Wrong Turn
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: May 30, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Horror fans will have a blast, though it's unlikely anyone else will be won over. Read full review
70
Film ThreatKevin Carr
Situation goes from just a little scary to terrifying. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The result is sheer, unadulterated nastiness with no apologies. Read full review
60
Film ThreatDavid Grove
Proof that an old genre can still have life as long as filmmakers are willing to fill it with energy, humor and respect for the genre. Add cannibals and beautiful teenagers and you’ve got an entertaining horror film. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKevin M. Williams
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. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Director Rob Schmidt, working from a screenplay by Alan McElroy, manages to keep the suspense up through the final hour of the film. Cast members acquit themselves agreeably, carrying off horror archetypes without much fanfare. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Schmidt works the slasher formula for all it's worth, but the repulsive stereotype at the center of the movie dampens the fun. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
A blood-simple backwoods spatterfest that makes shameless use of the same old antirural moonshine Hollywood's been bootlegging for decades. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Lacks the creepiness and craft of the films that inspired it. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyMark Olsen
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? Read full review
30
The New York TimesAnita Gates
Lazy would-be horror film. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack 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. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
As perfectly bad horror movies go, Wrong Turn is something new: a gore-splattered workout flick. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleC.W. Nevius
Standard hack-and-giggle fare, with a few wisecracks mixed in with the gore. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
This was already tired stuff when cult fave "Sleepaway Camp" came out in 1983, and it’s downright comatose by now. Read full review
20
VarietyDavid Rooney
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.
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
Low-end schlock that will likely land with a dull thud in the video remainder bin before the frost is on the pumpkin. Read full review
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