The pair are discovered and pursued by the cannibals and Mara is killed. Meanwhile, Three Finger the surviving mutant cannibal from the first film is preparing to kill Dale and prepare him for dinner. Dale manages to escape his shackles and, after a fight, shoots Three Finger. Eventually, the cannibals attack the rest of the cast. Elena is killed and M is abducted along with the RV that was the only vehicle on set. The remaining cast attempts to make it to the abandoned paper mill in an attempt to hide there until help arrives eventually, someone at the production company will notice the TV show is not checking in.
Along the way, Jonesy and Amber are killed in a scene where Pa is clearly teaching Brother how to hunt similar to how regular fathers teach their children things. Instead of complete reboots, horror franchises have increasingly opted for legacy sequels in recent years.
One prominent example is David Gordon Green's Halloween , which followed on from the events of the original while ignoring the sequels. While other franchises like the upcoming Candyman are following a similar formula, Wrong Turn dared to completely hit the reset switch.
This new entry keeps the Wrong Turn title and the basic concept, but it otherwise has no direct links to the previous movies.
The reboot has an unusual structure too, opening with Matthew Modine's Scott as he travels to a small town asking for information on his missing daughter Jen Charlotte Vega. Jen and her friends - including boyfriend Darius, nurse Milla and her partner Adam and couple Luis and Gary - went missing six weeks prior while hiking the Appalachian Trail. The locals warn Scott from looking for her, and the movie then flashbacks to what happened. Wrong Turn reveals the group went looking for an old Civil War fort, only for a rolling tree log to suddenly appear and crush Gary.
But with non-white and LGBTQ additions to the roster of would-be victims, a significant characteristic of this film is also its identifying a final girl early on in the film, when the franchise has by and large operated on a zero sum approach to the body count.
These two are the strongest attempts to ground the film in Hollywood viability, but the film otherwise belongs to the anonymous young people who will characteristically fight for their lives on a rugged mountainside. What remains of the film, though, has been churned through a meat grinder so as to look quite a bit different from its predecessors.
But the group is not a collection of spring breakers with no future in sight — in their fold they have the owner of two bistros, an app developer, an oncologist, and more. The scene is a tense one, perhaps meant to cast these young people as superficial lambs being led to the slaughter, but when Jen Charlotte Vega admits that she is a barista with limited medical school experience, she also points out that Roades ought to be wary of his jaundiced eyes, which could be a sign of great medical misfortune if left unchecked.
These are, in fact, human characters, a departure from the common fare. Even Darius Adain Bradley daydreams in the arms of his white girlfriend that he could one day live in a world where his worth is measured by what he can provide to the world, not by the color of his skin. Nick Allen January 25, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. Heart of Champions Nell Minow. Algren Peter Sobczynski. Golden Voices Nell Minow.
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