A Good Day For A "Wrong Turn" Movie Review (Part 4)

Hey guys! I took a little break this weekend as far as horror movies are concerned, but I am back and here with my review of the fourth movie of the franchise "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings", directed by Declan O'Brien (Wrong Turn 3 + 5). In this installment, a group of eight friends are traveling to their friends cabin in the woods by snowmobile. But they get caught in a blizzard and had to settle in at an abandoned Sanitarium, where once again our three favorite cannibals are staying.

The movie starts with a sort of flashback. We meet the head doctor at the sanitarium and a lady who seems to be some sort of therapist. The doctor is showing her all of the inmates. He brings her to meet Three-Finger, One-Eye, and Saw-Tooth, but this time they are teenagers. When going in one of the other inmates grabs a pin out of the lady's hair and hides. When the doctors leave they inmate gives the pin to the brothers and they escape, and when doing so they kill a security guard and release the other inmates. They all run a muck through the hospital. Then the three brothers track down and kill the therapist by electrically shocking her brain with a shock therapy machine, and then they find the head doctor and pull each one of his limbs off with barbed wire. And this leads us to the beginning of the film.

It starts out with two different sex scenes going on at the same time. Soon Kenia, played by Jennifer Pudavick (Wishmaster 3 + 4), comes in to let them know they are leaving to start their trip to their friends cabin in five minutes.

Now we meet the entire group of friends; Sara and Bridget (Gay couple), Jenna and Vincent (Couple), Lauren and Daniel (Couple), and lastly Kyle and Claire (Couple). They all pack up some snowmobiles and snowboards and hit the trails. After a while they realize they are lost, and they come upon the abandoned sanitarium. They decide to bunk inside for the night.

Once they get inside they start to do some exploring. They find the head doctors office and find a ton of patient files. they soon learn that the place is a mental hospital and most of the patients were physically deformed. After exploring they go and settle in the main study. They build a fire and a Kenia, Vincent and Jenna go do some more exploring. Kenia thinks she saw someone but the others convince her it was nothing. After Vincent scares the crap out of Kenia and Jenna, they go back with the others.

Vincent makes up for scaring the girls by going an turning on the generator so they can get some lights and heat. So he goes and does that no problem.

We then get a quick shot of the three brothers dragging a dead body into the building through the snow. Later we find out that it is the groups friend Porter, who owned the cabin they were suppose to go to.

Now the group decides to have a little fun. So they drink some thirty year old scotch that they find and let loose. The ride wheelchairs, dance around through the halls, and Sara and Bridget make out most of the time. They then make their way into a large room with a theater stage. Daniel find an old film roll and they decide to watch it. The film shows the torture that these patients would receive. Things like shock therapy. After the movie they all go to bed to get rest for their trip in the morning.

Vincent can't sleep so he goes on to explore more of the hospital. He takes a little detour to watch Sara and Bridget partake in intercourse. But then he continues and sees his buddy Porter at the nurses station, or what is left of him. When he goes up to him he sees that Porter is dead, and when Vincent turns around he gets stabbed in the head with a huge needle by Saw-Tooth.

Jenna wakes up in the morning and Vincent has not come back yet. Go figure. So she gets everyone to split into two groups to go look for him. One group consists of  Jenna, Kyle, Claire, and Kenia. The other is Sara, Bridget, Daniel and Lauren.

Sara's group goes and finds a caged area in the basement and check it out. Jenna's group decides to split up. We then see Jenna go into the kitchen where she witnesses Saw-Tooth chopping up Vincent's body. She makes her way back to the rest of the group and tells them that Vincent is dead. So they make their way back to the room with the stage. When the get back, something throws a rolled up jacket at their feet from the stage, and its Vincents head in Porters jacket. They all decide that its best to leave right now. But before they go outside, Claire gets a nuse of barbed wire dropped around her neck from the balcony above. She is hung and her body is soon separated from her body.

They quickly run outside to leave but the cannibals took the spark plug wires. Lauren then decides to take a pair of skis and ski her way down the mountain to get help. We find out later that she freezes to death under a tree, just about one hundred feet away from the main road.

