Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
Encyclopedia
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is a 2009 American slasher film
, directed by Declan O'Brien
, and starring Janet Montgomery
, Tamer Hassan
and Chucky Venice
. This film was released direct-to-DVD
on October 20, 2009.
Along the trail, they stumble upon a booby trap
. The prisoners escape the booby trap set by Three-Toes (Three Finger's son from the previous film). They then catch the son and behead him, leaving a trophy on the spent booby trap for Three Fingers to find as a deterrent. They soon realize it only enrages Three Fingers, and one-by-one, Three Fingers hunts and murders every prisoner and kills the sheriff. In the chaos of the killings, Nate and Alex manage to escape. They are able to find the location where the watch tower once stood, only to discover it was burned down years ago (being the same watch tower from the first movie). Chavez decides to get rid of Nate, but instead promises him another way to get out. They find Three Finger's truck and Chavez uses Alex as bait. Floyd steals the money and Chavez chases him down only to see Three Fingers lobbing a molotov cocktail at Floyd, killing him and burning all the money. Chavez then decides to give Alex back to Three Fingers to improve his chances of survival, and Three Fingers drags Alex into his truck and drives off. Three Fingers drags Alex out of the truck and back to his house where he secures her and goes back out to hunt the rest of the survivors; he comes face to face with Chavez and battles him with a hatchet and a meat hook
. Both beat one another, but Three Fingers eventually kills Chavez, hangs his corpse in a tree, removes his scalp and eats part of his brain. Meanwhile, Alex has been tied up in Three Fingers' house, where she awakens to see the Sheriff's Deputy tied up naked with barbed wire, who dies shortly after. Nate finds Three Fingers' house with the help of the sheriff's dog and frees Alex, only to be ambushed by Three Fingers. The dog attacks and distracts Three Fingers, but is killed by the hook. Alex stabs the inattentive Three Fingers using the large stake that held Three Toes' head and believes she killed him. Nate and Alex take his tow truck and drive away. Three Fingers, not quite dead yet, follows them and leaps on top of the truck causing Nate to crash the truck into a tree and catch fire. Brandon the prisoner, who happens to be nearby, sees the whole thing and pulls Alex and Nate from the wreck. Three Fingers, still not quite dead yet, attacks them but Nate stabs him in the head with his own meathook.
Nate lets Brandon go free and tells him that police will not go looking for a dead con, but asks him to stay out of trouble. Brandon promises to do so and leaves. Soon after, the U.S. Marshall team arrives and rescues Nate and Alex.
Sometime later, Nate returns to collect the remaining cash from the armored truck (the rest having been burned by "Three Fingers" earlier). Suddenly Brandon appears and shoots Nate in the back with an arrow, retorting: "Never trust a con". Unknown to Brandon, Three Fingers (or another mutant family member), having survived, appears from behind holding a crude weapon dripping with blood. He walks towards Brandon and Brandon's scream is heard over the end credits.
was announced to direct the third installment. Fox Home Entertainment was announced for casting Wrong Turn 3. The only returning character was Three Finger, however he was played by a different actor, the third in as many films with a fourth due to play him in 'Wrong Turn 4'.
The movie has been noted for its terrible surprise ending, "They should have just ended with the police showing up. The ending after punches a major hole in continuity"
and Blu-ray October 20, 2009. In its first week of release, the film grossed over $1,800,000; and has earned over $5,000,000 to date.
in February 2011 in Winnipeg. The majority of the movie was filmed at the abandoned Brandon Mental Health Centre in Manitoba
. Shooting began February 2011 in Winnipeg
. The fourth film serves as a prequel to the previous three. It was released straight to DVD/Blu-ray Disc
on October 25, 2011.
Slasher film
A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...
, directed by Declan O'Brien
Declan O'Brien
Declan O'Brien is President of Utopia Pictures & Television as well as a writer and producer whose most recent work was writing, along with the help of Jeff Hare and Kevin Moore, for the Sci Fi Pictures original film, Savage Planet.- Biography :...
, and starring Janet Montgomery
Janet Montgomery (actress)
Janet Ruth Montgomery is an English film and TV actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Ames in the second season of Fox's Human Target, and also for her appearances in The Hills Run Red and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, as well as her role as Eric Murphy's assistant Jennie in...
