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that was like I mean that was crazy
wackado wild like I'm not I don't I don't know I don't know thank you to
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about Kimberly
Goldwell, bro.
That was the craziest thing.
I was like, is that the American Idol, girl?
It has to be her.
It has to be her. Oh, my God.
Like, this, okay, here's the thing.
This, I get it now.
Why, wrong turn one,
which was a great film,
turned into an entire franchise
worth of seven movies.
Because not only did they up it
from one to two,
they obviously got an increased budget.
We got to see an entire, okay, the fact that they were able to open up and say,
I want this shot to be where we ax her in half and we drag her body parts back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
That's so much fun and amazing.
And then, of course, we see a whole body blow up.
The head of M looks really, really great.
Like, a lot of good special effect.
And obviously, creepy people are like, oh, my God, the baby at the end?
The baby, dude, the baby.
We had seen the baby earlier, but not like that.
Not like that.
Like, can I just hit you with some things about this movie?
First of all, it is Kimberly Caldwell from American Idol.
You called it.
I cannot believe that because I have not seen her since American Idol.
Well, this was, if this was 2007, that would probably be, was that around the time that she was on the show?
It must have been.
I'll look it up, but that is.
Well, let's see, actually.
She was on American Idol in 2003.
Oh, okay.
So a little bit, she must have been on tour.
People still knew who she was, maybe a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, 2003.
God damn it.
The opening scene with Kimberly Caldwell was originally supposed to involve
Eliza Dushku playing herself in a cameo.
Oh.
But it didn't.
Oh, I wonder why she didn't.
Yeah, okay.
Wayne Robson is the only cast member to return from the first movie.
so that is the guy
The old guy
The old guy
Yes exactly
Oh I knew he
See I was
And I was like
Oh he's from the beginning
Of the other film
And or he was the guy
And obviously in the truck
Towards the middle
I don't remember
Where he wasn't in the first one
But I know
But this is in there
Good call
I did not remember that
According to director
Joe Lynch
On the DVD commentary
Do you want to guess
How many gallons of blood
We're using the film
Oh that's fun
Okay
Um, 33,000?
300.
300 gallons.
I'm so bad at that stuff too.
They did a real good job making me think it was 33,000 gallons.
Okay, this one's disgusting and makes sense.
The cackling laughter from Three Finger is actually the director, Joe Lynch.
After unsuccessful attempts from the actor playing Three Finger prompted a last second 80-yard
to get the voice similar to the character's trademark laugh
in the first. Oh, wow. Good job, director.
Oh, my God, dude. Narlie.
Okay, in the original script in the scene where Atlanta tries to seduce Jake
and later has oral sex with Michael,
she was also supposed to be completely nude during the entire scene
and go skinny dipping after Jake leaves both her and Michael,
while in the movie, she's only top us for short an amount of time.
Yeah. All right.
This was shot in 25 days.
Hmm. Okay. That's pretty quick.
It's the only film in the series that does not contain at least one scene of drug use.
Did everything else? At least one scene.
The character of Nina was pregnant in an earlier draft of the script.
You called it.
That's interesting, but not in this draft.
Right.
That's so funny. So maybe she kept it in, like, in her mind or something.
Right.
That's interesting.
Okay.
One of the two of our movies involving deformed mutants and Daniela Alonzo released in 2007, the other was The Hills Have Eyes.
Oh, I haven't seen those.
I have.
I don't remember.
I saw them when I was in high school.
Yeah.
Director Joe Lynch originally wanted to have more inbred characters in the film.
It was unable to because there were already too many characters to service in the film.
Yeah.
Like what?
How many more could we have, bro?
Yeah, that was already a lot.
Oh, my God.
Okay, that's pretty much it, bro.
I want to see what some of these actors have done.
Like, I don't know.
Okay, there's goofs.
Let's see what this is.
When Kimberly's cut in half, only her intestine comes out, not her blood.
Oh, yeah, it's true.
It was pretty clean when they're dragging her away.
But I didn't even clock it.
I just thought, wow, that's cool how they're making it look
and she was split so evenly enough.
Here's another error.
It is established when the characters introduced
that Amber was in the Marines.
Later, another character says
he read about her and her time at West Point.
A Marine would not have attended West Point.
That's only for U.S. Army officers.
A Marine would have attended the U.S. Naval Academy.
Oh, boy.
Somebody didn't do the research.
Okay, this is under factual errors.
When Kimberly Caldwell calls her agent,
he complains it's 4 a.m. in Los Angeles.
She's driving in West Virginia, and the shadow of the car casts indicate the sun is directed overhead, so it's about midday.
The shadow sits under the car in every shot.
