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Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is a 2007 2nd American horror film directed by Joe Lynch and starring Erica Leerhsen and Henry Rollins a sequel to Wrong Turn (2003) and the second installment in the Wrong Turn franchise. It was released on DVD on October 9, 2007.
It is followed by Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009).
Plot[]
Six years after the events of the first film,[1] a reality show contestant Kimberly Caldwell is driving in the road. When she runs a stranger over she runs out of her car to make sure he’s safe. He bites off her mouth, revealing him to be Brother. When she tries to make a run, Pa comes and splits her in half with an axe. They drag her body away into the nearby woods.
Former U.S. Marine Colonel Dale Murphy is hosting a survival reality game show The Apocalypse: Ultimate Survivalist, in the West Virginia forest with the contestants which include, lingerie model Elena, a skateboarder named Jonesy, Iraq veteran Amber, former football player Jake and a gothic girl named Nina. When Kimberly does not show up, unbeknownst to them, the show's producer Mara reluctantly takes her place.
When the game starts, Three Finger kills Neil. While Mara and Nina walk in the woods, they find the cannibals cabin to see Ma giving birth. Pa spots them and chases them with an axe. They split up and Mara gets axed in the head. Pa collects Mara’s body.
After showrunner, Elena bribes M, the show’s editor for more screentime. They have sex. M tells Elena he’ll be right back. Elena stays and sun bathes. Brother, after seeing the sex, he jerks off. Sister comes out of the woods with jealousy and while Elena tries to put on her shorts Sister slashes her back over and over, eventually killing her. While M is at the van Ma and Pa hijack it. Then, capturing M. Meanwhile, Dale has a little fight with Three Finger, then shooting him into the lake nearby.
As Jake, Amber, and Jonesy are eating some meat they found, Nina returns and explains about the cannibals. When Jake realizes it was Kimberly's leg they had been eating, he, Nina, Amber and Jonesy attempt to escape. Dale finds old man Maynard in a cabin he enters. Maynard tells him how the cannibals' mutations were caused by inbreeding and effluent dumped in the river by the abandoned paper mill. He then reveals that he is their father and attacks Dale. After a brief skirmish, Dale kills Maynard by blowing him up with a stick of dynamite. After finding the RV gone, the others run towards the woods and encounter Brother and Sister. After fighting the cannibals, Jake searches for Nina while Amber and Jonesy go for help. Jake rescues Nina from a pit and they jump into the river to escape Sister. Brother and Pa then kill Amber and Jonesy with an arrow to their heads.
Nina and Jake enter the mill and find a garage full of vehicles stolen from prior victims. They find the RV, and Jake enters it and witnesses M being decapitated by Ma on a live feed monitor inside. Nina and Jake attempt to leave but the cannibals capture them. The abandoned mill is revealed to be the mutants' home. Jake is strung up and Nina is strapped to a chair with barbed wire. The mutants eat dinner and force feed Nina.
Dale sneaks into the compound and distracts the cannibals. As the cannibals are searching for him, Dale manages to kill Brother and Sister with dynamite attached to an arrow. He frees Nina and Jake, but is killed by Ma and Pa, who were incensed by the deaths of their children. Nina successfully escapes, but Jake wanders into a room fitted with a large meat grinder, where he is attacked by Ma and Pa. Nina returns to the mill and kills Ma and Pa with the meat grinder. Nina and Jake find Kimberly's abandoned car and drive away. Meanwhile, Three Finger has survived and is feeding the deformed baby with a finger revealing he's still out there.
Cast[]
- Erica Leerhsen as Nina Papas
- Henry Rollins as Dale Murphy
- Texas Battle as Jake Washington
- Aleksa Palladino as Mara Stone
- Daniella Alonso as Amber Williams
- Steve Braun as Matt "Jonesy" Jones
- Matthew Currie Holmes as Michael "M" Epstein
- Crystal Lowe as Elena Garcia
- Kimberly Caldwell as Kimberly Caldwell
- Wayne Robson as The Old Man
- Ken Kirzinger as Pa
- Ashlea Earl as Ma
- Clint Carleton as Brother
- Rorelee Tio as Sister
- Jeffrey Scrutton as Three Finger
- Joe Lynch as Cameraman (uncredited)
Soundtrack[]
The score soundtrack was composed by Bear McCreary.
Track listing[]
- "Main Title" (3:39)
- "Ultimate Survivalist Theme Song" (3:21) by Captain Ahab
- "Dale for Dinner" (2:33)
- "Birth of Baby Splooge" (3:04)
- "Nina's Theme" (2:43)
- "Mutant Cannibal Incest" (3:01)
- "Into the Mill" (2:49)
- "Arrow Through Two Heads" (3:18)
- "Dale Vigilante" (3:19)
- "Hunting Dale" (3:40)
- "Rescuing Nina" (3:04)
- "Dale to the Rescue" (3:18)
- "The Meat Grinder" (2:15)
- "Baby Splooge Lives" (2:36)
- "End Credits (Theme from Wrong Turn 2)" (3:39)
- "Under Your Bones" (5:25) by Captain Ahab featuring Ivor
Release[]
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End was screened both at the London FrightFest (one day) and also Austin's Fantastic Fest on September 21, 2007, in The United States of America.
The film was released on DVD on October 9, 2007, in an unrated version with extras included commentary by director Joe Lynch and also Erica Leerhsen and Henry Rollins, a second commentary by writers Turi Meyer and Al Septien, a featurette on the making of the film and the trailer. The film later released on Blu-ray on September 15, 2009. It grossed $9 million in home video sales in the United States.
Reception[]
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that it received positive reviews from 70% of 10 critics.
Steve Barton of DreadCentral gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, stating that the film "is a hot ticket for some gore-soaked backwoods mayhem that gets even better with repeated viewings and lots of booze." Brian Collins of Bloody Disgusting stated that "what could have been a cheap and lazy cash-in turned out to be one of the year's better genre offerings". David Johnson of DVD Verdict said the film is "a derivative and stupid outing" but very entertaining. David Walker of DVD Talk rated the film 3.5/5 stars and called it "a consistently entertaining film" that effectively parodies and homages genre films that have come before it.
At the Gérardmer Film Festival, the film won the "Best Direct-To-Video Film" award.
Trivia:
•This movie's timeline takes place in June 2005 following the events of Of the original movie (WRONG TURN 2003) after a year and that's for the song that Nina was listening to called «WAKE PIG« by "Three" that was trending for a while in 2005 also Kimberly's car member that are typed 2006.