Wolf Creek (2004)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 109
Fresh: 58 | Rotten: 51
Though Wolf Creek is effectively horrific, it is still tasteless exploitation.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 13
Though Wolf Creek is effectively horrific, it is still tasteless exploitation.
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A dream vacation turns into a nightmare in this taut thriller from Australia. Ben (Nathan Phillips), Lizzie (Cassandra Magrath), and Kristy (Kestie Morassi) are three friends who, after a night of celebratory drinking, hit the road for a trip to Wolf Creek National Park, where they plan to spend a week hiking and surfing. The three friends are happy to be spending time together, especially after Ben makes the happy discovery that Lizzie is as infatuated with him as he is with her. However, after
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All Critics (116) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (55) | DVD (28)
An unusually crisp and boldly shot Texas Chainsaw Massacre knockoff.
Top CriticWhat Wolf Creek offers is a competently made horror excursion with an unfortunate reliance upon clichés balanced off by some legitimate shocks.
It's a depressing exercise in just mutilation and torture.
It's not your typical holiday attraction, but it should lift the spirits of horror devotees, if no one else.
Wolf Creek is wicked and witless -- cruel for the sake of cruelty.
There's no substitute for bad taste. And this one has it double-barreled, both in the timing of its release and as a movie, one said to be loosely based on fact.
Gets under the skin
Despite the obvious influences of the original "Chainsaw," "Hills Have Eyes," "Last House," and other kidnap-terror films, you can't predict what is going to happen in this film.
Australian throwback to '70s slasher movies. No kids please.
For all its efforts at avoiding the usual slasher movie nonsense, it does fall back on some familiar, lame plot devices.
It is almost as if a hardcore survival horror film had been infiltrated (and slyly undermined) by the quieter mysticism of Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock...
A sustained plunge into abject horror that isn't meant to be laughed at or shaken off easily.
...an effective and thoroughly tense horror flick that's stylish without being obtrusive.
A solid flick that was robbed a bit in its theatrical release
It's predictable, it has a romantic plot that fizzles instead of sizzles, it has a plodding first half, and it serves up a platter of gratuitous gore that could feed an army of slasher-film lovers.
It's competently made, but that alone doesn't make it a good film.
Wolf Creek is a damn fine film with just a few flaws, but if you go in with the knowledge that it's not perfect like some have implied, chances are you'll dig it, too.
Esta é a refilmagem que O Massacre da Serra Elétrica merecia.
Audience Reviews for Wolf Creek
It was really slow and pointless the first hour. Yeah it was 1 motherfucking hour of bullshit where nothing interesting happened at all. Then when things started getting interesting, it was just cliche after cliche of predictable bullshit. So yeah the bullshit continued well past the first hour. The characters running around screaming getting tortured. Then the girl doesn't double tap the mad man she just shot, she just runs away and leaves a weapon right beside him. Smart move, very smart move. Then stealing his truck and crashing into the building, nice job, nice job. Then taking one of her friends and leaving the other one behind nailed to a post, that was very sweet of her. It's a seen it before movie. Even if it was loosely based off of a true story, the movie is not believable in the slightest.
I thought this movie was going to be good when I saw it, but OMG it was pretty bad. The acting wasn't too bad, it's just the illogical impulsive decisions made by the characters and the outrageous action of the film that made it suck. The ending didn't make any sense also. Why was Ben even in the mine? Why wasn't he with the girls? What the fuck was that rottweiler doing there? Where did it even come from? It was so weird.
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- Ben Mitchell: So, what do you do for a living?
- Mick Taylor: Well, I can tell you, but then... I'll have to kill you.
- Ben Mitchell: ...
- Kristie Earl: ...
- Liz Hunter: ...
- Mick Taylor: Hee hee hee!
- Ben Mitchell: Oh, ha ha!
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- Mick Taylor: Let's play.
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- Mick Taylor: Now, this little procedure is called 'making a head on a stick'. Because once your spine's shattered right... Well that's what you are, eh? Head on a stick!
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- Mick Taylor: Hey! Like your little mate said before, you know? That's not a knife. *This* is a knife.
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Three friends go on vacation and shortly run into trouble while in the Australian outback when their car randomly breaks down along with their watches, with nothing to do but wait the team eventually stumbles upon a stranger in the desert and turn to him for help fixing their car. What they don't know is that said stranger isn't as nice as he first comes across.
The best part of 'Wolf Creek' is undoubtedly the development, it sets up characters nicely and even introduces a romantic sub-plot. Sadly, however, all the hard work put into the first half amounts to nothing, as the film quickly desends into an average slasher movie and the first half is completely forgotten. The characters become just a tool for the violence and the romanticism is never mentioned again.
If you enjoy playing 'Where's Wally' with film cliches check this out, it has every one in the slasher book, such a shame after the beginining. The soundtrack was alright though.