, Tamer Hassan
Tamer Hassan
Tamer Hassan is a British actor of Turkish Cypriot descent.-Early life:Hassan was born in London, England into a Turkish Cypriot family. Having sustained an injury in boxing, Hassan started to run nightclubs and restaurants and is now the owner, chairman and player/coach of Greenwich Borough and...
and Chucky Venice
Chucky Venice
Chucky Venn is an English actor, best known for two television roles, in both of which he played footballers: Curtis Alexander in Sky One's Dream Team and Tremaine Gidigbi in Footballers' Wives.Born Charles Venn, he grew up on the tough Mozart Estate, which was at the time a notorious...
. This film was released direct-to-DVD
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...
on October 20, 2009.
Plot
College student Alex and her friends Trey Liko, Sophie James and Brent McDonald go into the woods on a rafting trip. Her friends are killed by the mutant cannibal 'Three Finger', from the previous films. She is left to fend for herself, but not for long. Two days later a dangerous prisoner, Mexican drug cartel boss Carlo Chavez, and group of other prisoners are being transferred by prison guards Nate Wilson and Officer Walter; Nate Wilson is on his last day before quitting to become a lawyer. On the way, Nate meets up with an old friend, Sheriff Calvin Carver, making viewers aware that Nate used to live in the area. En route, their bus is attacked by Three Fingers and wrecked, forcing them to continue on foot. To complicate matters, the injured guards are overpowered by the prisoners, with Chavez taking charge and in control of the guns. While being chased through the woods, the prisoners use Nate as a guide to lead them to a watch tower that Nate recalls being in the area, to send out an SOS using the communications equipment they believe is in there. Officer Walter, now a prisoner, encounters Alex and an abandoned armored truck filled with cash. The money quickly becomes the prisoners' sole motivation for escape and survival. Chavez commands Walter to pick up some of the bags of money, but Walter refuses because of his injury from Three Fingers. In a last ditch effort to regain control of the situation, Officer Walter pulls out a gun and tries to shoot Chavez. Unfortunately, the gun was not loaded and Chavez executes him.Along the trail, they stumble upon a booby trap
Booby trap
A booby trap is a device designed to harm or surprise a person, unknowingly triggered by the presence or actions of the victim. As the word trap implies, they often have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it. However, in other cases the device is placed on busy roads or is...
. The prisoners escape the booby trap set by Three-Toes (Three Finger's son from the previous film). They then catch the son and behead him, leaving a trophy on the spent booby trap for Three Fingers to find as a deterrent. They soon realize it only enrages Three Fingers, and one-by-one, Three Fingers hunts and murders every prisoner and kills the sheriff. In the chaos of the killings, Nate and Alex manage to escape. They are able to find the location where the watch tower once stood, only to discover it was burned down years ago (being the same watch tower from the first movie). Chavez decides to get rid of Nate, but instead promises him another way to get out. They find Three Finger's truck and Chavez uses Alex as bait. Floyd steals the money and Chavez chases him down only to see Three Fingers lobbing a molotov cocktail at Floyd, killing him and burning all the money. Chavez then decides to give Alex back to Three Fingers to improve his chances of survival, and Three Fingers drags Alex into his truck and drives off. Three Fingers drags Alex out of the truck and back to his house where he secures her and goes back out to hunt the rest of the survivors; he comes face to face with Chavez and battles him with a hatchet and a meat hook
Meat hook
A meat hook is a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs and cattle on a moving conveyor line. There are many types of hooks, but meat hooks are the only ones used in butchering....
. Both beat one another, but Three Fingers eventually kills Chavez, hangs his corpse in a tree, removes his scalp and eats part of his brain. Meanwhile, Alex has been tied up in Three Fingers' house, where she awakens to see the Sheriff's Deputy tied up naked with barbed wire, who dies shortly after. Nate finds Three Fingers' house with the help of the sheriff's dog and frees Alex, only to be ambushed by Three Fingers. The dog attacks and distracts Three Fingers, but is killed by the hook. Alex stabs the inattentive Three Fingers using the large stake that held Three Toes' head and believes she killed him. Nate and Alex take his tow truck and drive away. Three Fingers, not quite dead yet, follows them and leaps on top of the truck causing Nate to crash the truck into a tree and catch fire. Brandon the prisoner, who happens to be nearby, sees the whole thing and pulls Alex and Nate from the wreck. Three Fingers, still not quite dead yet, attacks them but Nate stabs him in the head with his own meathook.
Nate lets Brandon go free and tells him that police will not go looking for a dead con, but asks him to stay out of trouble. Brandon promises to do so and leaves. Soon after, the U.S. Marshall team arrives and rescues Nate and Alex.
