Stars: John Jarratt, Catherine Magrath, Andy McPhee, Kestie Morassi

Director: Greg McLean

Summary: A trio of friends goes on a road trip in Australia's outback and run into trouble with knife-wielding, slash-happy locals.

WOLF CREEK is a grim and disturbing horror film, based on actual events in the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE vein. It's also beautifully shot, with director Greg McLean (in his feature film debut) making the otherworldly majesty of Australia's outback emerge as a part of the story. Cassandra Magrath and Kesti Morassi play the two young British girls travelling with their Aussie friend, Ben (Nathan Phillips), to Wolf Creek, the remote location of a giant meteor crater. When their car breaks down, a jovial, Crocodile Dundee-type named Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) offers to tow them to his even more remote auto camp. What happens next ensures, among other things, that surviving audience members will never think of Crocodile Dundee in quite the same happy way again. In addition to McLean's painterly use of scenery in establishing mood, the film benefits from the slow, methodical build-up of character detail; the actors are given space to develop a believable rapport, something all too rare in this kind of film. The characters are people, not stock slasher-film types, and this makes the ensuing scenes of cruelty and violence all the more unbearable. This is one carefully crafted, genuinely scary horror film.

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Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2005
Release Date:	January 16, 2006
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T U M D 003
Keywords:	Creek, General, Wolf, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult