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lee challenger
09-22-2005, 02:39 PM
This film certainly lives up to the hype it had been given.Very strong stuff,well made and acted despite being very low budget.
For those who haven't heard about the film it is based upon the true incident of two English tourists in Australia that disappear in the outback while on a journey with a young Australian man.He claimed they were attacked by a psycho and he lived to tell the tale.
doctor satan
01-15-2006, 08:25 AM
watched it last night best film i've seen in ages, the wife freaked out & went to bed half way through.
saw it today
great movie :cool:
The_Return
04-18-2006, 05:43 PM
I really enjoyed it!
Posher778
04-18-2006, 06:07 PM
So many topicsw on this...
SodaGirl
04-19-2006, 12:03 AM
You guys are the first group I've seen really appreciate the movie... I keep hearing that it's too boring.
Even though it took around 50 minutes to pick up, I thought it was worth it for the end. I love realistic horror, and while we're too desensitized to really be scared by a movie like this, it's still satisfying to watch.
And the based on a true story thing gets me every time.
The Flayed One
04-19-2006, 04:44 AM
I want to watch it.
What SG said is true. This is the only place I've seen give it any praise at all. Of course, same goes for Blair Witch and several other movies that I think are great. You just can't trust the mainstream crowd with certain horror movies. If it's not over-the-top gore or packed with special effects, they don't seem to care for it.
Take my favorite movie of all time, The Exorcist III. Most folks just don't get it. Too much script, not enough girl puking pea soup and screaming "FUCK ME!" However, most true horror fans seem to be with me in rating it one of the scariest movies ever made.
bwind22
04-19-2006, 05:10 AM
I watched Wolf Creek last week. I thought it was excellent, but the "true story" business doesn't do anything for me. They say TCM is based on a "true story" too but we all know how true that actually is.
Anyways, I thought Wolf Creek was really well done for the budget they were on. The gore was more implied but when they did show stuff it looked great and just thinking about head on a stick still makes me cringe. Acting and directing was solid. I had to watch it with subtitles on though because of the thick accents on some of the characters. *Shrug* No big deal though. I still gave it a rave review. (Click link in my sig to see it. It's filed under Horror- 'Slasher Reviews'.)
I'm excited to see what else Australia can come up with since Hollywood and Japan aren't exactly cutting it right now.
luke_dm5
04-19-2006, 05:29 AM
Normally not the type of horror movie I watch, I really enjoyed Wolf Creek :)
Well, I picked up this movie out of bordemn. I had very low expectations for this movie because of these reviews on here. It was ok and better than I thought. The first half of the movie was so damn slow and boring. It was a waste of time and it was like the director just wanted to kill some time. Am I the only one who thought the first 50 mins were slow as hell? Then it picked up and built a little suspense. The ending was abrupt and lame. Bad ending!! Its worth a rent I think but its no where near to "The Hills have Eyes" remake. I think this movie and Hostel fall short and both could have been better.
Posher778
04-22-2006, 03:40 PM
Originally posted by SodaGirl
You guys are the first group I've seen really appreciate the movie... I keep hearing that it's too boring.
Even though it took around 50 minutes to pick up, I thought it was worth it for the end. I love realistic horror, and while we're too desensitized to really be scared by a movie like this, it's still satisfying to watch.
And the based on a true story thing gets me every time.
It scared me a little bit.... way scarier than a lot of stuff that spews out of shit directors mouth's these days.
AmericanManiac
04-22-2006, 03:52 PM
Wow I don't know what i'm on but to me this movie was complete crap. For me there wasn't enough blood, or kills. I did think that the storyline was good though. When I seen based on a true story, I though yeah ok. They need to start putting LOSELY based. Also I was wondering, I seen the % rate at the start it said 90% people go missing are found and 10% are not. Does anyone really know how many people go missing every year from aus. Is anyone on here from there ? The killer Crocidle Dundie :D
Posher778
04-22-2006, 04:04 PM
Originally posted by AmericanManiac
Wow I don't know what i'm on but to me this movie was complete crap. For me there wasn't enough blood, or kills. I did think that the storyline was good though. When I seen based on a true story, I though yeah ok. They need to start putting LOSELY based. Also I was wondering, I seen the % rate at the start it said 90% people go missing are found and 10% are not. Does anyone really know how many people go missing every year from aus. Is anyone on here from there ? The killer Crocidle Dundie :D
Maybe there weren't enough kills because it was based on true events... I thought it was fine, if you don't like realism horror then don't watch it.
DarkIcon
04-23-2006, 01:54 PM
While I wouldn't call it complete crap, I didn't really like it either. It's worth a rent, sure... but don't buy it.
The first half of the movie is boring as hell... but it's boring for a reason. That reason is to make you identify with and have sympathy for the characters. That's a good reason... but it didn't work for me. When the crap hit the fan, I still didn't give a rat's ass about any of them, and as things went on I just wanted them to die so that I could watch something else. I don't know what else they could have done to fix that, all I know is that what they tried to do didn't work.
I will say that there are some very tense moments in this movie. They pulled those off quite well, and some of the 'shocking' scenes are quite entertaining. The violence is quite well done. Whether you'll actually be shocked or not is up to the individual viewer.
But as a whole, it was just another "Crazy Guy Killing People You Don't Care About" movie and was nowhere near the hype that surrounded it.
And to clarify things, despite what you see on the back of the box, the movie is not based on true events. It is INSPIRED by true events. There is a difference. The movie-makers took the actions of an australian serial killer and wove a fictional story around it, using bits and pieces of things that the actual killer really did. But the *story* of what *exactly* happened to the three *specific* people is pure fiction... and so they could have made it as tame or as bloody as they wanted to without being bound by reality. But really, putting three or four more people into this movie just so they could die in new and interesting ways would have only made it worse. Bloodier, yeah... but not any more 'shocking' or 'horrific' than it's already supposed to be.
AmericanManiac
04-23-2006, 07:48 PM
Originally posted by Posher778
Maybe there weren't enough kills because it was based on true events... I thought it was fine, if you don't like realism horror then don't watch it.
Based on true events ,show me the proof and then I will believe it. So I guess TCM really happened ?! Like I said in my above post pretty much every movie is LOOSLY (SP) based !
ItsAlive75
04-24-2006, 11:37 AM
Well I didn't expect who was going to die to actually die, but I didn't really like this flick. I thought it would be a lot more graphic, I thought it was a bit overhyped.
Plus that young Aussie dude was just fuckin' annoying to start the flick.
Posher778
04-24-2006, 03:28 PM
Originally posted by ItsAlive75
Well I didn't expect who was going to die to actually die, but I didn't really like this flick. I thought it would be a lot more graphic, I thought it was a bit overhyped.
Plus that young Aussie dude was just fuckin' annoying to start the flick.
I actually though they were all going to die. It was actually quite sad, especially the girl *minorspoiler* in the garage, just because she had it pretty rough.