Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6775 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Synopsis
WOLF CREEK is a grim and disturbing horror film, based on actual events in the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE vein. It's also beautifully shot, with director Greg McLean (in his feature film debut) making the otherworldly majesty of Australia's outback emerge as a part of the story. Cassandra Magrath and Kesti Morassi play the two young British girls travelling with their Aussie friend, Ben (Nathan Phillips), to Wolf Creek, the remote location of a giant meteor crater. When their car breaks down, a jovial, Crocodile Dundee-type named Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) offers to tow them to his even more remote auto camp. What happens next ensures, among other things, that surviving audience members will never think of Crocodile Dundee in quite the same happy way again. In addition to McLean's painterly use of scenery in establishing mood, the film benefits from the slow, methodical build-up of character detail; the actors are given space to develop a believable rapport, something all too rare in this kind of film. The characters are people, not stock slasher-film types, and this makes the ensuing scenes of cruelty and violence all the more unbearable. This is one carefully crafted, genuinely scary horror film.

Customer Reviews

Shock horror!
Wow! Believe the hype. This film will have you cowering behind a cushion or under a blanket. The plot builds up at a slow pace and cleverly lulls the viewer into a false sense of calm. Then the action comes and shock after shock follows. My heart was pounding all the way through this film and I found myself screaming for the characters to survive. At points I didn't want to watch anymore but at the same time couldn't tear my eyes away. This is a fabulous film but not for the faint-hearted.

Finally, a truely disturbing thriller
There have been hundreds of "scary" films recently which should all be listed under "comedy." The Chainsaw Masacres, Final Destinations, Jeepers Creepers kind of scary films are all very predictable, amusing when they are supposed to be scaring and probably better suited for 10 year olds on sleep overs.
This film however, bothered me. It really is disturbing. I cant remember if this is based on a true story but if its not, it certainly could be a true story. No silly unbelievable demons, monsters, giant superstrong ugly men, screaming beautiful teenagers with huge breasts, just good raw acting of very believable characters. Trust me, you wont get much sleep after this one.

good god
BLOODY HELL
If I'd known the subject of this film I wouldn't have watched it, not my kind thing normally, but I like to watch films that I know nothing about, so when I flicked through the channels and found opening credits I stuck with it.
I'd missed a couple of minutes so don't know if I missed an obvious reveal, but for a while I was watching what I thought was a road movie with romantic coming of age leanings, was I in for a shock! What happened to the characters was as surprising to me as to them, especially after the cliched -country bar goes silent for the city folk scene- that seemed to show the youngsters unjustified prejudice against rural types.
Maybe because of this, or maybe because of the quality of work, I was sickened and gripped for the duration. I didn't realise til after that the script was based on the events a few years back in australia, and obviously the script writers didn't have access to a serial killer, but that character seemed so real. And horrifying in his banality, which makes him possibly the most repugnant and truly scary "villain" I've seen on film.
And the victims are portrayed as you or I would be, snot dribbling-mommy wishing hysterics, I wanted them to escape, that in itself is amazing for this kind of fare.
There is no need for any slasher/deliverance clone to ever be made again, this will never be surpassed.