Sometime later, Nate returns to collect the remaining cash from the armored truck (the rest having been burned by "Three Fingers" earlier). Suddenly Brandon appears and shoots Nate in the back with an arrow, retorting: "Never trust a con". Unknown to Brandon, Three Fingers (or another mutant family member), having survived, appears from behind holding a crude weapon dripping with blood. He walks towards Brandon and Brandon's scream is heard over the end credits.
Cast
- Tom Frederic as Nate Wilson
- Janet MontgomeryJanet Montgomery (actress)Janet Ruth Montgomery is an English film and TV actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Ames in the second season of Fox's Human Target, and also for her appearances in The Hills Run Red and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, as well as her role as Eric Murphy's assistant Jennie in...
as Alexandra "Alex" Hale - Gil Kolirin as Floyd Jones
- Christian Contreras as William "Willy" Juarez
- Jake Curran as Crawford Ian Lewis
- Tom McKay as Brandon Lewis
- Chucky VeniceChucky VeniceChucky Venn is an English actor, best known for two television roles, in both of which he played footballers: Curtis Alexander in Sky One's Dream Team and Tremaine Gidigbi in Footballers' Wives.Born Charles Venn, he grew up on the tough Mozart Estate, which was at the time a notorious...
as Walter Sunshine - Tamer HassanTamer HassanTamer Hassan is a British actor of Turkish Cypriot descent.-Early life:Hassan was born in London, England into a Turkish Cypriot family. Having sustained an injury in boxing, Hassan started to run nightclubs and restaurants and is now the owner, chairman and player/coach of Greenwich Borough and...
as Carlo Chavez - Jack Gordon as Trey Liko
- Louise CliffeLouise CliffeLouise Cliffe is a British actress, singer, writer and model. Although much of her career has been in the UK, she started to appear in US productions as of 2009. She is best known for playing the role of Sophie James in the horror film Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead...
as Sophie James - Charley SpeedCharley SpeedCharley Speed is an English model and actor. He became known in 1997 at the age of 17 when he co-modelled with Kate Moss for a global Calvin Klein advertising campaign. Later that year, he won Male Model of the Year in the prestigious VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards in New York. He has been retained...
as Brent McDonald - Borislav Petrov as Three Toes
- Borislav Iliev as Three Finger
- Mike Straub as Preslow Alexander
- Bill Moody as Sheriff Calvin Carver
- Emma Clifford as Deputy Ally Lane
- Mac McDonaldMac McDonaldMac McDonald is an American actor. He is best known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series Red Dwarf and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows...
as Warden Ladew - Todd Jensen as U.S. Marshal
- Vlado Mihailov as U.S. Marshal Davis
Production
Filming began on August 4, 2008, in Sofia, Bulgaria, and ended on September 4, 2008. Joe Lynch did not direct, instead Declan O'BrienDeclan O'Brien
Declan O'Brien is President of Utopia Pictures & Television as well as a writer and producer whose most recent work was writing, along with the help of Jeff Hare and Kevin Moore, for the Sci Fi Pictures original film, Savage Planet.- Biography :...
was announced to direct the third installment. Fox Home Entertainment was announced for casting Wrong Turn 3. The only returning character was Three Finger, however he was played by a different actor, the third in as many films with a fourth due to play him in 'Wrong Turn 4'.
Reception
Although it was a commercial success, the reaction to this film was mainly negative. This film received an 18% fresh from the Rotten Tomatoes community. Bloody Disgusting said "If WT2 raised the bar, then WT3 lowers it right back down to where it was, and possibly a notch or two lower."The movie has been noted for its terrible surprise ending, "They should have just ended with the police showing up. The ending after punches a major hole in continuity"
Home media release
The film was released direct-to-video on DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and Blu-ray October 20, 2009. In its first week of release, the film grossed over $1,800,000; and has earned over $5,000,000 to date.
Prequel
Director Declan O'Brien began shooting Wrong Turn 4: Bloody BeginningsWrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings is an American horror film and the fourth installment in the Wrong Turn horror/slasher franchise that began with Wrong Turn then continued with Wrong Turn 2: Dead End and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead. The fourth film serves as a prequel to the previous three...
in February 2011 in Winnipeg. The majority of the movie was filmed at the abandoned Brandon Mental Health Centre in Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
. Shooting began February 2011 in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
. The fourth film serves as a prequel to the previous three. It was released straight to DVD/Blu-ray Disc
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...
on October 25, 2011.