After quick decision making, they go back inside and lock themselves in the head doctors office. Once they get inside Saw-Tooth knocks and drills through the door with an ice auger. Kyle, Daniel and Sara all decide to go to the caged area to find weapons.. After they panic for a bit they decide to go get weapons. On they are chased by Three-Finger. They make it to the caged area and lock themselves in, and they are not seen. When heading back to the others, Daniel is captured and taken to the kitchen.

Kyle and Sara make it back, but no Daniel. We then see Daniel strapped to an iron table in the kitchen, The three brothers then start boiling oil and adding different vegetables like potatoes and onions to the oil. They plan to make some sort of sick fondue. So they carefully start cutting off different pieces of him and they dip them into the oil, and start chowing down.

The others hear him screaming so they decide to make a run to save him. We never really find out, but he eventually passes out from the pain and eventually dies. The group makes a plan to scare the three by using fire. So they make their way down to the kitchen and begin chasing them down the hall. Jenna then smashes a lantern on the floor and a wall of fire appears. They then chase them into their old cell and they lock it. Kyle wants to kill them but Kenia convinces him not to. So they decide to get some rest, and they take shifts throughout the night. Kyle takes first watch over the cannibals.

Kyle falls asleep and the brothers use the same pin they escaped with years ago, and they break out and attack Kyle.

Kenia decides to go relieve Kyle, but the generator dies and she is left alone in the dark on her way to the cell block. She gets their and there is no Kyle and no cannibals. Kenia makes her way back to the group and Kyle is not there. They have themselves locked in the head doctors office.  Soon after she returns someone appears at the door, and they have a sack over their head. So Kenia, Sara, Bridget and Jenna decide to kill him because he's unarmed. So they go out and stab him about a couple dozen times, each. But they pull the mask off and realize that it was Kyle. He couldn't talk because the brothers cut out his tongue. Now the girls really want to leave so they start looking for the spark plug wires.

They look and look but can't find them, so they put on their snow gear and try to break out through a window. This is when we see the three brothers going after them with the same ice auger. The girls put a piece of wood between the door handles to gold them back, but only for a minute or two. They pull the metal cage off the window and break the glass so they can get out. Sara has to dig a tunnel through the snow. Sara, Bridget, and Kenia make it out, but the snow falls down and Jenna can't get through. She is then drilled to death by Saw-Tooth.

The three girls start running in the snow, and they are soon surrounded by the brothers, on their snow sleds. They leave soon after. But eventually they come back and attack the girls. Kenia gets hit with a blunt object and Bridget is dragged through the snow. Sara helps Kenia to a tree and decides to go back and find something that she forgot, but its snowing so she never found it. Bridget falls into the snow and she is then caught under one of the brothers sled tracks and she is complete cut up by the track. Sara finds her dead soon after.

It then transitions to morning and we see Kenia walking through an open field calling for help. Then one of the brothers starts chasing her on a snow sled, but the girls set a clever trap. Sara hid behind a pile of snow and knocked the cannibal off of the sled. Kenia and Sara then take the sled and make their way towards safety. But when you think they made it safely, they run into a line of barbed wire and it cuts off both of their heads. That's right, no survivors in Wrong Turn 4! The final shot is of Three-Finger putting the severed heads into the back of the truck and driving off.

Pros:

• Once again the kills in this movie were fantastic. They introduced new weapons like snow sleds and ice augers. It fit perfectly with the winter theme.
• The characters were very believable and they always showed emotion.
• The makeup for the cannibals was perfect. They still look creepy and realistic as ever. 
• The way that they showed how they were as teenagers was very cool. You kind of got to see how they became who they are. 

Cons:

• Some of the CGI on some of the kills, like the girl being hung and the snow sled kill were not as good as I wished it would be, but that is really the only thing that I didn't really like about the film. 

Now on a scale from A-F, I give "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings" a... B+!

This is my favorite of the entire franchise. Something about the winter element gives a new obstacle for the characters to overcome. They brought in some very new and gruesome kills, which have gotten better from movie to movie. I thought the cast overall did a very good job, showing emotion through most of the movie. I also thought the flashback to seeing the cannibals as teenagers was brilliant. You actually got to see them before they really went on their killing sprees.

Thanks for reading everyone and come back anytime for everything that is horror!



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