Three friends consisting of one guy and two girls go on a road trip and end up at a place called Wolf Creek in Western Australia. There their car breaks down but a friendly local comes along and offers them help and tows their car back to his home to fix it there. Unfortunately the friendly local is not very friendly and the three friends soon becomes aware of that and has to fight for their lives to get out of there alive.
There has been a lot of talk about Wolf Creek and I must admit that I was really excited to get to see it so when I finally sat down to watch my copy I had some pretty high expectations.
Like so many times before, high expectations has yet proven not to be a good thing and Wolf Creek only lead me to dispointment. Thing with this movie was that it was so damn boring, it took nearly half the movie for things to start happening and the stuff before that was just a sleeping pill.
Problem with this movie is that you know exactly what's gonna happen, you know the story and you know that this local man is gonna try and kill the three friends and that's all there's to it which is quite a downer.
No twist and no clever stuff whatsoever which makes this movie pretty plain and boring. I actually almost fell alsleep in the beginning of the movie. It felt like it took ages for it to take off and once it took off it didn't do too much either. I kept watching because I wanted to see the killings and what would happen with the three persons but that was kind of a let-down too since we don't get to see a whole lot of that kind of stuff. There's a little gore and such but unfortunately not enough to satisfy.
One thing though that makes this movie a little more interesting is that it's based on a true story and when watching it and thinking about that the stuff you see on screen has actually happened for real it alters your perspective a little, yeah that's a little.
Also the local madman isn't scary or demented enough, he's demented for sure but he talks too much and seems somewhat slow and is not very entertaining to watch.
The actors are not bad but I wouldn't say that they're good either. I really disliked the three friends, they seemed like a bunch of idiots so in the beginning of the movie you kinda rooted for the local killer but after watching him for a while and realizing that he sucked too, you ended up with no one to root for.
I expected so much more from this movie but unfortunately it didn't deliver very much in the end. Only thing it got going for it is like I said before, that it's based on true events, but that's also the only thing.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Greg McLean
WRITING CREDITS: Greg McLean
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Peter Alchin, John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath
COUNTRY: Australia
RUNTIME: 99 min
RATING: 3/10
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