Wrong Turn (film series)
Wrong Turn is an American horror film series created by Alan B. McElroy. The series consists of six films, with a seventh in the making. The films focus on various families of deformed cannibals who hunt a group of people in West Virginia by killing them all for food in horrific ways by using a mixture of traps and weaponry. Of the three main cannibals in the series, only Three Finger has appeared in six films.
Films
''Wrong Turn'' (2003)
In the first film, a group of six friends are stalked by One Eye, Saw Tooth and Three Finger. Chris Flynn is forced to make a detour after a chemical spill on the road. He makes a wrong turn and crashes into another vehicle which had already fallen victim to one of the family's road traps. While searching for help in the cabin belonging to the three monstrous mountain men, they are hunted down one by one.''Wrong Turn 2: Dead End'' (2007)
The second film introduces a larger family of cannibals: Ma, Pa, Brother and Sister. Three Finger and the Old Man are the only returning characters from the first film. This time, the cannibals hunt down a group of reality show contestants who are taking part in a survival reality tv show.''Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead'' (2009)
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead features a group of prison officers and convicts. The returning character Three Finger causes the transport bus to crash, allowing the convicts to escape and take the surviving prison officers, Nate and Walter prisoner. While fleeing, the convicts and their prisoners stumble across a lost truck which had been transporting thousands of dollars, as well as Alex Miles, who has been lost in the woods since Three Finger killed the rest of her friends. Eventually, Three Toes is killed by Chavez. Three Finger finds Three Toes's severed head, which makes him furious. He creates a shrine and leaves the head on display in his cabin. The one surviving convict, Brandon, convinces Nate of his innocence, and is set free. A greedy Nate returns to the truck to steal the money that Chavez wanted. But Brandon shoots him in the back with a bow and arrow and takes the money for himself. An unknown cannibal comes up behind Brandon and bludgeons him with a crude club killing him and leaving Alex the only survivor in the film.''Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings'' (2011)
This film provides the back story to the three original killers and shows their childhood. It also shows how the three brothers and several others escaped. The story focuses on a group of nine teenagers who take a wrong turn while riding their snowmobiles looking for their cabin. They end up in an old abandoned insane asylum which is still inhabited by Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye. The friends decide to spend the night in the asylum and they are attacked by the three brothers. By the end of the film, all nine teenagers are dead. The film served as a prequel to the first film.''Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines'' (2012)
It is revealed that Maynard is a serial killer who has been on the run for over thirty years, and is now in cahoots with the three cannibal brothers. He repeatedly refers to them as 'my boys' and his kin. Throughout the course of the film, the brothers attempt to break Maynard out of jail and kill off the college students and Sheriff Angela Carter, while the rest of the town is at the festival. The film ends with Maynard and the three brothers escaping with the blinded Lita as a captive.This film is a sequel to Bloody Beginnings and leading the events of Wrong Turn.
''Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort'' (2014)
In the sixth installment, Danny discovers his long lost family as he takes his friends to Hobb Springs, a Forgotten resort deep into West Virginia Hills. Danny then has to choose between his family or his friends as they are being killed by his family one by one.''Wrong Turn: The Foundation'' (2020)
In October 2018, a reboot was announced is in development. The film will be written by series creator Alan B. McElroy and director Mike P. Nelson is chosen to direct. Principal photography for the movie began on September 9, 2019. Charlotte Vega will star in the reboot.Cast and crew
Principal cast
Key
- A indicates the actor portrayed the role of a younger version of the character.
- An indicates a role as an older version of the character.
- A indicates the actor or actress lent only his or her voice for his or her film character.
- A indicates a cameo appearance.
- An indicates an appearance through archival footage.
- A dark gray cell indicates the character was not in the film.
Production
Cannibals
The Wrong Turn film series has featured several different cannibals. All of the cannibals are hostile toward the characters they encounter, showing no remorse for their victims. The cannibals are portrayed as mute but show the ability to communicate with each other. They also show the mental capability to operate machinery and vehicles. The cannibals stay with each other in groups and appear to be the result of inbreeding.Three Finger
Three Finger is the main antagonist of the Wrong Turn film series. He is a cannibal with great physical deformity caused by toxic chemicals he was exposed to at birth, alongside his two brothers. He is a skilled trap maker, crafting his traps so well that they often kill his victims before he can enact horrific acts of violence upon them.- In Wrong Turn he made his first appearance alongside his two brothers, attacking the medical student, Chris Flynn and the group of friends including Jessie Burlingame, Carly Marquez, Scott, Evan, and Francine, However, in the end of the film, Three Finger manages to survive as he was last seen killing the deputy sheriff as he investigates the destroyed cabin. However, his brothers were presumably dead.
- In Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, he is seen killing Kimberly by cutting her in half with the help of Brother, a member of the cannibal family. Then, he and the mutant family begin their brutal assault on the rest of the contestants as he successfully killed Neil, a television crew member and captured Colonel Dale Murphy with the help of Pa. Later, he was seen torturing Dale in his cabin but Dale somehow manages to escape before engaging Three Finger in the knife fight. During the fight, Dale manages to shoot Three Finger in the chest with a shotgun and as the result, he was presumed dead, but he survives.
- In Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead, he is trying to kill a group of hikers and prisoners, and he is killed at the end of the film, stabbed in the head with his hook and blown up on top of a car.
- In Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings the fourth installment in the franchise is an origin story of the mutant cannibals showing how they became.
- In Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines he is an antagonist alongside his two original brothers. During the series, he has been blown up, stabbed, impaled, and shot various times, and yet survived; he is also very skillful at creating traps that will instantly kill the victims before he finishes his cruel job on them. In addition, he also has the unnatural ability of regenerating.
- In Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort he returns alongside his two original brothers.
Saw Tooth