Movie Review - Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

In reviewing the original Wrong Turn I didn't say much, hated the movie & hoped they didn't make a sequel. Guess what they went and did? Made a sequel. Gee, thanks - NOT! Like the last film your thrown right into the action, a pretty blond actress on her way to a reality TV project knocks over one of the mountain people, breaks at least one of his legs and gives him serious concussion. But he comes around in less than 2 minutes to bite her face off.

When we see the second mountain person I lost interest right there, Only 1 mountain person survived the 1st film so that's goof #1 right there! The reality TV cast members are introduced to us as well as a few members of the crew.Very early one 1 girl is established as a vegan (to no doubt be set-up to eat meat or be disgusted by something involving meat later, predicting that now!). Henry Rollins' line about "Post Apocolyptic Crazies are waiting all around to take you down", well he wasn't to know how right he was? It was pretty predictable that the token Asian Guy died 1st. Henry Rollins as a former Marine Colonel gets captured by the mountain people WAY too easily.

The camera guy is caught by his girlfriend getting a blow job so you know he is going to die! It also gets the producer girl killed by an Axe in the head as she escaped from the house. Cutting to the cameraman boyfriend (totally unaware his lady is dead) with the girl who had been giving him a blow job pulling on her panties is there to tell us they have had sex while his girlfriend was being killed. As any good horror fan knows that means both of them will die, having had sex. We also get a shot of one of the mountain people who had obviously been watching them and we're supposed to assume he's masturbating as he watches the girl. She is killed by the girl of the mountain people (slashed to death in a stream) and now we're getting to see the mountain people's faces a lot so their no longer sticking with the old horror convention of "the less you see the monster the more scary it is".

Rollins manages to get free, has a brief fight and kills one of the mountain men (there appear to be 5 of them, so that leaves 4?) with a shotgun. The scene between him and the old man (it is obvious he IS the father of mountain people) is played out to quieten down the pace of the film. The father gets a good death scene (blown apart by a stick of dynamite), leaving us with 4 of the freaks left. As the surviving group of contestants escapes they hear the sounds of sex (again?) and it's the brother & sister of the mountain people family practicing incest. The survivor group then break the next horror film rule by splitting up (never split up, safety in numbers!).

The black jock saves Nina from a mantrap, only to re-injure his shoulder (he's only been talking about it for the whole film to this point!). Jones & Amber are captured by 2 stupidly simple traps. Jones is killed by the son of the mountain people (arrow through the eye) and it appears he also killed Amber with same arrow. Funny that, my money was on Amber to live as a female Marine. The cameraman boyfriend (M) is killed next by the sister of the mountain people (some sort of cleaver, chopping his head off) and the blond girl is captured outside the camera truck as the black jock watches M die on camera.

As predicted the vegan girl is fed cooked human flesh (the ultimate insult to her as a vegan of course but was so easily predicted by me). Then having shown us an industrial grade shredder you know someone will later be thrown into or fall into that, it was an obvious set-up for a future scene. Rollins cuts himself to lay a fake trail of blood to follow (to obviously lead the brother and sister into a trap). He shoots the brother in the back with an arrow but it has dynamite on blowing him up (it is unknown at this point if the sister was blown up too but I assumed she was). Now Nina looks like she was secured by her arms to the chair by razor-wire. Rollins uses his knife to free her but she gets cut pretty badly.

Rollins is finally killed by a combination of 2 arrows to the torso and a chain bolas around the throat (but he had been stabbed previously 3 times as well) after freeing Nina and the black jock. The father tries to feed the black jock into the shredder (what did I tell you, this film is nothing if not predictable?) but Nina comes back, knocks over the mother to save the Jock, the mother half pulls the father out but Nina slams them both into the shredder with by releasing a previously unseen log (Ah! it's a shredder to make logs into paper because its a Paper Mill!).

The final scene is a little naughty as clearly the film makers lost count how many of the mountain family had died (all of them except the baby, even though the daughter was never actually seen to die) with an unseen and assumed male mountain person feeding the families baby on the chemicals that caused them to deform. Weak Film, Weak and VERY Predictable plot and extremely weak ending. It's a bad film when the film makers can't keep track of how many of their own characters they've killed.