Wolf Creek :eek:
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Fucking hell, that was a nasty piece of work - a proper horror film! Not just scary or creepy, but and out and out terrifying. Really really unpleasant - it's supposed to be based on true events but that can't be true cos many of the incidents shown would involve speculation on the film-makers' part, and in any case would be in exceptionally bad taste to depict it in such a gruesome way - so I have some misgivings about it, but for a film that sets out to horrify, it does its job perfectly
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
What was the name of that ozzie serial killer who really, really hated backpackers? They found a few of his victims with 10-12 bullets in their head. Is it based on him I wonder??
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I think it's based on a composite of Outback psychos - I remember reading that the jury of the trial of the alleged killer of Peter Falconio have been told not to watch Wolf Creek and the authorities are irked by the timing of the film's release.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
gabi said:
That's the one. Very nasty piece of work (erm... obviously).
Orang Utan said:
Excellent, me and stdPikachu have been looking for some proper scary films to watch
SPOILER possibly
pah, I thought it was weak. the first half of the film was good, really tense, but then they bring in a cartoon villain and it all gets silly. my girlfriend had to leave near the end though, so i guess it gets to some people. I didn't get how it could possibly be a true story if the only one that survived was kept in a cave the whole time and didn't see anything that happened?
pah, I thought it was weak. the first half of the film was good, really tense, but then they bring in a cartoon villain and it all gets silly. my girlfriend had to leave near the end though, so i guess it gets to some people. I didn't get how it could possibly be a true story if the only one that survived was kept in a cave the whole time and didn't see anything that happened?
rutabowa said:
I seem to remember (I was a young kid in Oz at the time), that the only way they caught Milat was because someone who escaped the guy happened to read a story about the murders the next time he was in Australia and went to the police to report what had happened to him. I would think if someone tried to kidnap me in similar cirumstances I would have gone straight to the police, not waited a couple of years.
Anyway, yes, the movie was therefore *very* loosely based on actual events, they didn't really make that clear.
Reminds me of that movie about the couple who got left by their diving boat in Queensland and were never found. They made up a complete story about what might have happened to them, basically impying that the woman left her husband to die. Since they both were never found I don't think they should have been allowed to get away with that.
The aussie tourist industry must hate these sort of movies
yeah there's no way I'm ever going to Australia.gabi said:I seem to remember (I was a young kid in Oz at the time), that the only way they caught Milat was because someone who escaped the guy happened to read a story about the murders the next time he was in Australia and went to the police to report what had happened to him. I would think if someone tried to kidnap me in similar cirumstances I would have gone straight to the police, not waited a couple of years.
Anyway, yes, the movie was therefore *very* loosely based on actual events, they didn't really make that clear.
Reminds me of that movie about the couple who got left by their diving boat in Queensland and were never found. They made up a complete story about what might have happened to them, basically impying that the woman left her husband to die. Since they both were never found I don't think they should have been allowed to get away with that.
The aussie tourist industry must hate these sort of movies
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
gabi said:The aussie tourist industry must hate these sort of movies
Yes probably,
"Come to Oz where everything wants to kill you"
Virtual Blue
ready
So it's (Wolf Creek) not based on a true story?
The story in the film is an amalgamation of several other stories, and I made the bad guy an amalgamation of several other characters, including the guy that 'Crocodile Dundee' was originally based on. He ended up getting killed in a police shoot-out, so elements of him and a few others are in there. There are very similar characteristics in those people, so I put them into my one character.
http://www.timeout.com/film/news/644.html
Oh balls...too good to be true. Always wanted to go a adventure out in Oz.
The story in the film is an amalgamation of several other stories, and I made the bad guy an amalgamation of several other characters, including the guy that 'Crocodile Dundee' was originally based on. He ended up getting killed in a police shoot-out, so elements of him and a few others are in there. There are very similar characteristics in those people, so I put them into my one character.
http://www.timeout.com/film/news/644.html
Oh balls...too good to be true. Always wanted to go a adventure out in Oz.
keane4president
Captain Keane
I purchased this on DVD yesterday.
Its a great film and one of the best horrors I have seen, definately up there with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre IMO.
I still feel uneasy
P.S The special features are cool too
Its a great film and one of the best horrors I have seen, definately up there with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre IMO.
I still feel uneasy
P.S The special features are cool too
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I nearly added it to my rental queue today... Then I decided against it, after reading a few reviews.
With very few exceptions I really hate horror movies, specially if they're very realistic, I really can't see the point of putting myself through it.
Some things are better left unseen and all that...
With very few exceptions I really hate horror movies, specially if they're very realistic, I really can't see the point of putting myself through it.
Some things are better left unseen and all that...
Cosmo Topper
Primative Screwhead
I like my horror, but I just thought this was sick, as in you'd actually have to be a fully fledged sadist to enjoy this. I'd go as far as saying I'd actively avoid watching it again, and I'm not squeamish in the least*
Apparently it was an amalgum of the Ivan Millat killings and the Falconio case. Read up on Millat, he was one sick puppy, with suggestions his whole family was at it.
*MAYBE A SPOILER
I recently suffered a spinal injury leaving me momentarily paralysed, so that may have had something to do with it!
Apparently it was an amalgum of the Ivan Millat killings and the Falconio case. Read up on Millat, he was one sick puppy, with suggestions his whole family was at it.
*MAYBE A SPOILER
I recently suffered a spinal injury leaving me momentarily paralysed, so that may have had something to do with it!
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Watched it last night - fookin awesome horror flick
i_hate_beckham
Him From A Village
Saw it in Canada thought it was ok.
Couldnt get past that the lead guy (not the killer) was Teabag in Neighbours.
Couldnt get past that the lead guy (not the killer) was Teabag in Neighbours.
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
I watched it in the middle of the day with the light on and it still scared me shitless.i_hate_beckham said:
I did not think it was based on a true story though.
BTW,it was an Englishman that hopped out of Ivan Milats car after getting an uneasy feeling about his manner and left the country a few days later.When he read about the backpacker murders as they were called he contacted Scotland Yard and the rest is history
Good thing he trusted his hunch but Milat never murdered a man,they were all female,10 i think
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
It's just clever marketing - the film website says it's based on 3 different cases - the Millat case,the Snowtown murders and the Falconio murder.snowypat said:
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