A married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.
Director:
Dennis Iliadis
Stars:
Garret Dillahunt,
Monica Potter,
Tony Goldwyn
Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding."
Director:
Rob Schmidt
Stars:
Eliza Dushku,
Jeremy Sisto,
Emmanuelle Chriqui
A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as "The Collector" is then forced to help rescue an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped lair.
Director:
Marcus Dunstan
Stars:
Josh Stewart,
Emma Fitzpatrick,
Christopher McDonald
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Three backpackers travel into the Australian Outback only to find themselves stranded at Wolf Creek crater. Once there, they are encountered by a bushman, Mick Taylor, who offers them a ride back to his place. Little do the three know that their adventure into the Outback would be a complete nightmare after the backpackers find a way to escape.
One of the two films that received an "F" CinemaScore from audiences upon their release in 2005, along with Alone in the Dark (2005). See more »
Goofs
The movie is set in Western Australia, but the design of the
power poles in the movie are specific to South Australia, and S.W. Queensland (they're called Stobie Poles). See more »
Quotes
Mick Taylor:
I always use a rubber with you cunts... I just don't know where ya been!
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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 See more »
Alternate Versions
The German DVD is available in both a FSK 18 release and a FSK 16 release with 7 minutes of cuts. See more »
If you asked an average movie-goer why the like movies, the responses you'd get would be things like, "I like to laugh", or "I like good twist endings" . Or possibly, "What the hell kind of question is that?" What it all boils down to, though, is that we go to the movies to experience things above and beyond real life; a funny movie is funny because expert screenwriter worked for months on the jokes, a thriller is thrilling because professional directors shot and put together the film in a thrilling way. Real life, of course, never plays out like that... so we often seek entertainment, even comfort in imitation of real life that has a meaning, a point, a message. When films like "Wolf Creek" come along, however, the effect it has on most people is one of violation; no one, no matter what they say, goes to the movies to be traumatized.
What this means is you get "controversy". Critics like films to be thought-provoking, but there is something about this kind of brutality that, in Roger Ebert's words, "crosses the line". I think what lies at the heart of this is that this kind of film evolved from the genre "horror", and it is still put under that category, whereas in fact "Wolf Creek" is amongst a select few contemporary films to have taken "horror" so far that it has become something else entirely, something worse, something better, something almost outside the universe of film.
There have been examples of this in the past, from 1978's "I Spit On Your Grave" to 2006's infamous "Hostel", films that have called society's bluff on the extent to which a movie can take its audience on a ride. It is almost a new, neologistic use of the word 'film', like an infiltration, or hi-jacking of both the medium and the audience. Giving them more than they bargained for. Some of the bad reviews and harsh criticism of the film comes from judging it by the same standards and measures as other, normal films. "Wolf Creek" is not one of these, it is a deeply disturbing imposition on a somewhat unsuspecting audience that, like it or not, is extremely effective.
Of course the issue of whether this makes for good entertainment is debatable. Teenagers will probably love "Wolf Creek", now that it's out on DVD where they can access it no hassles. There are probably some old school "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" fans who saw something special in this. And it certainly shows a diversity to the Australian film industry, which has never before produced anything this nightmarishly brutal. But I would, regardless, not be the least bit surprised if this movie is seen as one of the definitive instalments in a new, darker, dare-devil type of film.
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If you asked an average movie-goer why the like movies, the responses you'd get would be things like, "I like to laugh", or "I like good twist endings" . Or possibly, "What the hell kind of question is that?" What it all boils down to, though, is that we go to the movies to experience things above and beyond real life; a funny movie is funny because expert screenwriter worked for months on the jokes, a thriller is thrilling because professional directors shot and put together the film in a thrilling way. Real life, of course, never plays out like that... so we often seek entertainment, even comfort in imitation of real life that has a meaning, a point, a message. When films like "Wolf Creek" come along, however, the effect it has on most people is one of violation; no one, no matter what they say, goes to the movies to be traumatized.
What this means is you get "controversy". Critics like films to be thought-provoking, but there is something about this kind of brutality that, in Roger Ebert's words, "crosses the line". I think what lies at the heart of this is that this kind of film evolved from the genre "horror", and it is still put under that category, whereas in fact "Wolf Creek" is amongst a select few contemporary films to have taken "horror" so far that it has become something else entirely, something worse, something better, something almost outside the universe of film.
There have been examples of this in the past, from 1978's "I Spit On Your Grave" to 2006's infamous "Hostel", films that have called society's bluff on the extent to which a movie can take its audience on a ride. It is almost a new, neologistic use of the word 'film', like an infiltration, or hi-jacking of both the medium and the audience. Giving them more than they bargained for. Some of the bad reviews and harsh criticism of the film comes from judging it by the same standards and measures as other, normal films. "Wolf Creek" is not one of these, it is a deeply disturbing imposition on a somewhat unsuspecting audience that, like it or not, is extremely effective.
Of course the issue of whether this makes for good entertainment is debatable. Teenagers will probably love "Wolf Creek", now that it's out on DVD where they can access it no hassles. There are probably some old school "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" fans who saw something special in this. And it certainly shows a diversity to the Australian film industry, which has never before produced anything this nightmarishly brutal. But I would, regardless, not be the least bit surprised if this movie is seen as one of the definitive instalments in a new, darker, dare-devil type of film.