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I loved the original WRONG TURN and thought the sequel WRONG TURN 2:DEAD END was even better. However, WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD is not very good at all.

*Characters that you think are going to be vital (Three Toe, the Latino cop pretending to be a convict, the female deputy) are literally discarded a scene or two after they're introduced.

*There's only one cannibal killer (Three Finger) in the whole movie AND he seems to have suddenly developed the ability to teleport around the (strangely bright!) night-time woods at will.

*Two survivors go completely against their established characters for a gratuitously mean and grim-ended coda.

*The acting is pretty bad. Several British actors play American characters, and drop their accents in the middle of scenes Janet Montgomery plays basically the same character she played in the (far superior) HILLS RUN RED- her character exists solely to scream, cry, look like Selma Hayek and be placed in peril to get rescued by the hero.

The gore is far too reliant on CGI- the amateurish, obvious computer effects completely ruin the kills; it's also painfully obvious that characters "driving" are being subject to some woeful rear-projection CGI as well.

Poor writing, poor execution (and poor executions!) and woeful, overly digital gore. The sole high point in the film is Tom Frederic, who is the only good actor in the picture and manages to turn in a good, likable performance with a convincing accent.

If there is a WRONG TURN 4, I suggest bringing back Joe Lynch. At least he knows what he's doing...

This franchise continues leaving a lot to be desired. So much room for potential never taken. Some special effects were clever, but most ho-hum. A group of friends rafting rapids and survivors of a crashed bus load of convicts fight for their lives in the deep back woods of West Virginia. A family of hideously deformed cannibals led by their inbred leader known as Three-Finger(Boris Illiev)stalk the group of lost travelers in the woods. Very easy to tell this film is budget challenged. The story does get a bit gory, but mostly is very predictable. My favorite scene is of a victim being sliced in thirds...head to crotch.

Cast members include: Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Tamer Hassan, Emma Clifford and Gil Kolrin.

Having seen the first two in the series I though I'd chance on Wrong Turn 3 when it was shown on a cable station recently. Oh well, you win some you lose some.

I knew that Wrong Turn 3 had been made for video so did not have any great expectations but it was quite clear that the producers had no real link with their predecessors in the franchise. The first Wrong Turns gave as much screen time to the mutants as the main characters and certainly Wrong Turn 2 gave some development as to why and how the mutants came to be, even though this was also a straight to video offering. Also the first two films were story driven with the first being an old fashion 'teens get lost' premise whereas the second was a satire on the reality survivor shows which seem to fill the schedules these days. It was clearly a cheaper affair but the writers clearly had some nouse and added lightness to the script that Wrong Turn 3 misses completely.

It was no surprise to find that, according to IMDb, Connor James Delaney has not had his name attached to any other production since he got a pay cheque for this effort. If he got paid by the expletive he did quite well out of the deal. If he got paid for a coherent story then he is probably still paying backing the producers for breach of contract.

Wrong Turn 3 quite clearly does not have the budget of its predecessors and this probably explains why the majority of the story takes place at night to hide the limited production values. The cast is the regular mix of B-movie unknowns with my interest only piqued by an early US role for Janet Montgomery whose American accent holds up better than the rest of the UK based cast whose accent drift around the world as they deliver mono syllabic lines interspersed with tiresome fight scenes, all the better for the fact that their white t-shirts are splattered with red 'blood' as they have been fighting with a meat grinder.

And the story, for what it is, involves a group of inmates who are being transferred to another penitentiary early to prevent a planned break out. On their way they get knocked off the road by our friendly mutants and the rest is the standard run of the mill 'which one do you think will make it to the end' storyline. The writer and director add to the overall boredom by creating tension between the lead inmate Chavez (Tamer Hassan) and his nemesis Floyd (Gil Kolirin). The end result is that there is no tension. It is the constant third rate banter between these two as others around them die in fairly average fashion that makes this film very boring indeed. It is like watching two old blokes arguing over a wet paper bag.

Declan O'Brien clearly has an agenda to fill in his role as director, and I see as writer of Wrong Turns 4 and 5, but this agenda does not include engaging with the audience.

This is poor fare and if you have to waste 90 minutes of your time there are better ways to do so.

Wrong Turn 1 made history (at least in my books), Wrong Turn 2 bettered it in many ways thereby raising expectations, According to me, Wrong Turn 2 ranked up with the best horror movies of all time.

"Wrong Turn 3 - a blunder in all departments of movie making."

What were the producers, script-writers and especially the directors thinking or were they even thinking.

Pros - 8 out of 10 kills were nicely done. Intensely graphical but hey thats wrong turn (movie) for you.

