While not considered an outright classic from its own time period, the first Wrong Turn is a wicked love letter to ’70s brutality. Its unapologetic yet sincere approach has been long underappreciated.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 30, 2024

...a repetitive cat-and-mouse midsection that boasts few compelling attributes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 31, 2018

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.

| Jan 3, 2018

This horror flick about young campers stalked and slaughtered by gruesome backwoods barbarians is a fairly decent crossbreeding of Friday the 13th and Deliverance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2014

The understatement of the year. Essentially, ax-wielding rednecks unite in a slasher flick that drives itself into a brick wall of no return.

| Original Score: F | Sep 27, 2009

It gives what it promises: violence, creeps, and solid performances from the great cast...

| Apr 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

It's the usual quick-cut, this-is-all-we-can-show-you R-rated mayhem.

| Original Score: D | Jul 23, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2005

A cut above the recent lot of slasher films...it does not feel as if it has to cater to audiences who want every plot point spoon fed to them.

| Original Score: B | Jun 26, 2005

Headed in only one direction: straight into the toilet.

| Original Score: D | May 4, 2005

Ao contrário da maior parte das produções do gênero realizadas nos últimos anos, este filme acaba se revelando acima da média graças à boa direção de Rob Schmidt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2004

...talent does not matter much, just as long as the women?who, of course, all look like supermodels?wear skimpy, transparent outfits throughout the movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 6, 2004

Wrong Turn is basically a well-made waste of time.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 12, 2003

The grey area is whether it's Schmidt's fault or the zeitgeist's that the film doesn't resonate even ten seconds past the finish line

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 1, 2003

If giggling hillbillies fuel your nightmares, then there's a chance you'll be rendered sleepless by this inept, wannabe horror flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 9, 2003

Was Wrong Turn directed by the kind of in-bred mountain men depicted in the film? The opening credits is the only device that drive the plot -- the rest is simply a squeal-inducing hunt movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 3, 2003