wolf creek

[bwind22]

But MI3 came in 10 million below expert predictions.

Either Tom Cruise is losing his box office appeal because of his increasingly odd antics or American moviegoers are starting to get tired of those box office mega-blockbuster FX bonanzas.

Also, American Haunting opened to a nice 5.5 million weekend. I havent seen it yet, but I will probably get around to it this week.




Zero, I'm with you on the TCM analogy. I thought Wolf Creek had a really dark, gritty feel to it. Head on the Stick was brutal. Loved it.

[Zero]

Originally posted by bwind22
But MI3 came in 10 million below expert predictions.

Either Tom Cruise is losing his box office appeal because of his increasingly odd antics or American moviegoers are starting to get tired of those box office mega-blockbuster FX bonanzas.

Also, American Haunting opened to a nice 5.5 million weekend. I havent seen it yet, but I will probably get around to it this week.




Zero, I'm with you on the TCM analogy. I thought Wolf Creek had a really dark, gritty feel to it. Head on the Stick was brutal. Loved it.

i thought that part was harsh - but i found the medium shot of the shooting of the blonde woman even more disturbing - so matter of fact and heartless. . . the actor who played 'killer' was amazing - so unsettling and unhinged. . . a really top notch performance (much like the male killer in High Tension who, without much dialogue, depicted such a horrificly chaotic sense of evil)

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It was good in parts...but for me who's been fed on a diet of TCM, Wrong Turn, Halloween, Friday the 13th-esque type movies, many parts of it seemed like ripoffs...

the first part of the movie dealt dryly with the characters, it was slow alright...and the second part took off like an express train once the teens hit the sh**...

The saving grace of the movie has to be the killer...who looks and behaves like your everyday-next-door-friendly guy, yet when he turns mean he gets REALLY mean...

some sequences really stand out...the head scene, the slashing of the fingers, shootin the second gurl in the head, the guy slowly pulling his hands off the board where its nailed to...

And the oldest con to money making still stands "This movie is based on actual cases"...yeah rite...

[PR3SSUR3]

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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Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
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.

Parts of it surely are...if you read all the movies I mentioned together with Friday the 13th, and remember back to the beginning of each movie, the terrorising of young gurls, the slashing, etc. you ll notice the similarities...

I ll admit that the cinematography and presentation of various parts of the movie are quite good, esp the crater shots, long-distance cinematography capturing the essence of the bushy and veld-like terrains. Acting was ok, the killer did the most decent part, and the victims were acceptable.

Come to the scene of the gurl runnin naked-foot on the road looking for help in the glaring hot sunny day, and again you are reminded of the similarity to other movies...granted the shots were craftily done, but most parts of the movie still stand as "influenced" from others...

[PR3SSUR3]

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.

[_____V_____]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
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.

I agree...to an extent...yet the movie aint original...07/10 is the best I ll give to it...

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
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.

Well put. I back you 100% on that, completely agree.

[bigkev119]

i just wanna thank the people who agree with me on how wolf creek stinks.. it was not scary at all, from start to finish

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by bigkev119
i just wanna thank the people who agree with me on how wolf creek stinks.. it was not scary at all, from start to finish

Yes, make sure to thank all the right people who follow your opinion, oh God of horror.