Wrong Turn (2021) isn’t misleading in its approach to genre filmmaking, to be certain. The brochure lets moviegoers know full well that they’ve traveled bloody byways like these before, that they’ve been terrorized by homicidal hillbillies like these before. But the destination of Wrong Turn (2021) is altogether unique in relation to what’s come before it, and it seems to suggest that the oft-reviled horror movie rehash may soon be replaced with slasher films audacious enough to have something more to say.
A ‘Wrong Turn’ remake? Wrong again!
In the film, six young adults venture into the Appalachian mountains for a weekend of hiking & adventure, only to find themselves the targets of an entire society of mountainside locals who have retreated into the wilderness where they’ve survived for over a century in an effort to divorce themselves from the cancerous history and bleak future of society. Read more
