“Restricted Area” (* out of four) was a horrendous horror thriller about four friends (Paige Lindsay Betts, Philip Andre Botello, Rose Britz, and others) who take a camping trip into the wilderness where- to the surprise of no one- they are besieged by a redneck hillbilly cult and they have to fight back and survive. Both “Deliverance” and “Mother’s Day” told virtually this same story nearly 40 years ago with much more charge and vital shock and “Wrong Turn” stylized and updated this for a new generation about 20 years ago so perhaps this tired material should in itself be a “restricted area.” Ridiculously overlong also, at nearly two hours.

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