It is impossible to love a film like Wolf Creek. It is perverted to the cinematic extreme. On the other hand it would be wrong to dismiss first time director/writer Greg Mclean as an ugly, incompetent storyteller. He was trying to adapt a true story for the screen, which is perfectly fine (movies do this all the time). Wolf Creek is an unhappy story, but it shows you just one of the many ways in which the world is not always pretty place.
The events on which this story is based took place ten years ago. We follow three kids in Australia who are taking a road trip to Wolf Creek, the sight of a famous meteor crater. On their way back, their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in the outback, That night they meet a stranger with a tow truck who offers to give them a tow back to his place where he will fix the car. He then holds them captive because he is a sadist and a killer. According to the film, they all managed to escape but only one survived.
The killer pretty much steals the movie in the second half. At first he is set up to be a sort of classic 'easy-going' outback Australian like Crodidile Dundee, and then suddenly he is not. Like many cinematic killers, this guy has really no motive for his Inhumanity, but the script suggests in a very small way that he hates tourists, and being subject to stereotypes. He truly is menacing, not necessarily well acted, but menacing.
Personally I don't much care for this category of Horror film, but Wolf Creek turns out to be surprisingly exceptional, but if you are gonna see it, prepare to be disturbed. It makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like Barney.
The events on which this story is based took place ten years ago. We follow three kids in Australia who are taking a road trip to Wolf Creek, the sight of a famous meteor crater. On their way back, their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in the outback, That night they meet a stranger with a tow truck who offers to give them a tow back to his place where he will fix the car. He then holds them captive because he is a sadist and a killer. According to the film, they all managed to escape but only one survived.
The killer pretty much steals the movie in the second half. At first he is set up to be a sort of classic 'easy-going' outback Australian like Crodidile Dundee, and then suddenly he is not. Like many cinematic killers, this guy has really no motive for his Inhumanity, but the script suggests in a very small way that he hates tourists, and being subject to stereotypes. He truly is menacing, not necessarily well acted, but menacing.
Personally I don't much care for this category of Horror film, but Wolf Creek turns out to be surprisingly exceptional, but if you are gonna see it, prepare to be disturbed. It makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like Barney.