WRONG TURN

★★ OUT 26 FEBRUARY (DIGITAL) / CERT 18 / TBC MINS

DIRECTOR Mike P. Nelson CAST Matthew Modine, Emma Dumont, Charlotte Vega

The seventh entry in creator Alan B. Mcelroy’s cannibals-in-the-woods series, this update of the original sees a group of millennials (obviously one of them is an app designer) stray from the path on the Appalachian trail and get set upon by flesh-eaters. The story invests the horror with faintly interesting Trumpian overtones and some of the thrills come off smartly (a rolling tree set-piece), but this is mostly a rote horror flick peopled with thin characters, tin-eared dialogue (“Keep to the marked trail. The land can be unforgiving”) and tired genre staples. Matthew Modine is a concerned parent looking for the gang but he can’t elevate it from the mire. For the horror hardcore, keep watching once the credits roll.