35 - Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

    The murderous hillbilly trio is joined by their father, as they kill a bunch of teens in a small town as a music festival brings people in costume.
    I think I've seen all of the Wrong Turn movies, but I could be mistaken.  I don't think I can place anything distinct about the first, second, and third ones.  I remember that the fourth took place in a sanitarium.
    While I can't resist watching these, I've gotten more bothered by them over time.  Most horror movies have a certain balance.  The protagonist usually defeats - at least temporarily - the antagonist.  The ending allows the viewer to feel like it came out acceptably.  I don't mind dark endings either, but these have been getting progressively uglier as I watch them.  The problem is that there are normally no survivors.  Everyone dies, the villains get away clean.  It doesn't even seem like the villains suffer any losses.
    I'm having a hard time thinking of an example, but there are some exceptions.  If the villain has an appropriate motivation, or if there's enough development of the villain character.  In these movies, I think there's been one clue given.  In this movie, they imply that the whole hillbilly killers are leftover from the early 1800s when there was some feud with workers in the town.  This doesn't really give enough motivation though.
    As this movie progressed, it seemed like the decisions being made got progressively worse.  The dialogue got worse too.  And they started to really push more inventive deaths, but they seemed unusually complicated for three guys who have about half a brain between them.  And they seem to be incapable of speech.
    Technically, the movie is competent, but not especially so.  It looks like a lot of the movie was shot using a single street set (or possible two, one for corners).  Not too many extras.  Even exterior locations seem to be very limited.  The police station, which houses most of the action, is a pretty poor set.
    In a certain way, the female lead, the sheriff, is a bit sexist.  She's a pretty terrible sheriff.  She deputizes a handful of teens (well, possibly college age, it's hard to tell) and hands out guns, providing no instruction.  Then she gets persuaded to let a kid - one that she had arrested for substantial drug possession - leave the station to find his girlfriend, all because he gave a little speech about how he loves the girl.
     Also, the cover art for this movie is misleading.  It looks like it was created by a person who had been given a rough idea of what the movie would be about.  Instead, we never see anything even distantly like the scene in the background of that image.  And I don't think the girl on the cover is ever shown in the woods.