5.1 | / 10 |
Users | 2.2 | |
Reviewer | 1.0 | |
Overall | 2.2 |
A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students
Starring: Doug Bradley, Simon Ginty, Camilla Arfwedson, Borislav Iliev, Roxanne McKeeHorror | 100% |
Thriller | 45% |
Teen | 8% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
Digital copy (on disc)
DVD copy
D-Box
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 1.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 1.0 |
Let's just say this up front: Wrong Turn 5 is certainly the worst entry in what's arguably the worst horror franchise of the past decade. If you
value your time and money, you shouldn't even finish reading to the bottom of this paragraph. Forget that Wrong Turn 5 exists. Spend your
hard-earned, entertainment-earmarked cash elsewhere. Buy some candy for trick-or-treaters instead. Throw a few bucks to the cardboard-sign toting
homeless vet by the interstate onramp. Get drunk. Stock up on AA batteries. You get the idea—anything but this.
Because this movie doesn't respect you, as an audience. It doesn't respect the few fans of the series who are inexplicably left. And, most damningly, it
has no respect for itself. Wrong Turn 5 exists for no other reason than to sucker people into buying it. Those that fall for this ruse—noticing
the "ALL NEW MOVIE!" sticker on the front, and the slipcover, giving the illusion of a high-profile release—will receive a tedious hour and a half of
awful acting, cheap-looking sets, cruelty-for-the-sake-of-cruelty, and a bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping premise that the movie doesn't even have the
budget to fully realize. Is there gore? Sure. Gratuitous sex? Of course. But even those who set the lowest bar for horror movie enjoyment will be
baffled by Wrong Turn 5's indifference to its own awfulness.
Wrong Turn 5 was shot digitally on a paltry budget, and the finished product looks it, with cheap sets, bad lighting, and an overall filmmaking aesthetic that isn't even up to made-for-TV standards. In so many ways, this is an ugly, ugly film. That said, the 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer we get on Blu-ray is true to source and largely free from any compression or encode issues. Sure, noise spikes a bit during darker scenes, and yes, there are occasional compression-heavy shots from unusual angles where it's obvious a less-capable and more portable camera was used—O'Brien mentions GoPro action cameras in his commentary track—but there are genuinely few distractions here besides the general cheapness of the project. The level of clarity is actually quite high most of the time, with visible fine detail in facial features and clothing textures. And while the cinematography is flat and bland and purely functional, color is adequately dense and contrast is good, with deep blacks and rarely overblown highlights. Wrong Turn 5 won't top anyone's Best Blu-ray Picture Quality of the Year list, but considering how awful the film is in just about every other regard, the high definition encode here is surprisingly decent.
It's not going to rattle your walls, quake your bowels, or test the limits of your home theater system, but the movie's lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track get the job done. The cringe-worthy dialogue is cleanly recorded and easily understood, and although the mix is decidedly front-heavy, you will notice occasional instances of rear-channel ambience and direction effects. Insect sounds. Crackling fire. A cackling hillbilly laugh moving through the space behind your head. You get the idea. It's all backed up by a dull but decent-sounding score comprised alternately of minor-key piano arpeggios and nondescript overdriven guitar riffing. The disc includes optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles, which appear in easy-to-read white lettering.
Friends don't let friends waste their time on miserable straight-to-video horror sequel cash-ins. Wrong Turn 5 isn't just the worst film in a franchise that probably shouldn't have inspired any followups, it's also on the short list for the worst film I've personally seen in 2012. This is a movie that actively doesn't want you to enjoy it, and I'm at a loss as for why this series continues to stumble zombie-like forward. If I were Fox, I'd let it finally die or else reboot it with a decent budget and a director with a better vision for Appalachian hillbilly terror.
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