Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

shannen-l-c I first saw 'Wolf Creek' when I was about 16 years old and it always stayed with me. I've since re-watched it and it's just as weighty now as it was when I first saw it 7 years ago. Whilst this movie might appear to be your standard slasher, it's much more terrifying for the simple fact that it feels so real. It's based on a true story, so it could be to do with that. But the idea of three backpackers going into the outback where they're unfamiliar with their surroundings and getting picked up by a seemingly friendly and helpful man who offers to fix their car for free is VERY believable. It almost feels like this is something that could happen to me or you or anyone else. There are no coincidences, the killer's actions are premeditated - he follows them, tampers with their car and then comes to their rescue at the appropriate moment so as to lure them back to his place. What's even more realistic is that the characters are suspicious and wary of this man, but are limited in the choices they have. They're stuck in the middle of the out-back with no car, no signal (every movie has to have at least one cliche) and no money, so have very little choice but to accept the help that's offered. Kudos to John Jarrat's performance as the antagonist, Mick. He really brings to life a terrifying killer that gives you the heebie jeebies just for seeing his face or hearing his voice. From the second we're introduced to him the tension is felt. The other performances, although not excellent, are decent. The violence is somewhat closer to movies such as Saw or Hostel, rather than traditional slashers such as Halloween or Friday the 13th, so gore fans will enjoy that. One particular scene that haunts me forever is the one where Mick severs Liz's spinal chord by twisting his knife into her back, which is capable of setting anyone's teeth on edge and making their insides churn.I like that the characters don't make foolish decisions and Liz in particular makes a damn good effort to escape and survive. All of her actions are justified and I found myself screaming at the screen every time her attempts were thwarted. It created a real sense of inevitability surrounding their fates. Mick was the one in control, he was the one that had the power and he exercised that throughout. The ending is a slight let down in comparison to the rest of the movie and feels almost too easy. Whilst the two girls, Liz and Kristy go through a living hell, are sexually assaulted, tortured, tormented and killed, Ben simply wakes up in cave with some angry dogs barking at him, stumbles out and eventually gets rescued. By having Ben as the sole survivor having been absent for the majority of the movie, is very unsatisfying because let's face it, he's done nothing to warrant his survival. It would've been so much more rewarding for the survivor to have been one of the girls instead, since they fought so hard to live. Or even better, they should've included Ben in the middle half of the film and had him going through the events with the two girls rather than being separated from them. Having said this, 'Wolf Creek' is still a very raw movie that struck a chord with me all those years ago and compelled me to re-watch it and come and write a review.

Roderick Paterick So I consider myself a bit of a horror fan and had kept seeing this on scariest horror lists online. I was sure I had seen it but couldn't place it so recently watched it excited to see its almighty scare power. Sadly I was let down, the plot is fair enough some travelers go traveling to Wolf Creek and actually the initial way the film twists Into its nastier side is quite good too. However the characters are irritating and the bad guy is pretty comedy. The films set up had a lot of potential and there are some tense moments however it's not psychotics enough to be scary, not gory enough to be called a gore fest and not, well torturey enough to be torture porn. So what do we have isolated screaming with some characters we don't care about. But it's based on a true so that must give it some weight right? No, just when you think the film is going somewhere it ends and then you stare at the DVD cover as the credits roll wondering who would even buy it on eBay. Not a good film.

areatw 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.

meddlecore I'll start off by saying that this film is genuinely f*cking terrifying.Everything begins, when a couple of female tourists and their Sydney dudebro guide, set off, on what seems like a relatively banal hiking adventure, into the Wolf Creek crater in the Australian Outback.It starts off slow...kind of like Bruno Dumont's Twenty-Nine Palms. And you start to expect it's going to play out like that (long, drawn out, banal drama- triggering your expectations and, thus, creating anxiety- followed by fleeting moments of the extremely shocking, if you aren't familiar with his model) too. But this is not how it plays out at all.It gets real shocking, real fast. And continues to be extremely shocking right up until the very end (so, for about an entire hour). Sadistic torture; vicious sexual assault; and a character that exudes a malevolent evil so twisted...that you would laugh...if you weren't so goddamn horrified throughout it all.You tend to question every decision they make; and yell at the screen every time you feel they squander a potential oppourtunity to escape. But you've got to give it to them...under the circumstances...they do a pretty damn good job at surviving...even if they do make every wrong f*cking decision.There is one survivor in the film- which is claimed to be an adaptation of actual events. But it's not really even a remotely accurate depiction of actual events, if you read the true story behind it.Either way, however...if you want to be scared. Watch this film.7.5 out of 10