Taglines: It’s the last one you’ll ever take.
In the remote forest of West Virginia, Halley Smith (Yvonne Gaudry) and Rich Stoker (Joel Harris) are rock climbing on a cliff. As Rich prepares to help Halley, she witnesses his sudden murder. Someone begins to pull Halley up the cliff so she cuts the rope and falls to the ground. Halley then attempts to escape to her car but trips over a piece of barbed wire before being pulled back into the woods, screaming, by one of the three cannibalistic mutant mountain men.
Medical student Chris Flynn (Desmond Harrington) drives through the mountains of West Virginia. A chemical spill in the road ahead forces him to take a different route. He stops at a rundown gas station and meets an old man (Wayne Robson). The old man is not helpful, but Chris sees a map detailing another route heading to his destination. Chris decides to take the road, but on his way, he collides with a Range Rover stopped in the middle of the road. The car belongs to a group of friends on a hiking trip: Jessie Burlingame (Eliza Dushku), Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui), her fiancé Scott (Jeremy Sisto), and a couple, Evan and Francine (Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth). Their tires have been punctured by a piece of barbed wire.
Wrong Turn is an American horror film directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada[2] and starred Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Jeremy Sisto. It is the first film in the series which has since grown to include five direct-to-DVD films.
Directed by: Rob Schmidt
Starring: Jeremy Sisto, Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lindy Booth, Ted Clark, Julian Richings
Screenplay by: Alan B. McElroy, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Cinematography by: John S. Bartley
Production Design by: Alicia Keywan
Film Editing by: Michael Ross
Art Direction by: Elis Y. Lam
Set Decoration by: Zeljka Alosinac
Costume Design by: Georgina Yarhi
Music by: Elia Cmiral
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, some language and drug use.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 30, 2003