Pro7 will broadcast the 00 film «Wolf Creek» by director Greg McLean from 15:2005 today. The film is said to be based on true events: «30,000 are reported missing in Australia every year. 90% are found within a month. Some are never seen again." In reality, the film isn't based on real events - it's just amalgamated a few characteristics of different Australian murder cases to create a single killer. The acts of serial killer Bradley John Murdoch served as a template, with his murder of backpacker Peter Falconio and the murders of Ivan Milat. Torture and murder in the Australian outback: Despite all the external similarities to films like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes", Greg McLean's frighteningly intense horror film offers more than just genre fare.
If you read some of the reviews, you might think you are dealing with a particularly disgusting example of the genre, a very explicitly brutal representative of that "new heaviness" in the horror genre, which can already be seen in Saw II and Hostel, for example. In the last half hour of the film, one gets the impression that it is a single, extremely misogynistic sequence of torture scenes. But if you're looking for splatter orgies, you won't find it at Wolf Creek, the horror that Greg McLean spreads in his first feature film - he is also responsible for the screenplay - arises in a more subtle way than through the most detailed evisceration of human bodies.
The film would have all the prerequisites for this: Three somewhat inexperienced young people drive an old cart through the Australian outback and get into the hands of the reclusive sadistic killer Mick Taylor (John Jarratt), who enjoys torturing unsuspecting tourists and to kill with every trick in the book. McLean does not primarily show the physical agony but, nothing could be more terrible, the fear of the victims. With hand-held camera recordings, McLean moves the viewer very close to his protagonists. Even later, during Liz and Cristy's attempts to escape, the camera stays with the victims and only very rarely adopts Taylor's perspective. The fear and despair, but also the disorientation that arises when they try to escape from Taylor's camp in the middle of the desert in the dark, becomes immediately tangible.
Unlike the monsters of slasher and horror cinema with Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees or even Leatherface, the film never allows you to identify with Taylor, because Taylor is never superhuman, but always a person like you and me . Under his relentless cruelty there are abysses to which one can really only react with horror. McLean supports this impression by adopting a disconcertingly close, but almost clinically distant-looking observer position in the moments of the killing, which on the one hand conveys the victims' horror and on the other hand emphasizes Taylor's sobriety, even dry professionalism: the murderer as the craftsman of death and as a trophy collector at that, withdraws.
WOLF CREEK Trailer (HD)
Of course, McLean knows that he has to deal with genre conventions the whole time, but with which he plays with skill: some expectations are met, while some others, especially about the progress of the plot, are simply ignored. McLean is not interested in the genre-typical Final Girl who stands up to the monster until the end. Wolf Creek is a film that takes killing seriously and does not want to trivialize it and that is precisely why it is so extremely unsettling.
McLean also knows how to stage the outback, the Australian counterpart to the American hinterland as a dangerous emptiness: no help, nowhere, nowhere. In many long shots during the first half of the film and finally in the escape sequences towards the end, nature dominates the picture, cars and people almost disappear into the vastness of the surroundings.
Friends, Wolf Creek gets stuck in the convolutions of the brain if you dare: The film is not recommended at all for more sensitive people. Pro7 probably broadcasts the German FSK 16 version (87min), which has been shortened by almost 12 minutes.
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