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The 'based on true events' claim is a morally dubious selling point, fresh in the mind as the Milat and Murdoch cases are.
It sounds like you felt gore was the requisite in this film - a shame, because it has so much more to offer.
The cinematography is excellent, capturing the sparse terrain of the outback in the unsettling raw style of The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Acting is top notch, particularly from the two male Australian leads. The narrative is relaxed, but with enough subtle and jarring twists to throw any complacency right out the window (but no stretched or illogical plot developments that have been thought to blight the likes of, say, Haute Tension).
Wolf Creek is far from a ripoff (the mention of the Jason Voorhees movies is rather unusual) but close to the best horror films of the past decade, expanding on the stark, cinema verite style of The Blair Witch Project and Open Water rather than pandering to Hollywood productions.
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