The Wrong Turn franchise is part of the low-budget horror boom of the 1990s and early 2000s. The films followed a similar pattern where strangers find themselves in a dangerous part of the country after taking a… wrong turn. The movies were not well received by critics, with many in the franchise receiving low ratings — if any — on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. However, they delivered pure horror fun with their twists, suspense, and gore. There are seven movies in the franchise, with the latest being released five years ago.
Wrong Turn 7 (2021) is one of the franchise’s top-rated films, with a 64% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The other top-rated installment is the second one at 67%. Wrong Turn 7 is now available to stream on Prime Video, and the movie is making waves. Streaming data from FlixPatrol shows it has found a sizable audience, ranking sixth on the streamer’s global chart at the time of writing. It’s still quite a distance from dethroning the number one film, Crime 101, and it might not.
Wrong Turn 7 is a slight departure from the other movies but follows similar beats. It takes place in the backwoods inhabited by a secluded community. While hiking, Jen (Charlotte Vega) and her friends encounter one such community after taking a wrong turn. Named The Foundation, this community of mountain dwellers is bent on protecting their centuries-old way of life by any means necessary. The task for Jen and her friends is to stay alive until her father (Matthew Modine) can find them, but that’s easier said than done. The film marked Alan B. McElroy‘s return to the franchise after he started it in 2003 by writing the first film. Wrong Turn 7 was directed by Mike P. Nelson and also stars Adain Bradley (Darius), Emma Dumont (Milla), Vardaan Arora (Gary), Dylan McTee (Adam), and Daisy Head (Edith), among others.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
Will There Be ‘Wrong Turn 8?’
Two people wear animal skull masks in ‘Wrong Turn’ (2021)Image via Constantin Film
Hollywood loves success stories, and whenever a cult classic like Wrong Turn or Final Destination sees renewed interest, another installment is almost guaranteed. So what does that mean for this franchise? “I had planned two more films, so there would be a trilogy, based around this idea of The Foundation and these characters,” B. McElroy said in an interview when asked what the future looks like for the franchise. “I’d love to finish it and see it all come out the way I wanted.”
Stream Wrong Turn on Prime Video in the U.S., and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
