Some teenagers go to a festival in a small town where a kind of Halloween masquerade takes place. When an old man attacks them with a knife, the kids get arrested too, because they carry drugs on them. However, the old man is the leader of the freaks we know from the previous parts of the series. They come to rescue 'daddy', and among the Halloween masks, they don't even attract too much attention with their looks. The police station is soon under siege, a situation reminding me of the John Carpenter classic 'Assault on Precinct 13'.Part 5 is probably the most vicious episode of them all, not hiding the violence in a dark forest, but openly showing it in the streets and enjoying it to a degree some viewers may find disturbing. There were 5 major censorship cuts in the DVD released in my country, and it is not hard to see why (some missing footage could be spotted in the bonus material, anyway). Not that I was angry about that - it was over a bit sooner. 'Wrong Turn 5' is rather crude and simple, splatter effects over story content, apparently the series is on its decline here. Camilla Arfwedson got a great female lead role as the sheriff at least. I voted 8/4/6/7/5/4 for the 6 movies.

Taking place at the mountain man festival, a rip off of burning man and Lollapalooza, that celebrates a massacre that took place 100 years or so before the events of the original movie in the same woods, a group of kids make a wrong turn in a car accident that pays homage to the first movie and officially begins the hunt of the inbreed slashers, who take advantage of the stupid kids wearing freak mask so they can do their work out in the open. A few lines of dialog officially make this a direct sequel to the last film, Bloody beginnings, and it's the most disappointing of the franchise.Unlike the other movies it falls into far too many clichés of the slasher film and is far less original.Ironically this makes it a pretty good film on its own as we watch stupid young kids getting taken down and some of the death scenes are nicely violent and stretched out as the inbreeds played with their food.Overall, Number 5 in the franchise is really to generic and put together too by the numbers to be anything too interesting. You can skip.

I am a big fan of wrong turn movie franchise, although this movie did not live up to my expectations, it was outclassed by any other wrong turn movie a mile in every aspect of the movie. The worst thing was the ''empty town'' the movie was shot in, supposedly everyone is at the huge festival, which, is going on near the town, nobody helps the victims, the plot for this movie was incredibly dull and uninteresting, didn't have any pleasure watching it. The first 4 movies were really great, if you like this franchise, of course, you will need to watch this as well to fully understand the whole plot of the franchise, since there is now wrong turn 6. But don't expect this to be a good one.

i m really wonder, how much hundred dollars you spent for this movie? :) otherwise, it doesn't much more than this. waste time but this is a important point; American society IQ level cant be more than 86 (its a idiot limit) too many stronger man, police army, university students , all town killed by 3 imbeciles who can not wipe up their slime. and whole USA wacthing these kind of silly things as American hero. really, Chinese, bollywood, spain and Turkish cinema 5 times better than hollywod anymore.you can find smarter scenario and logical editing at least. most of world sure that American cinema died and American education system made stupid all of USA generations.