Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

An often unwatchable trainwreck, Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead follows a group of generic convicts as they’re forced to fight for their lives after their transport bus crashes in a wilderness teeming with deadly mutants. Filmmaker Declan O’Brien, working from a script by Connor James Delaney, delivers a sluggish and terminally uninvolving endeavor that strikes all the wrong notes virtually from the word go, as Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead‘s first half contains a heavy emphasis on the uniformly one-dimensional characters’ tedious arguments and squabbles – with the arms-length atmosphere compounded by laughably low-rent visuals and an assortment of hopelessly amateurish performances. (The former is made all-the-more troublesome thanks to O’Brien’s ludicrous overuse of chintzy, bargain-basement computer-generated effects.) It is, as such, not surprising to note that Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead‘s eventual turn towards horror and mayhem does little to alleviate the astonishingly interminable vibe, which, in turn, ensures that the picture peters out long before arriving at its absolutely endless final stretch – with the final result an incompetent disaster that makes the original film look like a genre masterpiece by comparison.

no stars out of ****