Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22423 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-01-16
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 94 minutes

DVD Description
The story of three friends who take a road trip in the remote Australian Outback only to be plunged into danger when they accept help from a seemingly friendly local. A macabre blend of Last House on the Left and Crocodile Dundee, Greg McLean's truly terrifying thriller is based, in part, on real events from the infamous 'Backpacker Murders' which plagued Australia's Hume Highway between 1989 and 1992.

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

Disturbing but Good
Wolf Creek is a disturbing film. The way the killer maimes and tortures the 3 backpackers is really disturbing. The film is really good though, just really uncomfortable and disturbing.

Too gritty
Wolf Creek is the kind of film which goes to painstaking lengths to prove how gritty and horrible it is. Much of the scene-setting - whilst occasionally evocative - does everything it can to make everything docu-soap realistic (kind of like the Blair With Project, but well filmed and with proper actors). I can see why it was filmed this way (to, as I say, give it a brutally real feel) but I don't really class this as entertainment.

The second half of the film is simply a Halloween style hide-and-seek teen hunt - albeit with much stronger violence. Once again, I do not see the entertainment value. It doesn't, IMO, contribute anything. Sure, there are nasty things in the world out there, do we really need to see them portrayed this realistically? Apart from that, this film is just a tired rehash of so many (superior) slasher flicks. *SPOILER* He even turns up in the back seat, yawn...

Impressive, but no fun
Not so much a horror as a video nasty, this is brutal, fearless filmmaking that's trying to push the boundaries. Although well filmed and acted, in the end its simply not enjoyable as a spectacle. Its remorselessness shows that the director has the courage of his convictions, but his attempt to raise its profile on the basis that its 'based on a true story' is just daft, exploitative bunkum. Great villain though.