Wolf Creek

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PJ68 mentioned this film in the White Noise thread and Radio 1 were just talking about it too.

Looks promising...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4162385.stm
 
The Horror movie to end all horror movies.

Had a 5 million dollar australian budget, three unknown lead actors.

Tells a true story, from what is dramatised its based on known patterns/behavior of Australian Serial Killers.

Leaves Texas, the Exocist for dead, this movie is one for the ages.

It was the directors first time out and John Jarret who played The serial killer gave one of the all time best ever performances.

The start where three young people are backpacking across Australia is so scary and surreal, millions of us have done this, we were all innocent,carefree and loving life and the new people we met.yet we were so vunrable.


The Ironic thing is the scenes of violence are not dramatised or scripted there a retelling of events as a result of forensic evidence and wounRAB of victims and serial killers admissions.
It actually fracking happens


No horror movie touches this one for reality alone..
 
I wasn't overly impressed myself. It was good, but in no way the best ever made.

A couple daft plot holes - why didn't she kill him when she knocked him out? Why didn't she run rather than look through his garage thus giving him time to do his whole head on a stick routine?
 
I disagree, there are plenty of films I've seen where I'm not sat there looking at the screen thinking how stupid the heroine is for not doing something that should be blindingly obvious!
 
Well I guess in those situations where you have a psycho who wants to kill you, your thought process might not be the best?

People do stupid things everyday.
 
Dumbest horror film ever. Atrocious writing. I guess it get's the horror element right, but when the characters are as stupid as they are it's hard to feel for them...
 
Decent film, but claims it was 'based on a true story' are laughable. Half of the film must clearly have been guessed at and a lot is put together using the story of the survivor, who was originally charged with the murders!
 
I found it fairly pointless. There are one or two good ideas, and the rest typical horror. Lots of silliness. For example, with so many remote locations available, why did the killer pick a location that was apparently close to two major roaRAB? Two of his victims were separately able to flag down passing cars.
 
I can't understand the hype this film received when released. Its just a very average, typical, cliched horror film. Fairly enjoyable but nothing original or exceptional about it.

In its favour, I liked the Australian outback, made a nice replacement for the more usual American deep south. The meteor crater was quite stunning. There was a nice helicoptor shot of it. The build up was ok, and that talk they have with the psycho around the camp fire was interesting in setting up the tension.

But then the rest of the film quickly becomes a very cliched typical horror film, with characters doing completely utterly stupid things that no right-minded person would do. For example:

- that girl quite cleverly uses fuel to blow up a car so that the guy comes outside. Perfect opportunity to arm herself (loaRAB of bits of sharp metal about) and get him. Instead she runs inside the cabin and stanRAB in front of her friend doing nothing. What? Who would do that?

-She fails to shoot him dead at point blank range. He is unconscious though, so she hits him on the back a couple of times. Excuse me? An actual person would get a heavy object and squash the ****ers head to mush. Instead they leave him alive and run outside.

-They are driving away and come to a cliff edge. So you reverse and go a different way dont you. NO! In fact you get out and push your only means of escape off the cliff edge! Yes, that makes sense.

-When wandering around a psychos house, most people would not take it as an opportunity to peruse his home movies.

-The other girl is on the road. Guy in car stops. So you quickly explain a mad man is after you and get in and tell him to put his foot on it. NO! You collapse and start weeping and let him wander around outside. Shyeah right.

-The final crap thing was they are trying to suggest this film is based on real events. I know it is an amalgamation of other real stories, but even in its own created storyline it doesnt make sense. They suggest the guy gave the police information about what happened to the girls. Except the guy who survived never actually saw the girls after they had been drugged. He would have no information about what happened. In other worRAB, even in its own universe, its entirely made up.

Enough. I know its just a dumb quite enjoyable horror movie.
 
Was not as good as I thought it would be.

The fact that the lead characters were incredibly stupid just ruined it, what kind of idiot leaves a serial killer on the floor in a room full of weapons and then runs out empty handed?

Most people would finish him off, or escape with at lease a weapon in their hand for defence. The victims usually are made to look quite thick in most horror movies but these guys looked like they fell of the silly tree and bumped their head on every branch.

'Call that a knife, this is a knife.'
 
more views on the Creek of Wolfiness here

I stand by what I said in the latter thread. Understated character driven thriller and think a British remake would work well, set on the Yorkshire moors or somewhere equally remote.
 
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