By: Abbie Phillips
Wolf Creek is a chilling Australian horror film that’s based on a true story. It is a story about three road trippers who are in their twenties named Kristy, Ben, and Liz. They decided at the beginning of the film that they wanted to backpack through Wolf Creek National Park together in the Australian Outback all alone. When they arrive at one of their scenic spots, their car dies and a few hours after waiting, a local man named Mick Taylor offers them help with his big truck. Mick Taylor then takes the backpackers to his house and drugs them so they fall asleep and wake up separated and trapped, ready to get tortured by him. A dream that turns into a nightmare.
This movie does a good job of sending a message to not trust people too easily and always be careful when you’re exploring. The producer, Greg McLean, made it feel real and kept it interesting throughout the entire movie. There were lots of advertisements for this movie even in America after it was released in 2005. However, the movie doesn’t have that great of ratings for some reason.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wolf_creek
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/
On Rotton Tomatoes, it is rated 53% by the ‘Tomatometer’ and the audience rated it at 49% out of 100%. It got a 62/100 on IMDB. Opening weekend, the film made $2,805,754 in the United States and compared to other movies, that’s not that much.
Australian movies don’t differ much than the movies we have in America but they don’t produce nearly as many movies per year. In fact, Australia only produces about 35 movies each year. Australia finds it difficult to compete with our American film industry and media industry because we are both English-Speaking Countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Australia
It is common that most actors and actresses from Australia get scouted from the United States and they’ll move to LA to pursue their careers.
John Garrett, the main character and killer in Wolf Creek, is rated one of the most popular actors in Australia.
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