Review of Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek (2005)
1/10
Bad, horrible, keep your money
29 December 2005
If you liked this movie, then that tells me things about you I really don't want to know. Man, there's no good horror anymore. What most directors don't seem to understand is that gore in and of itself is not scary-AT ALL. It is usually only revolting. Scary is a mood, a foreboding sense of menace. This can be achieved a lot of ways in a movie, but not usually by screams or buckets of blood. It certainly isn't achieved by dulling your senses to the point of coma over the first half of a movie, and then by completely overstimulating them the second. I was so completely disgusted I walked out before the end, which is apparently a good thing as I'm reading here. I'm upset I lost over an hour of my life watching this celluloid garbage. But then I don't like Quentin Tarantino either. I think every director who aspires to make REAL horror should have to memorize "The Exorcist," "Hallowe'en," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" before putting themselves on a movie set.
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