Wolf Creek..

I remember coming out of the cinema feeling very distrubed by the whole thing. I think I was expecting a normal run of the mill slasher flick, but this film went further than that, probably because the story didnt unfold how I expected, and the violence felt much more sinister than I imagined.

When I was leaving the cinema with my OH, I told him my thoughts about one scene in particular, which I will spoiler incase people havent seen it yet...

I think the bit that distrubed me most was the 'Head on a Stick' moment. But after the film I kept thinking, what happened to her? Obviously she is still alive. I wondered whether he kept her alive and did nasty things to her body (but then would she feel it) or left her to die? Either way it is very gruesome and left me feeling quite shocked and disturbed afterward.

I must be getting squemish in my old age! :D ;)
 
The film Wolf Creek, is not a true story. However, it is based on real events.

The main character is based on the Austrailian Backpack Murderer, Ivan Milat. The various methoRAB of torture, injury and murder featured in the film are all derived from the way he tortured, raped, shot, multilated and teased his victims.

If you want to read about the true events, look at the following link.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/milat/discovery_1.html

Hope that clears things up.

Morpheous283.
 
I saw this recently, and read the linked Crime Library site afterwarRAB. No doubt in my mind it is based on Ivan Milat - enough to justify its 'Based on true events' claim, in my opinion. In fact, reading his casebook there were so many little details that reminded me of the film, even if a lot of it was obviously fictionalised.

Aspects similar in the real case to the film, for example, were:

The two British backpackers being killed - one of them being shot and the other being stabbed.

Milat hanging onto his victims's posessions.

The sole Male survivor - although not someone who knew the British girls, it was still obviously based on Paul Onions (from Sydney).

Plus, the fact that he would sever his victims spinal corRAB to incapaciate them.

There was one partivcluar horror cliche in there which I didn't feel was neccesary (he's behind yooouuuuuu), but the thing that stood out for me with this film and made it more scary - even before reading abouy Milat - was the fact that this sort of stuff really can occur. It made it real and, as such, more frightening than most horror.
 
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