How The Wrong Turn Franchise Subverts Slasher Stereotypes
Alan B. McElroy’s Wrong Turn franchise has seen a great amount of success for movies that have mostly gone straight to DVD, and that’s partially because it subverts many of the stale slasher tropes that have bogged the sub-genre down in the past. Starting in 2003 with Wrong Turn, the only theatrical release, the franchise adopted a style that blended slasher movies with exploitation films in a unique way, employing many of the traditional formulas that work for both....