Wolf Creek (2005)

Director: Greg Mclean

Writer: Greg Mclean

Tagline: The Thrill Is In The Hunt.

Actors: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Gordon Poole, Guy O'Donnell, Phil Stevenson, Geoff Revell, Andy McPhee

Runtime: 1h 39m

Category: Slasher, Thriller

Synopsis: Three friends take off for a trip across Australia. After stopping for a hike into Wolf Creek State Park, the trio returns to find their car dead. Looking for assistance, the trio finds help in the form of Mick; a big, friendly, backslapping bushman eager to help. Offering them water and a tow into town the trio awakes from a drugged stupor to find themselves at the mercy of a psycho who plans to visit upon them many horrors for no other reason but the sheer pleasure of the kill.

Review: Dark, mysterious, and scary…that’s how I would explain Wolf Creek (2005) to the unsuspecting; a sick and twisted party for the mind! Sometimes I wonder how people can come up with ideas like this. Mick is one of the most unsettling and sick characters to come about and purely instill fear, in some years.

The things that were done here were things that Hostel: Part II (2007) could’ve learned from. My favorite was the “head on a stick”; you only learn shut like this in places like Vietnam where you had to be sick and twisted to survive. Going into Mick’s hideaway was like entering the third circle of Hell and Mick was the Dark Ringleader of the circus.

There wasn’t much more to the movie, the writer kinda got straight to the point, which to me is great. The more time spent with the psycho, the better; more time for him to make his victims cry and scream (does enjoying that make me a bad person?)

The acting was pretty standard; a lot of screaming, crying, and dying; The Unholy Trinity of the horror movie (without those you pretty much just have a Lifetime movie). The story was brilliantly done, giving the killer a vast area to work in, with enough privacy to do his job unimpeded by the unlikely “hero” that could emerge. He created a playland for himself and immersed himself in every sick fantasy he could imagine.

The script was written in a way that gave the victims no hope for survival. One of them actually got away and it seemed as though everyone looked at him as the bad guy; leaving Mick to continue his gruesome work.

Rating: 20. Even though Wolf Creek (2005) moved slowly in the beginning, by the time everything got going…it really got going! Wolf Creek (2005) was dark and intense, sick and twisted; a real amusement park for those with no moral compass. The enjoyment that the Mick character got out of killing just seemed to further my interest in this film. Like I said before: dark, sick, and twisted is the way to go with horror films…take a lesson! (20of25).