The Wrong Turn franchise has never been among the genre’s A-listers, but even so it carved out its own niche in gripping rural horror. The first entry landed in 2003 and was a hit, showing a group of attractive college students being hunted and killed by backwoods cannibals. That was followed by five straight-to-DVD sequels, none of which lived up to the promise of the first movie. But now The Domestics director Mike P. Nelson’s reboot is picking up some serious attention. Simply titled Wrong Turn (or Wrong Turn: The Foundation internationally), the new entry takes the same basic premise as the original but emphasizes the political dimension, playing up the division between the well-off metropolitan liberal kids and the isolated mountain people. The pic saw a limited theatrical release in late January and reviewed very well, with RogerEbert.com’s Nick Allen calling it a “bizarre, winding odyssey,” Lee McCoy of Drumdums saying it’s “ambitious and daring” and Sara Michelle Fetters of MovieFreak.com hyping it as “a brutally uncompromising descent into unflinching terror.”