In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

If you are looking for the typical Hollywood screamer then go elsewhere. This one just keeps your heart pounding and makes you feel very uneasy. I watched this with my wife and 18 yr old son. About 1/3 of the way in, I was watching it by myself...it actually made them feel THAT uncomfortable. What some people don't realize is the inspiration for this movie, Ivan Milat, is sitting in Goulburn Prison in Australia. He is commonly called the "backpacker killer". One reason it was played down was its direct affect on tourism. One detail was the fact that Police theorized he deliberately paralyzed some of his victims to immobilize them but to keep them conscious. Police are also sure that he killed more but cannot prove it. This movie probably scared Australians more because if you live out in the country... everybody knows a "bloke" like Mick Taylor.

I first saw 'Wolf Creek' when I was about 16 years old and it always stayed with me. I've since re-watched it and it's just as weighty now as it was when I first saw it 7 years ago. Whilst this movie might appear to be your standard slasher, it's much more terrifying for the simple fact that it feels so real. It's based on a true story, so it could be to do with that. But the idea of three backpackers going into the outback where they're unfamiliar with their surroundings and getting picked up by a seemingly friendly and helpful man who offers to fix their car for free is VERY believable. It almost feels like this is something that could happen to me or you or anyone else. There are no coincidences, the killer's actions are premeditated - he follows them, tampers with their car and then comes to their rescue at the appropriate moment so as to lure them back to his place. What's even more realistic is that the characters are suspicious and wary of this man, but are limited in the choices they have. They're stuck in the middle of the out-back with no car, no signal (every movie has to have at least one cliche) and no money, so have very little choice but to accept the help that's offered. Kudos to John Jarrat's performance as the antagonist, Mick. He really brings to life a terrifying killer that gives you the heebie jeebies just for seeing his face or hearing his voice. From the second we're introduced to him the tension is felt. The other performances, although not excellent, are decent. The violence is somewhat closer to movies such as Saw or Hostel, rather than traditional slashers such as Halloween or Friday the 13th, so gore fans will enjoy that. One particular scene that haunts me forever is the one where Mick severs Liz's spinal chord by twisting his knife into her back, which is capable of setting anyone's teeth on edge and making their insides churn.I like that the characters don't make foolish decisions and Liz in particular makes a damn good effort to escape and survive. All of her actions are justified and I found myself screaming at the screen every time her attempts were thwarted. It created a real sense of inevitability surrounding their fates. Mick was the one in control, he was the one that had the power and he exercised that throughout. The ending is a slight let down in comparison to the rest of the movie and feels almost too easy. Whilst the two girls, Liz and Kristy go through a living hell, are sexually assaulted, tortured, tormented and killed, Ben simply wakes up in cave with some angry dogs barking at him, stumbles out and eventually gets rescued. By having Ben as the sole survivor having been absent for the majority of the movie, is very unsatisfying because let's face it, he's done nothing to warrant his survival. It would've been so much more rewarding for the survivor to have been one of the girls instead, since they fought so hard to live. Or even better, they should've included Ben in the middle half of the film and had him going through the events with the two girls rather than being separated from them. Having said this, 'Wolf Creek' is still a very raw movie that struck a chord with me all those years ago and compelled me to re-watch it and come and write a review.

(Originally seen many years ago) This is a sick, twisted piece of snuff that should have been thrown in the bin after the initial screening. Wolf Creek is a film where young hikers are slashed and tortured for the audiences entertainment, and that is nasty. This thing is made by ignorant people who only know how to make viciously ugly, nasty films about suffering, this is not a horror film, it's an exercise in sadism. 0/10

I'll start off by saying that this film is genuinely f*cking terrifying.Everything begins, when a couple of female tourists and their Sydney dudebro guide, set off, on what seems like a relatively banal hiking adventure, into the Wolf Creek crater in the Australian Outback.It starts off slow...kind of like Bruno Dumont's Twenty-Nine Palms. And you start to expect it's going to play out like that (long, drawn out, banal drama- triggering your expectations and, thus, creating anxiety- followed by fleeting moments of the extremely shocking, if you aren't familiar with his model) too. But this is not how it plays out at all.It gets real shocking, real fast. And continues to be extremely shocking right up until the very end (so, for about an entire hour). Sadistic torture; vicious sexual assault; and a character that exudes a malevolent evil so twisted...that you would laugh...if you weren't so goddamn horrified throughout it all.You tend to question every decision they make; and yell at the screen every time you feel they squander a potential oppourtunity to escape. But you've got to give it to them...under the circumstances...they do a pretty damn good job at surviving...even if they do make every wrong f*cking decision.There is one survivor in the film- which is claimed to be an adaptation of actual events. But it's not really even a remotely accurate depiction of actual events, if you read the true story behind it.Either way, however...if you want to be scared. Watch this film.7.5 out of 10