Not going to say much here, expect this. BEST ENDING EVER!
154 Reviews
This is more of a silly bloody comedy than a horror film
bcbell7918 October 2011
I just saw Wrong Turn 4 last night at Screamfest, at Mann's Chinese Theater here in Hollywood. The director, Declan O'Brien, introduced the film, and the cast was in the audience as well. I am a fan of Wrong Turn 1 (I own it) & 2, so I was happy to get to see direct to video film on the big screen. "Bloody Beginnings" starts off in 1982 in a sanatorium in West Virginia. After the opening sequence, which explains where 3 Finger and the gang came from, it fast forwards to 2003. Now in 2003, insert some nudity (great tits on the 3 sexy actresses, thumbs up) and some friends with snow mobiles decide to head out into a snowstorm, and get lost and take a wrong turn (surprise!), and end up at that sanatorium we met the brothers in at the opening...
Sadly, this can't be taken seriously as a horror movie. It has some bloody scenes, but there is nothing scary or creepy in this movie. However, if you grab some friends and beers (or cocktail of choice) this can be a laugh riot! This film is scene after scene of cheesy dialog and character choices. Lines like "I think they just turned Porter into a Porterhouse Steak!" are present throughout the whole movie. So this movie can be entertaining, but its got to be watched as a silly bloody comedy, NOT a horror film. This should only be viewed by someone that enjoys direct-to-video films (as I do). With that said- if you want a scary film, avoid this, but if you want a sexy cast, bloody deaths and scenes so ridiculous that you can't help but laugh out loud (at the absurdity), then maybe (and I stress the maybe) you will enjoy this as much as i did...
PS I highly suggest that IF(!) you watch this, do it with a group of friends and get ready to laugh...
Sadly, this can't be taken seriously as a horror movie. It has some bloody scenes, but there is nothing scary or creepy in this movie. However, if you grab some friends and beers (or cocktail of choice) this can be a laugh riot! This film is scene after scene of cheesy dialog and character choices. Lines like "I think they just turned Porter into a Porterhouse Steak!" are present throughout the whole movie. So this movie can be entertaining, but its got to be watched as a silly bloody comedy, NOT a horror film. This should only be viewed by someone that enjoys direct-to-video films (as I do). With that said- if you want a scary film, avoid this, but if you want a sexy cast, bloody deaths and scenes so ridiculous that you can't help but laugh out loud (at the absurdity), then maybe (and I stress the maybe) you will enjoy this as much as i did...
PS I highly suggest that IF(!) you watch this, do it with a group of friends and get ready to laugh...
Oh yes, please do a modern horror movie set inside an abandoned asylum! We haven't seen enough of those already...
Boba_Fett11385 March 2012
This movie somewhat makes me angry for several reasons. First off, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Wrong Turn-series and second of all, it's being totally unoriginal!
I wouldn't at all be surprised if this movie its script got pulled off from the shelve somewhere and got relabeled as "Wrong Turn 4" to cash in on it, even while it originally was written as a totally unrelated movie, to the the Wrong Turn-series. This movie really has absolutely nothing to do with any of the 3 previous movies, though it supposedly is still featuring the same cannibal family, consisting out of inbreds, who all look like Jake Busey by the way.
But the settings are all wrong. Really, a Wrong Turn movie should always be set inside of the forest I feel. But no, they thought an old abandoned asylum would be a far better setting for the movie this time. But why really? There are so many modern movies, that are just like this one, out there already, that use similar type of settings and also a similar concept. Thing they also all seem to have in common is that none of them are all that great.
No, this movie isn't ever really trying to be something new or original. It makes this a very redundant genre movie, that not even the lovers of it will be very pleased with. Sure, there is gore but nothing all that spectacular or surprising really.
As is this whole movie; nothing spectacular or surprising. It's a very typical and therefore also very predictable genre movie, that does absolutely nothing to attempt to become an above average one. It's just one of those movies in which a bunch of annoying, partying teenagers gets stuck at a place and are all getting killed one by one. It never has any tension or suspense to it because the movie obviously has no idea how to handle this.
The most positive thing I can say about this movie is that it's not the worst modern genre example I have seen but still, you are far better off skipping it.
4/10
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I wouldn't at all be surprised if this movie its script got pulled off from the shelve somewhere and got relabeled as "Wrong Turn 4" to cash in on it, even while it originally was written as a totally unrelated movie, to the the Wrong Turn-series. This movie really has absolutely nothing to do with any of the 3 previous movies, though it supposedly is still featuring the same cannibal family, consisting out of inbreds, who all look like Jake Busey by the way.
But the settings are all wrong. Really, a Wrong Turn movie should always be set inside of the forest I feel. But no, they thought an old abandoned asylum would be a far better setting for the movie this time. But why really? There are so many modern movies, that are just like this one, out there already, that use similar type of settings and also a similar concept. Thing they also all seem to have in common is that none of them are all that great.
No, this movie isn't ever really trying to be something new or original. It makes this a very redundant genre movie, that not even the lovers of it will be very pleased with. Sure, there is gore but nothing all that spectacular or surprising really.
As is this whole movie; nothing spectacular or surprising. It's a very typical and therefore also very predictable genre movie, that does absolutely nothing to attempt to become an above average one. It's just one of those movies in which a bunch of annoying, partying teenagers gets stuck at a place and are all getting killed one by one. It never has any tension or suspense to it because the movie obviously has no idea how to handle this.
The most positive thing I can say about this movie is that it's not the worst modern genre example I have seen but still, you are far better off skipping it.
4/10
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It stinks and is truly stupid.
anchovyd22 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Somehow I missed Wrong Turn 3. I really liked WT1 it was good and sort of like a Hills Have Eyes meets Deliverance vibe. WT2 was pretty good with Henry Rollins running the "Survivor" reality show in the backwoods. Then I saw this movie...
The movie starts out great with the deformed inmates overrunning the asylum. I love insane asylum movies, throw in a freakshow and I am there dude.
The "college" students look to be thirtysomething. The college victims are six hot pornesque chicks and three or four dopey guys. I must agree with the other comments. It is 2011, everyone has GPS on their phones. These guys aren't going to even have a google maps printout to the cabin? The height of stupidity occurs when the college kids manage to capture the whacky hillbillies and have them locked in a jail cell. The last remaining guy throws kerosene everywhere and is set to burn the cannibal freaks but the lead chick puts a stop to it saying that it is immoral and that they shouldn't sink to the hillbillies' level. Mind you, this is after she has witnessed the freaks pull the head off of her friend, after they rolled out her boyfriend's head like a bowling ball across the assembly hall and after she's witnessed the freaks slicing off pieces of flesh from her other friend, while he was alive, and flash frying it with potatoes and onions and eating it in front of him while the other are filleting him alive.
Of course, they escape the cell and mutilate everyone. Honestly after that stupid lead chick decided not to kill the crazies, I wanted all of the college kids to get eaten.
Good setting, bad movie, bad acting all the way around. Don't bother watching this one. If you liked the first two, this will be a big disappointment.
The movie starts out great with the deformed inmates overrunning the asylum. I love insane asylum movies, throw in a freakshow and I am there dude.
The "college" students look to be thirtysomething. The college victims are six hot pornesque chicks and three or four dopey guys. I must agree with the other comments. It is 2011, everyone has GPS on their phones. These guys aren't going to even have a google maps printout to the cabin? The height of stupidity occurs when the college kids manage to capture the whacky hillbillies and have them locked in a jail cell. The last remaining guy throws kerosene everywhere and is set to burn the cannibal freaks but the lead chick puts a stop to it saying that it is immoral and that they shouldn't sink to the hillbillies' level. Mind you, this is after she has witnessed the freaks pull the head off of her friend, after they rolled out her boyfriend's head like a bowling ball across the assembly hall and after she's witnessed the freaks slicing off pieces of flesh from her other friend, while he was alive, and flash frying it with potatoes and onions and eating it in front of him while the other are filleting him alive.
Of course, they escape the cell and mutilate everyone. Honestly after that stupid lead chick decided not to kill the crazies, I wanted all of the college kids to get eaten.
Good setting, bad movie, bad acting all the way around. Don't bother watching this one. If you liked the first two, this will be a big disappointment.
How Can Someone Put Money to Make This Garbage?
claudio_carvalho1 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
In 1974, in the Glenville Sanatorium in West Virginia, three dangerous lunatics escape from their cell, release the other inmates and kill the doctors and staff.
In 2003, a group of college friends from the Weston University rides their snowmobiles to the cabin of a friend. However, they get lost in a storm and reach the abandoned asylum seeking for shelter to spend the night. However, the three cannibal maniacs are still living in the place and they are hungry for human flesh.
