September 22, 2007
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Incest is best served gory.Did anyone on this God-forsaken tuna boat we call Earth really need a sequel to Rob Schmidt's underwhelming 2003 freak show Wrong Turn? Probably not, but that didn't stop Twentieth Century Fox from churning out a highly entertaining albeit entirely pointless sequel featuring everyone's favorite cannibalistic West Virginian hillbilly family. In an effort to forcibly capture America's ever-wandering attention, however, Joe Lynch's Wrong Turn 2: Dead End incorporates two opportunistic pop culture references into this grue-soaked equation, namely American Idol "talent" Kimberly Caldwell and a faux reality program which pokes fun at Mark Burnett's groundbreaking game show Survivor. How remarkably inventive! Thankfully, Lynch and company have injected an unholy amount of squishy, underwear-soiling gore deep into the heart of their spiffy little genre production, giving you plenty of reasons to keep watching long after Henry Rollins' standard-issue shtick has worn out its welcome. Furthermore, Lynch's penchant for unexpected, unpredictable kills, topped with some truly wicked effects, somehow manage to convert this overdone scenario into an evening's worth of mindless entertainment. Hoorah for low expectations.
Recipe For Success: Excellent Gore + Breathless Pacing + Incestuous Rednecks Fornicating In The Woods
Nifty Appalachian Legends: Hair-lipped monstrosities always pray to the Heavenly Father before devouring attractive city dwellers.
After, Jesus was a meat eater, too.
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The Film Fiend
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If there is one thing I will never get enough of, it's the too little too late aspect of genre movies that make half-hearted attempts at appealing to momentary pop cultural fads. Horror movies, in particular, are still trying to work ecstasy, black lights and pounding techno into scripts because rave rhymes with grave. These days, they can't seem to make enough awful movies with reality-show-gone wrong themes even though Survivor isn't the ratings giant it used to be.
I have this one sitting on deck at home. I'll give it a shot because the word was that it was pretty violent and I'm also a retard for antyhing with Henry Rollins.
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