The film, being a reboot, is the seventh installment of the Wrong Turn film series, stars Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Bill Sage, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Daisy Head, and Matthew Modine.

The project was announced in October 2018, with Nelson signed as director, from a screenplay written by McElroy, who wrote the original film.

[3][4] Jennifer "Jen" Shaw, her boyfriend Darius, and couples Adam and Milla and Gary and Luis, arrive in a small town in rural Virginia to hike the Appalachian Trail.

Jen also meets a strange woman called Edith; with her is a young mute girl, Ruthie.

They find a plaque dated "1859", commemorating the creation of a group of settlers in the mountains called the "Foundation", who believed the end of the United States was near.

Jen, Darius and Luis come across a barn full of backpacks and clothing, then see Adam trussed to a pole, carried between two men wearing strange costumes and animal skull masks.

Ruthie uses a concealed blade to stab Adam in the leg; he is then executed in front of his friends by Venable, who beats him to death using the log he used to kill Samuel.

She sells Darius to the group as a desirable professional who is able to solve social problems of their closed society; and offers herself to anyone as wife and mother to their children, advertising herself as having good genes and no genetic predispositions to cancer, of which she's found the Foundation people are afraid.

Jen shoots her father with an arrow while Venable sentences Scott to "darkness" for trespassing and imprisons him.

In an interview with director Nelson for Fangoria, he stated: "I was fully prepared on the first read to be thrust into a crazy slasher world of cannibals eating human flesh and splitting people down the middle.

The soundtrack album, which was titled Wrong Turn: The Foundation,[12] and was released by Konigskinder Music on February 25, 2021.

[2] The film was released on Blu-ray, digital and DVD on February 23, 2021, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

The site's consensus reads, "Wrong Turn is a cut below more effective horror outings, but viewers in the mood for some gory chills will find that this franchise reboot does more than a few things right".

[17] Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars, writing that "McElroy and Nelson evolve Wrong Turn into a bizarre, winding odyssey, albeit with a lot more on its mind than just a cool kill.

"[18] On May 30, 2023, Alan B. McElroy revealed that the film was intended to be the first installment in a trilogy and expressed hope that it will be followed by the sequels.