The new Wrong Turn reboot may feature no real canon connection to the original franchise, but there’s one throwaway nod that franchise fans are sure to catch. Released in 2003, the original Wrong Turn was a campy, gory throwback to the gruesome mountain man horrors of the 70s and 80s. Eschewing the darker social commentary of similiar movies like Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes, the gleefully bloody Wrong Turn was more of a loving tribute to the slasher boom's slew of mindless backwoods horrors such as Just Before Dawn, Don’t Go Into The Woods, or most famously, the Friday the 13th franchise.
Wrong Turn 2021 is a reboot that, despite boasting the original movie’s writer, couldn’t be less like 2003’s original Wrong Turn. The new movie aims to be a more morally ambiguous and self-serious story of an isolated rural community that tortures and kills newcomers to preserve its own, and the harsh fates of the naive college kids who trespass on their turf. Outside of the title and the basic premise, the new Wrong Turn has no clear connections to the previous movies.
2021’s Wrong Turn is (for better or worse) a more ambitious, grounded breed of folk horror that tries to set its bloody action in something like the real world, as opposed to the heightened reality of the more self-aware original and its increasingly over-the-top sequels. However, the original is referenced towards the end of 2021’s Wrong Turn, and the nod manages to both satisfy genre fans while reaffirming this new entry is set in a more “real” world than the earlier outings. Safe in suburban civilization again, one of few surviving characters mentions that an upcoming family movie night will feature a film about "inbred cannibals," to which Full Metal Jacket star Matthew Modine's character deadpans "Again? Jeez."
While this joke is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the previous Wrong Turn movies, it also serves a purpose in distancing this more serious installment from those sillier entries. The fact the main characters of the 2021’s version have seemingly watched the originals suggests that the Wrong Turn franchise is itself a series that exists within the reboot's world. The main function of this Wrong Turn reboot joke, though, is to clarify that Three-Finger, Saw Tooth, and One-Eye won’t be appearing in the 2021 movie's potential sequels since there is now - presumably - no canon link between the reboot and the earlier entries.
It’s no Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, but adding this aside does firmly set up the reboot as a different continuity without drawing too much attention to the switch. It also creates a hard-to-ignore logical hole, since viewers might wonder why on earth two people who just about survived a harrowing encounter with murderous mountain men would choose to view an entire series featuring a similar concept - particularly when the sequels aren't even well-reviewed. Reboot audiences must just assume that, as the original Wrong Turn's cannibals prove, there's no accounting for taste.
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