Written And Directed by Declan O'Brien
Maynard: "Run, little girl. I'm coming to get you."
Yup as this series has churned out more movies, the quality has continued to dip and here's another entry that definitely ups the mean spirited antics even more. This one kind of surpassed itself in that regard.
Once again, we've got Three Finger (Borislav Iliev), Saw Tooth (George Karlukovski) and One Eye (Radoslav Parvanov) back to terrorise another friendship group. To make things moderately interesting, you've got their grandfather, Maynard (Doug Bradley). I said moderately btw.
Maynard might not be rabid like his grandsons but he's certainly a vindictive man who spent this movie delighting in toying with the unfortunate group of people time around. In particular, the way he went after "final girl" Lita (Roxanne McKee) and Sherriff Angela (Camilla Arfwedson) was rather nasty.
I suppose I should talk about the rest of the characters in this movie. I mean there's characters such as Billy (Simon Ginty), Gus (Paul Luebke), Julian (Oliver Hoare) and Cruz (Amy Lennox). They're not awful but they are subjected to some very awful deaths at the hands of the hillbilly family here.
The closest to any other character getting screentime was Mose (Duncan Wiseby) but it's not much to brag about. Even the final girl of the piece didn't exactly get the chance to have a proper heroic moment, especially given that ending.
- Borislav Iliev actually reprised the role of Three Finger, having played the character in the third movie.
- Finn Jones popped up briefly as a radio DJ who didn't believe that Angela and company were in danger.
- If you're a fan of the Hellraiser series, there's some nice references to it here.
- Chronology: Months after the events of the previous movie. There's a Halloween setting for this one.
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines continued the creative slump with these movies. Yes, some of the kills are inventive but with more poorly drawn out victims, it gets harder to care. Also it wouldn't kill to have some survivors who don't end up like Lita.
Rating: 4 out of 10
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