Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

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Year:	2007
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Joe Lynch
Genre:	Inbred hill-billies
Starring:	Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins, Texas Battle, Aleksa Palladino
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804555/
Tagline:	In the Forest, Only They Can Hear You Scream.
Favourite line:	"Birth defects? No shit."

Straight to video for this sick horror sequel.

The plot:
A reality TV show called Apocalypse is under way, filming taking place in an American forest, where six buff and attractive twenty somethings must do all they can to survive.
What they don't know, though, is that alongside the tricks and traps from the production team, they will also have to do battle against a family of inbred cannibals, who stalk the woods, looking for fresh meat.

So, it's Charlie Brooker's Dead Set, effectively, only instead of Big Brother we get Survivor, and instead of zombies it's mutant hillbillies.
The second redneck movie we've watched today down here at Smell the Cult HQ, following The Hills Have Eyes II earlier and, have to say, this was the superior, despite a cast of unknowns and obviously lower budget.
One of the goriest films I've seen in a while, this really chucks it all at the screen during the last fifteen minutes, and that's very welcome, as too many modern horror movies don't have the courage of their convictions.
For cinephiles, there are some nice knowing references, too: The Battle Royale T-shirt, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre meal sequence, and others that I missed, I suspect, so keep 'em peeled.
With the franchise now up to part 4, I'm pretty sure it will be downhill from here but, blood-fiends, you could do much worse than this cult offering.
Liked it.