Cons - (Rated on Mistake Intensity - Minimal, OK, Bad, Worst) 1. Topless show kinda cute but unnecessary for the scene.(Mistake Intensity - Minimal)

2. Just the 2 hill billies. (Mistake Intensity - Bad)

3. Actors acting except for Janet Montgomery. (Mistake Intensity - Worst). Question #1, can these actors act ???

4. Kills looked unreal. (Mistake Intensity - WORST) Sophie's kill was nice but not of her BFs.

DO YOU GUYS NEED A SPECIAL EFFECT SPECIALIST?

5.In one of the scenes, Alex is punched by Chavez, she falls and when Nate tries to get her back up on her feet, from nowhere she just stands tall, like nothing happened, YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!

5. According to a few comments on this movie, Tamer Hasan can be idolized. Dude, he seriously lacks acting skills - at least in this movie. No facial expressions, every time he sees the hill billy, he raises his hands as if he wants to fly. Gosh! Does he know how to hold a shotgun?

6. NO STORY.

**Things that could have been considered on the drawing table -

1. Start the 3rd movie from where the 2nd one ended.

2. CARS USED - Wrong Turn 2 had a convertible Mustang whereas Wrong Turn 3 has a Chevy Prison bus which looks old (90's stuff). County sheriff's using 80's police SUV. Gimme a break. POINT IS, use stuff belonging to the year the movie is made in.

3. JUNGLE - Wrong Turn 1 had a pretty awesome jungle area. Wrong Turn 2 made me feel like the next trip to US should be to that jungle. Wrong Turn 3 made me laugh, is that what u call a forest. (sarcasm intended)

4. MOVIE QUALITY - WT2 looked "REAL". WT3 looks STUDIO MADE.

5. ACTING - Are cops that friendly to inmates, or were the actors just showcasing over professionalism. Guys watch "The Longest Yard" to know how a cop should behave, at least with top priority inmates.

I can go on and on and on...

BOTTOMLINE - GOD SAVE US FROM SUCH DRASTIC MOVIES (+ MOVIE MAKERS).

Several campers and a group of escaped convicts both run afoul of a vicious hillbilly cannibal mutant (Borislav Iliev in funky grotesque make-up) in the deep West Virginia backwoods.

Director Declan O'Brien relates the enjoyably dopey story at a brisk pace, makes nice use of the beautiful sylvan locations, delivers oodles of savage violence and outrageously in-your-face graphic gore, and even sprinkles in some tasty gratuitous female nudity for trashy good measure. Moreover, it's decently acted by the competent cast: Tom Frederic as eager prison guard Nate, Janet Montgomery as the spunky Alex, Tamer Hassan as the ruthless Chavez, Gil Kolirin as the brutish Floyd, Jake Curran as wormy car thief Crawford, Christian Contreras as undercover cop Willy, and Charles Venn as the easygoing Walter. However, this film does suffer from some painfully cruddy CGI effects, terrible tin-eared dialogue, a by-the-numbers predictable narrative, and a crippling dearth of tension. That said, this flick overall still passes muster as a fair amount of perfectly nasty'n'gruesome entertainment.

This third sequel of the Wrong Turn Series does have a lot of flaws. A group of convicts and a police officer are trapped in the backwoods of West Virgina hunted by a family of cannibalistic hillbillies. First I have seen a lot reviews saying this sequel sucks. I somewhat disagree because I actually enjoyed this movie. I thought it was better than the second and I'm not lying. Most of the deaths were low budget CGI effects, but I thought they worked okay. The constant profanity did tick me off a bit. The forest setting looked believable. The acting however is a huge concern. The only three actors who gave a good performance were Tamer Hassan as "Chavez", Tom Fredric as "Nate", and Gil Kolirin as "Floyd". The rest couldn't act for sh*t. Nonetheless I did enjoy this movie. It deserves a chance to be viewed.

I suppose as sequels to sequels to straight to video horror movies go this isn't the worst of the lot. The writing, especially the dialog is horrible, and I might add completely racist. This is one of those movies during which you can't help screaming at the screen: "Just shoot him already!" The victims have about a dozen chances to shoot the bad guy but of course they don't do it. Nothing makes any sense, every decision the characters make is completely absurd, and the acting is so bad it nearly reaches the point of funny. But what makes up for it is some pretty gory special effects, including: top of head cut off so that we see brain, plenty of impalings through mouth and out various body parts, arrow through the boob, man wrapped in razor wire being dragged to death by a tow truck, body sliced from head to foot in three pieces, and face completely chopped off. You don't watch a movie called Wrong Turn 3 Left For Dead to see the Oscar winning performances; you watch it to see the gore, and on that level this one certainly does deliver. Too bad the inbred three toed cannibal creature looks like a guy wearing a Halloween mask.