Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia forest, a group of convicts and a corrections officer meet a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered her friends. Wrong Turn 3 a film where convicts go against cannibals and believe me it's even more stupid that you would think. Pleople die by huge sticks that go threw their mouth and or just get captured and get killed plus the acting was horrendous and the dialogue even worse. Plus i can't decide if Wrong Turn 2 or Wrong Turn 3 were worse and it's actually a debate. (0/10)

They should have stopped with the first, but no, obviously some easily entertained people out there are an audience for this garbage. In this case, a bunch of convicts being transported (shades of Precinct 13) have their bus crash so the cops and con's have to team up to battle the (still surviving horrible wounds) inbred morons who, still living in the lush woods of West Virginia, can't explain WHY they are cannibals. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is the third instalment in the sequel trilogy of Wrong Turn. Released in 2009, this film takes up the reigns after the reality show of the second film goes horribly wrong. This time, prison convicts and their corrections officer end up crashing and, whilst travelling through the forest, meet a rafter who is on the run from a cannibalistic hunter, tracking them through the forest. They must all work together to survive, however, there's a hierarchy amongst the inmates, and the group have to face the challenges of being lead by one they do not trust.After enjoying the second Wrong Turn film, Dead End, I decided to watch Left for Dead, even though I knew it was likely going to be much worse than both second and first films of the series. Finding out this went straight to video, made me hesitate a little before watching it – horror films that go straight to video are usually the worst of the bunch. But still, I put it on and soldiered through it.I actually thought this one was really well made. The basic plot of being chased through the forest by Three Finger was revamped. Although the same plot, we had a lot of dynamics going on throughout the prisoners and the rest of the group, a danger there that was not yet seen in Wrong Turn films previously, and is a bit of a refreshing add in to the film and series.However, for all intent and purposes, this is still the same film as was done in 2003, just with new actors, new cannibals, and a new basic plot. Although the new idea of the group having issues with each other was refreshing, it's still just the same film. And it's a shame to see this because obviously thought went into it to see how they could revamp the series, how they could add more to the third film to make it a bit more unique.The characters in this were really good. Nate and Alex were wonderful characters – until the ending when Alex lost all her development, and became a damsel in distress – and did this just become Saw at one point? That made me frown a little, when Alex was being held by Three-Finger; the whole plot just seemed to become Saw, and it was a total let down. It just felt like they were trying to rip off the success of the Saw franchise, that was beginning to dominate the horror franchise with a new form of survival horror.I feel like this was definitely the weakest film of the Wrong Turn Sequel trilogy – the three films, 4-6, are set before the films 1-3 – and it was a shame. Although refreshing in some aspects, characters would lose their development, the plot ended up the same, and the CGI for this one was just utterly diabolical. I definitely wouldn't watch this one again, and after watching this, I still don't know why I went on and watched films 4-6. I would say definitely watch the first two Wrong Turn films, and then leave the series at that.

Nate (Frederic) is a young cop in charge of transferring a bus load of high profile criminals. The cops know that the ring leader Chavez (Hassan) is planning a brake out so they route the bus down a back road in West Virginia. Bad idea, the only returning inbred cannibal from the earlier two films in this series, Three-finger (Borislav Iliev) runs the bus off the road and begins to pick them off. The criminals overtake the cops and find bags of money from an old brinks truck the inbred cannibals must have knocked off years ago. The greedy criminals with Chavez in charge attempt to make it out of the woods alive with the money. Outside a gory opening scene, this movie makes more wrong turns than you can imagine. We start with no likable characters and only two inbred cannibal killers and one is killed off quickly. Most of the running time is spent watching the 'let em die anyway' criminals, betray each other and get picked off by a 90 pound inbred. Three-finger is portrayed more as an annoying distraction for the group than the killing machine he is supposed to be! Sure there is some graphic gore thrown in, but this is light years away from the style and fun of the original.