Wolf Creek (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
by Greg McLean
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Actor: Cassandra Magrath, Gordon Poole, John Jarratt, Kestie Morassi, Nathan PhillipsDirector: Greg McLean
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Cinematographer: Will Gibson
Composer: Francois Tetaz
Editor: Jason Ballantine
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Swedish (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Wolf Creek (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Dull and not particularly frightening
Summary: 2 Stars
The buildup is very slow in Wolf Creek, allowing the viewers to get to know the three central characters before things go bad for them. But even with almost an hour of buildup and establishment, I still felt no connection to the characters. The characters themselves were just not that interesting to begin with so when the action picks up, I couldn't find any pity or horror towards them.
As for the horror part of this film, well, lets just say it is nonexistant. Perhaps for those who frighten easily, you may find this disturbing and creepy, but in reality, it wasn't all that scary or chilling. Supposedly based on a true story, it just doesn't work onscreen, especially since there were pretty much no witnesses from the original crime, so most of it feels made up, hence, making it less than frightening.
The violence and gore are mediocre, not even remotely comparable to similar torture films, like any of the Saw films, or even Hostel, which is also slow to pick up. Again, for those squeemish people, it may be disturbing, but I felt none of that. The characters themselves suffer from the familiar clich?; doing stupid stuff in a horror movie. Some of it is eye roll inducing. There is one gag that is actually pretty sick, called 'head on a stick', which works really well in the scene, but the event leading right up to that is pretty ridiculous and disbelieving.
The acting is pretty decent by everyone and the film has a sort of Indie look to it, but that is all it has going for it. There really is no actual plot besides the one that picks up about 3/4 of the way in. Just way too slow and lacking in actual scares and tention. There are PLENTY of slasher fics out there that are creepier than this one. Skip it.
Summary of Wolf Creek (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
A chilling factually-based story of three road-trippers in remote Australia who are plunged into danger when they accept help from a friendly local.System Requirements:Running Time: 102 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?UNRATED UPC:?796019789080 Manufacturer No:?78908Wolf Creek, written and directed by Greg McClean, is the Blair Witch Project of the Australian outback. Capitalizing on the human fear of becoming lost in the wilderness, in this case a desert crater called Wolf Creek National Park, this graphic horror film exploits the handheld camera to capture the grotesque actions of Mick Taylor (John Janatt), a sadistic serial killer. When a hip twenty-something guy, Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips), and two hippie-ish girls, Cassandra (Liz Hunter) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi), take a road trip and their car breaks down, they have no choice but to accept help from Mick, an eccentric rural Aussie, who, like a spider, tows them into his nightmarish lair. Mick hunts kangaroos and hates tourists, translating his fetish for knives, shotguns, and other torture devices into a need to kill humans as if they're vermin infesting his majestic landscape. Ample blood and gore leave the viewer feeling nearly as sick as the girls who are forced to watch each other die. Like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Mick Taylor is a savvy, calculating killer, despicable but psychologically fascinating. --Trinie Dalton
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