Stan Winston didn't create the special effects for "Wrong Turn". Arjen Tuiten, who was from Winston's studios did SOME of the prosthetics. That's all.
What differed between "Scream", "Halloween", and "When a Stranger Calls"? I'll induldge you. You may even learn something.
Scream - A duo of high school kids and horror movie aficonado's take their love for movies too far, motivated by movies, kill off their classmates. All throughout, executing perfect alibis and tact, almost getting away with every single murder.
Halloween - A young boy, on Halloween, murders his immediate family, and is sent to a mental institution. Halloween night of 1978, he escapes from the facility to finish killing off his family, and anyone in his way. This came to be known as a product of Michael being part of the Thorn cult, where one man sacrificed his family for the good of the community.
When a Stranger Calls - A girl is left alone to babysit, gets obscene calls, asking about the children, threatening her life and theirs, when all along he is
Spoiler:In fact, "When a Stranger Calls" is a ripoff of "Black Christmas", which used the same plot 5 years earlier.
already inside the house.
So.........if you wanna find some comparisons between those 3 movies, and I do mean aside from people being murdered, silly, please go right ahead. If you can't, I won't be surprised because there aren't any....whereas I can trace "Wrong Turns" roots through cinema about 50 years or more.
Again, please, stop using "Scream" as if it's something I directed. I loved the movie, and you trying to us it as something hurtful towards me is as pathetic as it as amatuer and outright hilarious, namely because your wrong. Normally, yes, opinions can't be wrong, but your basis is off, as is the way you're presenting your debate.
Wrong Turn - Friends go on a camping trip, crash cars, stumble across old farm house, run into 3 disfigured inbred brothers who chase them through the woods to kill and eat them.
Hills Have Eyes - Broken down car and caravan, tourists in search of an old silver mine slowly begin being picked off by a family of feral cannibals who watch from the hills then come looking for food, they also live in caves on a nuclear testing zone.
TCM - It all starts out as a simple country road trip that sounds like the perfect way to spend some time for a group of five friends. It seems to be a regular afternoon until they drive into a deserted part of Texas. A strange hitchhiker unleashes an unimaginable chain-of-events that lead to murder, cannibalism and leatherface.
These movies are completely different, except for the fact they all are 'cannibal' movies and people run into them.
All the Cannibal Familys are different and do different things.
Wrong Turn - Car full of teens breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Kids run across cannibalistic family in the woods.
The Hills Have Eyes - Trailer breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Family runs into cannibalistic family in the foothills.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Van of full teens breaks down (runs out of gas) in the middle of nowhere. Kids run across cannabalistic family.
Wolf Creek - Kids car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Kids run into mysogynistic killer.
It's all the damn same to me. Contesting it won't do anyone any good.
Scream, Halloween and When A Stranger Calls all have a psychotic killer preying on people. The calls on the phone were taken from When A Stranger Calls, the revenge plot was taken from Halloween, the mask and knife were both used in Halloween (not the same mask, but a mask). How can you sit there and say Scream was original!
Originally posted by deathbycorn
The calls on the phone were taken from When A Stranger Calls, the revenge plot was taken from Halloween, the mask and knife were both used in Halloween (not the same mask, but a mask). How can you sit there and say Scream was original!
Taken? So, before WASC, no other horror movie had a killer that called the victims house? Bullshit. Before Halloween, no other movie used revenge as a plot? Bullshit. Before Halloween, no other horror movie used a knife as a murder weapon? Bullshit. Before Halloween, no other movie used a masked killer? Bullshit.
You see how ridiculous you sound with all these "unoriginal" accusations?
I can sit here and say that Scream was original because it was the first movie to use TWO killers working under the same supposed alias, as well as the first to actually make light of all the horror movie cliches, even being acknowledged by the characters themselves. Some were used anyway, most just ripped on.
The plot of Scream was very unoriginal and simplistic, but it's the guts of the movie that matter, made it original, and a piece of horror history. There hasn't been a movie like it since, because it's a true original.
HNR reports that the film is set to begin shooting on May 29 to June 30 at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby. Joe Lynch is set to direct.
Wrong Turn 2 Script Review
Review by Ricky Smith | HNR Contributor
Screenplay By: Turi Meyer and Al Septien
Horror film, plus decent box office bank usually equals sequel and it’s no different for the 2003 Eliza Dushku film Wrong Turn.
Now some of you are sitting there going, god seriously? I mean the Toronto shot predecessor wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good either. The Chainsaw remake came out that same year and basically annihilated this film. Fortunately for the people who did shell out their hard earn ducketts to see it, the producers are gracing you with a sequel.
Right now the growing trend in LALA land is these direct-to-DVD sequels. I guess it’s a good idea, but seriously a Roadhouse sequel? Walking Tall? Wrong Turn? I don’t know maybe its me? I thought the American Pie D-T-DVD wasn’t too bad, but that’s a well established franchise. Wrong Turn?
On to the script, which according to the rumor mill will be shooting in our very own backyard, Vancouver BC, and I can see why.
In a nutshell, the script starts off really good and had me quite interested. It starts with some sweet chicky-poo on the phone with her agent as she’s driving the back roads of West Virginia. This Chicky-poo, who’s seems a little bitchy (good one to kill) is chatting about this stupid reality show she’s driving to while questioning why the hell she even agreed to sign up for it. So right there and then, that’s our plot. A reality show taking place in the woods…got it!
The opening sequence is pretty cool, just as chicky-poo begins to loose cell reception; she plows into some kid in the middle of road. Now we’ve established her as a *****, but yet she goes to see if this kid is okay? Cool, she’s dead for sure. A little unjustified, but we’ll work with it.
