Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
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Directed by | Declan O'Brien |
Written by | Declan O'Brien |
Based on | Characters by Alan B. McElroy |
Produced by | Kim Todd |
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Cinematography | Michael Marshall |
Edited by | Stein Myhrstad |
Music by | Claude Foisy |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is a 2011 American slasher film written and directed by Declan O'Brien. It is the fourth installment of the Wrong Turn film series and served as a prequel to the original Wrong Turn film. The film grossed $3.6 million in home sales.[3]
The film was followed by Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012).
Plot
[edit]In 1974, at the Glenville Sanatorium in West Virginia, Three Finger, Saw Tooth, and One Eye, known as the Hillicker Brothers, escaped from their cells and released the other patients. Together, they cause a riot (Prison riot) and brutally massacre the orderlies and doctors.
29 years later, in 2003, nine Weston University students – Kenia, Jenna, Vincent, Sara, Bridget, Kyle, Claire, Daniel, and Lauren – spend their winter break snowmobiling to their friend Porter's cabin in the mountains. However, they get lost in a snowstorm and are forced to take shelter in the Glenville Sanatorium for the night where the Hillickers live. Lauren remembers her brother's stories about the sanatorium and the cannibals, but her friends don't believe her. As the group goes to bed, Vincent continues to explore the asylum, where he finds Porter's corpse before Saw Tooth kills him with a metal spike. The next day, the teens remain trapped, with the storm still in full effect. Jenna comes across the Hillickers butchering Porter's body in the kitchen and runs back to warn the others. After Porter's severed head is thrown at the group, Claire is hanged from a balcony with barbed wire by the trio and decapitated. The group attempts to flee the building, but their snowmobile's spark plug wires have been removed. Lauren skis down the mountain to seek help while the others barricade themselves in the doctor's office.
Kyle, Daniel, and Sara go into the basement to get weapons, but Daniel gets abducted, tied to a table in the kitchen, and slowly butchered and eaten alive. The rest of the group chases the cannibals and locks them in a cell as Kyle stays behind to watch the brothers while the others search for the spark-plug wires. When Kyle falls asleep, the brothers escape their cell, and the girls accidentally stab Kyle to death after mistaking him for one of the Hillickers. The brothers appear and chase the girls through the building, forcing them to exit through a window, but Jenna is killed before she can escape. The remaining girls are ambushed by the cannibals who use the group's snowmobiles to chase them outside, where Kenia gets injured, and One Eye kills Bridget.
As the day dawns, Lauren has frozen to death, not far from a highway. Kenia is still being chased by One Eye when Sara reappears and knocks the cannibal off the snowmobile, allowing the pair to steal it and escape. They drive into a razor-wire trap set up by the cannibals, which decapitates them. Three Finger picks up their heads and puts them in their tow truck before moving away from the sanatorium with his brothers.
Cast
[edit]- Jenny Pudavick as Kenia Perrin
- Tenika Davis as Sara Washington
- Kaitlyn Wong as Bridget Manalo
- Terra Vnesa as Jenna Rivers
- Victor Zinck Jr. as Kyle Pappas
- Dean Armstrong as Daniel Burlingame
- Ali Tataryn as Lauren Perry
- Samantha Kendrick as Claire Kendrick
- Sean Skene as Three Finger and Vincent
- Scott Johnson as Saw Tooth and Orderly
- Daniel Skene as One Eye
- Dave Harms as Porter
- Arne MacPherson as Dr. Brendan Ryan
- Kristen Harris as Dr. Ann Marie McQuaid
- Blane Cypurda as Young Three Finger
- Bryan Verot as Young Saw Tooth
- Tristan Carlucci as Young One Eye
Release
[edit]Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings was released to DVD and Blu-ray on October 25, 2011. To date, the film earned $3.6 million.[4]
Reception
[edit]Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 57% of seven surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.3/10.[5] Steve Barton of Dread Central rated it 2.5/5 stars and called it "the Congo of slasher movies", an objectively bad film that is still enjoyable to watch.[6] Anton Bitel of Little White Lies wrote that although the film delivers what fans want, the characters are interchangeable and the plot is derivative.[7] William Bibbiani of CraveOnline rated it 7.5/10 and wrote, "Wrong Turn 4 is the kind of movie that knows exactly what it is and offers nothing less, and occasionally a little more."[8] Charles Webb of Twitch Film wrote, "There's not much to recommend the latest entry in this franchise, which, like all long-running horror series has already reached its point of diminishing returns."[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings Release Date. Horror-Movies Archived 2011-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "What are the chances of Wrong Turn 7 in 2016?" Archived 2019-12-24 at the Wayback Machine (2015-05-07). HorrorSociety.com. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ^ "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
- ^ "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
- ^ "Wrong Turn 4 (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Barton, Steve (2011-09-29). "Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (Blu-ray/DVD)". Dread Central. Archived from the original on 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Bitel, Anton (2012-08-25). "Film4 FrightFest 2012 – Day 3". Little White Lies. Archived from the original on 2013-02-26. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Bibbiani, William (2011-10-24). "Blu-Ray Review: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings". CraveOnline. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
- ^ Webb, Charles (2011-10-26). "WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS Heads Backwards (DVD Review)". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
External links
[edit]- 2011 films
- 2011 direct-to-video films
- 2011 horror films
- 2011 LGBT-related films
- 2010s American films
- 2010s English-language films
- 2010s slasher films
- 20th Century Fox direct-to-video films
- American LGBT-related films
- American prequel films
- American skiing films
- American slasher films
- American splatter films
- Constantin Film films
- Direct-to-video horror films
- Direct-to-video prequel films
- Films about incest
- Films about cannibalism
- Films directed by Declan O'Brien
- Films set during snowstorms
- Films set in 1974
- Films set in 2003
- Films set in psychiatric hospitals
- Films set in universities and colleges
- Films set in West Virginia
- Films shot in Manitoba
- LGBT-related horror films
- Summit Entertainment films
- Wrong Turn (film series)