Wrong Turn is an American slasher film series created by director Rob Schmidt[1] and writers Alan B. McElroy, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (uncredited).[2] The original script is similar to The X-Files episode "Home".[3] The series consists of seven films, five of which share the same continuity, while the later two films are served as a reboot. The films originally focus on various families of deformed cannibals who hunt and kill a group of people in West Virginia in horrific ways by using a mixture of traps and weaponry. The reboot film features a centuries-old cult in Virginia who respond violently to outsiders who intrude on their self-sufficient civilization. The film series became known primarily as a direct-to-video franchise grossing $21.8 million in home sales.
In the first film, a group of six individuals are stalked by One Eye, Saw Tooth, and Three Finger. Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) is forced to make a detour after a chemical spill on the road. He makes a wrong turn and crashes into another vehicle which had already fallen victim to one of the mountain men's road traps. While searching for help in the cabin belonging to the three monstrous mountain men, they are hunted down one by one. At the end, Chris and Jessie Burlingame (Eliza Dushku) survive.
The second film introduces new cannibals: Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. Three Finger and the Old Man are the only returning characters from the first film. This time, the cannibals hunt down a group of reality show contestants who are taking part in a survival reality tv show.
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead features a group of prison officers and convicts. The returning character Three Finger causes the transport bus to crash, allowing the convicts to escape and take the surviving prison officers, Nate (Tom Frederic) and Walter (Chucky Venn) prisoner. While fleeing, the convicts and their prisoners stumble across a lost truck which had been transporting thousands of dollars, as well as Alex Miles (Janet Montgomery), who has been lost in the woods since Three Finger killed the rest of her friends. Eventually, Three Toes (Three Finger's nephew) is killed by Chavez. Three Finger finds Three Toes's severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. The one remaining surviving convict, Brandon, convinces Nate of his innocence, and is set free. Nate returns later to the truck to steal the money that Chavez wanted. But Brandon shoots him in the back with a bow and arrow and takes the money for himself. An unknown cannibal comes up behind Brandon and bludgeons him with a crude club killing him and leaving Alex the only survivor in the film.
This film provides the back story to the three original killers and shows their childhood. It also shows the three brothers story. The story focuses on a group of nine teenagers who take a wrong turn while riding their snowmobiles and are looking for their cabin. They end up in an old abandoned insane asylum which is still inhabited by Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye. The friends decide to spend the night in the insane asylum and they are attacked by the hilker brothers. By the end of the film, all nine teenagers are dead. The film served as a prequel to the first film.
It is revealed that Maynard is a serial killer who has been on the run for over thirty years, and is now in cahoots with the three cannibal brothers. He repeatedly refers to them as 'my boys' and his kin. Throughout the course of the film, the brothers attempt to break Maynard out of jail and kill off the college students and Sheriff Angela Carter (Camilla Arfwedson), while the rest of the town is at the festival. The film ends with Maynard and the three brothers escaping with the blinded young college student Lita (Roxanne McKee) as a captive.
In the sixth installment, Danny (Anthony Ilott) discovers his long lost family as he takes his friends to Hobb Springs, a Forgotten resort deep into the West Virginia Hills. Danny then has to choose between his family or his friends as they are being killed by his family one by one. The film doesn't follow the continuity of its predecessors and serves as a reboot instead.[4][5]
Internationally known as Wrong Turn: The Foundation, the second reboot film follows six friends hiking on the Appalachian Trail who become hunted by the Foundation when they inadvertently intrude on the community's land.[6]
The Wrong Turn film series has featured several different cannibals. All of the cannibals are hostile toward the characters they encounter, showing no remorse for their victims. The cannibals are portrayed as mute, but show the ability to communicate with each other. They also show the mental capability to operate machinery and vehicles. The cannibals stay with each other in groups and appear to be the result of inbreeding.
Three Finger is the main antagonist of the Wrong Turn film series. He is a cannibal with great physical deformity caused by toxic chemicals he was exposed to at birth, alongside his two brothers. He is a skilled trap maker, crafting his traps so well that they often kill his victims before he can enact horrific acts of violence upon them.
Saw Tooth, like his two brothers, first appears in Wrong Turn (2003). He is the biggest and strongest of the family and appears to be the leader of his branch of his family as he is the older brother to Three Finger and One Eye. He is killed at the end of the first film and does not appear again until the first prequel, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines and then Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort.
One Eye, the least harmful of the three, first appears in Wrong Turn (2003). Just like Saw Tooth, he dies in the first film, and does not make another appearance until the fourth, fifth and sixth film.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End introduces a family of four cannibals called Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. The two young siblings are shown to have an incestuous relationship; Sister even gets extremely jealous and angry when she catches Brother masturbating while spying on a human girl. Ma gives birth to a mutant baby before she (and the rest of her family) is killed. The second film ends with Three Finger caring for the baby. The baby becomes known as Three Toes in Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. Three Toes is killed by a group of convicts, and his head left as a warning. Three Finger finds Three Toes' severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. In the third film's ending, another cannibal shows up, killing Brandon. The sixth film introduces Sally, Danny, and Jackson.
The Wrong Turn (2021) reboot introduces the Foundation, a self-sufficient civilization who have lived on the Appalachian Trail since the 19th century. They are hostile to any outsiders intruding on their secluded community.
But seriously: Some occasional heavy drinking and inebriation also serves a purpose; first-hand knowledge of what you study yields unique insights and ideas born of experience. Or as I like to say, debauchery fuels science.
Stop 4: Back to downtown. At my building, a soulless place atop a Whole Foods, my young female charges declined my offer to keep the party going, opting to do the responsible thing on a Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. and head home to go to bed. They deposited me and the half-empty bottle on the curb.
Until I made the mistake of becoming a dean, the bulk of my career involved studying alcohol. Not in the smart-ass college frat boy kind of way. Not in the jocular homeless dude holding a handwritten sign reading \u201CSupport My Alcohol Research\u201D way either. As a social scientist, or more aptly, a \u201Cfield alcohologist,\u201D I study how people drink alcohol in situ\u2014the complex and dynamic relationship between drinkers and their environments. A good deal of my work occurs in bars.
My niche is small. Perhaps a hundred or so other researchers sit on the same bar stool. Many of us chose this field because it is so damned interesting and transcends disciplinary boundaries. I\u2019ve always appreciated how literature often reflects what science tells us so well. Relative to science, no writer described drunkenness and drinking in bars better than Charles Bukowski.
I had spent the prior 15 years running several research centers focused on drinking. I had fun doing it. I studied how much old people drank in a retirement home using a bogus recycling program; I did a study of a 180 college parties\u2026Now, I fought with faculty over who would get the window office when some old windbag retired or went to that great ivory tower in the sky. Being in LA, a bit miserable in the direction my career was heading, missing my bar research days, I rounded up my younger charges and headed to Hollywood in search of Bukowski\u2019s old haunts.
Stop 1: The Frolic Room looked the part. Fifty years ago, it was the real deal. If a movie studio redid the d\u00E9cor, they did it well. Pure late 1960s vibe\u2014large red and blue plastic light disks on a wall, old murals, a simple wooden bar, backlit pedestrian liquor bottles, the alcoholic\u2019s version of Christmas lights. The vintage TV playing a soundless John Wayne western to Jason Isbell on the house system was too much, but central casting did well with the loud crying women in the shitter, and the Perry Farrell lookalike barkeep, open shirt showing off a rosary tattoo ending just above his waxed navel. The tourist crowd made it a one whiskey stop.
Stop 2: Musso and Frank came next. Musso seemed a clich\u00E9 tribute to old Hollywood, except it is old Hollywood. Her maroon leather booths and bar stools sniffed many a famous ass over the decades. As I sat at the bar with my young and thirsty charges, the din of tourists wondering if that woman in the bar was \u201Cher, the girl in that Netflix thing,\u201D mixed with the conversation of two people who actually produced a different Netflix show. Dark polished wood, moody lighting, and the savory aroma of dusty celluloid and roasted prime beef screamed authenticity. A three drink stop.
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