Wrong Turn is a 2003 slasher film directed by Rob Schmidt, written by Alan B. McElroy, and starring Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, and Kevin Zegers.

The first part in the Wrong Turn film series, it follows a group of six individuals being stalked by a cannibal family in the woods of West Virginia.

Development for the film began in 2001 when it was announced Summit Entertainment and Newmarket Group teamed to produce Wrong Turn, a 1970s-style horror pic to be directed by Schmidt, while McElroy wrote the script.

Several years after the massacre at Fairlake, two college students, Rich Stoker and Halley Smith, are rock climbing in a remote forest of West Virginia.

Chris hitches a ride by holding onto the underside of the truck as Saw Tooth drives it back to the cabin, where Jessie has been tied down to a bed in preparation to be eaten, and watches fearfully as the cannibals chop up the dead policeman.

The pair then drive out of the forest in the cannibals' pickup truck and stumble upon Maynard's gas station nearby; Chris takes the map before he and Jessie leave.

In a mid-credits scene, a deputy sheriff who had received the radio call earlier investigates the remains of the destroyed cabin.

Development for the film began in 2001 when it was announced Summit Entertainment and Newmarket Group teamed to produce Wrong Turn, a 1970s-style horror pic to be directed by Rob Schmidt.

[9] Inking a deal with Fox-based Regency Enterprises, the co-financiers of Wrong Turn secured domestic distribution through Fox.

[11] Though set in West Virginia, filming of Wrong Turn took place in a nature reserve north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[7] While shooting a sequence in which her character falls through a series of tree branches, actress Emmanuelle Chriqui dislocated her shoulder.

[14] Barbara Ellen of The Times wrote "This could have been a half decent cross between a Romero zombie movie and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but in the end the gore is so ridiculously overdone and the script so lame, that it undermines all sense of suspense".

[16] Scott Foundas of Variety criticized Wrong Turn for being "A negative pickup by Fox", adding that "[it was] dumped into theaters on Friday without benefit of press previews", resulting in "frightless torpor".

[17] A one out of four stars was awarded to the film by Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle who wrote "This was already tired stuff when cult fave Sleepaway Camp came out in 1983, and it's downright comatose by now".