Wolf Creek
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Opens saying 30,000 people are reported missing every year
in Australia. 90% of those are found
with in a month. I’m guessing this falls
within 10%. Two British chicks and an
Aussie dude head out on a road trip across the bush. They stop for gas in the middle of nowhere
and get harassed by some Australian rednecks that intimidated me through the
television so I would’ve hated to be them.
The three make it to Wolf Creek, which is a giant meteorite
site. After hiking all day, they return
to their car, which won’t start. A nice
guy drives by that night and offers to give them a tow into town. He’s full like Crocodile Dundee
Australian. He takes them back to their
place and the four of them have a nice chat around a fire.
Things are going pretty well until the Ben (the road
tripper) makes a Crocodile Dundee joke, which the redneck doesn’t seem to take
well. I thought it passed over but the
next morning, one of the chicks wakes up with her arms and legs bound. We’re 54 minutes in where things take a turn
for the worst by the way. She cuts
through the zip tie eventually but there’s still no sign of the other two or
the redneck. It’s possible that all
three of them just don’t like her and are hanging out inside watching TV.
After a little investigating, the girl finds this isn’t the
case when the redneck is shown torturing her friend (making her watch TBS
comedies?). I should probably name the
girls too. Kristy is being tortured and
Liz is the one who just broke free. Liz
makes a diversion and manages to shoot the redneck in the side of the head
(just a knick). The two girls steal his
truck and drive it off a cliff to create the illusion that they died in the
crash I guess. They double back to his
place to look for another truck because they are stuck in the friggin bush.
They get back to his place where Kristy hides and Liz grabs
a gun. The gun is of course dropped down
a mine, which happens to be full of dead bodies. Liz makes an unreal amount of noise while
looking around this place. A totally inexcusable,
torture worthy amount of noise. Liz
finds a bunch of dead peoples things, which show us that picking up people, and
killing them is pretty much the redneck’s job.
Instead of getting the hell out of there, Liz spends a lot of time looking
through the dead people’s things. JUST
GO!!! Nope, now she is watching home
movies on people’s video cameras.
Liz finally gets in a car but for some reason he is waiting
for her in it and stabs her. There are
like 10 cars there and he’s in the one that she picked? That was definitely a stretch. He drags Liz out and stabs her in the back,
paralyzing her. Brutal. Can’t feel the pain now at least.
Kristy wakes up from her nap and makes a run for it. The sun comes up and she wanders out to the
main road. Some nice man pulls over in
his car but get’s shot from a long distance through the eye! Kristy grabs the keys but is chased down by
the red neck. He blows a tire, pulls
over, grabs his rifle and shoots out her tire.
She slowly gets out of the car only to get shot twice and finally
die.
Ben wakes up and sees that he has been crucified. Nails
through the wrists and everything. He
slides off the nails and makes his way out of the mini-mine. He waddles off into the bush during a random
solar eclipse and passes out. Some German
people or something pick him up and bring him to a hospital where he is flown
out to safety.
Rating: 6.0 Another Australian horror movie that left me
underwhelmed. The first hour is
extremely slow and boring. The last 45
minutes is covered in plot holes. The
guy playing the bad guy did a good job acting and that’s about all I can say
positively. Ebert gave this movie a 0
and said it was worse than showgirls.
Torture just for torture/ too gory and other stuff like that. I thought it really wasn’t that gory at all
compared to other movies now.
Over-reaction.
Favorite Scene: The campfire scene. Man the redneck was creepy.
Memorable Lines: “She was good for months... until she
lost her head!”
What I would do if I were the main character: Not go to
Australia. It’s the Florida of continents
(bad thing).
What happens in the sequel: I’ll tell you in the next post.
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