Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is a 2007 American slasher film directed by Joe Lynch and starring Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins and Texas Battle. A sequel to Wrong Turn (2003) and the second installment in the Wrong Turn franchise. It was released on DVD on October 9, 2007. The film received a positive response from critics making it the best-reviewed film in the franchise.

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Promotional poster
Directed byJoe Lynch
Produced byJeff Freilich
Written by
  • Turi Meyer
  • Al Septien
Based onCharacters
by Alan B. McElroy
Starring
Music byBear McCreary
CinematographyRobin Loewen
Edited byEd Marx
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date
  • October 9, 2007 (2007-10-09)[1]
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4 million[3]

It is followed by Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009).

Plot

Reality show contestant Kimberly Caldwell is driving through the West Virginia back country searching for the location of her next project. While driving, she accidentally hits a teenager. She stops to help him, but he turns out to be an inbred cannibal who bites her lips off. She attempts to escape but runs into Three Finger who splits her in half with his axe before he and the cannibal Brother drag her body halves away.

Former U.S. Marine Colonel Dale Murphy is hosting a survival reality game show The Apocalypse: Ultimate Survivalist, in production at the West Virginia forest. With Kimberly's unknown absence, the show's producer Mara reluctantly takes her place to participate the show with the other contestants: Iraq veteran Amber, lingerie model Elena, former football player Jake, skateboarder Jonesy, and graphic artist Nina. As the game starts, Three Finger and another mutant cannibal Pa murder the television crew and abducts Dale. Mara enters a cabin to find a telephone as Nina follows her. While looking around the cabin, they hear the occupants return and hide in a bedroom. Mara and Nina witness a female cannibal, Ma, giving birth to a deformed baby. Her daughter Sister spots them in the bedroom, forcing the two to escape through the toilet pit. They run into the woods, but Mara is hit in the head with a hatchet thrown by Pa. Nina searches for the others as the cannibals collect Mara's body. At the lake, Sister slashes Elena to death with a machete while Pa and Ma hijack the RV and captures cinematographer M.

Dale manage to escape and battles Three Finger, ending the fight after Dale shoots the cannibal to the lake with a shotgun. He then enters the mutant family's cabin and find the old gas station attendant, who reveals how the cannibals' mutations were caused by inbreeding and effluent dumped in the river from an abandoned paper mill 30 years ago. The man, who is revealed to be the guardian to Three Finger and the two other inbred mountain men who have been killed, attacks Dale to avenge their deaths. After a brief skirmish, Dale kills the old man by blowing him up with a stick of dynamite. Meanwhile, the three other contestants are eating some meat found by Amber and Jonesy when Nina returns to explain her story as they realized that the three had been eating Kimberly's leg; they attempt to escape but Nina separates from the group while they're fighting Brother and Sister. Jake rescues Nina from a pit and they jump into the river to escape Sister.

After Amber and Jonesy were killed while searching for help, Nina and Jake enter the mill and finds a garage with vehicles stolen from prior victims. They find the RV, and Jake enters it only to witness M being decapitated by Ma on a live feed monitor inside. Nina and Jake attempt to leave but the cannibals capture them. The next day while the two were held hostage, Dale sneaks into the compound to distract the cannibal family who were eating their dinner and manage to kill Brother and Sister with a 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 tree debarker where he is attacked by Ma and Pa. Nina returns to the mill and kills Ma and Pa with the debarker. Nina and Jake find Kimberly's abandoned sportscar and drive away.

Meanwhile, Three Finger has survived and is seen raising the mutant family's baby, feeding it with a bottle of effluent and a human finger.

Cast

Production

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End began filming on May 29, 2006 and finished on June 30, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.

Soundtrack
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Film score by
Bear McCreary
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2007
GenreSoundtracks
Film scores
Length52:11
LabelLa-La Land
Wrong Turn soundtrack chronology
Wrong Turn
(2003)		 Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
(2007)

The score soundtrack was composed by Bear McCreary.[4]

Track listing
  1. "Main Title" (3:39)
  2. "Ultimate Survivalist Theme Song" (3:20) by Captain Ahab
  3. "Dale for Dinner" (2:33)
  4. "Birth of Baby Splooge" (3:04)
  5. "Nina's Theme" (2:43)
  6. "Mutant Cannibal Incest" (3:01)
  7. "Into the Mill" (2:49)
  8. "Arrow Through Two Heads" (3:18)
  9. "Dale Vigilante" (3:19)
  10. "Hunting Dale" (3:40)
  11. "Rescuing Nina" (3:04)
  12. "Dale to the Rescue" (3:18)
  13. "The Meat Grinder" (2:15)
  14. "Baby Splooge Lives" (2:36)
  15. "End Credits (Theme from Wrong Turn 2)" (3:39)
  16. "Under Your Bones" (5:25) by Captain Ahab featuring Ivor

Release

The first film stills were released to Fangoria, Dread Central, and Bloody Disgusting, quickly followed by the release of the official cover art, DVD details, and disc specifications. A month later it was announced that the film was accepted at the London FrightFest Film Festival and Austin's Fantastic Fest, and premiered on August 25 in the United Kingdom, and September 21, 2007 in the United States.

The film was released on DVD on October 9, 2007, in an unrated version with extras include commentary by director Joe Lynch and actors 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 US.[5]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that it received positive reviews from 70% of 10 critics.[6]

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."[7] 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".[8] David Johnson of DVD Verdict said the film is "a derivative and stupid outing" but very entertaining.[9] 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.[10]

At the Gérardmer Film Festival, the film won the "Best Direct-to-Video Film" award.

References
  1. Condit, Jon (2007-06-30). "Wrong Turn 2 Release Date". Dread Central. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  2. "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)". Allmovie. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  3. "What Are the Chances of Wrong Turn 7 in 2016?" (2015-05-07). HorrorSociety.com. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
  4. "Wrong Turn 2 (2007)" soundtrack information at The Soundtrack Info Project. SoundTrackInfo.com, The MovieMusic Company. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
  5. "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End". The Numbers. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  6. "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-10-21.
  7. Barton, Steve (2007-10-27). "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (DVD)". Dread Central. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  8. Collins, Brian (2007-08-27). "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (V)". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  9. Johnson, David (2009-10-02). "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (Blu-Ray)". DVD Verdict. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  10. Walker, David (2007-10-09). "Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
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