How can a producer put money to make garbage like "Wrong Turn"? This question was drumming in my head while I was watching the stupidities of the bunch of friends along 94 minutes running time. For example, the lesbian Afro-American girl returns to look for her bar that she lost in the snow while the three weirdos are driving their snowmobiles to hunt them down. Or voting to decide whether they should save Daniel that is being eaten alive by the crazies or not. The abandoned sanatorium is absolutely clean and everything is operative in the building.
The survivors never grieve the loss of their friends that are slaughtered by the maniacs. But maybe the worst situation is when they overpower the sadistic loonies and a girl convinces the others to not kill the monsters that have eaten their friends "like a fondue". Last but not the least, the acting and the lines are very poor. My vote is one (awful).
Title (Brazil): "Pânico na Floresta 4 – Origens Sangrentas" ("Panic in Forest 4 – Bloody Origin")
In 2003, a group of college friends from the Weston University rides their snowmobiles to the cabin of a friend. However, they get lost in a storm and reach the abandoned asylum seeking for shelter to spend the night. However, the three cannibal maniacs are still living in the place and they are hungry for human flesh.
How can a producer put money to make garbage like "Wrong Turn"? This question was drumming in my head while I was watching the stupidities of the bunch of friends along 94 minutes running time. For example, the lesbian Afro-American girl returns to look for her bar that she lost in the snow while the three weirdos are driving their snowmobiles to hunt them down. Or voting to decide whether they should save Daniel that is being eaten alive by the crazies or not. The abandoned sanatorium is absolutely clean and everything is operative in the building.
The survivors never grieve the loss of their friends that are slaughtered by the maniacs. But maybe the worst situation is when they overpower the sadistic loonies and a girl convinces the others to not kill the monsters that have eaten their friends "like a fondue". Last but not the least, the acting and the lines are very poor. My vote is one (awful).
Title (Brazil): "Pânico na Floresta 4 – Origens Sangrentas" ("Panic in Forest 4 – Bloody Origin")
Mute the movie and play Benny Hill music over it, the movie will make more sense this way
Smells_Like_Cheese22 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I saw Wrong Turn quite a few years ago, it was a decent slasher film that despite it's clichés and typical characters, it was good enough to get by. Then a second one was released and believe it or not, it was actually good
heck, it was better than the first! It was one of those movies that was so outrageous it was just a good time. Then for some reason they decided to make these films into a series/franchise with a third Wrong Turn. The film really didn't work, it had some good gore effects, but the characters were lacking and to be honest the villains are not that scary. I mean, inbred cannibals are not exactly high on the boogeyman lists. Besides, we already had Deliverance, wasn't that enough touch on crazy inbreeds? But still, giving the third one some credit, at least it wasn't
Wrong Turn 4! You think the characters were horrible in the third film, just wait till you hear about these morons.
In 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium, Dr. Brendan Ryan is showing a local psychiatrist around the psychiatric hospital and shows her three young cannibals: Three-Finger, Saw-Tooth & One-Eye. Before they leave, the cannibals escape and set the other patients free in the hospital. The cannibals then torture and murder Dr. Ryan & the other visitors. In the future, Kenia, Sara and Bridget along with their friends Claire, boyfriend Kyle, Jenna boyfriend Vincent, Lauren, and boyfriend Daniel are going snowmobiling, heading to Kenia's boyfriend Porter's cabin in the mountains. Before they get there, they get lost in the snowstorm forcing them to find shelter in the abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers.
So let me tell you about this film really, the characters are beyond obnoxious like incredibly to the point where you're wishing they'd die annoying! They are a cliché in getting lost in the middle of no where with a blizzard and decide to go into an abandoned hospital where the lights are still somehow working. I guess the inbreeds may be inept of any rational thought but can manage to keep a hospital going? Not only that, but how is it the doctor victims they killed earlier, their families never bothered looking for them at their work? OK, let's give the suspension of disbelief. So then what do our group of protagonists decide to do in their time of trying to figure a way to get back to safety? Let's smoke weed, get drunk and have a ton of sex! Of course the inbreeds get ahold of them and start the killing spree they are all facing one way in an auditorium, the blonde girl gets a barbed wire(where do the inbreeds get barbed wire? I do not know) around her throat and as everyone turns around in horror, her boyfriend grabs her by the feet trying to pull her down while there's barbed wire around her neck and acts totally surprised when her blood is pouring down on him and she gets decapitated. Then what good friends this guy has, they run off and leave him! All we needed was the Benny Hill music playing during this scene, it would've been much better.
Then one of the guys gets captured by the inbreeds and while he's screaming hysterically for his life as the inbreeds are eating him alive what does our group of heroes decide to do? Go and save him? No, let's have a 10 minute conversation first and vote and then when going to go save him, let's pause every five seconds to let his flesh get eaten even more. Then when they do find him, let's make a fondue joke about it and surprise, he dies because of your time management skills! Then they capture the inbreeds and decide to burn them alive, no! The lead hero of our group tells the guy to not burn them and not sink to the inbred's level yeah, because they had so much consideration for you and your friends. So she's the reason for all the deaths in the previous films! Some hero we're supposed to be rooting for! It gets worse from there, I have to cut my comment here, but bottom line, please stay away from this film. There is nothing redeeming about this movie, it's bad writing, bad characters and just plain a bad movie.
1/10
In 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium, Dr. Brendan Ryan is showing a local psychiatrist around the psychiatric hospital and shows her three young cannibals: Three-Finger, Saw-Tooth & One-Eye. Before they leave, the cannibals escape and set the other patients free in the hospital. The cannibals then torture and murder Dr. Ryan & the other visitors. In the future, Kenia, Sara and Bridget along with their friends Claire, boyfriend Kyle, Jenna boyfriend Vincent, Lauren, and boyfriend Daniel are going snowmobiling, heading to Kenia's boyfriend Porter's cabin in the mountains. Before they get there, they get lost in the snowstorm forcing them to find shelter in the abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers.
So let me tell you about this film really, the characters are beyond obnoxious like incredibly to the point where you're wishing they'd die annoying! They are a cliché in getting lost in the middle of no where with a blizzard and decide to go into an abandoned hospital where the lights are still somehow working. I guess the inbreeds may be inept of any rational thought but can manage to keep a hospital going? Not only that, but how is it the doctor victims they killed earlier, their families never bothered looking for them at their work? OK, let's give the suspension of disbelief. So then what do our group of protagonists decide to do in their time of trying to figure a way to get back to safety? Let's smoke weed, get drunk and have a ton of sex! Of course the inbreeds get ahold of them and start the killing spree they are all facing one way in an auditorium, the blonde girl gets a barbed wire(where do the inbreeds get barbed wire? I do not know) around her throat and as everyone turns around in horror, her boyfriend grabs her by the feet trying to pull her down while there's barbed wire around her neck and acts totally surprised when her blood is pouring down on him and she gets decapitated. Then what good friends this guy has, they run off and leave him! All we needed was the Benny Hill music playing during this scene, it would've been much better.
Then one of the guys gets captured by the inbreeds and while he's screaming hysterically for his life as the inbreeds are eating him alive what does our group of heroes decide to do? Go and save him? No, let's have a 10 minute conversation first and vote and then when going to go save him, let's pause every five seconds to let his flesh get eaten even more. Then when they do find him, let's make a fondue joke about it and surprise, he dies because of your time management skills! Then they capture the inbreeds and decide to burn them alive, no! The lead hero of our group tells the guy to not burn them and not sink to the inbred's level yeah, because they had so much consideration for you and your friends. So she's the reason for all the deaths in the previous films! Some hero we're supposed to be rooting for! It gets worse from there, I have to cut my comment here, but bottom line, please stay away from this film. There is nothing redeeming about this movie, it's bad writing, bad characters and just plain a bad movie.
1/10
This has to be a Joke
iansmom9921 November 2011
Once I heard there was a 4th Wrong Turn I had to check it out. Of course that was an enormous mistake. Even the trailer makes this look like crap. Its a basic plot: A group of friends go snowmobiling during their winter break. They get lost in a blizzard and seek shelter in an abandoned insane asylum. Which of course is inhabited by the three original cannibal mutants. The acting is beyond terrible. The actors don't deliver any decent performances. Even the film making looks cheesy and homemade. The gore/action looks extremely fake. Did they really need to give a failed attempt at how the cannibal hillbillies came to be? I doubt it. There is not one good moment in this movie. They should have stopped with the 3rd one at least.
Awful!!
blondeems-452-7437418 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Hmmm where do I start.
