Maynard J. Odets known as "Maynard" or "Old Man" is one of the antagonists from the Wrong Turn film franchise and the patriarch of the Odet Family. Just like other cannibals he also eats human meat.
He was portrayed by Wayne Robson in Wrong Turn 2003 and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, and then portrayed by Doug Bradley in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines.
History[]
Past[]
Not much is known about Maynard's past. He was born on May 2, 1951. He was married to a woman named Delilah and had five children together, Ma and Pa, Three Finger, Saw Tooth, and One Eye. His grandchildren are Brother, Sister and Three Toe.
At some point in his life, Delilah died from some unknown causes. It's unknown if they were related or not, though it's heavily implied that they were since Ma and Pa were deformed because of the toxic waste flowing info the nearby river from the old factory, though it also could have also just been from the toxic waste Maynard mentioned to Colonel Dale Murphy that caused the mutations in the first place.
Maynard then finally met his young at the Glensville Sanatorium in West Virginia in the winter of 2003 where they spent 29 years of their life since 1974 since the ages of 8 (Three Finger), 9 (One Eye), and 10 (Saw Tooth). He decided to take care of them himself and move them into the woods of West Virginia.
Some time later, Maynard was caught and arrested for murdering an unknown person sometime before Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, but had escaped incarceration that time. It is from this old factory, which was abandoned 30 years ago due to a chemical accident, that Maynard and his wife Dilaila took advantage of and developed the factory themselves perhaps about 1817 year. Drinking from the toxic water from the river they get deformities, genetic mutations and mental deviations of these people, or in short it is called increased analgesia, a disease where a person has no feeling of pain. It is from this factory that Maynard and Dilaila develop safe offspring but with congenital analgesia due to the toxic water. But subsequently, Dilaila dies. Maynard continues to develop the factory.
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines[]
Sometime later on October 31, a group of five friends Willian, Cruz, Gus, Lita, and Julian are on their way to the Fairlake Mountain Festival when they nearly run over Maynard and they crash into a tree. Maynard lies down on the road pretending he was hit and when Billy, Cruz, and Gus check on him, he assaults one of them with a knife and then gets beaten by them until Sheriff Angela Carter and Deputy Biggs drives up and arrests all of the friends, including the girls and Maynard.
Maynard spends a majority of the movie in a holding cell, taunting the others and warning them that he should be released while they're still alive. He eventually convinces Lita that if she let's him out of his cell, he'll leave the town with his young and leave her alone for good. Lita does let him out, however he betrays her by stabbing out her eyes with his knife that was previously confiscated from Maynard.
After Three Finger knocks out Sheriff Carter, he ties her up in the same cell he was in with a shotgun taped to her chin and under her body and legs and her feet. He tells her she can blow her brains out with it or die burning when he sets the building on fire. She chooses the easy way out.
As Maynard and his three sons leave Fairlake they find Lita wandering down the road still asking and begging for help. They pick her up but Lita does not know about this and gets taken instead of surviving Lita's way.
Wrong Turn[]
Maynard is much older in the first movie, possibly ten or twenty years older, and is only a minor character. He shows up at the beginning to warn Chris Flynn to not go into the woods when Chris asks for directions. He later shows up at the end of the movie genuinely surprised when he sees that Chris and Jessie Burlingame had survived and are alive, Maynard does not stop them when they take his map and leave.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End[]
Maynard appears once again but this time in a more antagonistic role. After Colonel Dale Murphy shoots Three Finger into a lake with a shotgun, he makes his way into Maynard's cabin to stitch up a wound he got during his fight.
Murphy and Maynard talk until Murphy asks why Maynard stays in the area if there's dangerous murderers in the area, not knowing he's related to them. Maynard says "I could never leave. Gotta stay close to my youngins!" and then tries attacking Murphy, although he's no match for Dale Murphy.
Murphy sneaks a stick of lit dynamite into the back of Maynard's pants before running outside. Maynard chases him but the stick of dynamite blows him up before he's able to shoot Murphy.
Victims[]
Before The Series[]
- Unknown Person - Killed in an unknown manner by Maynard Odets, mentioned by Sheriff Carter.
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines[]
- Kaleen Webber - Finger cut off by Three Finger, hit in the stomach with an axe by Maynard Odets.
- Unknown Woman - Killed by one of the Odet Brothers or Maynard off-screen.
- Sheriff Angela Cater - Committed suicide by shooting herself in the head with a shotgun so she wouldn't burn to death, coerced by Maynard Odets.
- Lita - Raped and is possibly killed off-screen in an unknown manner by Maynard and the Odet Brothers.
Overall Killings:[]
Maynard has a long history of criminal and bloody behavior, however his death count of how many victims he has killed is not yet known.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Doug Bradley, one of the men who portrays Maynard, is best known for his portrayal of Pinhead from the Hellraiser horror film series.