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Released
2003 · FILM

Wrong Turn

A medical student becomes entangled in a terrifying mystery when he encounters a group of stranded college students in the remote woods of West Virginia, where a deadly force is hunting them one by one.

It's the last one you'll ever take.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
84 min
HorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Chris collides with a car carrying a group of young people, and the group of stranded motorists soon becomes lost in the woods of West Virginia. There, they are hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men, whose appearances are grotesquely disfigured due to generations of inbreeding.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 27

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael Arlen RossShot by John S BartleyScored by Elia CmiralDesigned by Alicia Keywan

Box Office

2003 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$28.7M

Budget$12.6M
Worldwide gross$28.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.4M 54% of worldwide · International: $13.2M (46%)

Opening weekend: $5.2M 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.1M46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,615 theaters

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Also known as

  • Wrong Turnde
  • Détour mortelfr

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