Sunday, November 11, 2012

WRONG TURN 5: BLOODLINES (2012)

Welcome to the Mountain Man Festival.  It's suppose to be a huge festival thing like Burning Man or something.  Who knows.  Five douchers are driving down a country road on there way to the festival, when they suddenly see a hillbilly standing in the road.  They swerve to avoid the slack-jawed yokel and hit a tree instead.  Then the fuzz shows up and arrests everybody.  That's bad news bears for the five douchers, because the hillbilly just happens to be the father of the three psychos from Part 4.  And now they're on their way to bust him out of jail RIO BRAVO-style.  What an amazing story.

Nice change of setting (even though the city was clearly a sound stage), quick pace, violence, badly lit nudity, snow plow kills, leg torture, dismemberment, burned alive in a barrel, Pinhead without his makeup on, stupid decisions, forced to eat your own intestines, electrocution, eyeball removal, suicide.  If you're a horror fan, it's worth a one time viewing, but really that's it.

My biggest complaint, besides the weak script, is: no Jennifer Pudavick.  As awesome as Part 4 was in the violence and story departments, the film overall was even more awesome because of her presence.  She carried the film and if the filmmakers were wise, they would just bring her back in each film.  I know she died in Part 4, but she could have easily played the sheriff in this film and it would have benefited greatly.

Part 1 - Wrong Turn (2003)
Part 2 - Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
Part 3 - Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
Part 4 - Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)
Part 6 - Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort
Reboot - Wrong Turn (2021)