1 out of 5

Director: Declan O’Brien

It’s bad, but it’s at least tolerably bad – standardly bad – everything you expect from DTV modern horror bad – which makes it watchable, which is more than I really would offer about the second entry.  WT3 even takes a horror premise I generally dig – the prison convicts as “heroes” – and keeps it suitably grim by having everyone be a scumbag and hate each other.  There’s a “good” convict, but he’s not all that great either.  They’re lumped together with a mostly wholesome cop and a girl who was out camping, all stranded, by movie machinations, in the woods with our Wrong Turn hillbillies, pretty much narrowed down to just one for this flick.  Director O’Brien ditches the in-bred family b.s. that was pretend creativity in film 2 and just pitches the killer/s as Jason-esque unstoppable creepos, more in line with film 1.  There are more poorly done CGI stabbings than you can shake a stick at, some repeatedly used rubber razor wire, and a couple of subplots that are pointless and get satisfyingly killed off, chuckle pun intended.  It’s not good – it’s not a good flick – but it’s what you should expect at this point, and I feel like it does well with the formula by just keeping it dumb and horror simple – here’s some boobs, here’s some blood, here’s 90 minutes of your time to not really have to pay attention.