My brother and I are HUGE horror fans, and we loved the first two Wrong Turn movies, part three was okay, and we were so excited to see part four. It sounded interesting, with the back story and the isolated mental institution. But ten minutes into the movie we realised this was going to be more of a comedy.
The lesbian sex scene at the start...one question, why? Maybe it was just thrown in there to get male viewers hooked. Who knows.
I couldn't care less about any of the characters. They were all as stupid as can be. The only one that wasn't was the girl that tried to ski to safety, I would have done the same thing no matter how cold it was.
They were in a huge building with about a thousand places to hide, yet they spent a good chunk of the movie hiding in the same room, even after one of the inbred freaks had found them and drilled a gigantic hole in the door. They might as well have left the door open.
Then the remaining few decided to be brave or noble or whatever and save their poor friend who was tied to a kitchen bench and being eaten alive. But considering the killers were distracted and seemed to have forgot for a moment that there were remaining kids roaming the building, it might have been a good time to try and find a better hiding place, or find some weapons, but anyway. Kudos to them for being decent for a mere moment. So they all run into the kitchen, cause a huge stir, which causes the killers to snap out of their distracted state and start chasing them. They eventually corner the baddies in a cell and seem to finally have have the upper hand, but the dopiest dopey main girl (whose name I can't even remember) objects to killing them. Ummm are you for real? I would have set the cell on fire and basked in the warmth. Which reminds me, who exactly is paying the electricity? And what happened to their friend being eaten alive in the kitchen? He is never mentioned or seen again, despite them all having risked their lives to save him.
Ugh so disappointing. Hopefully if they make a fifth movie they will get some decent actors, and some characters who aren't quite so dumb.
My brother and I are HUGE horror fans, and we loved the first two Wrong Turn movies, part three was okay, and we were so excited to see part four. It sounded interesting, with the back story and the isolated mental institution. But ten minutes into the movie we realised this was going to be more of a comedy.
The lesbian sex scene at the start...one question, why? Maybe it was just thrown in there to get male viewers hooked. Who knows.
I couldn't care less about any of the characters. They were all as stupid as can be. The only one that wasn't was the girl that tried to ski to safety, I would have done the same thing no matter how cold it was.
They were in a huge building with about a thousand places to hide, yet they spent a good chunk of the movie hiding in the same room, even after one of the inbred freaks had found them and drilled a gigantic hole in the door. They might as well have left the door open.
Then the remaining few decided to be brave or noble or whatever and save their poor friend who was tied to a kitchen bench and being eaten alive. But considering the killers were distracted and seemed to have forgot for a moment that there were remaining kids roaming the building, it might have been a good time to try and find a better hiding place, or find some weapons, but anyway. Kudos to them for being decent for a mere moment. So they all run into the kitchen, cause a huge stir, which causes the killers to snap out of their distracted state and start chasing them. They eventually corner the baddies in a cell and seem to finally have have the upper hand, but the dopiest dopey main girl (whose name I can't even remember) objects to killing them. Ummm are you for real? I would have set the cell on fire and basked in the warmth. Which reminds me, who exactly is paying the electricity? And what happened to their friend being eaten alive in the kitchen? He is never mentioned or seen again, despite them all having risked their lives to save him.
Ugh so disappointing. Hopefully if they make a fifth movie they will get some decent actors, and some characters who aren't quite so dumb.
Excruciating
Leofwine_draca10 April 2015
WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS is the latest sequel in a franchise that nobody asked for. As the title would suggest, this is a prequel of sorts, although it's not really. The first five minutes is set in the 1970s but then the rest of the film skips to the early 2000s so the prequel aspect becomes a bit pointless. The only change here is that the setting is a derelict hospital rather than the woods.
In any case, this is the worst WRONG TURN yet. Everything about the film is horrible: the bad acting from the inexperienced cast members, the rubbish dialogue that spouts from their lips, and the ridiculously stupid decisions that these characters make. This time around they have three mutant brothers to contend with, but the film fails to be the least bit menacing.
Instead the producers up the gore quotient, along with some explicit sex scenes that make this resemble a porno at times. Unfortunately WRONG TURN 4 veers into the torture porn category with one extended set-piece involving a victim being strapped down while parts of his body are eaten, and this is unpleasant indeed. It makes the other extreme death scenes feel like a relief. As a whole, this is a real comedown from WRONG TURN 3, which was at least fun and action-packed and nowhere near as mean spirited.
In any case, this is the worst WRONG TURN yet. Everything about the film is horrible: the bad acting from the inexperienced cast members, the rubbish dialogue that spouts from their lips, and the ridiculously stupid decisions that these characters make. This time around they have three mutant brothers to contend with, but the film fails to be the least bit menacing.
Instead the producers up the gore quotient, along with some explicit sex scenes that make this resemble a porno at times. Unfortunately WRONG TURN 4 veers into the torture porn category with one extended set-piece involving a victim being strapped down while parts of his body are eaten, and this is unpleasant indeed. It makes the other extreme death scenes feel like a relief. As a whole, this is a real comedown from WRONG TURN 3, which was at least fun and action-packed and nowhere near as mean spirited.
Actually pretty decent
jeff-the-nerd20 October 2011
Upon watching the first Wrong Turn back in 2003 it became an instant all time favorite of mine. Part two I found to be entertaining enough, but lacking compared to the first. The third one I was sad to admit that I didn't really like.
So, it was with mixed expectations that I turned on Wrong Turn 4.
My first point of critique is that it has a really slow start. This was something I also hated about Wrong Turn 3, because we're almost 50 minutes into the film before the action finally begins. Up until that point, it's all just cliché after cliché, some "BOOH!" chocks here and there, but no real action. It got kinda repetitive and boring. But then, out of nowhere, the action really picks up, and it doesn't let go until the movie's over.
This is were the good stuff begins. Wrong Turn 4 sure does take its sweet time to get going, but once it does, there are thrills to be found in it that can be compared to those in Wrong Turn 1. I won't spoil anything, but I will say that there are at least two scenes in Wrong Turn 4 that had me thrilled as much as Wrong Turn 1. Which is a huge plus. To that end, I definitely found this one the most adrenaline pumping since Wrong Turn 1; way more than part 2 and 3.
Okay, so the action (once it begins) is definitely good. How is the acting? It's what you would expect from this kind of budget horror. It's not award winning, but it actually does a decent enough job.
The gore is also a huge step up from Wrong Turn 3. While some of it had the same fake CGI look to it of the third one, a lot of it was on par with that of Wrong Turn 1 & 2. There's a lot of non-CGI blood and gore to be found in this one, and most of it looks good. It's good enough to keep your focus away from the less-impressive parts of the gore. Overall, I was satisfied with the gore, as well as the kills that brought it.
One more thing I really liked was that Wrong Turn 4 seemed to take a more "humane" approach to the hillbillies. There is one scene where the victims actually gains the upper hand and has the three hillbillies running for it. I really liked that, because it made them seem less invincible, and this in part made it even more interesting than the first Wrong Turn movie. All in all, the struggles between the hillbillies and the human victims was a lot more balanced in any of the three previous movies.
However, my biggest point of critique has got to be the makeup on the hillbillies. It is without a doubt, by far, the lousiest of all the movies. In every single scene where we see the mutants, especially Three Finger and One-Eye, it is so horribly obvious that they're wearing masks. You can literally SEE the distinction between the masks and the actors behind them, especially around the eyes. I always thought the Wrong Turn movies had really good makeup artistry on these hillbillies, but this is simply unacceptably and horribly made. It looks like an intern made it, and that isn't even fair to an intern to say, because any FX artist could've done it better. To put it short: the masks of the mutants are really, really horrible; so horrible that this is a 6 instead of a 7.
Overall, I was actually pretty positively surprised with part 4 of the Wrong Turns. If you, as I, loved the first one but didn't care for the third one - then I think you would like part 4, because they share a lot of elements. A lot more than I would've hoped for.
It's funny, a while back I was talking to my girlfriend about watching Wrong Turn 4, and I said to her: "Man, I wish they take it more in the direction of Wrong Turn 1, but I doubt it, because part 2 and 3 just got farther and farther away from the style of part 1."
But I guess they heard my prayers.
So, it was with mixed expectations that I turned on Wrong Turn 4.
My first point of critique is that it has a really slow start. This was something I also hated about Wrong Turn 3, because we're almost 50 minutes into the film before the action finally begins. Up until that point, it's all just cliché after cliché, some "BOOH!" chocks here and there, but no real action. It got kinda repetitive and boring. But then, out of nowhere, the action really picks up, and it doesn't let go until the movie's over.
