Movies Like - The Wrong Turn

For fans of the backwoods slasher genre, the 2003 cult classic Wrong Turn set a high bar for survival horror. The film's combination of isolated forest settings, inbred cannibalistic mutants, and creative, gory traps spawned a massive franchise and solidified a specific subgenre: "rural horror" or "hickploitation".

If you are looking for that specific mix of survival tension and gory kills, here are the best movies to watch next.

If the "survival" aspect—characters being hunted through nature—is what you enjoyed most, these films offer high-stakes tension. 5 Must-See Movies Like Wrong Turn movies like the wrong turn

The monster isn’t a person. It’s the plants . American tourists get trapped on a Mayan pyramid in the jungle. The locals won't let them leave because they're "infected." What follows is a slow, agonizing body-horror film where vines crawl under your skin and mimic human voices. It has the same "group betrayal" dynamic as Wrong Turn (who gets left behind?).

Most of these films (especially Wrong Turn and Hills Have Eyes ) often rotate between streaming services like Amazon Prime Video , Tubi , or Shudder (the best service for this specific sub-genre). For fans of the backwoods slasher genre, the

Like Wrong Turn , the survivors make realistic bad decisions. They cut off an infected limb. It doesn't work.

If you watch Wrong Turn specifically for the creative kills and body horror, these are your next picks. American tourists get trapped on a Mayan pyramid

A forgotten gem about two couples camping in... you guessed it... a forest. They are hunted by the ghosts of two cannibalistic children who died in the 1930s. It’s low-budget. The acting is wooden. But the atmosphere is pure Wrong Turn : isolation, no cell phones (obviously), and the sense that the trees are watching you. Plus, the killer uses a fork as a weapon. You can't unsee it.