Hey everyone and welcome to back to another Wrong Turn horror movie review! Tonight my roommates and I watch the third installment of the Wrong Turn franchise called "Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead". This film came out in 2009 and was directed by Declan O'Brien (Joy Ride 3, Wrong Turn 4+5). In this movie a group of convicts and two security guards get in a bus accident during a prison transfer, and they need to fight to stay alive because they are being hunted by our old pal Three-Finger (Borislav Iliev- World War Z).
Now it all starts with two couples kayaking down the rapids of a fast river. They decide to take a break and relax on a beach near by. The girls decide to tan while the guys go search for firewood. Eventually there is one couple on the beach and the others left. But soon the girl on the beach gets shot with an arrow through the chest and the eye. The boyfriend runs leaving the other girl and her boyfriend behind. He gets cut into thirds by a wire trap set by Three-Finger. The other boyfriend is chased down and stabbed through the mouth with a wooden spike. The last girl remaining manages to get away. For now.
We are now shown a bus that arrives at a nearby prison. Two groups are in the courtyard, one led by Chavez played by Tamer Hassan (Batman Begins) and Floyd played by Gil Kolirin (Return to House on Haunted Hill). They are planning to work together to help Chaves escape during the prisoner exchange.We soon meet Nate and Walter, two prison guards who will be in charge of the transfer. Nate is soon brought into an office where the prison owner tells him that he will lead the transfer. They also tell him they will use an agent disguised as a prisoner to help find out if the there will be an escape attempt. They want him to stay on Chavez's good side.
They soon bring in all of the prisoners being moved and they chain them all together so that no one can escape. Then they are brought onto the bus and they make their way to the other prison, but they first make a stop at the sheriffs department for a rest stop and a check in. Nate just happens to have grown up in the town that the sheriffs office is in, so he knows some of the people. So when they are all finished they get back on the bus and continue the transfer.
While this is going on, we meet Three-Toes, who is the son of Three-Finger. He is setting up a spike trap, with a little help from his daddy. They then roam off into the forest.As the bus makes its way to the destination, Three-Finger driving his little pickup truck manages to push the bus off the road and they crash at the bottom of a hill. When everyone gets out, the group of prisoners turn on Nate and Walter and take their guns. Now the group is on foot and trying to find the nearest town.
While going through the woods they find an abandoned, armored truck and they find money inside. They all think they get a share of it, but Chavez has other ideas. He makes everyone carry bags, but Walter is hurt and can't carry anything. Chavez tells him to anyway but Walter refuses, earning him a gunshot to the head.
They continue through the woods but they come upon the trap set by Three-Toes. It doesn't kill anybody but Three-Toes appears. They make quick work of the young cannibal, and they put his head on a stick for his father to find, which he does. Three-Finger is outraged.
Now we get to officially meet Alex, the girl who ran away at the beginning of the film. She has seen what Three-Finger has done and is now stuck with the group. She leads them to the rafts they had at the start, but thanks to Nate who pops the rafts, nobody is going anywhere except on foot. Chavez doesn't appreciate this, so a few shots to the face for Nate. We then start to lose a few prisoners. One of them (undercover agent) pulls on a set of keys hanging from a tree, but its a trap and the front of his face is cut off by a swinging scythe. The other (car thief) goes to check an abandoned truck, but Three-Finger springs a trap that wraps a barbed wire net around the guy and drags him to his death. We are left with Nate, Alex, Chavez, Floyd, and Brandon, who was committed for something he was supposedly innocent for.
Now the sheriff is a little nervous about the transfer and decides to go out and check to make sure that everything has gone smoothly. He eventually finds the bus that was rolled over and goes out looking for everyone.
At this point Floyd and Chavez are having control issues. That's what money does. They duke it out for a bit but Chavez beats Floyd to a pulp. As this is going on Nate and Alex attempt to sneak away, for now. Brandon and Chavez find Nate and Alex and they make sure they won't run again. They make there way back into the woods and they decide to hide the money by a tree for now. When they leave the money, Floyd wakes up, takes the money and throws it into the river. When the group can't find the money Chavez goes after Floyd, but Floyd is soon set on fire by Three-Finger.
They get away and come upon a truck on a road. Chavez sacrifices Alex to Three-Finger and he drives off. Nate, Brandon and Chavez are on their own.
After a while Chavez is tired of Nate leading him nowhere and he plans to kill him. But Brandon the innocent hits Chavez over the head with a gun that Chavez trusted him with and knocks him out. Brandon and Nate part ways.
Now Chavez wakes up and fights Three-Finger but it doesn't end the way he hoped and he is soon killed and hung from a tree.
Nate makes his way through the woods and finds a house that Alex has been trapped in. He helps her escape but Three-Finger surprises them. They start fighting but Nate stabs him. Now they can get away. They take his truck and drive, but they soon encounter him on the road. He causes them to get into an accident. Brandon returns briefly to help Nate and Alex out of the truck.
They are now all alone until they are attacked by Three-Finger, but Nate makes quick work of him with a hook through the head of the cannibal. Now Nate tells Brandon that he has his back. He will say he didn't make it so he can go live his life. Brandon leaves. The sun soon rises and the cops come to the rescue. The last shot of the film is of Nate taking some money out of the back of the armored vehicle in the woods. He's reminded of Walter, but he then takes an arrow to the chest from Brandon, who finishes off the film by saying "Never trust a convict".
Pros:
- There were a lot of very original kills in this film. A great use of different traps make this movie very exciting.
- I thought some of the CGI use during the movie was very sloppy. Some of the driving scenes were very bad and didn't even look real.
- I didn't think the acting was very good overall. It looked like everyone was trying but it didn't feel genuine.
Now on a scale from A-F, I give "Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead" a... C-.
This is my least favorite film of the franchise. There were a lot of new and original kills and I love seeing that. The gore was also pretty good. I just feel that the acting needed a lot of improvement and they could of done a little better with the CGI. If they could do driving scenes in the first two fine, why not this one?
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Good overview of the movie. Very detailed an well-described.
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