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.
After the lackluster sequel this third entry wasn’t exactly highly anticipated.
It was highly obvious from the trailer for this third release that this was going to be a dip in quality, and when I say dip I mean a big one. I know this usually happens as film series go on but to happen this quickly, well it’s just a shame.
I think the studio had an idea this was going to tank, this film may feature the fewest of the hillbilly cannibals it does have the highest body count in the series. Despite this it doesn’t make it any better, with dodgy CGI it’s actually worse.
The CGI is a show of how much smaller the budget got and the fact this was a straight to DVD release shows how quickly the quality dropped and the fact it happened so quickly is quite a shock, this made me feel bad for the awful things I said about “Wrong Turn 2”.
The cast aren’t the greatest and I do feel bad saying that but it’s true, the film’s story is one that had good promise but it’s played out terribly. It comes off as some terrible fan fiction that you pick up on the internet, infact some of them are better.
“Wrong Turn 3 – Left for Dead” is a terrible entry in the series and unfortunately it doesn’t get much better.
Miscellaneous facts about the film:
Despite the film being set in the USA and featuring American characters, the film is filmed in Bulgaria and most of the actors are British.
Features the least amount of mutants out of all the films in the series with only two appearing on-screen.
The only film in the series directed by Declan O’Brien, which he did not write as well. He later wrote and directed the fourth and fifth films.
Borislav Iliev is the third actor to play ‘Three-Finger’. Julian Richings was the original Three-Finger, but was replaced by Jeff Scrutton in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007). Borislav replaces Jeff in Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009).
A frame from the opening scene when the arrow goes through the girls breast is shown in the montage at the beginning of Don Jon (2013)
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