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Wolf Creek
Australia 2005, 99 minutes
Dir. Greg McLean
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Horror / Splatter
Aroview: One of the more terrifying horror films of recent years, this Australian version of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE has three young travellers come a-cropper when their car breaks down in desolate Outback.
When a local bushman (Jarratt) offers to help them, they stumble into extreme peril and this benevolent 'Crocodile Dundee' type turns into a babbling, grotesque redneck. Builds slowly and achieves its horror chiefly by refusing to provide a relief valve (ala TCM), though the effect is diluted somewhat by its caricatured villain.
Member Reviews
Average rating 
(Good Try). Showing 1-4 of 4 member reviews.
1 star (Turkey) Absolutely revolting movie - and to say this was "based on true events" is laughable. Actually started out promising, but gradually deteriorated into a gratuitously violent blood-and-gore yawn fest. Just hidious. ~GenXGirl
3 stars (Good Enough) Admirably builds dreadful anticipation before paying out one of the most harrowing sequences in memory. But it then undercuts itself with some sad cliches (victims make senseless decisions, villain makes cartoonish jokes). Potent but flawed. ~fairbrother
3 stars (Good Enough) Annoyingly stupid victims undermine the effectiveness somewhat but otherwise the nasty horror elements are in tact. Those who enjoy movies such as Hostel and Eden Lake will enjoy it. ~Nick McB
2 stars (Good Try) The first third is worth watching for the photography of the locations. Jarratt is very good but it would have worked better if the mayhem had been more restrained - it might have been more suspenseful that way. ~Tubbs
Close Relatives
- Blair Witch Project, The (1999)
- Hitcher, The (1986)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Eden Lake (2008)
- High Tension (2003)
- King of the Hill (2007)
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