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O filme de terror de Hollywood mais sangrento e brutal dos últimos anos, com um enredo baseado em Fim-de-Semana Alucinante e Massacre no Texas. O problema do filme é que o realismo e o naturalismo intencionais são mortos pelo cliché dos filmes de terror para adolescentes. É bom que não finja nada e admita abertamente a inspiração externa (Fim-de-Semana Alucinante é diretamente referenciado num diálogo), mas não ajuda a sentir a atmosfera sufocante e a ser atraído para a ação. Para não falar da luz do dia em que quase tudo se passa. As máscaras das criaturas de Stan Winston são surpreendentemente medíocres, a atmosfera é inexistente. Embora provavelmente seja intencional. Dou três estrelas pelo radicalismo do terror e pela crueza que é o alfa e o ómega deste matadouro. E por um momento de susto que fez a minha chávena de chá cair da mão. (27/10/2003)

Hixploitation is a genre that almost never disappoints. This representative is average, but it was still pretty good fun. I think the second part is a bit better, though. 65% (14/08/2007)

This is a full-length commercial for Eliza Dushku's tank top. Or perhaps Eliza Dushku in a tank top? Regardless, there is no point in dwelling on what the film is, but on what it is not. It's no ordinary teen slasher/jump-scare fest. It's in fact nonsense, and that’s not even mentioning the lack of internal logic of some of the scenes. It’s from the "it was good enough" category. Enjoy. (16/10/2009)

The story has been rehashed and washed a hundred times, but I have to admit that it is effectively shot and very bloody. (27/04/2004)

I wasn't expecting anything, but surprisingly it turned out to be a rather likeable and entertaining homage to classic survival thrillers, led by Boorman's Deliverance. It’s true that the film copies all the usual horror clichés and the story can't really surprise with anything, but on the other hand, Wrong Turn boasts quite a decent atmosphere of vast forests, two really beautifully handled horror scenes and a trio of quite likeable main characters, whose actions didn't seem nearly as stupid as they usually do in these films. I liked The Hills Have Eyes a bit more, but I certainly don't find this cannibalistic contribution reprehensible either. 65% (12/10/2012)