Wrong Turn's reboot steers the franchise away from cannibals and towards a creepy cult, with mixed results.
Wrong Turn: The Foundation, the franchise's seventh movie, is set for a 2020 release from the original creator, Alan McElroy, and is a full reboot.
Wrong Turn, the popular franchise that began in 2003, has taken interesting measure to avoid the stale tropes that sometimes plague slasher movies.
Wrong Turn's creator, Alan B. McElroy, pitched a script for Paul W. S. Anderson's 2002 movie which adapted the video game franchise, Resident Evil.
Wrong Turn 3 is one of the more inventive Wrong Turn sequels, but it also returns to an important location from the first film in a unique way.
Eliza Dushku made her mark on Wrong Turn in 2003 and, while it seems unlikely she'd return for the seventh movie, the series should bring her back.
In an odd casting coincidence, actors Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth ended up appearing together in both 2003's Wrong Turn and 2004's Dawn of the Dead.
2007 sequel Wrong Turn 2: Dead End didn't include any survivors from the original movie, but actress Eliza Dushku almost returned for a cameo.
Wrong Turn only released once in theaters, but the franchise has a popular following anyway: here is the whole franchise ranked, worst to best.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End rode the momentum of its 2003 predecessor and tried to employ an interesting plot, but chose to scrap a tie to the original.
Wrong Turn’s marketing materials and trailers were so violent and intense that many couldn’t be aired and more were heavily edited for TV.
Wrong Turn, which emulates the classic 70s and 80s movies like The Hills Have Eyes in nearly every way, chose not to include nudity in the film.
Despite a successful first film, every sequel to 2003's Wrong Turn ended up skipping theaters and releasing straight to home video formats.
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, which notably featured Hellraiser's Doug Bradley, gave a minor speaking role to one lucky fan of the franchise.
2003's Wrong Turn, which started the killer cannibal in the woods franchise, was full of production woes and major problems behind the scenes.
Wrong Turn 6 was recalled from print and had to be pulled from shelves due to a huge mistake, but eventually re-released.
Wrong Turn is getting another sequel, titled Wrong Turn: The Foundation, which is the franchise's seventh and will release in 2020.