Wolf Creek (2005)
Country: AUS
Technical: col 99/104m
Director: Greg Mclean
Cast: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips
Synopsis:
Three backpackers in a hired car break down while on a trip to explore a vast meteor crater in Western Australia, and are offered a helping hand by a jovial local with a truck, who wants them for his own ghoulish purposes.
Review:
Beginning in almost home movie style, in no hurry to get to it in horror movie terms, this chillingly effective and grittily mounted entry in the 'trekker in peril' stakes also removes any hope of salvation for its characters by prefacing everything with a title about missing persons who are never seen again. Admittedly some of its target audience might still be settling in their seats, or not bothering to read, or have forgotten when the time comes to really start rooting for these oddly unsympathetic and unfleshed-out two English lasses and Aussie boy. Things pick up when Jarratt comes on the scene, but given his agenda that is hardly welcome news and one wonders at the agenda of the film's makers.
Country: AUS
Technical: col 99/104m
Director: Greg Mclean
Cast: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips
Synopsis:
Three backpackers in a hired car break down while on a trip to explore a vast meteor crater in Western Australia, and are offered a helping hand by a jovial local with a truck, who wants them for his own ghoulish purposes.
Review:
Beginning in almost home movie style, in no hurry to get to it in horror movie terms, this chillingly effective and grittily mounted entry in the 'trekker in peril' stakes also removes any hope of salvation for its characters by prefacing everything with a title about missing persons who are never seen again. Admittedly some of its target audience might still be settling in their seats, or not bothering to read, or have forgotten when the time comes to really start rooting for these oddly unsympathetic and unfleshed-out two English lasses and Aussie boy. Things pick up when Jarratt comes on the scene, but given his agenda that is hardly welcome news and one wonders at the agenda of the film's makers.
Country: AUS
Technical: col 99/104m
Director: Greg Mclean
Cast: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips
Synopsis:
Three backpackers in a hired car break down while on a trip to explore a vast meteor crater in Western Australia, and are offered a helping hand by a jovial local with a truck, who wants them for his own ghoulish purposes.
Review:
Beginning in almost home movie style, in no hurry to get to it in horror movie terms, this chillingly effective and grittily mounted entry in the 'trekker in peril' stakes also removes any hope of salvation for its characters by prefacing everything with a title about missing persons who are never seen again. Admittedly some of its target audience might still be settling in their seats, or not bothering to read, or have forgotten when the time comes to really start rooting for these oddly unsympathetic and unfleshed-out two English lasses and Aussie boy. Things pick up when Jarratt comes on the scene, but given his agenda that is hardly welcome news and one wonders at the agenda of the film's makers.