Friends on a winter break snowmobiling excursion make a wrong turn during a snowstorm and get lost in a nightmare. Seeking shelter in a presumably abandoned sanatorium, they awaken the horrific residents, including former patients and cannibals.
When you get to the fourth film in a horror series that has only gotten progressively worse with each film, you know you’re in for a real treat. You can expect to see plenty of dumbass things, but the entire point of it all is to just sit back and enjoy the film for the B movie that it’s trying to be. Wrong Turn 4 does a really good job with this concept for the first hour or so, but then the film reaches a point to where only the brave and insane dare test their eyes.
To the viewer’s familiar with the franchise, this film reveals the origins of the deformed, people-eating, psycho hillbilly brothers. It’s fairly standard stuff from this genre; mental hospital, escaping and killing everyone, living there for 15 years, you know, standard. Everything is dark and gloomy for them until a bunch of college kids get caught up in a storm and are forced to seek shelter in the now abandoned hospital. Here is when the crazy brothers go to town and they pick them off one by one, and then eat them in front of the camera for your viewing pleasure. It gets disgusting, violent, and terribly acted; in other words, exactly what you wanted. Its fun watching amateur actors taking no these type of shitty roles in hopes that it’s a jumpstart into something bigger. They put themselves in some terrible situations to fail, and they accomplish that goal with flying colors. I’d need more than two hands to keep track of the number of times I got a kick out of something someone did or said. Seeing these brothers again just ripping through these kids is just plain dumb fun.
Then something happens about an hour into the film and it completely raises the stakes in pure awesomeness. In a blatant spoiler, our protagonists have the brothers trapped in a jail cell and right before they go to burn them alive a character suddenly has a change of heart and convinces them not to become like them. SO they leave one person in charge of watching them while they go off and have sex. Then this character in charge of watching falls asleep right next to the cell where the brothers that killed a bunch of his friends now secretly escape and continue onward with their reign of chaos over the hospital. The rest of the film is so god damn bad, you’ll either find yourself looking with disgust or laughing with a smile. This is the type of film you already know if you’d love and if this is the crap that keeps you entertained, have yourself a good laugh. It really makes up for the god awful third one in the series.
Overall Score: 3/10
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