Bad Turn Worse
The film follows three teens from Texas as they move out of their small town and get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
22 December 1989, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
9 April 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 April 1987, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
17 June 1957, Glendale, California, USA
5 September 1939, Albany, New York, USA
November 21, 2014
Entertaining pulp.
November 14, 2014
It's a confident, engaging film, undone by some narrative sag in the middle but worth seeing for its opening and closing acts.
June 27, 2016
A taut thriller with assured performances from its central core, the film eventually finds itself exactly where logic would expect it to be.
November 21, 2014
Another super-solid indie thriller along the lines of Blue Ruin & Cold in July. Highly recommended.
May 22, 2016
It has a humid sense of place, a few effective twists, and most importantly a terrific primary villain.
November 26, 2014
Directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins add air-quote references to Jim Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers but are too proud of the movie's twists to make them truly snap.
November 13, 2014
"Bad Turn Worse" simply peters out by the night of the big heist, never achieving more than being imitative of small-town noir instead of getting inside it.
January 15, 2015
The brothers take a lean screenplay and turn it into a memorable thrill ride.
November 13, 2014
This cowboy noir works fine as a genre riff, but screenwriter Dutch Southern draws so liberally on the work of Jim Thompson, Cormac McCarthy, and the Coen brothers that he ought to take them all out for drinks.
November 21, 2014
Bad Turn Worse isn't bad, it's simply generic, but it owns its genre with such swagger one can't help but look forward to seeing these actors, directors and writer in action again.
November 13, 2014
A juicy neo-noir like "Bad Turn Worse" doesn't have to make total sense to grab you. All it has to do is spit like a snake enough times to show that it means business.
