The trailer for “WRONG TURN 9” (2025) begins with a familiar sense of foreboding, capturing a lone car driving through dense, isolated woods on a narrow, winding road. The sun is setting, casting long shadows that dance ominously across the asphalt. A radio crackles with static before a voice warns of strange disappearances in the area, hinting that something sinister awaits those who venture too far off the beaten path.
As the music turns darker, the camera cuts to a group of friends inside the car, laughing and unaware of the danger that lies ahead. Their banter quickly turns tense as they realize they’ve taken a wrong turn, leading them deep into an uncharted part of the forest. The road becomes rougher, and they eventually stumble upon an eerie, abandoned settlement hidden among the trees.
The trailer’s atmosphere shifts, with quick cuts showing the group exploring the creepy, decaying structures. The tension mounts as they discover unsettling signs of recent activity—makeshift traps, grotesque totems made of bone and flesh, and the remnants of previous victims who weren’t so lucky.
Without warning, the horror begins. The group is ambushed by a new generation of inbred, cannibalistic killers, their faces hidden behind grotesque masks fashioned from their prey. The trailer offers glimpses of brutal and visceral violence as the friends are picked off one by one, each gruesome encounter more shocking than the last. The forest itself seems to close in around them, a labyrinth of terror from which there is no escape.
The trailer’s pacing becomes frantic, with scenes of desperate chases, horrifying ambushes, and gut-wrenching moments of survival. The killers are relentless, hunting the group with sadistic glee, using the forest’s treacherous terrain to their advantage. The few survivors are forced to fight back with whatever they can find, turning the tables in a bloody struggle for survival.
In its final moments, the trailer reaches a crescendo of horror, with quick flashes of the carnage, the killers’ grotesque grins, and the terrified, desperate faces of the remaining survivors. The screen goes black as a blood-curdling scream echoes, followed by the title “WRONG TURN 9” in bold, jagged letters.
The trailer ends with the tagline, “Some roads should never be traveled,” and the release date, promising fans of the franchise another horrifying descent into madness and mayhem. This latest installment in the “Wrong Turn” series appears to deliver the intense, brutal horror that has become its hallmark, with new twists and even more terrifying encounters in the backwoods.
