Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort

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Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort
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Official DVD cover
Directed by Valeri Milev
Written byFrank H. Woodward
Based onCharacters
by Alan B. McElroy
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMartin Chichov
Edited by
  • Don Adams
  • Cameron Hallenbeck
Music byClaude Foisy
Production
companies
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date
  • October 21, 2014 (2014-10-21)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million [1]

Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (stylized as Wrong Turn VI in the opening credits) is a 2014 American slasher film directed by Valeri Milev. It serves as a reboot [2] [3] and the sixth installment in the Wrong Turn film series.

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The film was released on DVD and digitally on October 21, 2014. [4] The film grossed $1 million in home sales. [5] It was followed by another reboot, titled simply Wrong Turn (2021).

Plot

2 bikers have sex in a natural hot tub in the mountains. The Hillicker brothers Three Finger, Saw Tooth, and One Eye murder them at a bike trail in West Virginia. The brothers are under the care of their demented relatives Jackson and Sally, the caretakers of the local hotel resort Hobbs Springs. Danny attends the resort for a family inheritance along with his girlfriend Toni, her brother Rod, and their friends Vic, Charlie, Bryan, and his girlfriend Jillian. Upon arrival, he is welcomed by Sally and Jackson, his cousins, but unbeknownst to his friends, they are cannibals, and Jackson murders elderly hotel guest Agnes Fields in the hallway.

Bryan and Jillian, who are shopping for groceries the next day, are informed by a concerned Sheriff Doucette of the disappearances of the townsfolk, including the hotel guests and Agnes. As he drives away, Doucette runs into a roadblock where he is killed by Three Finger. Alarmed by Bryan and Jillian's news of the townsfolk's fate, Danny's friends became suspicious of the nature of his cousins and his interest in staying with his family, causing his relationship with the others to deteriorate. Toni sends Vic out into the woods to find Danny, who has gone hunting with Jackson. Vic sees Saw Tooth devouring a deer that was killed by Danny during the hunt. When Danny plans on renovating the hotel to re-open next year, his friends reluctantly agree to stay. Jillian and Bryan, however, plan to leave the town and steal items from the hotel for money. While doing so, they discover a hidden door to a basement that leads to an underground bathhouse where Jillian gets horny and seduces Bryan into having sex with her. Right after Bryan makes Jillian climax midway through, the cannibals abruptly attack the couple. Bryan is hit in the head, giving him a crippling brain injury, and then Jillian is brutally dismembered without Bryan to protect her, but Sally stops them from killing Bryan. She then drags him to her bedroom and rapes him. Next, she asphyxiates him with her pillow under Jackson's orders.

Now turning against his friends during a heated argument with Toni, Danny is introduced by Jackson and Sally to his long-lost cannibalistic relatives at the clearing. They explain to Danny, who is a Hillicker, of their origins. Vic follows them and overhears their conversation. He is then captured by the Hillickers, who cut his throat and tear his innards out for the whole clan to eat for the ceremony. As the rest of the group begins to leave the next morning, Toni, Rod, and Charlie discover Jackson cooking meals in the kitchen with the dismembered corpses of the victims, including Bryan and Jillian. Horrified, they attempt to escape, only to run into the cannibals who kill both Charlie and Rod. Toni arms herself with a rifle from the armory and enters the bathhouse to confront Sally about manipulating Danny against his friends. As they fight, Toni disfigures Sally and shoots off her leg with the rifle. Enraged, Jackson orders Danny to kill Toni, but he lets her escape. Jackson pursues her until Toni retaliates by stabbing him in the head with the door keys, killing him. Danny, angered with Toni for killing Jackson, allows the cannibals to kill her, with Three Finger hitting Toni in the head with a hatchet.

One year after the reopening of the resort, renamed Hillicker Springs, Danny becomes the new manager and continues the sordid family tradition by having sex with Sally at the bathhouse as the other Hillickers watch.

Cast

Production

Director Declan O'Brien was replaced by film director Valeri Milev for the sixth installment in the Wrong Turn franchise. [6] [ unreliable source? ], which originally served as a sequel to Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012) to complete the prequel trilogy, but was scrapped. Shooting for the sixth film was reported to have commenced in March 2014 in Bulgaria. [7] [8]

Release

Fox Home Entertainment released it on home video on October 21, 2014. It grossed over $1 million in combined DVD and Blu-ray sales in North America. [9]

Reception

28 Days Later Analysis reported on it being ten years "since actress Eliza Dushku played Jessie, a woman chased by a gang of cannibal hillbillies. A ten year run with five sequels makes the Wrong Turn film series one of the longest running horror franchises in recent history". [6] [ unreliable source? ] Joel Harley of Starburst rated it 7/10 stars and wrote, "If anything, this is one of the best entries yet." [10] Steve Barton of Dread Central rated it 1.5/5 stars and called it "all crap with a few good moments", though he praised Sadie Katz's acting. [11]

Court case

In October 2014, a court case was filed in Ireland over the unauthorized use of a photo of a woman who went missing in County Wexford. The judge declined to issue a temporary injunction, but the case came back to court in early November 2014. As a result of the lawsuit, distributor 20th Century Fox recalled all DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film with no plan to re-press or re-release and have also pulled all online streaming sources. [12] The movie was eventually re-released with the photo in question blurred out.

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