Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

Anfang vom Ende der Serie. Der dritte Film, unter der Regie von O'Brien, verwandelte sich von einem frischen Splatter-Horror in ein routinemäßiges Massaker. Anstatt einer Gruppe von Teenagern steht nun eine wohlhabende Gruppe entkommener Gefangener im Mittelpunkt. Leider für sie begegnen sie ihrem alten Bekannten "Three Fingers", dem einzigen (!) Kenner von Menschenfleisch. Doch diese Gruppe harter Kerle erwartet eine Überraschung: Der ständig lächelnde Kannibale stellt ihnen im Wald eine Falle nach der anderen (oft unschön digitalisiert), während ihre Waffen ihn nicht treffen. Die Szene, in der die Gefangenen die Beine ihres toten Kollegen wie ein Stück gotischen Salami abschneiden, ist geradezu komisch. (05.03.2014)

I’m afraid I’ve just witnessed the brutal murder of the Wrong Turn franchise. I quite liked the first two, the first one is decent and easygoing hixploitation (3*) and the second is entertaining splatter spiced up with slasher (4*), but the third part is a boring fiasco with incredibly bad performances and direction, and after only half an hour I was praying for a premature ending, so poor me wouldn’t have to suffer long. Fox, burn in hell for putting the fate of this franchise in the hands of Declan O’Brien, who, to put it mildly, is a very insufficiently talented person. (11.10.2009)

Worn-out, uninteresting, at times downright ridiculous and not bloody enough. When someone makes and writes a film, they should at least try to do something new and distinctive, but the creators of Wrong Turn don't give a damn. It’s a waste of time, although there are a couple of alright moments and the slimy antiheroes are fine. (04.02.2016)

It's as if Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead forgot that it's primarily a crazy slasher flick meant to entertain viewers and perhaps disgust them now and then. This movie wants to play at being something more profound, but it doesn't have the substance for it. Yet it still tries to offer us something more. There was no need for that. It even occasionally moves away from gore and prefers to show us shots of something else instead. That doesn't fit at all with this movie. A stretched-out mess that pretends to be something it's not. (25.08.2014)