry (think
Home Alone if Kevin McCallister were a blood-thirsty cannibal). The seventh entry in the cycle is a reboot, written by McElroy and directed by Mike P. Nelson (
The Domestics). It adds a new dimension to the killer clans, but there is not enough here to make it feel fresh or original.
Wrong Turn Reboot Cast & Director Take Us Into Backwoods Cannibal Country [Exclusive]
Wrong Turn Reboot Cast & Director Take Us Into Backwoods Cannibal Country [Exclusive]
Director Mike P. Nelson changes the hillbilly cannibal game with a fresh take on Wrong Turn, starring Charlotte Vega and Bill Sage.
The new
Wrong Turn reboot takes many wrong turns, using its prolific title as a sign post for what resides ahead. This is not the
Wrong Turn you know. And some may say it resembles the iconic horror franchise in name only. Be warned, Director Mike P. Nelson is not interested in giving us bloodthirsty backwoods mutants with a taste for human flesh. His new revisionist take on the material is grounded in pain-soaked reality, creating something unique within the slasher genre. We recently caught up with the filmmaker and members of his cast to discuss this completely stripped-down reimagining of a classic, which has been rebuilt almost entirely from scratch.
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