Wolf Creek has a completely standard basic story for this kind of genre movie - travelers in isolated location encounter sadistic nut. Despite this, it's what writer/director Greg McLean does with the details which makes a difference. The outback locations are rendered with a nice eye and evoke a sense of spooky isolation - anything could happen to you out here and no-one would know, much less be able to help.

American teenager Eve narrowly escapes outback serial killer Mick Taylor when he slaughters her family at their billabong campsite in Australia's Northern Territory.

There is also the much discussed 'dark side of Crocodile Dundee' element - frankly, I can't believe it's taken so long for someone to conjure this one up, and McLean clearly delights in stabbing a knife through the heart of the mythical Aussie archetype. I think he's actually gotten to an uncomfortable, close-to-the-bone truth about the psyche of certain Aussie males, and John Jarret is eerily similar to the kind of individual one would encounter in many a country pub down under. The fact that this is an Australian film also makes it a rare bird indeed. For some unfathomable reason, the Oz industry rarely does genre, and when it does, usually doesn't do it well. With this in mind, Wolf Creek is something of a breath of fresh air. Yes, it hews pretty closely to the codes and rules of its genre, but for the most part it does it well, and for my money, what works about the film is strong enough to make some of the weaker plot moments forgivable. Will Gibson's HD camera-work is impressive, maintaining a consistent style from start to finish, aided by solid editing, score and sound design.

Now maybe people will stop whining about how 'we can't make genre films here' and we might see some imagination and variety creep into Australian cinema.

Running time 99 minutes 104 minutes (Unrated version) Country Australia, United States Language English Budget $1 million Box office $27.8 million Wolf Creek is a 2005 Australian written, co-produced, and directed by, and starring. The story revolves around three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and after a brief escape, hunted down by a near feral serial killer in the Australian. The film was ambiguously marketed as being 'based on true events'; the plot bore elements reminiscent of the real-life murders of tourists by in the 1990s, and in 2001. Wolf Creek premiered at the in January 2005, and premiered in Australia in March 2005 in Adelaide.

It was screened at the the following May, and was released in cinemas across and the in September 2005. In its home country of Australia, the film received a general release in November 2005, apart from the, out of respect for the trial surrounding the murder of Peter Falconio. The film was purchased for distribution by in the United States, where it was released on 2005.

On release, dismissed the film for its raw depiction of violence, particularly, with several stating they walked out of their screenings; other critics praised the film's aesthetics and called its straightforward depiction of crime and violence 'taboo-breaking'. Despite receiving these early reviews, the film was nominated for seven awards, including Best Director (for McLean). In 2010, it was included in 's list of the 100 best films of the decade. Plot In, 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter () and Kristy Earl (), are across the country with Ben Mitchell (), an Australian friend from. They constantly get drunk at wild, extravagant pool parties and camp out on the beach. Ben buys a dilapidated for their road journey from Broome to, via the. After stopping at for the night, the trio make another stop at, which contains a giant formed by a 50,000-ton.

While exploring the crater, Ben and Liz kiss. Hours later, upon returning to their car, the group discovers that their watches have all suddenly stopped and that the car will not start. Unable to solve the problem, they prepare to sit out the night.

After dark, a rural man named Mick Taylor () comes across them and offers to tow them to his camp to repair the car. Initially hesitant, the group allows Mick to take them to his place, an abandoned mining site several hours south of Wolf Creek.

Mick regales them with tall stories of his past while making a show of fixing their car. His manner unsettles Liz and Kristy, although Ben is less concerned. While they sit around a fire, Mick gives the tourists drugged water which he describes as 'rainwater from the top end'. The water eventually causes the tourists to fall unconscious. Liz awakens late the next afternoon to find herself gagged and tied up in a shed.

She manages to break free as night falls, but before she can escape from the mining site, she hears Mick torturing Kristy in a garage, and witnesses him sexually assault her. Liz sets the now-dismantled Falcon on fire to distract him, and goes to help Kristy while Mick is busy trying to extinguish the blaze. When he returns Liz manages to shoot Mick with his own rifle, the bullet hitting him in the neck and apparently killing him. The women attempt to flee the camp in Mick's truck. But before they can do so, Mick stumbles out of the garage, revealing the gunshot was somehow not fatal and that he is still alive. He proceeds to shoot at them with a double-barreled shotgun before giving chase in another truck. The girls evade Mick by rolling his truck off a cliff and hiding behind a bush, before returning to the mining site to get another car.

