I saw Wrong Turn quite a few years ago, it was a decent slasher film that despite it's clichés and typical characters, it was good enough to get by. Then a second one was released and believe it or not, it was actually good…heck, it was better than the first! It was one of those movies that was so outrageous it was just a good time. Then for some reason they decided to make these films into a series/franchise with a third Wrong Turn. The film really didn't work, it had some good gore effects, but the characters were lacking and to be honest the villains are not that scary. I mean, inbred cannibals are not exactly high on the boogeyman lists. Besides, we already had Deliverance, wasn't that enough touch on crazy inbreeds? But still, giving the third one some credit, at least it wasn't… Wrong Turn 4! You think the characters were horrible in the third film, just wait till you hear about these morons.

In 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium, Dr. Brendan Ryan is showing a local psychiatrist around the psychiatric hospital and shows her three young cannibals: Three-Finger, Saw-Tooth & One-Eye. Before they leave, the cannibals escape and set the other patients free in the hospital. The cannibals then torture and murder Dr. Ryan & the other visitors. In the future, Kenia, Sara and Bridget along with their friends Claire, boyfriend Kyle, Jenna boyfriend Vincent, Lauren, and boyfriend Daniel are going snowmobiling, heading to Kenia's boyfriend Porter's cabin in the mountains. Before they get there, they get lost in the snowstorm forcing them to find shelter in the abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers.

So let me tell you about this film really, the characters are beyond obnoxious…like incredibly to the point where you're wishing they'd die annoying! They are a cliché in getting lost in the middle of no where with a blizzard and decide to go into an abandoned hospital where the lights are still somehow working. I guess the inbreeds may be inept of any rational thought but can manage to keep a hospital going? Not only that, but how is it the doctor victims they killed earlier, their families never bothered looking for them at their work? OK, let's give the suspension of disbelief. So then what do our group of protagonists decide to do in their time of trying to figure a way to get back to safety? Let's smoke weed, get drunk and have a ton of sex! Of course the inbreeds get ahold of them and start the killing spree…they are all facing one way in an auditorium, the blonde girl gets a barbed wire(where do the inbreeds get barbed wire? I do not know) around her throat and as everyone turns around in horror, her boyfriend grabs her by the feet trying to pull her down while there's barbed wire around her neck and acts totally surprised when her blood is pouring down on him and she gets decapitated. Then what good friends this guy has, they run off and leave him! All we needed was the Benny Hill music playing during this scene, it would've been much better.

Then one of the guys gets captured by the inbreeds and while he's screaming hysterically for his life as the inbreeds are eating him alive…what does our group of heroes decide to do? Go and save him? No, let's have a 10 minute conversation first and vote and then when going to go save him, let's pause every five seconds to let his flesh get eaten even more. Then when they do find him, let's make a fondue joke about it and surprise, he dies because of your time management skills! Then they capture the inbreeds and decide to burn them alive, no! The lead hero of our group tells the guy to not burn them and not sink to the inbred's level…yeah, because they had so much consideration for you and your friends. So she's the reason for all the deaths in the previous films! Some hero we're supposed to be rooting for! It gets worse from there, I have to cut my comment here, but bottom line, please stay away from this film. There is nothing redeeming about this movie, it's bad writing, bad characters and just plain a bad movie.

1/10

WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS is the latest sequel in a franchise that nobody asked for. As the title would suggest, this is a prequel of sorts, although it's not really. The first five minutes is set in the 1970s but then the rest of the film skips to the early 2000s so the prequel aspect becomes a bit pointless. The only change here is that the setting is a derelict hospital rather than the woods.

In any case, this is the worst WRONG TURN yet. Everything about the film is horrible: the bad acting from the inexperienced cast members, the rubbish dialogue that spouts from their lips, and the ridiculously stupid decisions that these characters make. This time around they have three mutant brothers to contend with, but the film fails to be the least bit menacing.

Instead the producers up the gore quotient, along with some explicit sex scenes that make this resemble a porno at times. Unfortunately WRONG TURN 4 veers into the torture porn category with one extended set-piece involving a victim being strapped down while parts of his body are eaten, and this is unpleasant indeed. It makes the other extreme death scenes feel like a relief. As a whole, this is a real comedown from WRONG TURN 3, which was at least fun and action-packed and nowhere near as mean spirited.

I just saw Wrong Turn 4 last night at Screamfest, at Mann's Chinese Theater here in Hollywood. The director, Declan O'Brien, introduced the film, and the cast was in the audience as well. I am a fan of Wrong Turn 1 (I own it) & 2, so I was happy to get to see direct to video film on the big screen. "Bloody Beginnings" starts off in 1982 in a sanatorium in West Virginia. After the opening sequence, which explains where 3 Finger and the gang came from, it fast forwards to 2003. Now in 2003, insert some nudity (great tits on the 3 sexy actresses, thumbs up) and some friends with snow mobiles decide to head out into a snowstorm, and get lost and take a wrong turn (surprise!),and end up at that sanatorium we met the brothers in at the opening...

Sadly, this can't be taken seriously as a horror movie. It has some bloody scenes, but there is nothing scary or creepy in this movie. However, if you grab some friends and beers (or cocktail of choice) this can be a laugh riot! This film is scene after scene of cheesy dialog and character choices. Lines like "I think they just turned Porter into a Porterhouse Steak!" are present throughout the whole movie. So this movie can be entertaining, but its got to be watched as a silly bloody comedy, NOT a horror film. This should only be viewed by someone that enjoys direct-to-video films (as I do). With that said- if you want a scary film, avoid this, but if you want a sexy cast, bloody deaths and scenes so ridiculous that you can't help but laugh out loud (at the absurdity),then maybe (and I stress the maybe) you will enjoy this as much as i did...

PS I highly suggest that IF(!) you watch this, do it with a group of friends and get ready to laugh...