As she goes over to look at this kid, the dude comes alive and bites her lips off! Wicked! Next thing we see is One Eye (from Part One) who comes in and finishes the job! And thus our opening to the film begins…And ends just as quick.
So yeah, as I said, apparently there is some ‘Survivor’ reality show, but this is a REAL SURVIVOR show, which is suppose to be from some holocaust? Or nuclear bomb or something? And why they’re in the woods I’ll have no clue. Let alone West Virginia, which I guess is where Wrong Turn 1 took place? Anywhoo, we’re introduced to the same bland, artificial group of 20 something’s who will eventually end up at the end of One Eye’s axe.
Now I wasn’t exaggerating, the opening sequence got me. I liked it. They even preface why this Cindy or Tracy hasn’t showed up for the show yet either which was cool. But deep down, I was like okay, you need to be hip, cool, current and I get the reality show angle, but you CAN TAKE any other horror franchise and use this same scenario. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Blair Witch…I mean it’s endless. So that lacks creativity right there, so those screen writers lose points. As well as the studio for green-lighting this film. Granted I’m not too enriched with the Wrong Turn folklore so maybe this could be a perfect fit, but the whole time I was picturing 17 other horror films where I’ve seen this in. Heck, Mr. Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead, same thing, but yet it was a rave! And dude, we got Erica Durance naked in that one! So if you’re going to go through with this, you better have the same type of pay off! I’m sure you get my drift, but for sake of argument let’s take the current champion of horrors right now; Saw. The great thing about Saw is that they use complicated storylines. They have a human element and it’s very unforgiving. This just feels like they cracked open the cliché bowl and threw everything into their Final Draft software.
So at the end of the day am I any better for reading this? No. Do I think it will be a good film, I don’t know? Maybe. I don’t think the kill scenes were spectacular and actually I found them a bit bland. I thought this years FD3 had wicked killing sequences and these paled in comparison. The characters were transparent and lacked depth. There was little or no sex, nothing funny and 40 pages in I was bored.
I’m really not a negative person and like I said I was into after page 6, but I got nothing afterwards.
Thank god for Direct to DVD! At least for these screenwriters.
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"I have just been cast in "WRONG TURN 2" I have been given a supporting lead and cannot wait to start filming. For some of you FD3 Fans you will also be happy to know that I will be working with Texas Battle once again. He has also been cast as a lead on the show and we are both so excited."
The true story based on this movie was set 10 minutes away from my hometown when I was almost 6 years old. Talk about freaky. But yes, I definitely enjoyed the first movie, I thought it could've been better dealing with the killings but all-in-all I was happy about it.
As far as the second one I won't be seeing it. Eliza Dusku was good in the first one and if she isn't in the second one there is really no point to me.
Also, the inbreds didn't kill THAT many people and they were also caught, so to make a second movie would be kind of pointless to me.
What the hell is the matter with you all??? There are so many people bashing Wrong Turn...the first time I seen it, I loved it.
When in the past 15 years has there been a good horror movie?
Was "The Ring" a good horror movie?
Was "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the remake a good horror movie?
Or maybe, "The Panic Room" scared you.
"Seven", what a pathetic joke, same with "Saw", (which I fell asleep through both).
"House of 1000 Corpses" was awesome. (Don't even mention the second one).
But, if you like messed up hillbillies killing people, and them actually showing it, and you like suspense, then "Wrong Turn" is a great movie!
What the hell makes a great horror movie for you??...oh, I know "Freddy vs. Jason".....come on.
STRAIGHT-TO-VIDEO SEQUELS TAKE A TURN FOR THE BETTER?
by Kevin Van Natter
Source: Dread Central
Things look to be coming together nicely for the direct-to-video sequel to Wrong Turn. Post-production on Wrong Turn 2, which stars Henry Rollins as a "Survivor"-like reality show host, is nearing completion and Battlestar Galatica composer Bear McCreary has just been landed to score the film, according to Dread Central.
The plot for Wrong Turn 2 sounds exactly like what you’d expect from most straight-to-video films, which have rightfully earned bad reputations.
With a script from writing veterans Turi Meyer and Al Septien (Leprechaun 2, Chairman of the Board), the film centers on contestants who are participating in a survivalist-themed reality show which lands them in West Virginia where they cross paths with mutant inbred cannibal rednecks.
The film could end up being better than what we're typically used to when it comes to home video sequels. First time director Joe Lynch has already made at least one admirable decision in casting Henry Rollins, which brings raw energy to the film and could be a sign that Lynch has the potential and the vision to change the way audiences perceive straight-to-video sequels. Any director who purposely seeks out Henry Rollins to play a lead role deserves to have his film watched and given a fair chance. I always thought Rollins would be great if he got a chance to do larger roles in film.
Current plans indicate that the movie will be released from Fox Entertainment sometime next April. We’ll let you know as soon as there is an official announcement and keep out fingers crossed that this one doesn't turn out to be the next Halloween: Ressurection.
Taken from Ryan Nicholson's Blog (Writer/Director of Live Feed):
Some more news, the producers and director of "Wrong Turn II" came by my studio a couple of days ago. The director rules and the first thing he said to me was "Live Feed is gonna be wicked" ! I was like holy shit, you've heard about it? He was like "I saw the trailer, looks amazing!" That got me very ****ing excited about making the cannibalistic inbreds for his movie! The meeting went great and in the end, I get to do a test make-up on one of the actors to show my style and show that I AM THE MAN for the job. There's two other shops bidding on this gigantic build but my make-up will blow any other shops out of the mother****ing water! The gore in "Wrong Turn II" is massive. I read the script and was like holy mother****! Soooooo much of the red stuff, I hope I get the gig. My pal, Troy Nixey, legendary comic book artist, has designed a few concepts for me. A family portrait so to speak!