Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

2007 "Evil Awaits."
5.4| 1h36m| R| en
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Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
FlashCallahan Retired Colonal Dale Murphy is hosting a tough survivor show where the winner takes $ 100,000.00. The proposal of the reality show is to survive in the woods in the most adverse conditions, following predetermined rules. Soon the contestants find that they are really fighting to survive against a strong, sadistic and violent cannibalistic family. Colonel Dale discloses that many years ago, an abandoned pulp mill released chemical waste into the creek, killing the animals and transforming the descendants of a local family in deformed mutants. Without animals to hunt or fish to catch, the next generation chases travellers to feed themselves.......The first Wrong Turn was a surprisingly effective horror movie which felt like a throwback to early Craven horror, and was a breath of fresh air in cinemas that were rife with gore laden horror remakes.So it was inevitable that somewhere down the line there would be a sequel of some sorts, but alarm bells always ring when the film is a straight to DVD release, especially when Hollow Man 2, Single White Female 2, The Net 2.0, and 8mm 2 were released around the same time.So its good news that it's an impressive sequel, and doesn't tarnish the original one bit (which the same cannot be said for the other entries in this franchise).It has novelty value by adding the element of reality TV in the mix, and while it doesn't add anything to the narrative, it gives the film an excuse to have pretty people in the woods for a second time.Characters are as predictable as you would expect from a movie like this. Flesh revealing harlots,cheating boyfriends, and divas all get their just Desserts, and the film is spectacularly disgusting in several parts, particularly the opening scene.But what really puts this film above other STDVD horrors, is the wonderful humour injected in the script, because it's laugh out loud funny at times, which does help when you realise that it's not exactly a scare fest.It's easily the best sequel of the five that have been released, and it remains faithful to the first movie.
Lambysalamby Oh my God, where to begin with this one. It actually had a decent concept to begin with but had the worst execution possible. The idea of this one was to have the victims on a survivor type show. This idea could have given a wealth of ideas and concepts but everything was absolutely terrible. I cannot believe there are people here rating the film so highly. I've seen almost 1600 films and this is probably the worst I have seen out of all of those! (the only film I can think coming close to it is Tusk)It had: TERRIBLE actors, TERRIBLE characters. TERRIBLE makeup, TERRIBLE dialogue, TERRIBLE music, TERRIBLE ideas.Its F'n TERRIBLE MURIAL!Overall Opinion: Avoid this like the plague! Oh my good God.
loomis78-815-989034 Hey! What would be a better setting for a new Reality survival series than the heavy backwoods of West Virginia where the original Hillbilly cannibals from the first film killed everything in sight? A film crew and their actor contestants make this fatal choice and more hillbilly cannibals show up and kill them off. From the opening scene, which has blond Hollywood contestant Kimberly (Kimberly Caldwell) being literally split in half down the middle; Director Joe Lynch sets out to make this sequel a gore fest that out does the original. Lynch does achieve his sick out goal of out doing the original in gore but he fails to deliver a superior film. The original "Wrong Turn" has some stomach turning moments for sure, but it also delivered great suspense, and some classic jump scares. The film also provided some characters that the audience liked and could pull for. This film offers Herny Rollins as an ex-military man doing his Rambo impersonation while the hapless actors and crew get easily killed and picked apart by the hillbillies. It takes a while, but eventually the audience can get behind the characters of Nina (Leerhsen) and Jake (Battle) and that helps a bit since most of the characters here are very stereotyped. The acting and production value are good and the film looks good. Where Wrong Turn 2 makes its wrong turn is in its over the top attempt to gross out the audience. Yes it's a horror film, but the excessive gore becomes the entire point of the film and takes away from any true terror the film can manufacture. It's hard to tell if it's intentional or not, but there is a dining room scene the echoes the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Nina is being force fed human remains in a tasteless scene that is hard to watch. This isn't scary, just disgusting. The filmmakers here would have benefited by watching Tobe Hooper's Texas diner scene and realize that what made it so terrifying was its style, editing and suggestion. Wrong Turn 2 would have been a better film with some subtlety.
acidburn-10 Normally I stay away from straight to DVD movies, especially sequels because they are usually terrible and cheap looking and awful acting. But when I came across "Wrong Turn 2" I was actually eager to see it, as I really liked the first one and I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. They really upped the ante with this one, we get more deaths and more splatter which I really enjoyed. The storyline in this one, we get a group of people filming a reality show which was rather fun and interesting, and I could tell from the opening death a woman sliced in half is that this movie was gonna be awesome. I was a bit sceptical at the reality show setting as in the past when slasher movies have tried this, they usually don't really work, but in this it works to full effect and plus we get more inbred mutants to add to the fun. But there are a few drawbacks in this movie, like firstly it does lack the tension and atmosphere the first movie had and instead opting for more blood splatter and gore, and the fact that we see way too much of the mutants which did take away the overall terror and this movie was still fun and slick.The acting in this was actually not what I expected, it was really good. Henry Rollins was fun as the ex-marine turning Rambo without being ridiculous. Erica Leerhsen really gives it her all and comes across as one of the more fleshed out characters in this movie and Texas Battle also really stood out and believable as he turns hero throughout the latter half of the movie. Daniella Alonso also gives a stand out performance as the female army soldier. Steve Braun plays the joker of pack pretty well, Crystal Lowe was gorgeous playing the token slutty character but she played the part really well and I also enjoyed her in the (Black X-Mas remake), Aleksa Palladino made me really feel for her as the put upon plain girl whose treated like dirt and I felt sad when her time ended as she didn't get the opportunity to get her own back and Matthew Currie Holmes was extremely unlikeable and self absorbed but he did it well.All in all "Wrong Turn 2" is fun fast paced and slick all the right ingredients for a sequel, it's a pity that the further sequels doesn't follow suit.