Wolf Creek

2005
R
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

81K

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Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

81K

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POPULARITY

3,559

167

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Awards
- 3 wins & 26 nominations total

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Trivia
Unbeknown to the crew the abandoned mine where they chose to film had actually been the site of the real life murder of a woman. The filming prompted a protest from locals who erroneously thought the film was about those events.

Goofs
(at around 32 mins) When they arrive at Wolf Creek, they park the car nose-in and facing the sign and the meteorite site. When they come back the car is in the same direction. However, when night falls the car does a 180 degree switch as they are facing the direction where they came from, as they watch the headlights of Mick's truck arrive.

Quotes
Mick Taylor: See? Head on a stick!

Crazy credits
The producers would like to thank ... the people of Hawker, Port Augusta, Flinders Ranges and South Australia, ... Frank, Marie and the entire Mclean family

Alternate versions
The film was released on DVD in the United Sates in both a rated and an unrated version, with the unrated version running roughly five minutes longer than the rated version. Two new scenes were added to the unrated version (although both of these scenes are contained on the rated DVD as deleted scenes):
a scene where Kristy (Kestie Morassi) wakes up next to Ben (Nathan Phillips) after the party,
a scene where Liz (Cassandra Magrath goes down into a well in Mick's yard and discovers decaying bodies.

Connections
Edited into Wolf Creek: Deleted Scenes (2006)

Soundtracks
Sunshine
Written by Ben Nash (as B. Nash)
Performed by 78 Saab
(Ivy League Music / Mushroom Music Publishing)
Courtesy of Ivy League Records / Slanted Recordings

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Featured review

visceral Aussie horror film, at times genuinely unsettling

Yikes! This is one scary movie. After an innocuous build up the film reveals three back packers (two Brit girls and their Aussie boyfriend) in the clutches of a murderous psycho. The film is slow to start but we can sense that something evil is about to happen. The acting is decent enough with no stand outs. This film does occasionally cross over into slightly dubious territory with some nasty scenes of torture, but is generally far more controlled than bottom of the barrel stuff like 'The Devil's Rejects' and Hostel/Hostel 2. There are some genuine scares as the tension rises in the bloody second half. See this film if you enjoy visceral unsettling horror.

Overall 7/10