Kenneth English
Second Unit
- Joined
- Sep 29, 1999
- Messages
- 418
INBRED MUTANT HILLBILLY CANNIBALS KICKED MY ASS! (And I Loved It!)
Just got back from seeing this. Two words: Damned Good. Loved every minute of it! Now don't get me wrong here -- it's not a great film by any means but damned if Schmidt, Winston and McElroy didn't deliver in fine style.
Wrong Turn is what it is. And that may be the most surprising and refreshing thing about it. It doesn't pretend to be (or really try to be) anything but a lean, mean, down-and-dirty slasher flick. It's totally unpretentious and sticks to business for the entire lightning-quick 85 minutes of its running time.
In this day and age of asinine pseudo-horror films made by people who don't have any respect for the genre (and seem to feel that they're above it) it's nice to see a movie that's the goods, the whole goods and nothing but the goods.
Bottom line: Wrong Turn gets the job done with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of efficiency and tension. And that's a hell of a lot more than can be said for any other recent so-called "horror" film. In a world where movies like Resident Evil, Event Horizon, Jeepers Creepers and Scream 1-3 are the best that Hollywood can do, a movie like Wrong Turn is almost a revelation.
I can't wait to see it again.
Just got back from seeing this. Two words: Damned Good. Loved every minute of it! Now don't get me wrong here -- it's not a great film by any means but damned if Schmidt, Winston and McElroy didn't deliver in fine style.
Wrong Turn is what it is. And that may be the most surprising and refreshing thing about it. It doesn't pretend to be (or really try to be) anything but a lean, mean, down-and-dirty slasher flick. It's totally unpretentious and sticks to business for the entire lightning-quick 85 minutes of its running time.
In this day and age of asinine pseudo-horror films made by people who don't have any respect for the genre (and seem to feel that they're above it) it's nice to see a movie that's the goods, the whole goods and nothing but the goods.
Bottom line: Wrong Turn gets the job done with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of efficiency and tension. And that's a hell of a lot more than can be said for any other recent so-called "horror" film. In a world where movies like Resident Evil, Event Horizon, Jeepers Creepers and Scream 1-3 are the best that Hollywood can do, a movie like Wrong Turn is almost a revelation.
I can't wait to see it again.