Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Graphic
- lurid
- brutal
- irreverent
- halloween horror marathon
- late night gore viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly regarded the sequel as cheap, unintelligent, and ineffective at generating fear, while acknowledging its plentiful splatter and elaborate kills.
What sets it apart
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The story traps visiting college students and festival attendees in a small West Virginia town and surrounding forest while a cannibal family hunts them.
Critical reception specifically highlights the film's crazy kills and nasty splatter as its defining attraction.
The antagonists are described as an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals, with incest identified among the film's main subjects.
The Mountain Man Festival draws crowds to town on Halloween before the cannibals turn the celebration into a massacre.
Films like Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, and why
Wrong Turn
Shares a backwoods slasher setup, mutant cannibal antagonists, graphic kills, and survival-horror intensity.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Combines Halloween festivities, young victims, rural isolation, and a family of murderous cannibals in a splatter-driven slasher.
Halloween II
Shares a holiday setting, college-age victims, grotesque killers, and emphasis on elaborate practical gore.
Movie Details
- Director
- Declan O'Brien
- Release Date
- 2012-10-18
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 (1081)
Cast
- Camilla Arfwedson
- Doug Bradley
- Borisa Tyutyundzhieva
- Roxanne McKee
- Paul Luebke
- Rosie Holden
- Simon Ginty
- Amy Lennox
- Peter Brooke
- Finn Jones
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines about?
- A Halloween festival in rural West Virginia becomes a blood-soaked hunting ground for a family of inbred cannibal killers.
- What is Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines as graphic.
- What did critics think of Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines?
- Critics broadly regarded the sequel as cheap, unintelligent, and ineffective at generating fear, while acknowledging its plentiful splatter and elaborate kills.
- Which films are like Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines?
- Films with a similar feel include Wrong Turn, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween II.
- How long is Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines?
- Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines runs 91 minutes.
- Where can I watch Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines?
- In United States, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