This is were the good stuff begins. Wrong Turn 4 sure does take its sweet time to get going, but once it does, there are thrills to be found in it that can be compared to those in Wrong Turn 1. I won't spoil anything, but I will say that there are at least two scenes in Wrong Turn 4 that had me thrilled as much as Wrong Turn 1. Which is a huge plus. To that end, I definitely found this one the most adrenaline pumping since Wrong Turn 1; way more than part 2 and 3.
Okay, so the action (once it begins) is definitely good. How is the acting? It's what you would expect from this kind of budget horror. It's not award winning, but it actually does a decent enough job.
The gore is also a huge step up from Wrong Turn 3. While some of it had the same fake CGI look to it of the third one, a lot of it was on par with that of Wrong Turn 1 & 2. There's a lot of non-CGI blood and gore to be found in this one, and most of it looks good. It's good enough to keep your focus away from the less-impressive parts of the gore. Overall, I was satisfied with the gore, as well as the kills that brought it.
One more thing I really liked was that Wrong Turn 4 seemed to take a more "humane" approach to the hillbillies. There is one scene where the victims actually gains the upper hand and has the three hillbillies running for it. I really liked that, because it made them seem less invincible, and this in part made it even more interesting than the first Wrong Turn movie. All in all, the struggles between the hillbillies and the human victims was a lot more balanced in any of the three previous movies.
However, my biggest point of critique has got to be the makeup on the hillbillies. It is without a doubt, by far, the lousiest of all the movies. In every single scene where we see the mutants, especially Three Finger and One-Eye, it is so horribly obvious that they're wearing masks. You can literally SEE the distinction between the masks and the actors behind them, especially around the eyes. I always thought the Wrong Turn movies had really good makeup artistry on these hillbillies, but this is simply unacceptably and horribly made. It looks like an intern made it, and that isn't even fair to an intern to say, because any FX artist could've done it better. To put it short: the masks of the mutants are really, really horrible; so horrible that this is a 6 instead of a 7.
Overall, I was actually pretty positively surprised with part 4 of the Wrong Turns. If you, as I, loved the first one but didn't care for the third one - then I think you would like part 4, because they share a lot of elements. A lot more than I would've hoped for.
It's funny, a while back I was talking to my girlfriend about watching Wrong Turn 4, and I said to her: "Man, I wish they take it more in the direction of Wrong Turn 1, but I doubt it, because part 2 and 3 just got farther and farther away from the style of part 1."
But I guess they heard my prayers.
Did we really need a prequel?
scarletheels12 December 2011
A group of college students (hot, young babes with tightly fitting sweaters and studly men with Justin Bieber hairstyles) go for a snowmobile joyride but they end up making a 'wrong turn'. Freezing and unable to survive the elements for much longer, they're forced to seek shelter in an abandoned sanatorium, of all places, to wait out the blizzard. Oddly, no one seems to be all that creeped out about their surroundings; they're too busy boozing, smoking pot, and fondling each other. Their bliss doesn't last long though and, come morning, the group of pretties are stalked, tortured, and in the worst case scenario, eaten alive.
Did we really need a prequel for this franchise? Was it not plainly obvious about the origins of Saw Tooth, Three Finger, and One Eye? They're seriously deformed, inbred hillbillies who delight in maiming, murdering, and munching on people. What difference does it make that they were locked up in an institution except to play on an overused horror flick location?
Sadly, the ONE guy who could act was unceremoniously fed to the wolves. (The cannibal fondue was a bit much.) I've heard more voice inflection and genuine emotion from someone reading the ingredients off a cereal box. When you're getting paid to see just how many buckets of fake blood a person can handle getting dumped on him/her, I guess nothing else matters. Everything in Wrong Turn 4 went overboard and not in the exploitation-done-right way. Hopefully, this misrepresented prequel is the final insult in a series of increasingly hacked-up sequels.
Did we really need a prequel for this franchise? Was it not plainly obvious about the origins of Saw Tooth, Three Finger, and One Eye? They're seriously deformed, inbred hillbillies who delight in maiming, murdering, and munching on people. What difference does it make that they were locked up in an institution except to play on an overused horror flick location?
Sadly, the ONE guy who could act was unceremoniously fed to the wolves. (The cannibal fondue was a bit much.) I've heard more voice inflection and genuine emotion from someone reading the ingredients off a cereal box. When you're getting paid to see just how many buckets of fake blood a person can handle getting dumped on him/her, I guess nothing else matters. Everything in Wrong Turn 4 went overboard and not in the exploitation-done-right way. Hopefully, this misrepresented prequel is the final insult in a series of increasingly hacked-up sequels.
No regrets watching this awesome trash horror movie.
robfollower8 October 2019
Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break. They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm.
Quintessential viewing for all gorehound's. Beyond the genuinely impressive opening sequence, there's all sorts of barbed wire inspired sadism. The gore scenes are particularly well done. Old school Practical effects with real blood work and real Prosthetics.
I watched the special features. 'Making Another Wrong Turn'.
I have to add that writer and director Declan O'Brien found the most epic location to film "Wrong Turn 4" . Filmed at the abandoned ( Brandon Asylum for the Insane) "I am not making this up".... in Brandon, Manitoba ,Canadian province. No regrets watching this awesome trash horror movie.
Wrong Turn 4: The hospital
unbrokenmetal11 August 2016
In the introduction, we see how three demented maniacs take over a hospital and kill the doctors. Years later, a bunch of teenagers skiing in the area look for shelter in a snow storm and arrive at that hospital. On the next morning, they discover they are not alone. The 3 same old cannibals chase them to cook them for breakfast...
Part 4 of the series works well as a prequel, it is not necessary to know the other movies. What I liked was that the teenagers are not the usual stupid bunch, running and screaming. They actually develop a strategy to chase the enemies and try to prepare a trap for them. There are also a couple of stupid moments, for example the guy who wants to help a strangled person – by pulling hard at her feet so the noose tightens. OMG. But altogether it's a watchable sequel. The cinematography goes up one notch in quality compared to part 2 and 3, obviously the hospital offers more visual possibilities than the woods, and they used them. The movie was not shot at the studio, but inside a real 'lost' building which adds to its creepiness. I voted 8/4/6/7/5/4 for the 6 movies.
Part 4 of the series works well as a prequel, it is not necessary to know the other movies. What I liked was that the teenagers are not the usual stupid bunch, running and screaming. They actually develop a strategy to chase the enemies and try to prepare a trap for them. There are also a couple of stupid moments, for example the guy who wants to help a strangled person – by pulling hard at her feet so the noose tightens. OMG. But altogether it's a watchable sequel. The cinematography goes up one notch in quality compared to part 2 and 3, obviously the hospital offers more visual possibilities than the woods, and they used them. The movie was not shot at the studio, but inside a real 'lost' building which adds to its creepiness. I voted 8/4/6/7/5/4 for the 6 movies.
Falls on its own stupidity
Instafailer24 October 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Wow - just wow. This movie should be a textbook example on how-to make dislikeable and stupid characters. I get it how you need to have the characters confused and scared in horror movies - but jeez, this movie really takes the cake.
At one point in the movie they actually capture their assailants and have them at their mercy - yet they decide to not even disable them in any way. Instead the group just leaves one guard and happily go to sleep.
When watching the movie I tried to come up with so many other ways it could have gone - perhaps kill the original assailants only to find more in the woods, but as-is this is only beer-horror and just-for-laughs movie.
Anyways - compared to Wrong Turn 2 and 3, I suppose this is a step in the right direction. I only wish it didn't sabotage itself with dumb characters and stupid plot decisions.
At one point in the movie they actually capture their assailants and have them at their mercy - yet they decide to not even disable them in any way. Instead the group just leaves one guard and happily go to sleep.
When watching the movie I tried to come up with so many other ways it could have gone - perhaps kill the original assailants only to find more in the woods, but as-is this is only beer-horror and just-for-laughs movie.
Anyways - compared to Wrong Turn 2 and 3, I suppose this is a step in the right direction. I only wish it didn't sabotage itself with dumb characters and stupid plot decisions.
I don't get it...........
kpriceva25 October 2011
To say that this is a slap in the face to all horror movie lovers is an understatement. How embarrassing for this director and for all of these actors..times are hard but come on-have some dignity! I knew what to expect watching another Wrong Turn movie. I wasn't expecting it to be on the same wavelength as Texas Chainsaw or anything but I expected a little bit of entertainment. Unfortunately, all I got was some hot sex scenes and cheesy blood and gore with masks that my 4 year old could make in daycare. How disappointing for Wrong Turn. In my eyes, nothing will be better than the first one and it should have stopped at the first one.
