Wrong Turn 6

The Wrong Turn series of films has been pretty dreadful for a while now, so I wasn't expecting anything good. However nothing could prepare me for how awful this is in every conceivable way.

The script, acting and direction are all completely amateurish. there are a couple of moments where the film is repulsive but it is never scary, suspenseful or even interesting. The new " twist" to the script seems completely tacked on and takes us far away from the original film. To be honest it feels like a film that was released as part of the wrong turn franchise as some kind of contractual obligation.

To compensate for this the film throws a large amount of pointless nudity at the audience. Fair enough, if that is your thing,but I wanted to watch a horror film and on that level it failed.

Wrong Turn 6 (2014)

* (out of 4)

The latest and so far worst in the series has Danny (Anthony Ilott) and six of his friends driving down south so that he can try and figure out about his past. Danny, an orphan, knows very little about his past but he receives word that he has "family" but they turn out to be the mutants from the five previous films.

WRONG TURN 6 is a really bad movie on so many levels that it's almost hard to believe that it could be worse than the third film. There are so many awful and annoying things about this movie it's a wonder that this here simply doesn't end the series. But, then again, when did quality ever determine how many sequels a series gets?

It's clear that the filmmakers wanted to take the series into a new direction but the "idea" behind this film is just as awful as the ideas behind the sixth film in the HALLOWEEN franchise. Lets see....where do we start? We can start with the screenplay, which is just one bad cliché after another as we get a boring plot dealing with the man being pulled into his "family" in hopes that they can continue in the future, which really makes no sense when you see that there are plenty of males and females already in the family so breeding isn't really an issue. The characters in the film are all incredibly boring and there's not a single one of them that is interesting. The performances aren't too bad but even the likes of Brando, Newman and Foster wouldn't have been able to do anything with this story.

The CGI gore effects are pretty bad and the kills aren't at all creative with most of them just alternate versions of stuff we have seen previously. The film does goes into overdrive when it comes to nudity with four different actresses taking off their clothes and there's some pretty weird and kinky sexual stuff going on. As for our three main killers, they're pretty much wasted here and without a doubt this is the most boring use of them in the series. Their make-up is also extremely bad. WRONG TURN 6 is without question the worst in the series and lets hope if they decide to continue they get back on track.

I always had a peculiar fondness for the "Wrong Turn" franchise. It's certainly not the greatest horror series out there, but at least the installments all guarantee unpretentious and straightforward splatter-entertainment. After a new sequel every two year since 2007, the series seems to have halted since 2014, but I'll cheerfully keep watching more sequels when they come, even if they make another twenty-six of them! Part 6 makes one horrible mistake, however, namely that the new director Valeri Milev and writer Frank H. Woodward tried to tell an ambitious story with depth and character background. Bad idea; - the reasons why parts 2, 3 and 4 were so entertaining are that the plots are simple and the gore is utterly disgusting. Here, they come up with a far-fetched and completely implausible story about an introvert and half-depressed New Yorker inheriting a humongous hotel/spa resort in Hobb Springs, West-Virginia. Danny heads over there, together with a large group of his friends, and finds that the two caretakers are trying to show that he's part of a secluded (read: inbred) mountain family clan. Meanwhile, the trio of deranged mutant hillbillies from the previous films joyously slaughter Danny's friends and half of the nearby town. It's best not to contemplate too much about the "plot". Exactly how did a West-Virginian hillbilly-baby end up in New York? How can two incestuous freaks possibly run a giant hotel? Why isn't anybody investigating the dozens of missing person cases? Part 6 contains loads of gratuitous sex, usually immediately followed by revolting killings. The biker girl at the beginning is the prettiest actress of the bunch, especially naked, but she's only a random casualty whose face gets sawn in half with barbed wire. The special effects are okay, albeit often too extreme and sickening just for the sake of being sickening. I'm not complaining about that, though, since that is exactly why people like me are watching series like "Wrong Turn".

I know the Wrong Turn franchise is not for everyone, blood, gore and minimal story telling but it's easy watching horror.

Please believe me I was looking forward to seeing no.6 but sadly it let me down.

I was expecting dodgy acting, very little story telling and mostly lots of squealing laughs from 'Three fingers' the ugly blonde, along with plenty of bloody deaths.

Yes the acting was dodgy, but too much story and not enough bloody deaths.

It left me feeling nothing but bored. Sorry

I feel like this really had potential. It certainly stands out in terms of differences from the other Wrong Turn films I've seen (the first two). Instead, it just feels half baked. The horror doesn't really come into play until very late and it all seems to go by very fast, and many of its progressions and developments just aren't very interesting. The acting is decent, with Sadie Katx being the MVP for her scenes in the climax. She totally understands campiness and delivers some truly hilarious, entertaining work. Definitely easily the best thing about it. Overall, not nearly as good as the first two, not sure in comparison to the others.