Wrong Turn 4 is horror in its most gratuitous and least scary form. It's all shock value - ample nudity, blood, and gore - with no substance behind it. The premise is interesting: a group of hedonists get lost in a blizzard and take shelter in a sanatorium. It just so happens that's where our cannibal friends have been hiding out for the past 30-or-so years. It's a solid, straightforward enough premise in a creepy setting. Sadly, the execution is garbage.The characters are immeasurably dumb. They have generic dialogue for the sake of saying words, and the decisions they make get stupider and stupider. The actors don't help either. I mean, it's an attractive cast, don't get me wrong. There are even a few lesbian scenes for good measure, and they're by far the most engrossing parts of the movie. It's when the characters start talking to each other that you begin rolling your eyes and cringing.I'll give credit where credit is due. Wrong Turn 4 is watchable schlock. You can find enjoyment in the stupidity on display here. Also, the ending is very good. Aside from that, this movie is all shock and no awe. For Wrong Turn completists only.

Not going to say much here, expect this. BEST ENDING EVER!

First, I will talk non-spoilers, then I will go into the spoilers.The premise of this movie takes us an insane asylum where doctors and psychiatrist study the phenomenon that are these inbred monsters from the previous films. Think of it like Arkham Asylum from the Batman mythology. A group of attractive college students go on a snowmobile excursion and are forced to bed down at this "abandoned" hospital/Asylum for the night after they get snowed in. This means they are likely in the north US or somewhere in Canada. As you can expect, terror is around the corner and some of them may not make it out alive.As you can probably foresee, the group has to make various life/death decisions in order to survive. What is particularly infuriating is the inconsistency in which they make these decisions. Any movie goer who witnesses this will yell at the screen because it will tick many people off.***SPOILER ALERT***At one point in the movie, the group witnesses one of their friends go missing, only to find his head wrapped in a shirt. Then, they see the killers brutally murder one of their friends right before their eyes. At this point, they must find temporary shelter, gain their composure and figure out their next move to be secure their survival. One decision they decide democratically, which involves them planning to outsmart the killers, which works out and leads to them trapping all three killers in one of the basement cells. At that point, all but one decided to kill the freaks while they have them dead-to-rights. But of course, one of the girls in the group finds some moral compass and thinks they should leave the freaks, who just brutally murdered at least three of their friends, alive. The group reluctantly submits to the girl who with compassion. This made no sense, since they used a vote to make their previous decision. Had they voted here, they likely would have survived. This decision was costly.

I loved the first one. Eliza Dushku is a goddess. The second was a decent sequel. The third...went down hill real fast. And this one, the fourth one...the prequel, is sad. Real sad. It pretty much ignores the first one and rewrites the history of the three cannibal brothers. Instead of living in the woods, like the original, they now live in a sanitarium. And Three- Finger missing two of his fingers and One-Eye, well, missing one eye isn't because they're, you know, inbred mutants but because they were hungry and decided to eat those particular body parts. I don't like when movies rewrite history without a good reason, and there was no good reason in this films case. They took somebody's unrelated script and introduced the Wrong Turn cannibals into it. Not impressed. Also, the acting was horrible, the kills were horrible (blood spurting out looked fake, bad CGI fake), the makeup for the hillbillies was horrible (they should have never replaced Julian Richings), and the storyline (including the rewritten backstory for the cannibals) was horrible. In short, a really horrible film, but not the most horrible film I've ever seen so I gave it an 3/10.