College students Rich Stoker and Halley Smith are rock climbing in a remote forest of West Virginia. When Rich reaches the top, he is suddenly murdered before he can help Halley up. Someone then begins to yank Halley up the cliff, forcing her to cut the rope and falls to the ground. She attempts to escape but gets caught in a line of barbed wire and is pulled back into the woods, screaming. Three days later, medical student Chris Flynn drives through the mountains of Greenbrier County on his way to a business meeting. En route when a traffic is caused by a chemical spill, he stops at a gas station to ask directions from an elderly man and decides to go down a different route through a dirt road to Bear Mountain. He collides with a station SUV whose tires have been punctured. The vehicle belongs to a group of college students on a camping trip: Jessie, Carly, Scott, Evan and Francine; who soon realized that their tire puncture was not an accident after Jessie found a strip of barbed wire tied to a tree. Francine and Evan stay to watch the cars as the others go to find help, but both of them are later murdered by a figure when they stumble into the woods. The others find an isolated cabin and go inside to use the phone, but are horrified to find human body parts in the house and attempt to escape before forcing themselves to hide inside when the occupants return home. Three cannibalistic inbred mountain men: Three Finger, Saw Tooth and One Eye enter the cabin with Francine's corpse, and the hiding students watch as her body is dismembered and eaten. After the cannibals fall asleep, the group attempts to escape. However, the cannibals awaken and chase them through the forest. The group runs into a clearing where they find cars belonged to previous victims. When Chris gets shot in the leg while trying to distract the cannibals, Scott creates another diversion for the other three to escape but gets killed with arrows. Jessie, Carly, and Chris stumble upon an old watchtower and find a radio inside, which they use to call for help. Later, the cannibals arrive and are alerted when the radio starts responding to the students' call. Unable to get inside, they set the tower on fire to burn the group alive, but the students escape by jumping out of the window. In the subsequent chase, Three Finger catches Carly and decapitates her with an axe. Chris pulls a branch while Jessie lures Three Finger for the former to release it, knocking Three Finger off to the ground. Jessie and Chris manage to escape and hide in a cave until morning. The cannibals then find them, pushing Chris down the hill and taking Jessie back to their cabin. Chris survives the fall and meets a police officer, but the officer is killed by Saw Tooth who shot him in the eye with an arrow. Chris hitches a ride underneath the truck as it is driven back to the cabin by Saw Tooth. Chris drives through the building and runs into One Eye before he releases Jessie and proceed fight the cannibals. They escape as Chris kills the cannibals by blowing up their cabin. The pair then drives out of the forest with the cannibals' pickup truck and stumble upon the old man to take the map nearby. In the post-credits scene, a deputy sheriff investigates the remains of the destroyed cabin. Laughing insanely, Three Finger, who survived the explosion, rises to attack the deputy.
, a review aggregator, reports that 40% of 83 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.22/10. The consensus is: "An unremarkable slasher flick that fails to distinguish itself from others of its ilk". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C-" on an A+ to F scale.
Legacy
Wrong Turn was followed by several films including with two sequels ' and ', two prequels leading to the events of the original film ' and ' and one stand-alone film '. In October 2018, a new film titled ' and served as a reboot was announced. The film will be written by series creator Alan B. McElroy and director Mike P. Nelson is chosen to direct. Principal photography for the movie began on September 9, 2019. Charlotte Vega will star in the reboot.
