It’s hard to believe that eight years have passed since the first Wolf Creek movie came out and we were introduced to the instantly iconic Mick Taylor. The bastard son of Freddy Krueger and Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, Taylor came roaring onto our screens as the course, uncouth but endearingly charming Aussie uncle that we never had, albeit the one that gets his kicks kidnapping and torturing unfortunate backpackers.
Writer and director Greg McClean’s first foray to Wolf Creek back in 2005 had much in common with Eli Roth’s Hostel, which came out the same year, in that it was very much a slow burner for the first half, setting up the characters and gently introducing us to kindly stranger Mick Taylor before revealing his true nature and opening the throttle up to eleven to take us on a stomach churning ride.
Wolf Creek 2 eschews any need to...
Writer and director Greg McClean’s first foray to Wolf Creek back in 2005 had much in common with Eli Roth’s Hostel, which came out the same year, in that it was very much a slow burner for the first half, setting up the characters and gently introducing us to kindly stranger Mick Taylor before revealing his true nature and opening the throttle up to eleven to take us on a stomach churning ride.
Wolf Creek 2 eschews any need to...
- 10/16/2014
- Shadowlocked
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