The seventh entry in the franchise, with its weird cultists, takes a few original steps off the well-beaten hillbilly horror path
It’s pretty crass and generic, yet there is occasionally a wacky sort of gonzo energy to this horror from director Mike P Nelson, the seventh movie in the Wrong Turn slasher franchise, which began back in 2003 in the classic 70s style of The Hills Have Eyes. This is also a kind of reboot or summation in that it is called, simply, Wrong Turn, like the first one, without the number 7.
The Anglo-Spanish
Actor Charlotte Vega plays Jen, a fresh-faced twentysomething hiking the Appalachian trail with a group of her
Friends. After rashly deciding to go off the official path, into the dense woodland, in search of a “civil war fort” (an ominous destination if ever there was one), they are gruesomely set upon by sinister hillbillies and mountain men dressed in weird animal furs and skulls like Trumpites invading the Capitol. Jen’s earnest dad, Scott (Matthew Modine), comes looking for her, only to discover something horrifying about who these mountain folk actually are and the strange alternative society they have built in secret deep in the forest wilderness for a century or more.