31 Days of Horror 2023 Day 29 Wrong Turn (2021)

 

TITLE-Wrong Turn(2021)

SOURCE-Paramount Plus Streaming

Covered some of the previous Wrong Turns in 31 Days of Horror years before. Been wanting to see this reboot and when I added the Showtime addon to my P+ sub I saw it was streaming.

A bunch of college age young adults are hiking through rural West Virginia. They are warned many times to "Stick to the trail".

Of course they don't. And start running into multiple traps. Hell yea time to see some inbred cannibals attacking. NOPE. TWIST TIME FOLKS.

The family this time in the woods are more old English stuck in 1700s style folks. They kill anyone that enters their domain.

After the college kids get captured most die. But our lead lady manages to work out a deal to save her and her boyfriend.

Skip ahead a few months. Matthew Modine,remember him?,is the lead lady's father and he is searching for her.

He finds her. And through a bunch of stuff they manage to escape.

Skip ahead a few months. Our lead lady is entering her home and sees the leader of the woods family in her home. She agrees to leave with him,seems she is pregnant with his child. Credits start to roll. But don't stop the movie yet. Nope our lead crashes the RV and slaughters the evil West Virginia family. And the end.

Wow wasn't expecting this much of a change. But get why they did it. Keep hearing their might be  a sequel. Hope so.

Wrong Turn(2021) gets a C+

31 Days of Horror 2020 Day 16 Wrong Turn 2 UNRATED

 

TITLE-Wrong Turn 2 Dead End

SOURCE-20th Century Fox DVD set

Back in the spring of this year I was looking for stuff to watch. Found at a local store a pack with the first 6 Wrong Turn films in it. Having already seen the first 2 film,and already owning the first one,plus the 6 film set being right at 10 bucks I grabbed it.Get home open it up and it is what I figured.Repacked discs from all these films solo releases. So that means films 2 thru 6 are unrated. 

Before sitting down to watch Wrong Turn 2 I had seen it maybe 2 times. But both times I caught it on Syfy channel. Which means of course I saw the film chopped to shreds. Getting a chance to see it uncut and unrated was a nice experience.

Directed by Joe Lynch,who I knew from his short in Chillerama,this is a interesting way to continue the Wrong Turn franchise. Set out in the backwoods of West Virginia,which is a scary scary place,we have Henry Rollins as the host of a reality show. Kinda a Survivor that has more of a military feel.

Rollins plays Dale Murphy. Love how good Henry is at playing these meathead roles. Like when he was a cop in The Chase. Or the White Power Skinhead guy on that season of Sons of Anarchy. Rollins is great and playing roles that are total opposites of him. And yea I've been a fan of Rollins since I discovered his time in Black Flag back in the mid 80s. 

The only other member of the cast I knew is Erica Leerhsen. Took a bit before I remembered what I had seen Erica in previously. She was the hitchhiker in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. Plus played the wiccan lady in Book of Shadows:Blair Witch 2". Kinda surprised she hasn't had bigger roles in cinema. She is a good actress and appears to work often. But it is small stuff that few see.

And I can't not mention the best name I have seen in a credits list in years. TEXAS BATTLE!! And it is the guy's real name. He appears to mostly be a soap opera actor. But that name is great. TEXAS BATTLE!!! Sounds like a old cheap western. Or maybe an early 80s Italian Mad Max ripoff with George Eastman.

So we got our reality show people out in the backwoods. And the inbred mutant hillbilly family from the first film trying to kill them. Like in the first film the FX work is really good. Looks to be 90% practical effects. Like that they made sure to bring back Three Finger from the first film.

Now the first Wrong Turn came out in 2003,cost a bit over 12 million and made right at 28 million from the box office. Plus who knows what it did on home video. So 4 years later Wrong Turn 2 hit theaters for what appears to be a 1 month limited run. Costing 4 million,I can't find how much the film made in it's short theatrical run. But saw that it hit home video about a month after theaters and made 9 million on home video. That is a damn good for a pretty much DTV horror. And explains why they made a 3rd,4th,5th,6th and I think a 7th film.

The FX work is good. The main members of the cast are all good actors/actresses. And I liked how they kinda spoofed the reality show tropes.

Wrong Turn 2 Dead End Unrated gets a B.

31 Days of Horror 2020 Day 03 Trailer Park Shark

TITLE-Trailer Park Shark
SOURCE-DVD

Last year while looking at used media at a thrift I found Trailer Park Shark. Saw the title and that it stars Tara Reid and Dennis "Mr Belding"Haskins so grabbed it.

Made in 2017 this modern piece of Sharkploitation cinema was directed by Griff Furst. Who is best known for directing stuff like Swamp Shark,Atomic Shark and Ghost Shark.

The Soggey Meadows Trailer Park gets badly flooded. Causing the residents to end up on top of their mobile homes. And with all that water there is also a shark.

Pretty sure this debuted on SyFy channel on Saturday night. And it feels like one of the many Sharkploitation films you would see groups like NuImage or say The Asylum pump out.

Now of course with this being low budget Tara Reid's part is a cameo basically. But she at least supplies the residents of Soggey Meadows with weapons to fight off the sharks. Dennis Haskins is our villain and he is pretty good playing the role.

As long as you go into this movie knowing you are gonna get a low budget Sharkploitation film you should enjoy it. There is much much worst Sharkploitation films. But there is also much better Sharkploitation films. This one at least realizes it has a crappy premise and runs with that.

Trailer Park Shark gets a C+.