There wasn't any character development at all (I know you don't expect that much in scary movies but there was nothing), their actions were the antithesis of what any person with common sense would have done, there wasn't enough back story to really fill us in on how this started, it was just a hot mess! Do not waste your time watching this!!
There wasn't any character development at all (I know you don't expect that much in scary movies but there was nothing), their actions were the antithesis of what any person with common sense would have done, there wasn't enough back story to really fill us in on how this started, it was just a hot mess! Do not waste your time watching this!!
The worst movie I've seen in a while
bikey12771 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
And as a horror genre enthusiast I'm constantly watching some low budget horror flicks. I can forgive a few plot holes, bad acting to a certain degree, stupid screenplay and other flaws. But not here. This movie is just awful in every category. I'm not really a fan of inbred mutant hillbillies from hell horror. The Hills Have Eyes and Deliverance are a couple of exceptions. I should have seen it coming. The second and third installment were silly so I am a bit angry with myself for watching the fourth one. But I did and its too late for regret. So, congrats to Mr. Declan O'Brien ( and I will remember the name ) you have now surpassed Uwe Boll on my list of the worst directors ever. That is quite an accomplishment.
The subtitle of the movie is very misleading. It just might have been the reason for my viewing of the film. It sounds like a promise of an explanation. Don't be fooled. There is no explanation. I got screwed. So will you. All we get is a sort of copy/paste scene of Jodie Foster and the director of the mental institution walking down the corridor towards Hanibal Lecter's cell in Silence of The Lambs. Here we have the head doc and the newly hired doc walking down the corridor of horror in a sanatorium. The latter being an institution for keeping patients away from society because they might spread a disease that has no cure yet or they might harm, kill and eat people. A sanitarium, on the other hand, is where the crazy but mostly harmless people are kept. Well, at least I learned something from this movie. The last cell in the corridor of horror is the home of our three stars of the movie. The head doc quickly explains that they were found in the woods by an old lady. He calls the youngsters very dangerous. He also says they're very smart and explains how one of them chewed off a couple of his own fingers and ate them. The other poked out one of his own eyes and ate it. Smart??? The third one just kept biting people so they put a mask on him. And on top of that they all suffer from a very rare genetic condition which makes them immune to pain. Guess what? They get out of the cell. Surprised? Probably not. They immediately unlock all the doors in the sanatorium and kill the guard and the two doctors. The movie then jumps about three decades into the future where we meet 8 people, which are really not worth mentioning at all. They are planning a snowmobile ride to a cottage that is probably near the now seemingly abandoned sanatorium. There is a snow storm and the 8 friends end up taking shelter in the building. And then the fun begins. Or ends.
I have already written way too much about this piece of s#&@, so I'll just list a few things that, in my opinion, contribute mostly to the all together awfulness of the movie.
1. Acting. Atrocious. Think of porn stars having a go at a serious movie. Then go one notch lower on the scale and thats it. I am sorry to write this, but the female actresses were cast on looks instead of talent. It is sorely obvious. The cannibal brothers can't speak. They communicate through grunts, screams and one of them giggles like a little girl. Hilarious at times but this is not supposed to be a comedy.
2. After almost 30 years since the cannibal brothers took over the running of the sanatorium our heroes and heroines find the place 30 years older and dirtier but somewhat untouched. When they wander around the place they find loads of medical equipment like old wheelchairs, a working generator in the basement, old movies about the treatment of various diseases. Eventually they find the office of the doctor who ran the place. Everything is still there. The patient's files, other paperwork and a 30 years old bottle of whiskey. Am I supposed to believe that in thirty!!! years no one had inspected the place? Nobody missed the employees like the guards and the doctors? And if the first search party didn't come back, why not send another? If the second fails to return because, like the first one, had been killed and eaten by the brothers, would the authorities not send an armed squad of policemen or soldiers to inspect the place because there is something not quite right up there if all the people keep disappearing? The brothers just killed and ate everybody?
3. The gore. Just way over the top. The heads keep popping off. Arms and legs popping off. The blood is squirting all over the place. Watch out for the hysterical screaming. It might damage your hearing.
4. At some point midway through the movie our heroes and heroines actually manage to trap all three brothers and lock them into a cell. Do they kill them? No, some of them want to but the stupid female lead character says no. And this is after they killed 3 or 4 of her friends. You know what happens next. This is an easy one.
5. Where the hell did they get onions and potatoes? Did they go shopping to the nearest town? The brothers are frying some human flesh for dinner at one point and the one that giggles like a girl is chopping away at some fresh onions and potatoes. Seriously??? Just awful. Stay away. Don't ever watch it.
The subtitle of the movie is very misleading. It just might have been the reason for my viewing of the film. It sounds like a promise of an explanation. Don't be fooled. There is no explanation. I got screwed. So will you. All we get is a sort of copy/paste scene of Jodie Foster and the director of the mental institution walking down the corridor towards Hanibal Lecter's cell in Silence of The Lambs. Here we have the head doc and the newly hired doc walking down the corridor of horror in a sanatorium. The latter being an institution for keeping patients away from society because they might spread a disease that has no cure yet or they might harm, kill and eat people. A sanitarium, on the other hand, is where the crazy but mostly harmless people are kept. Well, at least I learned something from this movie. The last cell in the corridor of horror is the home of our three stars of the movie. The head doc quickly explains that they were found in the woods by an old lady. He calls the youngsters very dangerous. He also says they're very smart and explains how one of them chewed off a couple of his own fingers and ate them. The other poked out one of his own eyes and ate it. Smart??? The third one just kept biting people so they put a mask on him. And on top of that they all suffer from a very rare genetic condition which makes them immune to pain. Guess what? They get out of the cell. Surprised? Probably not. They immediately unlock all the doors in the sanatorium and kill the guard and the two doctors. The movie then jumps about three decades into the future where we meet 8 people, which are really not worth mentioning at all. They are planning a snowmobile ride to a cottage that is probably near the now seemingly abandoned sanatorium. There is a snow storm and the 8 friends end up taking shelter in the building. And then the fun begins. Or ends.
I have already written way too much about this piece of s#&@, so I'll just list a few things that, in my opinion, contribute mostly to the all together awfulness of the movie.
1. Acting. Atrocious. Think of porn stars having a go at a serious movie. Then go one notch lower on the scale and thats it. I am sorry to write this, but the female actresses were cast on looks instead of talent. It is sorely obvious. The cannibal brothers can't speak. They communicate through grunts, screams and one of them giggles like a little girl. Hilarious at times but this is not supposed to be a comedy.
2. After almost 30 years since the cannibal brothers took over the running of the sanatorium our heroes and heroines find the place 30 years older and dirtier but somewhat untouched. When they wander around the place they find loads of medical equipment like old wheelchairs, a working generator in the basement, old movies about the treatment of various diseases. Eventually they find the office of the doctor who ran the place. Everything is still there. The patient's files, other paperwork and a 30 years old bottle of whiskey. Am I supposed to believe that in thirty!!! years no one had inspected the place? Nobody missed the employees like the guards and the doctors? And if the first search party didn't come back, why not send another? If the second fails to return because, like the first one, had been killed and eaten by the brothers, would the authorities not send an armed squad of policemen or soldiers to inspect the place because there is something not quite right up there if all the people keep disappearing? The brothers just killed and ate everybody?
3. The gore. Just way over the top. The heads keep popping off. Arms and legs popping off. The blood is squirting all over the place. Watch out for the hysterical screaming. It might damage your hearing.
4. At some point midway through the movie our heroes and heroines actually manage to trap all three brothers and lock them into a cell. Do they kill them? No, some of them want to but the stupid female lead character says no. And this is after they killed 3 or 4 of her friends. You know what happens next. This is an easy one.
5. Where the hell did they get onions and potatoes? Did they go shopping to the nearest town? The brothers are frying some human flesh for dinner at one point and the one that giggles like a girl is chopping away at some fresh onions and potatoes. Seriously??? Just awful. Stay away. Don't ever watch it.