Liz leaves the hysterical Kristy outside the gates, telling her to escape on foot if she does not return in five minutes. Liz enters another garage and discovers Mick's large stock of cars as well as an organised array of travellers' possessions, including video cameras. She watches the playback on one of them and is horrified to see Mick 'helping' other travellers stranded at Wolf Creek in almost identical circumstances to her own. She then picks up another camera which turns out to be Ben's, and while viewing some of Ben's footage, she notices Mick's truck in the background, indicating he'd been following them long before they got to Wolf Creek. She gets into a car and attempts to start it, but Mick shows up in the back seat and stabs her through the driver's seat with a. After more bragging and furious about his truck getting wrecked, he hacks Liz's fingers off in one swipe, and headbutts her into near unconsciousness.

He then severs her spinal cord with the knife, paralyzing her and rendering her a 'head on a stick'. He then proceeds to interrogate her as to Kristy's whereabouts. By dawn, Kristy has reached a highway and is discovered by a passing motorist. He attempts to help Kristy, but is shot dead from far away by Mick, who has a sniper rifle.

Mick gives chase in a fast, prompting Kristy to take off in the dead man's car. She succeeds in running Mick off the road when he catches up, but he gets out of the car and shoots out Kristy's back tire, causing the car to flip over. A disoriented Kristy climbs out of the wreckage and attempts to crawl away, but is immediately shot dead by Mick. He bundles Kristy's body into the back of his car, along with the body of the dead motorist, and torches the wrecked car before driving off. Ben, whose fate until now has not been revealed, awakens to find himself nailed to a mock in a mine shaft, with an aggressive, caged in front of him. He manages to extract himself from the crucifix and enters the camp in early daylight.

Ben escapes into the outback, but becomes dehydrated, and eventually passes out beside a dirt road. He is discovered by two shocked Swedish travellers who take him to, where he is airlifted to a hospital. A series of title cards states that despite several major police searches, no trace of Liz or Kristy has ever been found. Early investigations into the case were disorganised, hampered by confusion over the location of the crimes, a lack of physical evidence and the alleged unreliability of the only witness. After four months in police custody, Ben was later cleared of all suspicion.

He currently lives in South Australia. The film ends with the silhouette of Mick Taylor walking into the sunset with his rifle in hand. Cast • as Mick Taylor • as Liz Hunter • as Kristy Earl • as Ben Mitchell • Guy O'Donnell as Car Salesman • Geoff Revell as Graham (gas station attendant) • Andy McPhee as Bazza (pervert in petrol station) • Aaron Sterns as Bazza's mate • Michael Moody as Bazza's older mate • Gordon Poole as Old man • Guy Petersen and Jenny Starvall as Swedish backpackers who help Ben • ( cameo) as Policeman Production Wolf Creek is set in a real location; however, the actual meteorite crater location is called ', and is located in northern Western Australia. It is the second largest meteorite crater in the world from which meteorite fragments have been recovered. Wolf Creek was filmed almost entirely in, but the aerial shots of the crater in the film show the genuine Wolfe Creek crater.

Several strange occurrences happened during the production of the film. One particular location that was used during the shooting of the travellers' drive to Wolf Creek had not seen rainfall in over six years; however, once the crew arrived and shooting proceeded, it rained for three continuous days, forcing the writer, director and actors to incorporate the highly unexpected rainfall into the script. According to Greg McLean, the fact that it was raining and gloomy in an otherwise dry, sunny desert area gave the sequences a feel of 'menace.' Star Kestie Morassi also mentioned several odd occurrences during an audio commentary for the film, including the fact that there was a full moon on the first night of shooting the film and over a year later, when the film premiered at there was also a full moon. The rock quarry where Mick's mining site is located was the site of a real-life murder, which stirred up controversy from the local residents who mistook the film as being based on that crime.

According to director McLean and others, John Jarratt went to extremes in preparing for his role as Mick, in a bid to emulate, as close as possible, the real-life serial killer: he spent significant time alone in the isolated outback and went for weeks without showering. The sign on the front gate of Mick's mining site reads 'Navithalim Mining Co.' ; Navithalim spelt backwards reads: Milaht Ivan, evidently referencing Ivan Milat. Since the film had a relatively low budget, many of the action scenes involved the real actors; for example, after running through the outback when her character escapes, star Kestie Morassi ended up with hundreds of thorns and nettles in her feet. During the shooting of Morassi's torture scene in the shed, her non-stop screams and crying began to discomfort and unsettle the crew; executive producer Matt Hearn said that the female members of the shooting crew were brought to tears by it, as if someone were actually being tortured.

The film was shot digitally on the format and was mostly handheld (aside from a few static shots). Basis in reality Wolf Creek was marketed as being 'based on true events.'

