The bad guys in this movie are some deformed inbred orc-looking creatures that appear to be pulled out of an X-Files episode, and they help the film fulfill every horror cliché ever made.Įarly on, people are murdered when doing something promiscuous. With no cell phone service way in the middle of the woods (surprise!), they’re forced to wander aimlessly around until they find help, but little do they know, they’re being stalked from afar. A man (Desmond Harrington) late for something gets into a car accident with a vehicle disabled on the road, out pops a group of four good looking young folk (Dusku and Chirqui included) who say that they ran over some barbed wire. I have never seen a more straightforward plot executed so blandly. I turned it on not expecting much, and boy, that’s what I got. Add in Entrouage’s Emmanuelle Chriqui and you’ve got yourself a deal. I originally watched this movie because I’m a horror fan, and the idea of Eliza Duskhu running around in a tank top didn’t sound like the worst thing in the world. You think fire can stop me? I’m not Frankenstein bitches. Wrong Turn is a lesson that even the laziest of ideas can become a feature film, so there’s hope for whatever film you want to make as well. The reason I’m bringing up this movie is not as an example of how a small budget can yield big results, rather, it’s that if a movie with an idea this unoriginal and a script this terrible can get greenlighted and made, whatever crazy idea you have cooking in your head has the possibility to come to life as well some day. This is a success story, and tale of massive failure all at once. Wrong Turn was in theaters for 119 days, grossing $28M on a $12M budget after release in 1,615 theaters nationwide. It tells the sordid tale of a group of hot young people who are trapped and assaulted by inbred hill people. Eliza Dushku and Emmanuelle Chirqui (Sloan from Entourage).
Released in 2003, it stars Desmond Harrington (Quinn from Dexter). The film you might have heard of, but I’m betting most of you haven’t seen it.
I am here to tell you that your dream can come true, and if you don’t believe me, I implore you to watch Wrong Turn. Therefore, I’m willing to bet that a few of you are aspiring filmmakers, or at the very least, wish you could make movies. I know that we have a large audience here on Unreality, and you guys come from all backgrounds in a ton of different locations.