Wolf Creek (2005)

Rating: R

Country: Australia

Running Time: 99 minutes

Director: Greg Mclean

Starring: John Jarrat, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips

After reading many negative and positive reception from a variety and assortments of sources (Magazines, websites etc.), I walked to my local Movie Gallery and rented this expecting nothing less but to be entertaining. I was neutral, not choosing either sides on the "like it" or "hate it" sections. Marketed with the new "Based on true events" gimmick and claimed to be translated from the true story of the backpacker murders of the 90s at the hands of Ivan Milat, Wolf Creek is not good or bad (At least in the beginning). It comfortably sits in the distant middle. When the opening scene hits, A stage of unpredictability transpires among your eyes. You can't tell if it will suck or be great. To start off, the annoying and amateurishly done foreign accents are interpreted poorly. It's as if they're mocking every Aussie human on the planet, even the British sounds are offensively made. This is where points are immediately taken down. The cardboard cut-out characters are appalling and you want them to get hacked up miserably and painfully. Fortunately, two out of three of them are, saving the only decent, sufficient and tolerable man in the movie to escape from our antagonist's devious clutches. Speaking of that, the enemy of the film (Mick Taylor, a remorseless and ruthless mastermind committing his crimes in a remote Australian desert titled Wolf Creek) is one of the redeeming features that truly embraces the film's promising poster. He's like Norman Bates crossed over with Leatherface. Clever but also ferocious. And, the actual killings are ultimately satisfying after a long await. We even see a mostly severed wreck of a woman hanging from a wall (Supposedly a victim that lasted for many months before dying). Both are proudly displayed in a full-fledged gory format. And to throw in a bonus, A tourist is shot in the head. The terror factor and increase of tension is almost always high, especially in the last half. All of these people don't walk out without injury. Wolf Creek inevitably breaks all of the standard, generic rules and formulaic garbage of recycled, cheap garbage people call horror in this messed up economy. No rules apply to it. It makes its own. This is why I immensely enjoyed Wolf Creek. It very may well be the single most scary, gritty, and realistically traumatizing experiences you'll ever observe and witness that was commercially opened in 2005. However, what hurts and disinegrates any substance of pleasure in this is its lack of facts and common sense. This is a pure work of fiction, while it is citied as being completely true. It is a senseless, pretentious and contrived horror movie that desperately tries to lure in the captured audience but instead throws them back on their heads and decides to throw in another boring and dull element that ruins the fun. Overall, Wolf Creek is like previously mentioned, not good, but also not too bad. Not too bad.

Pros: Nice deaths, Scary, simple and downright amazing in little divisions. Not like other copied products labeled as slashers

Cons: Bad accents, hate the senseless path it takes towards the end and it isn't at all true

Recommended? Yes and no if that makes any sense to anybody

4 out of 10