2003 cannibal horror movie, Wrong Turn, left a couple deleted scenes on the cutting room floor. While neither was incredibly important to the movie in terms of content, they provide an interesting look at what could have been for fans of the original movie.
The Wrong Turn franchise is marked by its simplicity. Inspired by slasher movie tropes, exploitation films of the '70s and '80s, and cannibal horror, the original movie—directed by Rob Schmidt and written by Alan B. McElroy—is arguably the best in the six movie franchise. The other five movies in the series went direct to video, and upped the violence, sex, and nudity by a great margin because of this release format. Though the quality of the Wrong Turn movies dwindles with each additional installment, a new movie—written by McElroy—was announced in 2019. Titled Wrong Turn: The Foundation, the seventh movie, which is slated for a 2020 release, has been marketed as a reboot. Some fans hope that, with McElroy returning for the first time since the original movie, Wrong Turn 7 will be a return to form, adopting the same "back to basics" approach that made the first movie so great.
More often than not, horror movies have to cut out a significant amount of violence and gore to maintain an R rating when courting a wide theatrical release. Whether this was the case with Wrong Turn is unknown, but likely; the movie was certainly violent, but not as bloody as later installments, and relatively tame for an early 2000s horror movie in general. The early 2000s ushered in the "torture porn" sub-genre, with movies like James Wan's Saw and Eli Roth's Hostel. However, the two scenes that were cut from Wrong Turn both seem to be obvious as to why they weren't good enough for Schmidt's final version.
The two survivors of Wrong Turn, Jessie (Eliza Dushku) and Chris (Desmond Harrington) get close in "Water Fall". The scene builds off of the existing context provided in the film, and was clearly intended to provide additional background on and character development for the movie's main protagonists. While it succeeds in adding more history to Jessie's character, and establishes more detail about why her friends decided to take her camping in the woods—it was meant to be a way for her to heal from a bad break-up—it doesn't really add much to the movie. Beyond that, the sudden, passionate kiss between her and Chris felt out of place, almost like it was forcing a romantic connection where one didn't need to exist. Ultimately, the brief snapshot of them taking refuge behind a waterfall as it was included in the theatrical cut was a better choice for the movie's narrative.
In the second deleted scene, "Francine Kill", fans get a bloodier, gorier look at how Francine (Lindy Booth) was killed by one of the cannibals. Presumably, one of the cannibals picked up the barbed wire from the road after Jessie and her friends crashed their car, then cleverly used it to murder one of their first victims. It's a standard set-up in the movie—Francine goes to search for her friend, Evan (Kevin Zegers), and then gets summarily executed. It's still an effective jump scare in the theatrical cut, but the shot cleverly cuts away from just how badly her face and mouth are wounded from the barbed wire, which is used to pick her body completely off the ground after initially being used as an improvised gag.
The dailies, which are also included as part of the deleted scenes on Wrong Turn's Blu-Ray, serve to show just how much work went into such a simple scene. Booth does many different takes of the short, but effective kill scene—one of the franchise's more memorable—in order to achieve the perfect shot.
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