The Fine Young Cannibals strike again
Coventry24 May 2012
I shamelessly admit I rather like the "Wrong Turn" franchise
They're 100% derivative and forgettable, but – so far at least – each and every installment delivered brainless, unpretentious entertainment. What's the point of systematically bad-mouthing these films here via user comments when you know you rent something that is called "Wrong Turn 4" and thus ought to know from beforehand that it won't be a cinematic masterpiece. They can make another hundred sequels, for all I care, and most likely I will also keep watching them whenever I'm in an undemanding mood to see extreme gore, gratuitous nudity and idiotic plot spotting. Contrary to popular belief, there are still ambitious and intelligent filmmakers trying to come up with creative new horror concepts, and if you look a bit further than your nearest Blockbuster video store, you will easily find those as well. You can debate endlessly on why "inferior" movies like this one are wider available than the others, or you can simply ignore them. Either way, slinging mud at them on the Internet won't prevent them from getting made. Writer/director Declan O'Brien clearly amuses himself with this series as well, as he directed parts 3 and 4, and part 5 is already in the making. He doesn't undertake any real attempts to create suspense or profound character drawings, but aims straightforwardly for sickening gore and the most repulsive make-up effects imaginable. Once again, we're in the remote regions of West-Virginia, which apparently is the inbreeding capital of the world as they have an overpopulated sanitarium full of them. Three horribly deformed siblings take control over the hospital one dark night in 1974 and, even though they're still just children, manage to annihilate the entire staff. Fast forward to present day, when nine of the most dim-witted college students decide to go for a skiing weekend, but stupidly take a wrong turn and have no other option but to seek shelter in the eerie sanatorium during a blizzard. I don't suppose I have to elaborate on what happens next? Apparently it's very normal in West Virginia for three underdeveloped cannibals to remain at large and probably make dozens of victims in one and the same area for more than 30 years without sending in the army or whatever. Like with any random movie of this type, you have to abandon all common sense and intellect, and just enjoy the bloodshed. Although "enjoy" might be a rather inappropriate choice of words, as most of the killings featuring here are incredibly sick and twisted. Some guy gets quartered, a cute blond chick is decapitated with a barb wired noose and one poor sucker (ironically one of the most amiable one of the bunch) even has to witness how the inbred hillbillies cut out large pieces of flesh and turn him into a living fondue diner! It's a large group, so you can also entertain yourself by making a prognosis of the order in which they'll die, and of course by laughing very hard at the stupid things they do. Apparently interracial lesbian sex is popular nowadays as well, so we'll gratuitously throw in some of that as well. Onwards to the next "Wrong Turn" installment, say I. Hopefully Declan O'Brien will put some songs by the English band "Fine Young Cannibals" on the soundtrack.
Okay, I've already been fooled three times
JoeB13111 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
So I guess my problem is that there's nothing creative or new about this movie, and we've seen all of this before.
To wit- the scene at the end where the last two characters are killed. Well, I'll save you the suspense, the same trick is used at the end of 2001 Maniacs to kill the last two characters. And the bit where they accidentally kill one of their own. Knew what was going on before it happened, because they so badly telegraphed the scene.
The only think that sort of surprised me is that the movies only two minority characters, who also happened to be gay, survived until nearly the end of the film. Usually minorities are the first ones to get it in movies like this.
So the plot is to tell the story of the inbred cannibals we saw in the first three movies, even though these are three totally different inbred cannibals. Back in the 1970's, where they didn't even bother to find period clothing, these three adolescent inbreds led a revolt in a sanatorium that killed the entire staff. And ironically, the authorities in West Virginia totally forgot they were there, and just left this hospital.
So out gang decides to go out in 2003 and look for a cabin, but get lost and find their way to this sanatorium. The three hillbillies are still using this for a base, apparently all the other patients vanished (or were eaten) What follows is what we've seen in all of these other movies, dumb horny teenagers getting picked off one by one, including a scene where a character is slowly cut to pieces that goes on for far too long.
Must resist Wrong Turn 5...must resist Wrong Turn 5.
To wit- the scene at the end where the last two characters are killed. Well, I'll save you the suspense, the same trick is used at the end of 2001 Maniacs to kill the last two characters. And the bit where they accidentally kill one of their own. Knew what was going on before it happened, because they so badly telegraphed the scene.
The only think that sort of surprised me is that the movies only two minority characters, who also happened to be gay, survived until nearly the end of the film. Usually minorities are the first ones to get it in movies like this.
So the plot is to tell the story of the inbred cannibals we saw in the first three movies, even though these are three totally different inbred cannibals. Back in the 1970's, where they didn't even bother to find period clothing, these three adolescent inbreds led a revolt in a sanatorium that killed the entire staff. And ironically, the authorities in West Virginia totally forgot they were there, and just left this hospital.
So out gang decides to go out in 2003 and look for a cabin, but get lost and find their way to this sanatorium. The three hillbillies are still using this for a base, apparently all the other patients vanished (or were eaten) What follows is what we've seen in all of these other movies, dumb horny teenagers getting picked off one by one, including a scene where a character is slowly cut to pieces that goes on for far too long.
Must resist Wrong Turn 5...must resist Wrong Turn 5.
Example of terrible movie making
skrstenansky18 November 2021
This is hands down the probably worst movie ever made, i expected it was going to be bad going into it, but not this bad. I liked the first 3 wrong turns, they had a fine atmosphere, lots of actually good kills, and a good setting, with characters not as bad as the ones in this, they were alright, but this, this is just not. This is the most effortless movie ever made, it uses every cliche in horror known to man, it uses terrible cgi, the worst actors ever put on screen, bad kills, terrible effects, stupid story, this movie was made by the laziest crew, most effortless movie i have ever seen, thankskilling had more effort than this rubbish. Not just all those problems, it was shot in 19 days, no wonder it looked like I was watching high school project. There is literally zero good about it not one thing if anyone can change my mind i will blow my brains out. Terrible movie 0/10.
Series Reaches A Dead End
slasherstudios7 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
In the horror world there is a loyalty that you won't find in any other genre. No matter how many bad sequels, awful remakes, and painful prequels Hollywood brings us, we just keep coming back for more. Case in point, "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings." The original "Wrong Turn" was a fun if fairly derivative slice of hillbilly horror that struck the right cord with horror audiences. It was not a box office hit making just $16 million on a budget of $12 million but the film sold millions of dvds and we can thank it with starting the series that no one really asked for. "Wrong Turn 2" turns the tables by turning the first film into a reality show. It was fun, campy, and delightfully over-the-top. The less said about the third film the better. Now, eight years after the first installment, we have "Wrong Turn 4" a prequel that sets to up the stakes. But...does it succeed?
The film opens in 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium with Dr. Ryan (Arne McPherson) showing a local psychiatrist Dr. Ann McQuaid (Kristen Harris) around the psychiatric hospital. The cannibals from the previous films- One Eye, Three Finger, and Saw Tooth now are locked up in the institution as children. But the cannibals escapes and sets other insane patient free in the hospital. Then cannibals savagely murder an orderly, Guard, Dr. Ryan and Dr. McQuaid. The film then switches to present day where a group of college kids, Kenia (Jennifer Pudavick), lesbian couple Sara (Tenika Davis) and Bridget (Kaitlyn Wong), Lauren (Ali Tataryn), Jenna (Terra Vnesa), and Claire (Samantha Kendrick), along with their guy friends Kyle (Victor Zinck), Vincent (Sean Skene) and Daniel (Dean Armstrong) are going snowmobiling. They are heading to their friend Porter's cabin in the mountains. They get lost in a storm and seek refuge inside the now abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three now adult cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers. The movie makes it unclear as to the whereabouts of rest of patients set free by cannibals.
The group of teenagers explore the asylum, and decide to wait out the storm. After a montage of rolling around in wheelchairs, acting on illegal drugs, drinking booze and acting like teenagers, the storm still hasn't stopped so the teenagers are forced to sleep in the desolate building. In the middle of the night, Vincent, suffering from insomnia, walks around the asylum and finds Porter's mutilated body - apparently he didn't make it to his cabin either. He is then killed by Saw-Tooth having a metal rod shoved into his chin and out through the top of his head. The next morning, everyone discovers they are still snowed in, and Vincent is missing. The gang splits up to look for him, and Jenna witnesses the cannibals cutting Porter up. She runs back to tell the others and they all meet up in the auditorium. Something wrapped in Porter's jacket is thrown at them and Kenia opens it up to reveal Porter's severed head. Screaming and panicking, the group flocks around the door, trying to get out but the doors are locked. The three cannibals-up in the balcony, throw down a strip of barb-wire and loop it around Claire's neck, pulling her up to the balcony. Kyle tries to save her, but it is too late and the barb-wire tightens, severing Claire's head. Horrified, those who are left of them (Kenia, Sara, Bridget, Lauren, Jenna, Kyle and Daniel) run outside and try to escape on their snowmobiles, but the engines won't turn and it is revealed that the cannibals had stripped them of their spark plug wires. Lauren sets off to ski down the mountain to retrieve help and the other six run inside to try to defend themselves.
"Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings" is all sorts of lame. Bad CGI, atrocious acting, and thoroughly unlikable characters are just the start of this film's problems. When will filmmakers realize that when we don't like their characters, we don't care who lives and who dies. When we don't care, the movie is robbed of any and all suspense. Speaking of suspense, it is fairly obvious that ****SPOILER ALERT*** all of our "teen" characters die and all three hillbillies live as we know they were around for the "first" installment. This is just lazy filmmaking all around with some effects that have to be seen to be believed and no I don't mean that as a compliment. Any turn away from the cover box at your local video store is a turn in the right direction.
The film opens in 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium with Dr. Ryan (Arne McPherson) showing a local psychiatrist Dr. Ann McQuaid (Kristen Harris) around the psychiatric hospital. The cannibals from the previous films- One Eye, Three Finger, and Saw Tooth now are locked up in the institution as children. But the cannibals escapes and sets other insane patient free in the hospital. Then cannibals savagely murder an orderly, Guard, Dr. Ryan and Dr. McQuaid. The film then switches to present day where a group of college kids, Kenia (Jennifer Pudavick), lesbian couple Sara (Tenika Davis) and Bridget (Kaitlyn Wong), Lauren (Ali Tataryn), Jenna (Terra Vnesa), and Claire (Samantha Kendrick), along with their guy friends Kyle (Victor Zinck), Vincent (Sean Skene) and Daniel (Dean Armstrong) are going snowmobiling. They are heading to their friend Porter's cabin in the mountains. They get lost in a storm and seek refuge inside the now abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three now adult cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers. The movie makes it unclear as to the whereabouts of rest of patients set free by cannibals.
The group of teenagers explore the asylum, and decide to wait out the storm. After a montage of rolling around in wheelchairs, acting on illegal drugs, drinking booze and acting like teenagers, the storm still hasn't stopped so the teenagers are forced to sleep in the desolate building. In the middle of the night, Vincent, suffering from insomnia, walks around the asylum and finds Porter's mutilated body - apparently he didn't make it to his cabin either. He is then killed by Saw-Tooth having a metal rod shoved into his chin and out through the top of his head. The next morning, everyone discovers they are still snowed in, and Vincent is missing. The gang splits up to look for him, and Jenna witnesses the cannibals cutting Porter up. She runs back to tell the others and they all meet up in the auditorium. Something wrapped in Porter's jacket is thrown at them and Kenia opens it up to reveal Porter's severed head. Screaming and panicking, the group flocks around the door, trying to get out but the doors are locked. The three cannibals-up in the balcony, throw down a strip of barb-wire and loop it around Claire's neck, pulling her up to the balcony. Kyle tries to save her, but it is too late and the barb-wire tightens, severing Claire's head. Horrified, those who are left of them (Kenia, Sara, Bridget, Lauren, Jenna, Kyle and Daniel) run outside and try to escape on their snowmobiles, but the engines won't turn and it is revealed that the cannibals had stripped them of their spark plug wires. Lauren sets off to ski down the mountain to retrieve help and the other six run inside to try to defend themselves.
"Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings" is all sorts of lame. Bad CGI, atrocious acting, and thoroughly unlikable characters are just the start of this film's problems. When will filmmakers realize that when we don't like their characters, we don't care who lives and who dies. When we don't care, the movie is robbed of any and all suspense. Speaking of suspense, it is fairly obvious that ****SPOILER ALERT*** all of our "teen" characters die and all three hillbillies live as we know they were around for the "first" installment. This is just lazy filmmaking all around with some effects that have to be seen to be believed and no I don't mean that as a compliment. Any turn away from the cover box at your local video store is a turn in the right direction.
Crimson snow.
HumanoidOfFlesh1 November 2011
"Wrong Turn 4:Bloody Beginnings" tells the story of a tragic snowmobiling trip in West Virginia that turns into bloody battle for survival.A group of teenagers get pummeled by a massive blizzard,get lost and end up in an old sanitarium where disfigured cannibalistic mutants live and stalk for their prey.So we have Three-Finger,One-Eye and Saw-Tooth butchering and devouring their beautiful victims."Wrong Turn 4" is a downright silly slasher/cannibal flick with plenty of nasty gore on display.A couple of bare breasts is a nice touch.I haven't still "Wrong Turn III" yet,but if you like 'em bloody you can't go wrong with "Bloody Beginnings".7 blizzards out of 10.
Hey, lets go exploring.....
FlashCallahan6 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break.
They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm, and seek shelter in an abandoned sanatorium.
They are completely isolated by the storm and are thankful they can get out of the elements.
But the sanatorium has a troubled past, and some of its former patients still reside there and are not happy about the intrusion.
In a deadly game of cat and mouse, the college kids must fight to survive the night....
The title is misleading, I was expecting some sort of origin story of how the killers came about, but no, it's another stalk and slash movie which just takes a good movies name and tarnishes it.
I don't know whether these are supposed to be college kids, because one of them looks at least forty, and the acting is truly horrific.
There should be some humour in this, just like the second movie, to make it more palatable, but the director must think that we want to see women in bed for the majority of the first act and then just put really bad effects in the mix.
It's devoid of any tension and frights, and it's nothing you haven't seen before, and it turns out to be quite a bad film.
but an extra point for the final scene, which was probably (hopefully) snuff..
They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm, and seek shelter in an abandoned sanatorium.
They are completely isolated by the storm and are thankful they can get out of the elements.
But the sanatorium has a troubled past, and some of its former patients still reside there and are not happy about the intrusion.
In a deadly game of cat and mouse, the college kids must fight to survive the night....
The title is misleading, I was expecting some sort of origin story of how the killers came about, but no, it's another stalk and slash movie which just takes a good movies name and tarnishes it.
I don't know whether these are supposed to be college kids, because one of them looks at least forty, and the acting is truly horrific.
There should be some humour in this, just like the second movie, to make it more palatable, but the director must think that we want to see women in bed for the majority of the first act and then just put really bad effects in the mix.
It's devoid of any tension and frights, and it's nothing you haven't seen before, and it turns out to be quite a bad film.
but an extra point for the final scene, which was probably (hopefully) snuff..
Fun Movie
devinstephens25 October 2011
Fun movie, nothing more nothing less.. Most horror movies now days are cliché, same o same o, but are fun.. this movie is the same.. follows most horror clichés but fun in it's own way. i love the wrong turn series... this is probably the second best of the series. don't expect a deep movie.. if you are looking for that, look elsewhere.. just sit back and relax with a bag of popcorn and have fun..
the movie is very gory and has very original death scenes much like the other movies in this series... the ending however is quite different.. probably one of my favorite horror movie endings in a while. put it this way, I'm glad i stuck around and didn't carry my coke can to the kitchen early because the movie seemed to because over..
all in all, a fun movie... one last bit of information, if you have never seen any movie in this series you will be fine watching this.. there are about 10 mins of the movie at the beginning that i would consider a "prequel " if you have seen the other movies in this series but if you have never seen 1 - 3 you will not be lost at all.. this movie could stand alone..
the movie is very gory and has very original death scenes much like the other movies in this series... the ending however is quite different.. probably one of my favorite horror movie endings in a while. put it this way, I'm glad i stuck around and didn't carry my coke can to the kitchen early because the movie seemed to because over..
all in all, a fun movie... one last bit of information, if you have never seen any movie in this series you will be fine watching this.. there are about 10 mins of the movie at the beginning that i would consider a "prequel " if you have seen the other movies in this series but if you have never seen 1 - 3 you will not be lost at all.. this movie could stand alone..
Really dumb fun
wolverinejmc26 October 2011
Let me begin this review by stating that I Loathed Wrong Turn 3. After two extremely solid entries, I was given Insipid acting, cgi blood from 2002, and characters I couldn't have cared less about. This crap resulted in me wanting to punch through my television. And yet, the thing sold so here we are with part four. Hoping producers realized that they made a mistake with 3, I was all in, until I saw 4 was by the same director. CRAP!! Or is it? Declan O Brian must have known his limits as a film maker, in turn attempting to inject a sense of fun into this entry instead of having idiot prisoners give moral speeches like the last. In varying degrees, he succeeds.
Wrong Turn 4 is stupid. REALLY STUPID. In fact it would take up all the space in this review to encapsulate all the mistakes the characters make throughout. Hell, I'm shocked these people were able to live outside the womb. But O Brian adheres to the hillbilly formula this time, instead of breaking it, and created one hell of a ride. The opening sequence is an astounding array of chaos and PRACTICAl effects and blood, which transforms into sleazy, campus sex with four of our main teens. After said nude introduction, the rest of the cast comes in and a wrong turn to a cabin is made. Put the pieces together. there is not much else to reveal except death spoilers, which I will not partake in. This flick is tailor made for gore-hounds, and they are the ones who ultimately will love this. being a gore-hound myself this film has serious replay value.For casual viewers; friends and a vast amount of beer is necessary for this to be a stupid,bloody,fun as hell romp through The West Virginian snow.
