Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
R | 23 October 2012 (USA)
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A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students.

Reviews
GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
TheLittleSongbird Judging from my other reviews, you would not think that horror films would be my thing, especially very gory ones. Actually aim to have a diverse taste in film, so seeing films from all decades and genres with no bias intended. Plus have seen my fair share of horror franchises where at least one film has been good.Personally quite enjoyed the first two 'Wrong Turn' films, they weren't perfect or great but had a lot to recommend. Hated 'Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead', with the exceptions of two small things. Hated even more 'Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings', a prequel detailing the hillbillies' origins that just came over as completely pointless with nothing interesting to say and was just badly executed as a film. The same goes for 'Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines'. It's like the fourth film, it makes exactly the same flaws as the third film, amplifies them and makes more on the way while not having either thing that stopped that film from being worse.Camilla Arfwedson is the sole reason 'Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines' gets any stars at all, she is the only actor who tries to give a halfway OK performance and the only asset where any effort is evident. Everything else however is done so amateurishly that all her valiant efforts seem a waste.The rest of the acting is a disgrace, there was a sense that nobody was even trying and it was painful to watch. The only things the cast succeed in doing is accentuating that their very sketchily developed characters are either bland, obnoxious or both and impossible to care for. Especially when their behaviour throughout is just so stupid and illogical. The script continues to be cheesy, awkward and cliché-ridden.Story is both derivative and takes simplicity to extremes, and ruins it further by failing to bring any kind of atmosphere to any of the components, just a lot of cheesy death scenes with lots of gratuitous gore that makes anything meant to resemble tension or terror feel nauseating or unintentionally funny. There is none of what made the first two films work, everything is just too cheap, too safe, too predictable and too clean. It had a decent premise to work from, but starts dull, un-scary and dumb and stays like that all the way instead of doing the thankful 180 that the second film did.Visually, there is nothing slick, professional, inventive or atmospheric here, slipshod is a better word for it. Particularly bad in this regard is the visual effects, the only thing that is scary about them is how risible and truly cheap they are. The direction has no personality or professionalism of any kind, there isn't a sense of understanding the genre or how to overcome a less than lavish budget.In conclusion, falls completely flat in nearly every way possible with the sole halfway OK asset outdone by the rest of the film being an intelligence-insulting mess. 1/10 Bethany Cox
Sandcooler The most positive thing you can say about the surprisingly long "Wrong Turn"-series is that at least they never make the same movie twice. Hell, this one even has a promising new premise. This time around One Eye, Saw Tooth and Three Finger do their killing during some sort of Halloween festival, which certainly has a lot of potential. Sadly the movie does absolutely nothing with that element, completely abandoning it halfway through (I'm assuming for budgetary reasons).Instead, we get a bunch of British actors with unconvincing American accents walk through a town that literally has one street. Usually a thing like that doesn't bother me in a cheap B-movie, but this is some of the most blatantly obvious sound stage work I've ever seen. The graveyard scenes from "Plan 9 From Outer Space" certainly come to mind when you see these people walk around the cardboard sets. These streets are also completely deserted, even though there's a music festival in town. Again, the hillbillies blending into a crowd (which would be easy at a horror festival) and killing people left and right could have been a great scene, but clearly too much of a hassle for these filmmakers.I also have a problem with the story of the movie, because the plot is fueled by main villain Maynard (Doug Bradley, creepy as always) being locked up in the local police jail. His dialogue consists mostly of threats about how 'his boys will get him out'. You assume it's going to be a retelling of John Carpenter's "Assault On Precinct 13", with the hillbillies finding clever ways to kill their victims in and around the police station, slowly getting closer to freeing Maynard. None of that happens. Even though they're all fully aware of the threat, the characters just leave the station one by one anyway to stand around cluelessly and be murdered. It's lazy writing and it makes you lose any sympathy you could have had for the characters. When crazed cannibals are running around 'town', you don't stand around in the middle of the 'street' screaming the name of whichever character died a couple of scenes ago. Even the average horror movie character isn't that retarded.With that said, the movie does provide some of the best gore scenes in the entire franchise. I was somewhat worried about that, because the first two kills rely very heavily on dirt-cheap CGI. Particularly the scene where the deputy loses his ears looks like something a (messed-up) kid would make on his home computer. It also falls into the lazy writing category, as the armed deputy just stands there waiting to be killed. Later though, we actually get some great-looking practical effects. The lawnmower kill scene might be my favorite of the entire franchise. Furthermore, we also get two genuinely likable characters: sheriff Angela and Mose, the town drunk who tries to redeem himself over the course of the movie. Them defending the police station could have been a great third act, but the movie doesn't even bother to give us an actual ending.So "Wrong Turn 5" basically just drags itself from one death to the next, but I guess you can't expect much more from a title like this. However, it could have easily been more with some more money and effort put into it.
subxerogravity Taking place at the mountain man festival, a rip off of burning man and Lollapalooza, that celebrates a massacre that took place 100 years or so before the events of the original movie in the same woods, a group of kids make a wrong turn in a car accident that pays homage to the first movie and officially begins the hunt of the inbreed slashers, who take advantage of the stupid kids wearing freak mask so they can do their work out in the open. A few lines of dialog officially make this a direct sequel to the last film, Bloody beginnings, and it's the most disappointing of the franchise.Unlike the other movies it falls into far too many clichés of the slasher film and is far less original.Ironically this makes it a pretty good film on its own as we watch stupid young kids getting taken down and some of the death scenes are nicely violent and stretched out as the inbreeds played with their food.Overall, Number 5 in the franchise is really to generic and put together too by the numbers to be anything too interesting. You can skip.
pbrandon074 this wrong turn movie i least liked. i did not think this movie had much excitement. i think people shoud see this once.in the other movie the cannibals just kill other people. in this movie the cannibals kill people in sick ways.this movie is about some people coming to this town for the mountain man festival. in there way in a man walked in front of there car and makes them crash.the man gets arrested for going after them with a knife them.in the police station he is found out to be a most wanted killer. he keeps making threats that his men are going to kill them and let him out. they do come to get him and they kill every one around on the meanest way they can.i am not a big fan of this movie but i think this movie is good to watch on a day when you have nothing else to do.