Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek
R | 25 December 2005 (USA)
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Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman, who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.

Reviews
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Irishchatter If I could give this a 0, I would be happy to do it. Wolf creek was just all over the place, I didn't find it one bit scary. It was only just a plain old hillbilly trying to terrorise the party pooper backpackers and trying to kill them. The scenes were dragging on, I felt that I was bored to tears with it. Not great to be honest!
jelenared This is the single most horrible movie I've seen in a while. If you want some gruesome action and an actually mediocre horror movie just go (re)watch any of the Wrong Turn movies. If you still for some strange reason decide to watch this sh*t you could easily skip the first 30 minutes because NOTHING HAPPENS! Good luck!
Roderick Paterick So I consider myself a bit of a horror fan and had kept seeing this on scariest horror lists online. I was sure I had seen it but couldn't place it so recently watched it excited to see its almighty scare power. Sadly I was let down, the plot is fair enough some travelers go traveling to Wolf Creek and actually the initial way the film twists Into its nastier side is quite good too. However the characters are irritating and the bad guy is pretty comedy. The films set up had a lot of potential and there are some tense moments however it's not psychotics enough to be scary, not gory enough to be called a gore fest and not, well torturey enough to be torture porn. So what do we have isolated screaming with some characters we don't care about. But it's based on a true so that must give it some weight right? No, just when you think the film is going somewhere it ends and then you stare at the DVD cover as the credits roll wondering who would even buy it on eBay. Not a good film.
Leofwine_draca WOLF CREEK is one of those modern-day, pared-down horror films that rely on action for suspense and deliver a new brand of extreme horror in which the terror comes, not from the supernatural, but from the sadistic mind of a relentless killer. What makes WOLF CREEK different is that it's Australian, which means it comes with its own distinctive visual flavour, and director Gary McLean is bright enough to make the eerie wilderness of the Australian outback a character just as important as the three protagonists of the story. An isolated landscape, full of rusting barbed wire, the lonely barks of solitary dogs, and a creepy giant meteorite crater, this is a film designed to put you off ever wanting to visit Australia ever again.The first half of the film is the best, a slow-burning build up populated by creepy cameo characters and an ever-increasing sense of foreboding. Rather than creating likable characters, McLean pretends the backpackers just as they are, so we get Nathan Phillips as a bit of a jock and Kestie Morassi as somebody incessantly whiny and annoying; Cassandra Magrath does better as the genuinely fragile Liz. Best of all, though, is John Jarratt, who gives one of the best bad guy performances I've ever seen in a movie; he's so evil because he's so NICE, and only by watching this film will you see what I mean. Jarratt is horrifying and far more frightening than Freddy or Jason ever can be.The film seems to have achieved some controversy because of its violent content, but in a world full of SAW movies, it's nothing much; a few flashes of brutal violence and a nasty stabbing, that's it. It's disturbing, though, because McLean is good at filming horror, building up the suspense incessantly before thumping you in the chest with something you don't want to see happen. The similarly-themed HILLS HAVE EYES remake and HOSTEL may have more bloodshed and depravity, but the more subtle terrors of WOLF CREEK are just as powerful as any big bucks horror flick with Hollywood's backing.