Détour mortel

Le film d'horreur hollywoodien le plus sanglant et le plus brutal des dernières années, basé sur Deliverance et The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Le problème du film est que sa volonté de réalisme et de naturalisme tue les clichés des films d'horreur pour adolescents. C'est bien qu'il ne fasse pas semblant et qu'il reconnaisse ouvertement son inspiration extérieure (Deliverance est mentionné directement dans un dialogue), mais cela ne l'aide pas à créer une sensation d'oppression ou d'implication dans l'histoire. Sans parler de la lumière du jour qui domine presque tout le film. Les masques des créatures de Stan Winston sont étonnamment médiocres, l'atmosphère est nulle. Bien que cela soit probablement intentionnel. Je donne trois étoiles pour la radicalité et la sauvagerie de l'horreur, qui sont l'essence même de ces massacres. Et pour le sursaut qui a fait sauter ma tasse de thé de ma main. (27/10/2003)

Hixploitation is a genre that almost never disappoints. This representative is average, but it was still pretty good fun. I think the second part is a bit better, though. 65% (14/08/2007)

This is a full-length commercial for Eliza Dushku's tank top. Or perhaps Eliza Dushku in a tank top? Regardless, there is no point in dwelling on what the film is, but on what it is not. It's no ordinary teen slasher/jump-scare fest. It's in fact nonsense, and that’s not even mentioning the lack of internal logic of some of the scenes. It’s from the "it was good enough" category. Enjoy. (16/10/2009)

The story has been rehashed and washed a hundred times, but I have to admit that it is effectively shot and very bloody. (27/04/2004)

I wasn't expecting anything, but surprisingly it turned out to be a rather likeable and entertaining homage to classic survival thrillers, led by Boorman's Deliverance. It’s true that the film copies all the usual horror clichés and the story can't really surprise with anything, but on the other hand, Wrong Turn boasts quite a decent atmosphere of vast forests, two really beautifully handled horror scenes and a trio of quite likeable main characters, whose actions didn't seem nearly as stupid as they usually do in these films. I liked The Hills Have Eyes a bit more, but I certainly don't find this cannibalistic contribution reprehensible either. 65% (12/10/2012)