10 More Horror Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good

It's not unfair to say that expectations were basically through the Earth's core for Wrong Turn 2: Dead End - a straight-to-video follow-up to 2003's modest backwoods slasher flick Wrong Turn, helmed by then-unknown filmmaker Joe Lynch.

This had basically everything working against it, including a budget less than one-third of the theatrically-released original, yet Lynch did perhaps the one thing nobody expected: he made Wrong Turn fun.

Don't be mistaken - Wrong Turn 2 certainly doesn't leave fans wanting for outrageous gore, but it's also an unexpectedly funny film compared to its more serious-minded predecessor, taking satirical pot-shots at reality TV yet never quite making the descent into nudge-nudge farce.

Lynch didn't have a ton of money to work with, but passion and effort bleed from every frame of this movie, confirming that he tried his damnedest to make an entertaining sequel rather than a lazy, cynical cash-in.

Four increasingly terrible sequels and a not-bad reboot later, it remains the best of the series by a wide margin, in turn proving that not all straight-to-video sequels are created equal.