Evil awaits.
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!
- Body horror
- Graphic violence
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- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Nov 20215/10
_**One of the goriest films ever made**_ A Survivor-like reality show meets in the backwoods of West Virginia where the contestants & crew find themselves assaulted by a family of mutant yokels. Henry Rollins plays the Drill Instructor-like host of the show. “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End” (2007) is the first of many sequels in the franchise about cannibalistic hillbillies in Appalachia. The reason "Deliverance" (1972) is so iconic and unsettling is because the story actually COULD happen. The first “Wrong Turn” film from 2003 started out this way but became increasingly unbelievable as the story progressed. As such, it was entertaining and compelling but not genuinely scary. This one adds some overt camp and goofiness while increasing the gore factor. It may well be the goriest film ever made at the time of its release. And it is entertaining to a point, despite the disgusting elements (not just gore, but sleaze as well), yet it’s not truly chilling because it’s so over-the-top it’s cartoonish. Still, Rollins does well as the gung-ho host and a few of the protagonists emerge as likable people worthy of surviving. Unfortunately, the most agreeable character is one of the first to buy the
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Cast
- Erica LeerhsenNina Papas
- Henry RollinsDale Murphy
- Texas BattleJake Washington
- Aleksa PalladinoMara
- Daniella AlonsoAmber
- Steve BraunJonesy
- Yan-Kay Crystal LoweElena
- Kimberly CaldwellKimberly
- Matthew Currie HolmesMichael
- Wayne RobsonOld Man
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- Joe LynchDirector
- Turi MeyerWriter
- Alfredo SeptiénWriter
- Robin LoewenDirector of Photography
- Bear McCrearyOriginal Music Composer
- Ed MarxEditor
- Jeff FreilichProducer
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