Reviews & Ratings for
Wrong Turn (2003)

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 40% of 83 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.22/10. The consensus is: "An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguish itself from others of its ilk". On Metacritic, Wrong Turn have a score of 32 out of a 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C–" on an A+ to F scale.

Barbara Ellen of The Times wrote "This could have been a half decent cross between a Romero zombie movie and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but in the end the gore is so ridiculously overdone and the script so lame, that it undermines all sense of suspense".

William Thomas of Empire said "It's better than any of the official Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels. Which is probably a good thing".

Scott Foundas of Variety criticized the Wrong Turn for being "A negative pickup by Fox", adding that "[it was] dumped into theaters on Friday without benefit of press previews", resulting in "frightless torpor".

A one out of four stars was awarded to the film by Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle who wrote "This was already tired stuff when cult fave Sleepaway Camp came out in 1983, and it's downright comatose by now". BBC's Nev Pierce gave the film two out of five, while Anita Gates of The New York Times called it "[a] lazy would-be horror film".

Forget about saw and hostel movies, wrong turn is completely depraved, sick, gory as all hell and has enough unpredictable turns to make it a must see for all horror fans. The hillbilly's are trulyspectacularly deranged and are exactly what I would imagine some of the inbred ferals to look like if they were poisoned with deformation chemicals! The gore in this movie is superb if your into that stuff. You have an arrow through to heads and through the eye of the other. An axe going straight down he middle of a cute blonde and her intestines left on the ground. A scene with a girl face down in a stream being slashed behind by a hillbilly until her back bone is visible. And on and on and on, a great mix of disgusting gore. Although, I must admit I enjoyed the first wrong turn more than this, purely because it was more suspenseful and less gory, but this one I think they made especial attention to the gore o meter. ALl the talk is about the likes of saw and hostel, devils rejects etc. but this movie is sick to the mother effing bone with some of the nastiest kills I've seen in some time. Go watch it if your a horror lover now!