After sitting through the insipid Hostel, I thought maybe Wolf Creek would add some much-needed jolt to the increasingly tiresome horror genre (and I'm a horror fan).
No such luck.
There's are so many problems with this film, it's amazing. The plot, such as it is: a bunch of college age Austrailina kids go on a trip to a crater in the outback called 'Wolf Creek'. The first half of the movie is them doing NOTHING. They sleep, they party, they drink, the drive, and drive, and drive. I'm surprised there wasn't a scene of them doing laundry. There's a subplot of two of them maybe falling in love, but that goes nowhere as well. There's another scene at a gas station or a bar or something that has no point either.
Anyway, the kids finally(and I do mean FINALLY) get to Wolf Creek, where their car mysteriously stops working. OH NO! Eventually, a guy who looks just like John Wayne Gacy stops by to help them and tows them back to his lair. All is well, until they fall asleep.
One wakes up in what seems like the morning, all tied up. When she escapes and goes outside, it's night again. She finds her friend all tied up to a post being tortured by our killer. Long story short, she rescues her friend and ends up shooting the killer in the neck. Does she make sure he's dead? No, because that would mean the end of the flick.
A lot of chasing happens until one girl comes back tot he lair looking for a car to escape in. She stumbles upon the serial killer cliché: a wall with mementos from his victims nailed to it. She finds a video camera and begins to watch the tape (mind you, she's supposed to be searching for a way out of there) which shows that the killer has lured many people to their deaths. But of course we already knew that, so the scene has no purpose except to waste time. She finds a car and starts it (although why it would work if he disables all the tourists' cars is beyond me). Now as a viewer, you're thinking to yourself, "Please don't let the killer be in the back seat" No such luck. He somehow was hiding in the one car she got into. Whoopie. Anyway, she is killed in some horrible way, as her friend begins to run down the road trying to escape.
It's now gone from night to day in about 2 seconds.
Of course, she is killed by our friend, who can A) shoot a moving car tire at 100 yards B) take a bullet to the neck and suffer no ill effects, and C) have ESP so he knows where all his victims are at all times.
As all this is going on, the male finds himself crucified to a wall. He escapes (which brings me another point, as for such a successful killer, his victims get out of his bondage pretty easily)and starts running in the outback. For some reason, we get a long shot of an eclipse, then him on the ground near death as the heat gets to him. Our survivor is finally rescued by tourists, then the movie ends with a shot of him being taken into custody.
WHA.....? What kind of police force is it that finds a guy with nail marks through his body, nearly dying from his injuries, and blames HIM for the missing girls? Anyway, after a whole bunch of nothing, the film tells us that the male was cleared of charges in this 'true story', the girls were never found, and the killer's lair was never found either.
So, we get a movie where, the characters no one could possibly care about, a killer who kills for no reason, a killer who is Superman, and it isn't even particularly gory. And we get a whole movie where there is only one survivor, and he was knocked out for about 90 percent of the film. So how does he know what happened to any of the girls? Don't even bother with this one. It completes the unholy crap trinity with Hostel and High Tension.
No such luck.
There's are so many problems with this film, it's amazing. The plot, such as it is: a bunch of college age Austrailina kids go on a trip to a crater in the outback called 'Wolf Creek'. The first half of the movie is them doing NOTHING. They sleep, they party, they drink, the drive, and drive, and drive. I'm surprised there wasn't a scene of them doing laundry. There's a subplot of two of them maybe falling in love, but that goes nowhere as well. There's another scene at a gas station or a bar or something that has no point either.
Anyway, the kids finally(and I do mean FINALLY) get to Wolf Creek, where their car mysteriously stops working. OH NO! Eventually, a guy who looks just like John Wayne Gacy stops by to help them and tows them back to his lair. All is well, until they fall asleep.
One wakes up in what seems like the morning, all tied up. When she escapes and goes outside, it's night again. She finds her friend all tied up to a post being tortured by our killer. Long story short, she rescues her friend and ends up shooting the killer in the neck. Does she make sure he's dead? No, because that would mean the end of the flick.
A lot of chasing happens until one girl comes back tot he lair looking for a car to escape in. She stumbles upon the serial killer cliché: a wall with mementos from his victims nailed to it. She finds a video camera and begins to watch the tape (mind you, she's supposed to be searching for a way out of there) which shows that the killer has lured many people to their deaths. But of course we already knew that, so the scene has no purpose except to waste time. She finds a car and starts it (although why it would work if he disables all the tourists' cars is beyond me). Now as a viewer, you're thinking to yourself, "Please don't let the killer be in the back seat" No such luck. He somehow was hiding in the one car she got into. Whoopie. Anyway, she is killed in some horrible way, as her friend begins to run down the road trying to escape.
It's now gone from night to day in about 2 seconds.
Of course, she is killed by our friend, who can A) shoot a moving car tire at 100 yards B) take a bullet to the neck and suffer no ill effects, and C) have ESP so he knows where all his victims are at all times.
As all this is going on, the male finds himself crucified to a wall. He escapes (which brings me another point, as for such a successful killer, his victims get out of his bondage pretty easily)and starts running in the outback. For some reason, we get a long shot of an eclipse, then him on the ground near death as the heat gets to him. Our survivor is finally rescued by tourists, then the movie ends with a shot of him being taken into custody.
WHA.....? What kind of police force is it that finds a guy with nail marks through his body, nearly dying from his injuries, and blames HIM for the missing girls? Anyway, after a whole bunch of nothing, the film tells us that the male was cleared of charges in this 'true story', the girls were never found, and the killer's lair was never found either.
So, we get a movie where, the characters no one could possibly care about, a killer who kills for no reason, a killer who is Superman, and it isn't even particularly gory. And we get a whole movie where there is only one survivor, and he was knocked out for about 90 percent of the film. So how does he know what happened to any of the girls? Don't even bother with this one. It completes the unholy crap trinity with Hostel and High Tension.