Wrong Turn 4 is stupid. REALLY STUPID. In fact it would take up all the space in this review to encapsulate all the mistakes the characters make throughout. Hell, I'm shocked these people were able to live outside the womb. But O Brian adheres to the hillbilly formula this time, instead of breaking it, and created one hell of a ride. The opening sequence is an astounding array of chaos and PRACTICAl effects and blood, which transforms into sleazy, campus sex with four of our main teens. After said nude introduction, the rest of the cast comes in and a wrong turn to a cabin is made. Put the pieces together. there is not much else to reveal except death spoilers, which I will not partake in. This flick is tailor made for gore-hounds, and they are the ones who ultimately will love this. being a gore-hound myself this film has serious replay value.For casual viewers; friends and a vast amount of beer is necessary for this to be a stupid,bloody,fun as hell romp through The West Virginian snow.
Good gore but little else.
poolandrews30 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Wrong Turn 4 is set in West Virginia as a group of teenage friends head out into the forest wilderness on snowmobiles to find their friends log cabin in order to stay there for a few days of relaxation. With a big snow storm headed straight for them the pressure is on to get to the cabin but they take a 'wrong turn' & become lost, as darkness falls & the temperature plummets the friends think that they have found salvation in an old abandoned sanatorium for the criminally insane & decide to spend the night inside until morning arrives & the storm passes. Once inside they make themselves at home but soon discover that they are not alone, three mutant, inbred cannibalistic brother's called Three Finger, Saw Tooth & One Eye live inside the sanatorium & don't like guest's. The cannibals invite the teenage friends to dinner with themselves as the main course...
This American & German co-production was written & directed by Declan O'Brien & is the fourth entry in the Wrong Turn series of films which I quite like actually, at least they are fairly slick, well made & deliver on the boobs & blood quotient. I have said I once & I will say it again, I am easily pleased & I can't hate any film that features copious amounts of nudity & explicit gore. Having said that Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings isn't the high point in the series, in fact it's maybe the weakest film out of the four along with the previous Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009) which was also directed by Declan O'Brien. Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings hints that it may be a prequel set before the previous three Wrong Turn films & things start in 1974 with the three cannibals locked up as children but after a couple of lines of dialogue detailing that they were found in a forest & that they ate various parts of themselves the prequel idea is completely ditched in favour of another routine slasher effort as the script than jumps to 2003 & concentrates on the unlucky group of teens who become trapped after taking a wrong turn & their grisly demise at the hands of the cannibals. One thing that is apparent after four Wrong Turn films is that the cannibal killers themselves aren't that interesting, they grunt to each other, jump around a bit & eat human flesh but otherwise do very little else & I ended up watching this just waiting for the next kill as the rest of the story is so forgettable. There are some annoyances too, if the asylum was abandoned in 1974 & the film is set in 2003 why is it in such good condition? Why are private medical files still there? Why do things still work? Where's the dust, dirt & decay from nineteen years worth of abandonment? Then there's the scene in which the kids manage to capture the cannibals & lock them in one of the old cells but refuse to kill them & the guy who is supposed to be watching them actually falls asleep despite seeing these guy's torture & literally carve his mate up! Then there's the idea that these teens would find staying in an abandoned sanatorium fun & start having wheelchair races & reading medical files for entertainment purposes. At about 90 minutes long the pace is uneven with a slow build-up but once things kick off it never lets up until the ending which I quite liked actually as it was a bit more downbeat than one expected. Overall Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is nothing original or particularly special with some poor character decision making but it delivers the gore & teenage slasher thrills so if you don't expect too much then I think that this is a perfectly adequate way to waste 90 minutes.
As I already mentioned the one area where Wrong Turn 4: Bloody beginnings really stands out is it's gore scenes which are pretty nasty at times & are only let down by one or two really poor CGI computer effects. Otherwsie this is top notch with double decapitations, a huge power drill shoved through someone's body, a man is graphically quartered with barb wire, a guy's nose is bitten off & a pencil stuck in his eyeball, a guy gets a metal spike stuck through his head, there's a bad CGI scene of a woman getting run over by a snowmobile with fountains of CGI blood that disappear in the next shot & a nasty scene in which a guy is tied to a table with barb wire & then the cannibals cuts huge flaps of skin off his body while he is still alive & eat it before removing his vital internal organs. Add to that plenty of blood splatter, hacked off hands & a gory stabbing Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is one to watch if you like gore. There is some nudity as well with a couple of sex scenes including some lesbianism if that's your thing.
Although set in Virginia this was filmed in Manitoba in Canada on a fairly low budget. There's no great style here & while it's well made it's fairly forgettable & not much to look at, despite the blizzard conditions they aren't used to any great effect. The acting is alright, I can't say I recognise anyone from the cast though.
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings isn't a total disaster since while it is predictable & the story is unoriginal the gore scenes are great & it has that certain big studio polish even if the budget was low. At least it does the gore well because the same can't be said for much else. The other films in the series are the excellent Wrong Turn (2003) & Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) before the average Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead.
This American & German co-production was written & directed by Declan O'Brien & is the fourth entry in the Wrong Turn series of films which I quite like actually, at least they are fairly slick, well made & deliver on the boobs & blood quotient. I have said I once & I will say it again, I am easily pleased & I can't hate any film that features copious amounts of nudity & explicit gore. Having said that Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings isn't the high point in the series, in fact it's maybe the weakest film out of the four along with the previous Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009) which was also directed by Declan O'Brien. Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings hints that it may be a prequel set before the previous three Wrong Turn films & things start in 1974 with the three cannibals locked up as children but after a couple of lines of dialogue detailing that they were found in a forest & that they ate various parts of themselves the prequel idea is completely ditched in favour of another routine slasher effort as the script than jumps to 2003 & concentrates on the unlucky group of teens who become trapped after taking a wrong turn & their grisly demise at the hands of the cannibals. One thing that is apparent after four Wrong Turn films is that the cannibal killers themselves aren't that interesting, they grunt to each other, jump around a bit & eat human flesh but otherwise do very little else & I ended up watching this just waiting for the next kill as the rest of the story is so forgettable. There are some annoyances too, if the asylum was abandoned in 1974 & the film is set in 2003 why is it in such good condition? Why are private medical files still there? Why do things still work? Where's the dust, dirt & decay from nineteen years worth of abandonment? Then there's the scene in which the kids manage to capture the cannibals & lock them in one of the old cells but refuse to kill them & the guy who is supposed to be watching them actually falls asleep despite seeing these guy's torture & literally carve his mate up! Then there's the idea that these teens would find staying in an abandoned sanatorium fun & start having wheelchair races & reading medical files for entertainment purposes. At about 90 minutes long the pace is uneven with a slow build-up but once things kick off it never lets up until the ending which I quite liked actually as it was a bit more downbeat than one expected. Overall Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is nothing original or particularly special with some poor character decision making but it delivers the gore & teenage slasher thrills so if you don't expect too much then I think that this is a perfectly adequate way to waste 90 minutes.
As I already mentioned the one area where Wrong Turn 4: Bloody beginnings really stands out is it's gore scenes which are pretty nasty at times & are only let down by one or two really poor CGI computer effects. Otherwsie this is top notch with double decapitations, a huge power drill shoved through someone's body, a man is graphically quartered with barb wire, a guy's nose is bitten off & a pencil stuck in his eyeball, a guy gets a metal spike stuck through his head, there's a bad CGI scene of a woman getting run over by a snowmobile with fountains of CGI blood that disappear in the next shot & a nasty scene in which a guy is tied to a table with barb wire & then the cannibals cuts huge flaps of skin off his body while he is still alive & eat it before removing his vital internal organs. Add to that plenty of blood splatter, hacked off hands & a gory stabbing Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is one to watch if you like gore. There is some nudity as well with a couple of sex scenes including some lesbianism if that's your thing.
Although set in Virginia this was filmed in Manitoba in Canada on a fairly low budget. There's no great style here & while it's well made it's fairly forgettable & not much to look at, despite the blizzard conditions they aren't used to any great effect. The acting is alright, I can't say I recognise anyone from the cast though.
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings isn't a total disaster since while it is predictable & the story is unoriginal the gore scenes are great & it has that certain big studio polish even if the budget was low. At least it does the gore well because the same can't be said for much else. The other films in the series are the excellent Wrong Turn (2003) & Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) before the average Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead.
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