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Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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11.02.07
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The pilot for a new reality TV series, 'Apocalypse', is being shot in a rural area of West Virginia, a place inhabited by deformed cannibalistic humans. The premise for the show is that it's the end of the world and the contestants have to survive in this ravaged environment. Little do they know that their premise isn't too far off the mark from what they'll be experiencing.
The mutants are extremely strong and are able to snap their bones into place. In one scene a guy gets his neck broken by falling on a rock and he manages to snap his neck back into place. They aren't as deformed as in the first movie but they make up for it in sheer viciousness. The explanation that they eat human flesh because the wildlife was killed off from the chemicals a paper mill was contaminating the water with makes little sense because the forest is green and lush and anything that would kill an animal would surely kill a plant. And if humans survived, albeit deformed, then there would simply be more deformed animals. In fact, one scene has a hillbilly catching mutant trout. The script writer should have just said that they eat people because they like to. Also, the chemicals are bright green, leaking out of biohazard canisters, like something out of C.H.U.D. Come to think of it, this could be as much a new C.H.U.D. movie then part of the WRONG TURN franchise.
It is an entertaining movie, not as good as the first (where is Eliza Dushku?), but if you like HILLS HAVE EYES and TEXAS CHAINSAW, you'll enjoy this one. In fact, it's worth seeing just for Henry Rollins alone. He makes this movie work as well as it does and it's the best performance of him I've seen in a movie.
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Rating: 6.2 out of 10.0 - 13 votes cast total
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