{"id":9963,"date":"2007-10-10T03:06:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2007-10-10T03:06:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T07:06:34","slug":"wrong-turn-2-dead-end-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/wrong-turn-2-dead-end-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wrongturn2\"<\/a>Hell, I liked \u201cWrong Turn.\u201d It was, by my book, an underrated and sadly obscure little horror flick that really deserved to be looked at from a different perspective. Yes, I bitch about movies being recycled, and clich\u00e9, and awfully rehashed, but when it\u2019s done with enough entertainment value as \u201cWrong Turn\u201d was, I can be forgiving. \u201cWrong Turn\u201d has been done before and better, but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not a blast. Suffice it to say, I was excited for \u201cDead End.\u201d Would it be a direct take off from the original, or would it be a name only sequel? Is \u201cDead End\u201d the original title before Lion\u2019s Gate slapped on \u201cWrong Turn 2\u201d? That was the only horrific element of this viewing experience: the anticipation and the guessing. The only truly good thing to look forward to was the presence of Henry Rollins.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, have I mentioned how much of a fan I am of Rollins. Whether playing dingus in \u201cFeast,\u201d or complete bad ass attention whore here, Rollins is in full throttle as the military host\/Rambo clone of the newest reality show. The hook is that a group of folks are taking part in a reality show in the backwoods of anywhere, Hicksville USA where they must face challenges and survive, while they don\u2019t realize that they\u2019re all being hunted by the mutant brothers from our original horror entry. I\u2019m glad the writers finally realized what a goofy premise the entire movie brings, so in turn they deliver us dark comedy and camp. It\u2019s just too bad that most of it is utterly dead on arrival with some plot twists that just out and out suck. I\u2019m still wondering whose idea it was to mimic the \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d dinner table scene. I\u2019m still curious why the writers felt delving into the lives of the mutant brothers and the extended family would be interesting. It\u2019s not, it actually makes up most of the film\u2019s pure stupidity, and is never interesting.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a cheesy romance, and attempted bonding between brothers, all of which are just utterly excruciating to sit through. The attempts at depicting the brothers as an actual family are just utter padding with a wasted gauge at sympathy for no pure reason. I didn\u2019t care where they came from, I just wanted to see them kill people. Besides, it blatantly dismisses all the hints in the former film that there were just three brothers living alone. But no, we\u2019re introduced to mutant sisters, mutant mothers, mutant role models and the inevitable source of it all that\u2019s introduced as probably the most obvious plot twist I\u2019ve ever seen in a horror movie. If that\u2019s not enough, the constant references to \u201cBattle Royale\u201d don\u2019t float this above mediocre, and capture none of the nihilism of the aforementioned title, especially since most of it is a clich\u00e9 redoing of \u201cHalloween: Resurrection\u201d which isn\u2019t saying much considering this entire premise is derivative of most psycho hillbilly films made.<\/p>\n

Not only does the premise suck, but the effects on the mutants are severely lacking in the flair that Stan Winston brought to the original; rather than look like mutant hillbillies, they resemble disfigured hobos most of the time with the prosthetics becoming painfully obvious. I wanted to love this. While sure the concept is rehashed, \u201cWrong Turn 2\u201d has a surprising sense of humor about itself. Along the way it allows us to glimpse as voyeurs to these individuals gruesome murders, all the while squeezing in the military formula for modern sequels a la \u201cAliens.\u201d We\u2019re given the usual body counts of weirdos, Goths, and the obligatory comic relief, while also presented with the virginal heroine and the soldiers all simultaneously. The real show here is the gore and Henry Rollins doing his best Rambo impression and both meet expectations.<\/p>\n

Rollins is the lug head you expect to die a quick and painful death in the opening, but lo and behold, Lynch has better plans for him and he entertains on all levels. The rest of the walking targets are fun to watch quite often. I really enjoyed much of the half assed sub-plots, from the Lesbian commando, to the whiny producer, all of these people deserved vicious deaths and I wasn\u2019t let down. \u201cWrong Turn 2\u201d is awful, but it\u2019s also a lot of fun, and I simply couldn\u2019t completely hate it. Much like the original, this is a pure horror guilty pleasure that thankfully doesn\u2019t take itself seriously. The writers seem to catch on here how silly the premise is, so any hopes of a tense horror flick will be a fool\u2019s journey. Overall, thanks to Henry Rollins, and the entertaining premise, it\u2019s ultimately so bad that it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hell, I liked \u201cWrong Turn.\u201d It was, by my book, an underrated and sadly obscure little horror flick that really deserved to be looked at from a different perspective. Yes, I bitch about movies being recycled, and clich\u00e9, and awfully rehashed, but when it\u2019s done with enough entertainment value as \u201cWrong Turn\u201d was, I can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[58,219,477,922,1012,1013,1087,1170],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-sequel","tag-survival","tag-suspense","tag-thriller","tag-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}