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Wrong Turn 3 (2009)

* (out of 4)

Downright horrid third entry in the series has a bus full of convicts and police taking a shortcut through the West Virginia mountains when they're ran off the road. The cons take control of the situation and they head off in the woods but it doesn't take long before a mutant redneck shows up to take them out.

WRONG TURN 3 is a direct-to-video release that is without question one of the worst horror films that you're going to see from this era and there's no doubt that it's a major step down from the previous two installments. If you ever want to show someone what a cheap, wannabe attempt to rip off fans is then this here would be the perfect example. Not only are we given an incredibly stupid plot full of annoying, worthless characters but we're also given some of the cheapest looking special effects that you'll ever see. Whereas the first WRONG TURN went for suspense and the second went for over-the-top gore, this one here is just an awful attempt at making money.

There are countless problems with this thing but we'll start with the CGI effects. To say they're awful would be putting it too kindly because these things are among the worst you're ever going to see. Yes, there's a lot of violence and gore here but none of it is effective because of how fake it looks. Just take a look at the scene where one man is split into three pieces. The CGI effect makes it look like jello has been sliced because when the man is sliced he just perfectly falls onto the ground in these pieces and not even the blood or guts inside of him come falling out. Even worse is a scene towards the start where someone takes an incredibly fake look arrow through the eye.

The characters are another major problem because you've really got no one to cheer for. The convicts are all people you hate and you want to see them finished off but before you get to that you've got to endure God-awful fighting and bickering. The good guys here are all rather boring, bland and you just don't care what happens to them. Even the mutant here is boring and whereas they're were brought to life in the first two, here they're just a cheap killing machine that adds nothing to the picture. Even the performances are pretty much forgettable as is everything else in this mess of a film.

"Wrong Turn" was a great movie, the first one that is, then it started to go somewhat downhill in part 2, and now having seen part 3, I must say I am at a loss here. Why is the series on a downward slope and not able to pull up?

The story in "Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead" is not really bad as such, but it is the lack of excitement and thrills that makes it less than mediocre. And also that there is basically only one of these misshapen mountain folk running around. Sure, you see a boy as well and another towards the end, but throughout the entire movie it is just a single one doing all the killing. And he looks comical and goofy, so it is very hard to take him serious as a murdering mad man.

There is an okay amount of mutilation, blood and gore in this third movie, and that is one of the better things about it. And another thing that made it bearable to sit through was that the people they had cast for the various roles were actually doing good jobs with their given characters. (Just hard to take the mountain man serious as he looked like a spoof character!)

There isn't really any great plot twists or surprises to the movie, and it plows forward at a fairly good pace. The only surprise twist there was in the movie, was the end scene. I enjoyed it, and think it was actually a nice touch to the movie. But all throughout the movie I sat and hoped for the movie to pick up and shift into a higher gear.

And there were some pretty funny errors and goofs in the movie. For starters, Chavez must have incredible arm strength to be able to hold a shotgun out in stretched arm and fire it without any recoil. That was hilarious, even worse than Rambo and his guns. The other thing I noticed was when they cut off the legs to remove the dead person from the chain, it must have been some amazingly sharp blade on that knife as it cut through meat and muscle like butter, and it cut through bone apparently without even slowing down - or perhaps that convict didn't have any shin bones? It was just awful.

I am sure that newcomers to the "Wrong Turn" series, will find it enjoyable, but if you are a seasoned and weathered gore hound, then you will find "Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead" to be nothing particularly interesting and to be a fairly mediocre movie at best. I have seen "Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead" twice now since it came out in 2009, and can't say that it has gotten any better since.

Despite this, then I will still give parts 4 and 5 a go as well, just to have seen it all.

Movie #2 in the series was superior. This? The mutant hillbilly's makeup might have been effective, only with the poor lighting and cinematography, one couldn't tell. There was a lack of practical FX, instead they went the CGI route which would've been effective if someone with any skill had handled it. Seriously, why does anyone watch this kinda stuff= clever, well done kills and maybe some action scenes that give some amount of terror or tension. For whatever reason this movie missed it's mark. But it was probably intended as a direct to video film and not worth putting any properly trained personnel onto the project. 3-fingers certainly kept coming, beyond all realism, and the actor was probably the best thing in this disaster. The knees-down appearance of another person at the end with a dripping propeller blade shaft makes it appear that there's an unseen mutant hillbilly ready for a forth film. Let's not encourage that.

I am a big fan of the wrong turn series, especially the first one, i have only seen the second one once. But this film, oh what a shame, it does let the series down. The main problem with it is the acting and the dialogue. The story itself or the idea for the story isn't bad at all, but why choose such cheesy actors delivering such cheesy lines. The main lead copper isn't too bad, the female lead is okay, but the rest of them, oh where to start. There isn't enough hillbillies in it either, 2 or 3 of them at a count when there is meant to be a family of them according to the original wrong turn series. They seem to try and take this story back to the original woods too but somehow it just doesn't work, it doesn't have the same feel, maybe because this was set a night and the original was in the day. The special effects, gore and CGI leaves much to be desired too, its so cheesy its not stomach churning, more comical. But its not the worse I have seen/watched this year and I kind of did like the ending too. The worse of the year for me still goes to Cabin Fever 2.

It is a peace of crap. The movie was made by amateurs and it's not even funny. Soundtrack: background sounds almost inexistent and the characters dialog is sounds like it was recorded in a hotel room Lighting: the characters are being hunted in a extremely bright forest in the middle of the night Actors: poor quality performance. The naked big boobed chick that gets shot in the beginning does not compensate for the other actors, lack of talent. Special effects:

my favorites scenes were the ones shot inside running vehicles. You can clearly see how they projected a recording in front of a car, kind of takes you back in time. The computer animation... it seemed like it was made after you-tube tutorials. There is not a single decent special effect. Overall, the movie is an insult, the director and the producers should be ashamed for creating such a crap.It stinks.