Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4389 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

Don't Watch It Alone
We are a fairly hard to please viewing group, but all of us were gripped by this film. Due to it's element of true story, it wasn't at all predictable. The music was subtle, the scenery sublime. Characterisations were much above the usual horror stereotypes. Some of our group had to put hands over eyes or look away. Very shocking in parts. Not one to watch with children! Or alone!

meh
dull,bland,boring and predictable this is overated tripe, this is is a complete and utter waste of time

Sick!
When i say 'Sick' i mean it in both sense's, it is extremely gory, uncomfortable and creepy as well as being really cool! The cast are a bunch of total unknowns which aides the sense of realism no end. It takes quite a while to get going but the scenery and general bleakness mean it never gets too dull.

However once the car has broken down, right in the middle of the out back and the headlights approach there have been a number of occasions when i feel tempted to turn it off because it is far too uncomfortable, and whilst it is not easy viewing, this is what makes it so unique. Never before have i shouted at the screen before.

Unless you are too cool or scared of nothing then i would prepare for a sleepless night! Ugh!

8/10