Wreckage (2010) (USA)

aka Twisted

⭐️⭐️

Wesley Jones escapes from prison 15 years after gunning down his drug-addict mother and her abusive boyfriend. His younger brother actually did it but that’s kind of a spoiler to just point out right here at the beginning of the review. Oh well. While this is going on, a young woman is being pursued by a rapist with a big knife. She flees into a scrapyard and just as her would-be-assaulter finds her, somebody bashes his head in. Hit them credits! Wow. These credits are still going. Nope. They just don’t stop. Hey! Alright. Here’s the movie. Inept cops talk about the escaped killer and a newly engaged couple work on a car (there’s a dipstick proposal) and are visited by another couple (hey, it’s Aaron Paul!). Mr. Fiancé (Jared, if you’re at all interested) races some douche in a sports car and his car dies when he blows a gasket. They’re stranded without any phone reception so they decide to wander over to a nearby junkyard and get what they need to fix the car. Aaron Paul’s girlfriend is pregnant and kinda sucks but Aaron Paul is also pretty awful at being a human so good for them… they’ll be horrible parents. Aaron Paul starts firing his gun because he sucks and a ricochet hits the newly engaged Kate. Jared heads off to make the four mile trek into town and get his lady some help. He has flashbacks to the proposal while he runs… it’s hilarious. He makes it to the cops and he and the sheriff head off to the junkyard with an EMT who may have once been a porn star, a doctor who I know I’ve seen in other things and a deputy who was definitely not a porn star but does have a creepy mustache. They find nobody when they arrive. They search the grounds and the strung up corpse of the pregnant woman tips them off that something bad is going on. They search on and after a dog attack, the cops and Jared find an injured Aaron Paul. He lets them know some dude attacked them out of nowhere and grabbed Kate. At this point Scoot fuckin’ McNairy shows up as the owner’s bumpkin nephew, responding to an alarm at the junkyard. If you like lazy hick “comedy” performed by an actor who is way better than this shit deserves, you should strap on in because you’ll be in heaven. A dude in a welding mask starts picking off everyone. They lose a couple folks but Aaron Paul and Kate get found and sent to the hospital. The escaped prisoner brings Kate to the siren noise after discovering her on the side of the road. He gives some bullshit story about just passing through town and ends up stabbed to death with his own knife when he runs and gets caught by Jared. They think it’s all wrapped up but we know better than that. It’s the lame slasher hijinks the release date would have you expect but the cast is better than it should be and it feels like the team behind it had a better idea of how to handle a budget.