You thought they were gone. You were wrong. Wrong Turn 10: 24 Hours strips the franchise to its bones, delivering a real-time nightmare where every second counts, and every turn is deadly. Set over one brutal day, the film follows a search-and-rescue team that enters the Appalachian wilderness after the disappearance of a senator’s daughter—only to realize they’ve stepped into a trap woven from generations of blood and silence.

Kaitlyn Bernard leads the ensemble with raw fear and sharp resilience as a wilderness medic fresh out of training. Scott Eastwood’s grizzled team leader brings authority and trauma, while Lulu Wilson delivers an unnerving performance as a seemingly innocent girl they find in the woods—whose truth is far more horrifying than anything else they face. Dermot Mulroney adds gravitas as a survivalist with knowledge of the area’s cursed legacy.

This installment abandons the grotesque mutations of past sequels and returns to primal horror—stealth, ambush, silence. The villains aren’t caricatures. They’re calculated. Ritualistic. Inhumanly patient. There are no camps, no lairs—just shadows, animal bones, and the occasional flicker of a signal flare before it vanishes into blackness.

Shot in long takes and designed to unfold in real time, the pacing is suffocating. Every decision feels immediate. Every scream cuts through still air like gunfire. There are no moments of rest—only breath held in your chest.

The Appalachian forest is the true monster here: wet, endless, and hungry. The camera rarely leaves the treeline. The score is minimal—replaced by cracking branches, distorted echoes, and a ticking countdown that grows more erratic as hope dwindles.

But Wrong Turn 10 is more than horror—it’s commentary. On generational rage, forgotten victims, and the price of trespassing into lands soaked in unspoken history. When the team realizes their radios aren’t broken—but jammed intentionally—the film morphs into something colder: a hunt where the prey has no way out and time is a weapon.

In the final scene, set against a fog-drenched ridge, one survivor whispers: “They don’t want to kill us. They want to remember us.” And that line hits harder than any machete.

Relentless, intelligent, and deeply disturbing, Wrong Turn 10 revives the franchise with fire and fear.

Rating: 8.0/10