‘What you don’t see will kill you’
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is a 2009 American horror feature film directed by Declan O’Brien (Rock Monster; Sharktopus; Joy Ride 3: Roadkill) from a screenplay by Connor James Delaney. It is the third instalment in the Wrong Turn film series.
The movie stars Janet Montgomery (The Hills Run Red; Dead Cert; Black Swan; Salem), Tom Frederic, Chucky Venn, Tamer Hassan and Louis Cliffe.
Alex (Janet Montgomery) and her friends Trey (Jack Gordon), Sophie (Louise Cliffe) and Brent (Charley Speed) go into the woods of West Virginia on a rafting trip. As they are camping, Alex’s friends are killed by Three Finger.
Two days later, a group of prisoners are being transferred to a distant prison. While driving, their bus is rammed by Three Finger’s truck and crashes in the woods, forcing them to continue on foot…
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Reviews:
“The saddest thing about it is that at its core is a potentially interesting story. Cops teaming up with criminals and regular folks against a common enemy – sound like Assault on Precinct 13 a bit? … Instead we get the umpteenth journey through the woods, without any of the class of the original or splatter-y fun of the sequel.” Bloody Disgusting
“There is toplessness (of a hilariously gratuitous variety) within two minutes of the film’s opening, and a legion of gory deaths to follow – but there is also, alas, little here that we have not seen before … Yet amid all its man-traps, macho posturing and monetary moralising, this is an overfamiliar exercise in by-numbers filmmaking that always seems merely to be coasting on auto-pilot.” Anton Bitel, Eye for Film
“While there’s some creativity in the methods of death, the filmmakers decide to overload their gags with CGI gore, a strategy that pisses me off as I see it used more frequently in low-budget horror films … If gore is where you hope to make your name, divert some cash into the practical props line item.” David Johnson, DVD Verdict
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“It features a cast of actors who have a lot of episodes of The Bill on their CVs and has what appears to be a public park in Belgrade standing in for America. It’s dark. Presumably they thought the audience would be too drunk to notice. Its really, really dreadful.” Max Renn Blog
Cast and characters:
- Tom Frederic as Nate Wilson
- Janet Montgomery as Alex
- Gil Kolirin as Floyd
- Christian Contreras as William Juarez
- Jake Curran as Crawford
- Tom McKay as Brandon
- Chucky Venn as Walter
- Tamer Hassan as Carlos Chavez
- Louise Cliffe as Sophie
- Jack Gordon as Trey
- Charley Speed as Brent
- Borislav Petrov as Three Toes
- Borislav Iliev as Three Finger
- Mike Straub as Preslow
- Bill Moody as Sheriff Calvin Carver
- Emma Clifford as Deputy Ally Lane
- Mac McDonald as Warden Ladew
- Todd Jensen as U.S. Marshal
- Vlado Mihailov as U.S. Marshal Davis
Filming locations:
Sofia, Bulgaria
