Wrong Turn 2 Script Review Rating 4/10 May 5th 2006 01:02am | Posted by: Editor-in-Chief Wrong Turn 2 Script Review Review by Ricky Smith | HNR Contributor Screenplay By: Turi Meyer and Al Septien Horror film, plus decent box office bank usually equals sequel and it’s no different for the 2003 Eliza Dushku film Wrong Turn. Now some of you are sitting there going, god seriously? I mean the Toronto shot predecessor wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good either. The Chainsaw remake came out that same year and basically annihilated this film. Fortunately for the people who did shell out their hard earn ducketts to see it, the producers are gracing you with a sequel. Right now the growing trend in LALA land is these direct-to-DVD sequels. I guess it’s a good idea, but seriously a Roadhouse sequel? Walking Tall? Wrong Turn? I don’t know maybe its me? I thought the American Pie D-T-DVD wasn’t too bad, but that’s a well established franchise. Wrong Turn? On to the script, which according to the rumor mill will be shooting in our very own backyard, Vancouver BC, and I can see why. In a nutshell, the script starts off really good and had me quite interested. It starts with some sweet chicky-poo on the phone with her agent as she’s driving the back roads of West Virginia. This Chicky-poo, who’s seems a little bitchy (good one to kill) is chatting about this stupid reality show she’s driving to while questioning why the hell she even agreed to sign up for it. So right there and then, that’s our plot. A reality show taking place in the woods…got it! The opening sequence is pretty cool, just as chicky-poo begins to loose cell reception; she plows into some kid in the middle of road. Now we’ve established her as a bitch, but yet she goes to see if this kid is okay? Cool, she’s dead for sure. A little unjustified, but we’ll work with it. As she goes over to look at this kid, the dude comes alive and bites her lips off! Wicked! Next thing we see is One Eye (from Part One) who comes in and finishes the job! And thus our opening to the film begins…And ends just as quick. So yeah, as I said, apparently there is some ‘Survivor’ reality show, but this is a REAL SURVIVOR show, which is suppose to be from some holocaust? Or nuclear bomb or something? And why they’re in the woods I’ll have no clue. Let alone West Virginia, which I guess is where Wrong Turn 1 took place? Anywhoo, we’re introduced to the same bland, artificial group of 20 something’s who will eventually end up at the end of One Eye’s axe. Now I wasn’t exaggerating, the opening sequence got me. I liked it. They even preface why this Cindy or Tracy hasn’t showed up for the show yet either which was cool. But deep down, I was like okay, you need to be hip, cool, current and I get the reality show angle, but you CAN TAKE any other horror franchise and use this same scenario. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Blair Witch…I mean it’s endless. So that lacks creativity right there, so those screen writers lose points. As well as the studio for green-lighting this film. Granted I’m not too enriched with the Wrong Turn folklore so maybe this could be a perfect fit, but the whole time I was picturing 17 other horror films where I’ve seen this in. Heck, Mr. Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead, same thing, but yet it was a rave! And dude, we got Erica Durance naked in that one! So if you’re going to go through with this, you better have the same type of pay off! I’m sure you get my drift, but for sake of argument let’s take the current champion of horrors right now; Saw. The great thing about Saw is that they use complicated storylines. They have a human element and it’s very unforgiving. This just feels like they cracked open the cliché bowl and threw everything into their Final Draft software. So at the end of the day am I any better for reading this? No. Do I think it will be a good film, I don’t know? Maybe. I don’t think the kill scenes were spectacular and actually I found them a bit bland. I thought this years FD3 had wicked killing sequences and these paled in comparison. The characters were transparent and lacked depth. There was little or no sex, nothing funny and 40 pages in I was bored. I’m really not a negative person and like I said I was into after page 6, but I got nothing afterwards. Thank god for Direct to DVD! At least for these screenwriters. Source: HNR In: Media Reviews |Visit the HNR Forums

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