2005's WOLF CREEK is yet another grim, not
particularly good, pretty unpleasant flick. This time the horror unfolds in
Australia as a trio of college-aged kids on a backpacking vacation runs afoul
of a deranged outback killer.
Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi and Nath
Phillips star as the kids, and there's not much to them. A couple of them are
kinda into each other. Mostly they're sort of boring. The first half of the
movie is made up of their vacation, which looks like it would have been fun if
I was on it, but aside from some pretty shots of Australia, I could have done
without it.
About halfway through their car breaks down
and they're rescued in the middle of the night by a Crocodile Dundee-esque dude
played by Mick Taylor. At first he seems like a friendly enough bloke, albeit a
weird one, but it isn't long before he has all the kids chained up and ready to
be chopped.
The last half of the movie involves the
college kids making increasingly stupid decisions in their attempts to escape
the villain. Normally I'm not the viewer who sits back and points out how
people in extreme situations are making bad decisions, because I figure no one
really knows what they'd do in an extreme situation, so why bother? I'd
probably panic, too, if some dude was trying to kill me.
WOLF CREEK is special, though, because it
allows our heroes a ton of good luck and THEN lets them make dumb decisions.
For instance, they actually knock the bad guy unconscious at one time. And then
they don't take advantage of the situation. Not too long later, our heroes are
actually able to steal a car and drive away from their captor. But, they reach
stop at a cliff and push it off. So.
Anyway, movie's dumb. The best part about it
is the memorable performance by Mick Taylor as the villain. At the very least,
it has that. Unlike HIGH TENSION, which sucked and had a completely forgettable
villain. So here's to you, Mick Taylor.
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