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Best movie of this year hands down!

Powerful

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

If I could give this a 0, I would be happy to do it. Wolf creek was just all over the place, I didn't find it one bit scary. It was only just a plain old hillbilly trying to terrorise the party pooper backpackers and trying to kill them. The scenes were dragging on, I felt that I was bored to tears with it. Not great to be honest!

The first half or so of 'Wolf Creek' is like one long, uninteresting introduction. For 45 minutes or so, the film consists of pointless dialogue and some shots of pretty scenery, and that's it. Nothing to even indicate that this is a horror film, nothing to build the tension, and to be honest, nothing to keep you from losing interest and switching off.After sitting through such a painfully dull first half of 'Wolf Creek', waiting for something to happen, the film picks up and starts to feel like the horror film it's advertised as. The second half of the film is successfully unnerving, with plenty of violence, gore and tension. But it's all too little, too late, and not enough to make up for the uneventful, lifeless first half of the film.Why not cut the film down and scrap some of the unnecessary dialogue that contributes absolutely nothing to the story? When it gets going, 'Wolf Creek' is a good horror film, but the film as a whole is tainted by such a dull and uninteresting first half.

WOLF CREEK is one of those modern-day, pared-down horror films that rely on action for suspense and deliver a new brand of extreme horror in which the terror comes, not from the supernatural, but from the sadistic mind of a relentless killer. What makes WOLF CREEK different is that it's Australian, which means it comes with its own distinctive visual flavour, and director Gary McLean is bright enough to make the eerie wilderness of the Australian outback a character just as important as the three protagonists of the story. An isolated landscape, full of rusting barbed wire, the lonely barks of solitary dogs, and a creepy giant meteorite crater, this is a film designed to put you off ever wanting to visit Australia ever again.The first half of the film is the best, a slow-burning build up populated by creepy cameo characters and an ever-increasing sense of foreboding. Rather than creating likable characters, McLean pretends the backpackers just as they are, so we get Nathan Phillips as a bit of a jock and Kestie Morassi as somebody incessantly whiny and annoying; Cassandra Magrath does better as the genuinely fragile Liz. Best of all, though, is John Jarratt, who gives one of the best bad guy performances I've ever seen in a movie; he's so evil because he's so NICE, and only by watching this film will you see what I mean. Jarratt is horrifying and far more frightening than Freddy or Jason ever can be.The film seems to have achieved some controversy because of its violent content, but in a world full of SAW movies, it's nothing much; a few flashes of brutal violence and a nasty stabbing, that's it. It's disturbing, though, because McLean is good at filming horror, building up the suspense incessantly before thumping you in the chest with something you don't want to see happen. The similarly-themed HILLS HAVE EYES remake and HOSTEL may have more bloodshed and depravity, but the more subtle terrors of WOLF CREEK are just as powerful as any big bucks horror flick with Hollywood's backing.

31 Days Of Horror: Day 11Wolf Creek arrived with the intentions of being a throwback to the boogeyman centred slasher flicks of the 80's, a dutiful homage to movies that the director, Greg McLean, probably grew up with. His film, however, ended up being so good that as far as I'm concerned, it's right up there with the iconic movies it looks up to. The setting, the vast Australian outback, rivals eerie summer camps, desolated suburbia, dank, nightmarish boiler rooms, and other realms of suffering in this cinematic corner. The boogeyman himself, who I'll get to in a moment, is equally terrifying and notable as Michael, Jason or Freddy. And the atmosphere, which is the key component in any movie like this, works wonders for installing a primal dread in the viewer and putting you emphatically close to the protagonists as they are lost, scared and ultimately hunted. Liz, Kristy and Ben are three backpackers navigating the outback, who find themselves a bit stranded. When night falls, the probing headlamps of a 4x4 rig find their campsite, and the truck rolls up to them. Out steps Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) an amiable enough Aussie dirt packer who offers them a ride to his ranch where they can use a phone. He seems charming enough, cracking jokes and reassuring them. They decide to go with him, as they really have no other option. Big, big mistake. No sooner than they arrive and settle in his abode, he begins to act menacingly, subtly at first, and eventually he becomes an outright monster, terrorizing, brutalizing and psychologically torturing them at every turn. Because they are so deep in the outback, escape really means nothing, as they would be lost off his property, and he, knowing the region like the back of his blood encrusted hand, would seek them out before they made it several miles. So they find themselves in a tooth and nail struggle for survival, or death at the hands of this cackling outback madman. Jarratt cuts loose and creates a nerve frying horror movie killer for the ages. Mick is almost like a force of nature in the outback itself, a silent, relentless silhouette on the sunset horizon, until he finds you, them it's all grinning, darkly comic fun and games until he plunges his 9 inch hunting knife into your spine. The victims are convincing, especially Kestie Morassi as Kristy, giving a heaving portrayal of terror and desperation. These days I can't really watch films this severe anymore because of anxiety issues (ironic, I know when you consider I'm doing a whole month of reviews on the genre), but I remember this being one of the grittiest, bloodiest, most shocking mainstream entries into the slasher genre I'd seen since the beloved ones of the 80's.