Movie Reviews

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Movie 24: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) ‘In the forest, only they can hear you scream’

Cast:

Nina - Erica Leerhsen

Elena - Crystal Lowe

Dale Murphy - Henry Rollins

Jake – Texas Battle

Mara - Aleksa Palladino

Amber - Daniella Alonso

M (camera man) - Matthew Currie Holmes

Jonesy - Steve Braun

Movie Information:

Rating- Unrated for violence, gore, frightening scenes, sexual content, nudity, and disturbing scenes.

Run Time – 97 minutes

My Rating: 4 stars

Movie Summary:

            An actress has arrived in West Virginia for a reality show. The reality show has six contestants who will be in the forest during an ‘apocalypse’ whoever isn’t eliminated will win some prize money. The actress bumps into trouble when she hits a mutated man while driving to the set location. She gets out freaking out but when she tries to help him the mutant guy grabs her and eats her lips off. Two other mutant hillbillies come and they chop her in half. Both take a half and toss her into the truck.

            I guess a few days or maybe hours go by and the rest of the cast is set up in the forest. The host of the game show Dale Murphy does his little scene and introduces the contestants. You have this Goth girl, Nina, a military woman, Amber who ends up being a lesbian, a slutty chick, Elena, this down to earth guy, Jake, who likes Nina and knows she cuts herself, and this goof dude who wants to get in someone’s pants, Jonesy. Since the real actress never shows up Mara the camera guy (M)’s girlfriend takes her place. The show stars and they are off in pairs to ‘survive’ but if they trip on these wires they need to do something to live, or they’ll ‘die’ and not win the cash prize. Mara is the first to hit a wire with her partner Nina, she ends up having to jump into a river to get a card to keep her ‘alive’. Whatever. Meanwhile some awesome mutant hillbillies kill this Indian camera guy. Finally!!!!!! And they capture Dale, and Three Fingers, the hillbilly mutant tortures him. Anyways back to the contestants Jonesy learns Amber is a lesbian. Meanwhile Elena and M try to get Jake to have sex with Elena for the show. He says no, and leaves the slut topless and pissed. She then gives M a BJ. His girlfriend, Mara and Nina see this though from a far. Nina wants Mara to go confront the two but Mara is just too upset. The two go searching for a phone and find themselves searching in a cabin. There they witness the ‘Ma’ giving birth to her mutated baby by her mutated husband ‘Pa’ her daughter ‘Sister’ helps with the horrifying birth. Nina and Mare are spotted and chased.

            Not long later they find Mara and Nina. They manage to capture and kill Mara, while Nina watches in horror, and tries to hide her fear. Meanwhile Amber and Jonesy stumble across a makeshift camp. They find meat roasting over a fire. They take the meat and bring it back to base where they keep it over their own fire and eat. Jake catches up with them and eats with them. Back to Elena and M, the two obviously had sex, for Elena is pulling on her panties, but what they don’t see is that the mutant brother was getting ‘excited’ and starts masturbating, watching them, he obviously likes Elena. BUT his mutated sister (they are lovers, BARF) gets jealous, and after M leaves, the sister goes out and slashes Elena’s bare back crazily. Her brother tries to stop her but the two mutated brother and sister ended up doing it there. (I did not watch this part! It was too disgusting! So I don’t actually know exactly what happened in that scene)

            Anyways, Nina catches up to Jonesy, Amber and Jake hysterical saying that these mutants killed Mara, and at first they don’t believe her, but they do when she points out the tattoo on the meat that belonged to the actress that never showed up. They were eating her! They all panic and want to get back to the main camp. But the hillbillies got there first, killed M and took all the cars. The four are on their own, really surviving now.

            Meanwhile Dale manages to escape where he was being held hostage and kills one of the mutants. But they don’t die easily….

            ***HEADS UP! I haven’t seen this movie in a while, some of the events may not be in proper order!

            Ok, so the four remaining contestants are trying to escape but Amber and Jonesy get stuck in the mutants traps, and they are killed. Jake and Nina keep running until they come to a windmill…

            Back to Dale, he has become this like crazy killing machine out to kill, but he stumbles on this house, with some creepy guy. This guy tells him how a chemical spill occurred in the area, killed all animals, and mutated a family, causing breeding within the family, causing more mutation. This family replaced their food with humans passing by. But at the end Dale realizes that the man he was talking to is the father of this family. Dale escapes, and gets to the windmill homing the mutant family.

            Unfortunately Nina and Jake are captured, and Nina is chained to a chair with barbed wire while the brother mutant forces her to eat their stew of human flesh. (Did I mention Nina is a vegan?) Oooo! So Jake is chained to the ceiling by his hands. And Dale then comes in killing mutants but is killed by barbed wire to the neck. Nina manages to escape, and Jake stumbles into a room with an enormous meat grinder, where ‘Ma’ throws in leftover meat that comes out in gunk in bins on the other side. (It’s nasty) Jake gets into a fight with ‘Pa’. Nina returns to the mill to help Jake. The two think kill the parents by pushing them into the meat grinder. They think they are all dead. Nina and Jake escape, taking the actresses red sports car from the beginning to drive away. They do in fact escape successfully.

            That is not the end! There are still mutants it’s the infamous THREE FINGERS who is all WRONG TURN movies, and we see him trying to feed a baby mutant a bottle of green gunk, but the baby says no, so he gives the baby a finger (Mara’s finger), which he takes happily., THE END!!!!!

My Review:

            Ok so I did in fact like this movie, the deaths were great, the effects weren’t cheesy. I really liked the storyline with the whole end of the world survival show turning real. That was really great.

            But I didn’t like the brother and sister’s relationship and their sex scene. I was disgusted; I had gotten up and left, and returned later after that God awful scene. Blah, nasty. But still it was a good movie, I didn’t like all the back and forth between characters but still I did manage to enjoy the movie. I absolutely loved the ending with the baby and the finger, too funny.

            Anyways, I would recommend this movie, if you have a strong stomach, the person I watched this movie with was disgusted at every scene, I thought it was cool, but that’s just me. So far though this was probably my fave out of all the WRONG TURN movies, but I heard part 5 was really bad, I won't be watching that one!

            Oh, I also want to add I love Three Fingers. He’s the best character, and he is in all Wrong Turn movies, his laugh (which is played during the end credits of all the movie) is hilarious (to me, of course) I would love it as my ringtone! LOL.