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It's a bit like comparing Aliens to 2001, because there were spaceships in both. The torturing and subsequent pursuit of the victims in Wolf Creek was nothing like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Wrong Turn, Halloween or Friday the 13th. These films may share a theme of killers and victims (stalk and slash, if you like), but the only striking familiarity in Wolf Creek is the impressive photgraphy that creates such an uncertain and ominous atmosphere during the whole film - it is less a rip off of TCM than a similarly styled film in terms of aesthetics.
The killer occasionally slipped into OTT 'bogey man' mode, but the three young actors rarely put a foot wrong with their natural and restrained performances (middle class English student types are often irritatingly twittery, and the guy playing Ben was absolutely spot on).
A girl running down a road injured and barefoot during the day might have appeared in a film before... but to call this film a rip off is misplaced (better directed to bigger Hollywood films) and the director ensured its influences were not hammered home with the irony and smug so commonplace in today's horror.
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