Three young people have a meeting from which they will have trouble recovering and beware, this film is prohibited for children under 16 with warning!
Forbidden to children under 16 with warning, this Australian road trip will take you to the guts. This is Wolf Creek, a feature film released in France in the summer of 2006 is not currently on any platform and it is possible that this will remain the case for a long time!
Ben, Liz and Kristy take a three-week road trip through the Australian desert to visit Wolf Creek, a thousands-year-old crater caused by a meteorite fall. On the spot, at nightfall, they find themselves a breakdown, and a local who comes to lend a hand. And that’s where their troubles begin…
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The first feature film by its director Greg McLean, Wolf Creek is inspired by real events by making the native a mix between two very real murderers: Bradley John Murdoch, a mechanic who had hunted two Britons and Ivan Milat, arrested in 1994 for the murder of seven tourists. He died in 2019.
When it was released, the film came with a disclaimer:
This classification is justified by the continuous climate of anguish and sadism of the film and the scenes of torture which are difficult to sustain.
And indeed, the film is disturbing and is in line with Deliverance, by proposing a universe of growing tensions and confrontation between rural and urban people.
Quite stingy with demonstrative gore, Wolf Creek plays its horror on short and intense bouts of barbarism that grab the viewer when he least expects it. Between these moments of sudden violence, he has the luxury of developing his characters and giving them an unusual thickness for this kind of “horror flick”.
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Wolf Creek had a theatrical sequel in 2013, then a two-season series of six episodes each. Passed relatively unnoticed because of its broadcast from 2016 to 2017 on Stan, an Australian video-on-demand service, it is a spin-off of the films and stars John Jarratt, who plays Mick Taylor in both films.
It is to date the last production of the franchise and deserves to be rediscovered.