This may be due to the writing, but there's not even an attempt at building suspense. In regards to the directing, it can feel like you're watching a soft-core porn in one scene and then a graphic, torture-porn ridden snuff film in another. She's by far the most alluring part of the film and deserves props for adding some credibility to the otherwise irredeemably bland cast. The sole exception is Sadie Katz as the caretaker Sally, who gives an unsettlingly sensual conviction to her character. It's not like great actors could have done much with a script like this, but these people are so unconvincing in their performances that the dialogue-driven scenes become downright aggravating to sit through.
The dialogue is horrendous sadly, not in a so-bad-it's-funny sort of way. The problem is the writing, directing, and acting - the bare necessities for a good film. It's quite disturbing actually, and there are plenty of wince-inducing scenes here. The psychological aspect comes into play with the mansion's caretakers, distant relatives to the protagonist, and how they gradually lure him away from the reality that he once knew, represented by his oblivious group of friends, and eventually seduce him into their demented family culture. It's a story about a guy who inherits a large mansion from an unknown relative, and the mansion turns out to be the home and breeding grounds for the grotesque inbred cannibals we've come to know and love.
Wrong Turn 6 tries something unique to the franchise, though: a psychological angle. But at the very least, you hope for some camp value, gratuitous nudity, and brutal kills. So going into Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort, you know not to expect top shelf cinema. Then the sequels kept coming and coming Wrong Turn 4 has some merit in its own trashy sort of way, but 3 and 5 are among the worst "films" ever made. Then it got an action-packed, direct-to-video sequel featuring Henry Rollins kicking all sorts of inbred cannibal ass, and it was awesome. The original was essentially The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets The Hills Have Eyes, and it was great for what it was, but hardly original enough to warrant the franchise treatment. The fact that Wrong Turn became a franchise in the first place is baffling, not that I'm complaining.
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