Sep 09 2009
WOLF CREEK
The best movie I haven’t seen in a long time.
PLOT
Wolf Creek starts with Liz and Kristy meeting an Australian man Ben at a party. Since they’re from Britain, they decide the smart thing is to pair up with him and head out to Wolf Creek to camp. They hike up to the crater, but get back and realize their car isn’t working. A man named Mick shows up and kindly offers to fix their car for free, though he refuses to drive 5 miles in the opposite direction to the safety of a small town. Mick then feeds them drugged water and when Liz wakes up, she’s tied up, but manages to escape and find Kristy, who’s being threatened by Mick. Liz shoots Mick and the two girls escape, but of course they don’t get very far…
TRIVIA
Based in part on the real life Australian killings known as the Backpacker Murders.
THOUGHTS
I haven’t seen Wolf Creek in quite awhile and had only vague memories of it, none of which were good. Still, when I saw it at a local flea market for $2 on DVD, I couldn’t pass it up. This time around, I found the movie a little unsettling, though in the best of ways. The movie does a good job of setting up the relationships between all of the characters and actually get you interested in them before all the “bad” stuff starts happening. Once it does, it just gets better from there. The end of Liz is one of those scenes that just made me wince, as is a scene that comes towards the end. The friend I watched it with summed it up best when he said, “this makes me think twice about visiting Australia”.