However, if it's 4 a.m. in L.A., should be 7 a.m. in West Virginia, so the sun should cast long shadows.
I'm not if you're watching it.
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
That's too much.
That's a lot.
But I did think that the guy on the phone is the famous comedian that we all know, I think, is
first name is Pat
something.
Her agent on the phone.
He's a comedian out here.
Oh, you recognize his voice?
Yeah.
Even though we didn't see him?
Yeah, I did.
Like, right away, when you were like,
that's that girl, I kept thinking,
what is this comedian's name?
He has a podcast, but,
oh, man.
Oh, was it Pat and Oswald?
Was the voice?
Yeah, did I just say that?
You said Pat?
I said Pat and Oswald.
Yes, of course it was.
And his name was Tommy, it says.
Yes.
I knew it right away, and I was like, Pat, something.
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Wow. Damn, dude.
That's a good problem. I'm curious
who some of the other actors
or what they've been in.
Let's see if we know any of their stuff.
The girl who we both recognize Amber,
the Sampify.
Oh, yeah.
Her name is Danielle Alonzo.
She is in the Hills Have I, it's two.
Oh.
Oh, she was in One Tree Hill, Bro.
Oh, well, there you have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's been in a lot of different stuff.
She's 72 different credits on IMDB.
Okay.
Most recently, it was in 64 episodes of Dynasty.
Five episodes of The Resident.
Oh.
Oh, I watched The Resident.
That's where I know where from.
You watched The Resident?
The Resident is the Netflix show
that just dropped this year.
No.
Nope, that's residence.
Oh.
This is a Hulu drama from like a couple years ago.
Skip it. Don't know it.
She was in an episode of Magicians, Seal Team, Lethal Weapon.
10 episodes of Animal Kingdom.
Okay, girl. She works.
She works.
She works.
So that's probably why we both recognized her.
Let's see about our hero guy who we liked.
Yeah, he definitely works.
I just couldn't place him.
Um, okay, that's who was named Texas Battle. What a name.
Wow, what a name is right.
He was in Final Destination 3, which I saw for this channel, clearly remember very well.
He has also had 53 IMDB credits, so a lot of movies, but I don't remember. Death Valley, Hard Kill, Coach Carter.
I don't know any of those.
Is there any other else that you recognize?
Is there TV shows?
No, those are movies.
Okay.
Wow, that's weird, because I feel.
felt like I really recognized that guy
specifically. He looks very
different now. He does.
Oh, he looks very different.
Yeah. Interesting.
No, I...
No. Because I didn't, I didn't recognize
M or the girl that was topless before.
I didn't recognize the
blonde wrist cutter gal.
I can't believe that there are more of these, dude.
Wackadoo, right?
I can't believe that.
there's seven like and I think the reason obviously why they got they got to keep going is like
they did a good job with their budget and because of this they just up the freaking ante dude
they were like let's go let's go wild they did they did a really good job and you know what
with the cornyness of what this is the actors did a good job they really did and they took it
very seriously. The budget of this was
$4 million. It grossed 9 mil in DVD
sales. Nice.
That's all you got to really ask for. Double the budget.
And then you're in good shoes. What's interesting
is that the first wrong term budget was
12.6 mil. So really?
Yeah, but it looked like, you'll think about
like Eliza Dushku. Yeah.
And Manuel Shrieky. Like we had like a whole
ass cast for that. And we did have
a cool explosion. Yeah.
That was cool.
We didn't have any explode.
Oh, no, we did.
We had a whole body blow up.
That was cool.
This was absolutely bonkers.
Yeah.
Like, one of the craziest movies I've ever seen in my life.
I agree with you.
Well, I could do.
You guys, just let us know what you think in the comments.
Did you love this movie?
Do you think it's what I can do?
Do you hate it?
I don't know how much we're going to be able to show in editing because it's gnarly.
Also, I have to assume that if you guys,
as want us to cover more like like and make sure you let us know for sure get to views up like
comment tell us like if you want the rest of the wrong turns with us should we want some are they good
are they like this too like are they all different should i bring a barf bag yeah honestly that was
disgusting bro oh the baby the baby at the end with the finger we all know them zooming in on that
that baby's going to be back that was disgusting dude oh god what if they what if they what if they
What if, what if they don't, oh, what if, ah, the baby's face was not, it was worse.
And now what if the next one is like, that's a teenager and it's all bad.
I don't know what to tell you, dude.
I don't know what to tell you.
Oh, I don't know.
We, we love you guys.
You got any last words from Rocks?
No, no, no.
Gross.
Gross.
All right.
We'll just let us know.
We'll see you on the next one.
Later, rejects, bro.
Thank you.