Occasionally a film comes along that grabs the public's awareness - dazzles them with its originality and bravado. Occasionally the public is fooled! WOLF CREEK is trash - unmitigated trash. That it has earned what it has is a sad indictment of public acceptance and gullibility.
Unequivocably the most boring, amateurish and cringe-worthy opening to any film since THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY MACKENZIE, the most horrifying realization is that this IS typical Aussie social culture you're seeing on screen. Watching the brain-dead antics of three one-dimensional and supremely unattractive back-packers does not engender my sympathy I have to say! Repulsive as Jarratt was - at least he was alive! The "horror" itself? Well other than the airborne plastic fingers and the spinal tap....you really don't get to see anything much. Probably as well, gives you more time to concentrate on the incessant and fully irritating screaming.
Based on "true" events???? I think not. What it IS based on is Greg Mclean's fanciful "what if??" (What if they hadn't caught Ivan Milat or Brad Murdoch? - two locals/yokels with a fetish for guns and backpackers - not necessarily in that order either!) To even mention this film in such illustrious company as Roeg's WALKABOUT is laughable. Believe me, McLean will never be receiving his Order of Australia at Hanging Rock!
By the by......had they simply either hog-tied Mick Taylor or telescoped his brains with the gun butt when they had the chance (after he was shot) there would have been no need for the movie!
The only redeeming feature was the cinematography and that alone was not worth $14.95 be assured!
Unequivocably the most boring, amateurish and cringe-worthy opening to any film since THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY MACKENZIE, the most horrifying realization is that this IS typical Aussie social culture you're seeing on screen. Watching the brain-dead antics of three one-dimensional and supremely unattractive back-packers does not engender my sympathy I have to say! Repulsive as Jarratt was - at least he was alive! The "horror" itself? Well other than the airborne plastic fingers and the spinal tap....you really don't get to see anything much. Probably as well, gives you more time to concentrate on the incessant and fully irritating screaming.
Based on "true" events???? I think not. What it IS based on is Greg Mclean's fanciful "what if??" (What if they hadn't caught Ivan Milat or Brad Murdoch? - two locals/yokels with a fetish for guns and backpackers - not necessarily in that order either!) To even mention this film in such illustrious company as Roeg's WALKABOUT is laughable. Believe me, McLean will never be receiving his Order of Australia at Hanging Rock!
By the by......had they simply either hog-tied Mick Taylor or telescoped his brains with the gun butt when they had the chance (after he was shot) there would have been no need for the movie!
The only redeeming feature was the cinematography and that alone was not worth $14.95 be assured!