Since the last two movies have dwindled the cannibalistic family down to just a pair of creepy characters (Three-Fingers and the little kid), they are the only ones left to torment this new group of lost fools, but at least this time the movie breaks away from the tired, lost teenagers or 20-somethings and takes a different approach that adds a bit more depth and action to the film.
Nate (Tom Frederic) is a correctional officer for the local county prison. He is only one shift away from going off to law school and leaving the public-service life behind. Unfortunately for Nate, his last shift will be one he won't forget. He and his partner Walter (Chucky Venice) have been assigned transfer duty. They are tasked with transporting several inmates across county lines to another prison. These criminals include Chavez (Tamer Hassan), the ruthless head of an organized crime family, Floyd (Gil Kolirin) a neo-NAZI with a thirst for blood, Crawford (Jake Curran) who is really good at stealing cars, Brandon (Tom McKay), a Army vet who supposedly killed a bartender and Willy (Christian Contreas), an undercover U.S. Marshall trying to get information out of Chavez.
When the prison bus is run off the road by a truck (driven by Three-Fingers), Nate, Willy (who is badly injured) and the chained-together inmates must find a way out of the woods before the mutant hunter kills them all. Matters get a little sticky when a camper, Alex (Janet Montgomery) runs into the group after being hunted by the freaks for several days. Since Chavez quickly took control of the weapons and is calling the shots, it takes some quick talking by Nate in order to keep the man from killing the new member of their party.
The fun doesn't stop there. The octet then discover an overturned armored car filled with bags of money. The greedy prisoners grab the money and continue their trek through the woods as everyone gets picked off one by one by many of Three-Fingers' and the unnamed disfigured boy's traps. Between being wrapped in razor wire, having faces cut off, sliced up by fishing line and being shot at with bows and arrows, the entire group finds that they will have to work together if they are going to make it to the ranger station on top of the mountain (a landmark fans of the series are bound to remember from the first film).
While there aren't a ton of special features on the Blu-ray version of Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, the three featurettes it does have do a good job of showing different aspects of the making of the movie. Meanwhile, the visual quality of this movie in high definition definitely deserves some praise. While most of the film takes place in the dark, early scenes of Alex and her friend rafting down the river are gorgeous. Unfortunately, the higher resolution also comes at a price. There are many times when people caught in Three-Fingers' traps will squirt blood all over the place, and quite frankly, it's very fake looking. There are times when body parts sliding off of the new corpses look bad, but they are nothing when compared to the badly CG'ed red particles that go flying everywhere.
In case you haven't been able to guess yet, this movie has quite a bit of gore in it. Not as much as some other films (i.e. Hostel and Saw), but enough to turn away most viewers. Because of that, unless you already know what you are getting yourself into because of the previous movies, you might want to rent this film before making the purchase.
