Well they did the teenage/young adults, they did a reality spin, now Wrong Turn takes on some prisoners. This is good, as we have no reason to give a damn about those up for the killing. It removes any need for character development, not usually a plus but we all know why we came to this film. It's a shame they've reduced the mutated hillbilly family to pretty much just one guy. There's needless gore, repetitive chase sequences and a bizarre car scene which is a mix of very bad greenscreen and location work. It was confusing. The ending really ticked me off though, the ultimate in tacked on, thoughtless, middle finger up to the audience endings. Even for something this cheap and quick, they could have at least respected the characters a tiny bit.

Several campers and a group of escaped convicts both run afoul of a vicious hillbilly cannibal mutant (Borislav Iliev in funky grotesque make-up) in the deep West Virginia backwoods.

Director Declan O'Brien relates the enjoyably dopey story at a brisk pace, makes nice use of the beautiful sylvan locations, delivers oodles of savage violence and outrageously in-your-face graphic gore, and even sprinkles in some tasty gratuitous female nudity for trashy good measure. Moreover, it's decently acted by the competent cast: Tom Frederic as eager prison guard Nate, Janet Montgomery as the spunky Alex, Tamer Hassan as the ruthless Chavez, Gil Kolirin as the brutish Floyd, Jake Curran as wormy car thief Crawford, Christian Contreras as undercover cop Willy, and Charles Venn as the easygoing Walter. However, this film does suffer from some painfully cruddy CGI effects, terrible tin-eared dialogue, a by-the-numbers predictable narrative, and a crippling dearth of tension. That said, this flick overall still passes muster as a fair amount of perfectly nasty'n'gruesome entertainment.

WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD is the third in a series of hillbilly slasher flicks that nobody wanted or asked for. However, despite the obvious limitations with this film series, I find the movies kind of fun: they offer simple, comic book-style story lines, loaded with cheesy acting and even cheesier gore sequences. In truth there's little to dislike about these films.

The central thrust of the plot here sees a prison van attacked by a redneck mutant. The surviving prisoners and prison guards are forced to trek through the forest to safety, where they hook up with the sole survivor of another attack. The viewer's left questioning as to what's going to kill them first - tensions within the group, or the increasingly demented attacks from the mutant himself.

It's hardly high art but WRONG TURN 3 is relatively amusing for its genre. The cast members certainly breathe life into their exaggerated characters, and I particularly enjoyed Tamer Hassan's turn as a Mexican (!) convict and crime boss. There's a little nudity and peril here, but most of the emphasis is on the violence, which is rubbery and explicit. Hardly disturbing, but kind of fun anyway, and the pacing is fast enough that you never have time to get bored or question the plot holes.