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Wolf Creek

Actor(s): John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi
Director(s): Greg McLean
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Profanity, Gore
Movie Release: 2004
DVD Release: 04/11/2006
Format: DVD - Color - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 39 mins
Studio: Genius Products
Total Copies: 8
Genres: Horror, Road Movie, True Crime, Sadistic Horror
See Also: Wolf Creek [Unrated], Wolf Creek [HD DVD] [Unrated]

DVD Synopsis

A dream vacation turns into a nightmare in this taut thriller from Australia. Ben (Nathan Phillips), Lizzie (Cassandra Magrath), and Kristy (Kestie Morassi) are three friends who, after a night of celebratory drinking, hit the road for a trip to Wolf Creek National Park, where they plan to spend a week hiking and surfing. The three friends are happy to be spending time together, especially after Ben makes the happy discovery that Lizzie is as infatuated with him as he is with her. However, after a long day on foot, Ben, Lizzie, and Kristy make the unpleasant discovery that their car's battery is dead, leaving them stuck in the middle of nowhere. Help arrives in the form of Mick (John Jarratt), a burly but good-natured outdoorsman who happens upon them; Mick tells them that he can fix their car, and offers to give them a ride to his place down the road. Grateful but a bit nervous around the gregarious stranger, Ben, Lizzie, and Kristy offer Mick a wealth of thanks for his help, and give him some money for his troubles before they fall asleep around the campfire. The next morning, the travelers find themselves bound, gagged, drugged, and separated from one another, and they realize Mick is not the good Samaritan they imagined. Wolf Creek was the first feature film from writer and director Greg McLean. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Actors

John Jarratt - Mick Taylor
Nathan Phillips - Ben Mitchell
Cassandra Magrath - Liz Hunter
Kestie Morassi - Kristie Earl

Member Movie Reviews

Greg H. (gjh) wrote on 10/21/2008...

4 of 4 member(s) found this review helpful.

A masterpiece, or the most inhuman bit of trash ever filmed, likely both. I have not been able to get it out of my head. Sometimes random thoughts trigger memories of it and I start to sweat. Is it disturbing? Absolutely. But not the way it wants to be. It doesn't fill you with dread or excitement. It renders you helpless. It fills you with rage.

The character of the villain, and the actor's embodiment of it, are perfect. And despite the movie's egregious flaws (what's Horror Movie Rule Number friggin' ONE?!) he has become a personal demon for me. I admit this says something about me and my fears, but: hasn't everyone had a dream moment of running as fast as you can but getting nowhere, slowly? Or fighting with all the strength you possess but landing blows like feathers? This movie is hours of that moment. It is an awful feeling.

So you tell me: what more can a filmmaker ask than that you be affected? Lord, I wish I'd never seen it.