The trio makes a stop at Wolf Creek National Park. Ben buys a dilapidated car for their journey from Broome to Cairns, Queensland via the Great Northern Highway. In Broome, Western Australia, 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter and Kristy Earl, are backpacking across the country with Ben Mitchell, an Australian friend. In 2010, it was included in Slant Magazine 's list of the 100 best films of the decade. The film was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director (for McLean). Other publications, such as Variety and Time Out, praised the film's grindhouse aesthetics, with the latter calling its straightforward depiction of crime and violence "taboo-breaking". Wolf Creek received mixed reviews from film critics, with several, such as Roger Ebert and Manohla Dargis, criticising it for its realistic and unrelenting depictions of violence. In the United States and Canada, it was released on Christmas Day 2005, distributed by Dimension Films.
WOLF CREEK SKI TRIAL
It was given a theatrical release in Ireland and the United Kingdom in September 2005, followed by a general Australian release in November, apart from the Northern Territory, out of respect for the pending trial surrounding the murder of Peter Falconio. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. Produced on a $1.1 million budget, filming of Wolf Creek took place in South Australia the film was shot almost exclusively on high-definition video. The film was ambiguously marketed as being "based on true events", while its plot bore elements reminiscent of the real-life murders of backpackers by Ivan Milat in the 1990s and Bradley Murdoch in 2001, both of which McLean used as inspiration for the screenplay.
WOLF CREEK SKI SERIAL
Its plot concerns three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mick Taylor, a sadistic, psychopathic, xenophobic serial killer, in the Australian outback. It does not store any personal data.Wolf Creek is a 2005 Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean and starring John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath and Kestie Morassi. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
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