The abduction of British tourist and the assault of his girlfriend in July 2001 by in the are cited as influences. Murdoch's trial was still under way at the time of the film's initial release in Australia, and for this reason the Northern Territory court placed an injunction on the film's release there in the belief that it could influence the outcome of the proceedings. Many are misled into thinking that the entire movie is based on a true story, when it only had many influences from other murders around Australia, such as the Ivan Milat and the Peter Falconio murder case. Reception Box office Wolf Creek opened on 151 cinemas in Australia on 3 November 2005 (the film had previously been shown at a number of film festivals) and took A$1.225 million in its first weekend, making it the number one film for the weekend. In the United Kingdom, the film was given a modest release on 16 September 2005, and grossed £1,500,000. The film opened on Christmas Day 2005 in the United States and grossed $16,188,180 on American screens, while also garnering an extra $11,574,468 overseas, bringing the total gross to US$27,762,648. Critical response On, a review aggregator Wolf Creek has a 'rotten' score of 53% based on 110 reviews with an average rating of 5.6 out of 10.

The critical consensus states: 'Though Wolf Creek is effectively horrific, it is still tasteless exploitation.' The film also has a score of 54 out of 100 on based on 26 critics indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. Audience polling gave the film an 'F'. Critic of the gave it a zero stars rating, saying, 'It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. I wanted to walk out of the theatre and keep on walking'.

Film critic Moira Macdonald said that Wolf Creek was the first film she ever walked out on. She called watching the film 'punishment' and wondered how someone's real death inspired this 'entertainment'.

Praised its departure from the generic rules of the horror film genre. How To Put Cleo Mods In Gta Sa Android. Film critic awarded it 4/5 stars.

Time Out said 'by making us feel the pain, Greg McLean's ferocious, taboo-breaking film tells us so much more about how and why we watch horror movies'. They admitted, however, that the film was not for everyone. The film magazines and gave the film 4/5 stars, with Empire calling it 'a grimy gut-chiller that unsettles as much as it thrills, violently shunting you to the edge of your seat before clamping onto your memory like a rusty mantrap'.

Called it the scariest film of the year. Film critics and placed 'Wolf Creek' at 25th on their list of 'the 25 Best Horror Films Since.' Awards and nominations Award Category Subject Result Nominated Nominated Nominated Will Gibson Nominated Nominated Nominated Des Kenneally Nominated Peter Smith Nominated Pete Best Nominated Tom Heuzenroeder Nominated Nominated Nominated Alternate versions The original cut of Wolf Creek ran 104 minutes, approximately 5 minutes longer than the 99-minute cut that was released in cinemas. The extra footage in this cut included an additional scene at the beginning of the film after the party scene, in which Kristy awakens in bed next to Ben at a beach cottage the following morning; this created a romantic subplot between the characters, and was cut from the film for 'complicating' matters unnecessarily. The other additional footage took place when Liz returns to the mining site after leaving Kristy behind; rather than immediately entering the car garage, as she does in the theatrical cut, she finds a revolver and fills it with cartridges, and then explores an abandoned mine shaft in order to search for Ben.

She subsequently drops her pistol into the shaft, and climbs down inside to find dozens of decomposing bodies. This explains why, in the theatrical cut, the revolver disappears after she enters the car garage.

According to director Greg McLean, this scene was cut from the film after because it was 'simply too much', along with all of the other gruesome events that had taken place prior. The scene in which Liz's spine is severed by Mick was also slightly longer, including more close-ups and shots.

When the film premiered in the United States on DVD, both an R-rated cut (which is identical to the theatrical release), and an unrated cut (which incorporates the aforementioned scenes) were released. Main article: After the success of the first film, McLean postponed plans to immediately work on a sequel in favor of directing. Production was initially expected to commence in 2011 and John Jarratt was announced to reprise his role of Mick Taylor. In August 2011 was announced as a private investor for the movie and that he would be funding 5 million into the production of Wolf Creek 2 after reading the script. Later that same year, Edelsten withdrew his funding, alleging that he had been misled by McLean and Emu Creek Pictures into believing that he would not be the largest single private investor, a claim the production company denied. Filming and production of Wolf Creek 2 was postponed until late 2012, when additional funding was made available through the. Filming took place in late 2012 and early 2013 in Australia, and the movie had its world premiere on 30 August 2013 at the.

The film was given a wide release in Australia on 20 February 2014. Main article: Screentime and Emu Creek Pictures announced the TV series adaption of the film franchise in February 2015.

Returns in his role as Mick Taylor, and the series was written, directed and produced. The character of Ben Mitchell, the survivor of the original film, appears in the series played by —known as 'Jesus' due to his crucifixion wounds, Mitchell helps Eve track down Taylor by directing her to the Wolf Creek crater. The six-part premiered on the portal Stan on 12 May 2016. The series premiered in the United States on the Pop network in October 2016.

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