margoo

Once every 25 years... uh... how about this guy in Snowtown, SA? I think that wasn't that long ago?

Irish Guinness

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Was this movie "wolf Creek " based on a true story? :scared: :scared:

SuperSeagulls

No, it wasnt.....I think artisitic license was used from a number of different outback incidents.

SS

bleugh

DONT go and watch this film,

I'm not a prude or anything, far from it,

the film is pointless, the world would be a better place without crap like this purporting to be based upon a true story


.........would be serial killers, feel free, there's plenty of good ideas in there for murdering and mutilating potential captors

meelie

:scared: Bl**dy scary film, certainly got my adrenaline going. And as for the head on a stick bit, I nearly threw up in the cinema! Good watch though! I'll rent it when it comes out on DVD to scare my 16 year old daughter.

meelie

It states at the beginning of the film that it is based on factual events.

wildmark

Sounds great to me!

Del Boy

Aus has a history of incidents in the outback as well as the backpacker murders and Falconio.

I remember reading a spread in the Sunday paper a couple of years ago called the bastards of the Barkly, said to be responsible for several, I think up to a dozen mysterious disappearances along the length of the Barkly highway in Qld. Now that is a long and lonely road, from Mt Isa to 3 ways.

mary1

I couldn't watch it and had to leave the cinema before the end.....I found it so disturbing and hideous and couldn't sleep last night...........reminded me of my backpacking days around Australia.

I would like to know what happened though........We left when the dogs were snarling at the young man nailed to the wall..........please tell me it was a happy ending and was all a dream or something.....

When we got home early our dog's "boil" was oozing ( been to the vets today).Can anybody please explain why my husband could sit through "Wolf Creek" without flinching but finds a bit of discharge from the dogs leg so repulsive that I have to deal with it????????

meelie

He escaped and was found by the roadside by a couple and taken back to civilisation. He was under investigation for several months as they suspected he murdered the 2 girls but he was released without charge. They never found the place where he and the girls were kept and the bodies were never found.
As for the boil, thats reality, wolf creek is pretend.

G'Day

Wolf Creek is very loosely based upon a true story, with lots of bits and pieces of OTHER gory Aussie stories (rural legends like "urban: legends? ) thrown in.

Having read the reviews and listened to the director's version of what it is about I do not think I will be watching it nor suggesting that anyone I know watch it. There is enough evil in the world without some idiot having to make a film-composite of an imaginary one..or two or three.......If you get your kicks out of human beings being humiliated, de-humanised and tortured why not just turn on you bloody TV and watch the news? Or take out the DVD of Hotel Rwanda and see what real horror looks like. Is that too "real" for you? No you can't stomach enjoying the real thing, but gladly revel in an imaginary evil. Don't you understand that it's equally sick? Bunch of degenerates!

meelie

Oh dear I take it you dont like watching gory movies then. Perhaps you are more a 'Care Bears The Movie type! Your response suggests you don't like to be faced with the reality of horror but prefer to ignore it. I on the other hand am aware that there are many horrors in the world and believe they provide a grim reminder of what goes on that many prefer to pretend dont.

threlly

hi there SS,
i saw this film reviewed on a movie show here a few weeks ago. i dont think i could watch it at the cinema as it would freak me out, so i think i'll wait till it comes out on dvd. i dont really like horrors but martin loves them so i suppose i will have to watch it. we watched the fly last night and that really did my head in. i also watched the saw a few weeks ago-is it as bad as that?
cheers

meelie

WORSE!!!

G'Day

Actually I deal with victims of real horrors. ACTUAL people who have been abused, traumatised, de-humanised and terrorised. So no - I do not watch horror movies because I cannot bear to see human terror and anguish being made into a spectacle for the amusement of the insensitive and the stupidly arrogant. Let's see how entertaining you find this kind of crap when your family or you have been in a real life-or-death situation. I guarantee you, it will lose it's appeal instantaneously.

Do not pretend that you watch this kind of rubbish because you want a grim reminder of the "real" world. You watch it because on some level you are sick enough to like the gore and bored enough to want to be scared whilst sitting safely in a cinema. You are the one who wants the adrenalin rush and the terror without paying the real price for it.

Me? I know the real deal, and it isn't exciting or a rush at all. It's just plain sickening and heart-breaking.

I'm an Indiana Jones kind of gal. I like to believe that the good in people will triumph in the end. That evil will not win.