15 years and five sequels later, the original is getting remade.
Sometimes, critics get it wrong, and sometimes, audiences get it wrong.
Rarely, but on occasion, everyone gets it wrong.
Which is exactly what happened with 2003 horror movie Wrong Turn.
Scoring just 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, the $12.6 million budget only made back $28.7 million worldwide, which is a big budget for a horror movie, and a relatively small return on such an investment.
A lot of that money surely went to the Stan Winston Studio, who normally do special effects for movies like Jurassic Park, but here pulled out all the stops to make the cannibalistic mutant men who chased Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers and their friends around the backwoods of West Virginia as disgustingly realistic as possible.
It is a pretty nasty, nihilistic, incredibly violent film, which is probably why it didn't do as well as it should have.
That didn't stop it from getting FIVE sequels and prequels - Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, and last but by no means least, Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort.
Each was worse than the one that came before, and now, just 15 years since it began, the Wrong Turn series is getting a reboot, with the original movie getting a remake.
The writer of the original movie is back to pen this one too, with producer Robert Kulzer telling Deadline that "[the writer's] reinterpretation of his own work and Mike’s vision are a frightening reflection of our world today: one person’s American dream is another’s worst nightmare."
Cool? But are there still cannibalistic mutants involved, because that is what we're really here for, if we're being honest.
In the meantime, here's a very NSFW reminder of the incredibly gory deaths from the first movie for your... eh... "enjoyment"?
Clip via Horror Movie Kills
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