afrodome Don't let my headline lead you to believe that I'm squeamish. I love horror movies, even the ones that really push the envelope. The kind of horror I can't stand is when the narrative is leaning towards the perspective of the killer. This movie is exactly that. You know right from the start that this guy (the killer) is a piece of garbage, and yet the movie is trying to imply that he's a pretty cool dude when he's not murdering people.. and the fact that he gets so much screen time is a complete insult. This is the dude that every waitress that's worked at TGI Friday's vehemently avoids because he's always saying something gross/pervy and he never leaves a gratuity, in fact he'll most likely throw 2 dollars on the table and scram.. how is an audience supposed to be scared of some bozo that's introduced to us like an Aussie Uncle Buck? Sorry, but Crocodile Dundee with Diabetes killing for fun is just not scary, nor enticing, unless of course you're into just watching people get killed for the hell of it.

grantss Three friends are touring around the outback of Western Australia when their car breaks down. A local, Mick Taylor, offers to help them and invites them back to his place. Little do they know that he is a psychopathic killer.Very intriguing and engaging. Certainly not your average slasher-horror-thriller, though the bar is set very low there. The tension is built gradually, with the bad guy taking a while to reveal himself. Doesn't borrow too heavily from horror clichés and the conclusion is never obvious.Great work by John Jarratt as Mick Taylor - very convincing and suitably menacing and superficially charming as the killer. Solid performances by Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi and Nathan Phillips as the three tourists.

Planet-38 Throughout the first hour of this movie, I kept thinking I had seen it before.I then realized that I was just watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" set in Australia. Perhaps I actually had seen "Wolf Creek" before, and it bored me then also, I don't know. To me the movie is just stupid people doing stupid things (Did these people know nothing about the Australian Outback? Why beat the guy on his (mighty, powerfully built) back with the gun? Why not bash his head in? etc.) I kept telling myself that these were young people that generally feel they are invincible, and so probably didn't plan or really look into the culture, background, possible problems of the place they were visiting. Plus they were terrified so probably not thinking rationally. But, even adopting that attitude didn't make this movie any more convincing.

sol- Stranded in the outback after their car breaks down, three young friends begin to question whether the local man who has given them a lift is really as friendly as he seems in this acclaimed Australian horror thriller. John Jarratt is excellent as the mysterious man in question with a lot of tension as the friends joke about him being like Crocodile Dundee, something that he does not find amusing at all. The second half of the movie is especially enthralling as a darker side of the Dundee stereotype persona begins to emerge. The film is, however, let down by a humdrum first half-hour of routine ups and downs as the friends set out on their journey. It is only as Jarratt enters the picture around a third of the way in that the film truly takes off, but certainly once it starts, the movie rarely lets up. This is not a film for the squeamish, though with a very low body count, the juice of the film comes from there being a sense of threat (sometimes real, sometimes perceived) in the air. Indeed, the film is more a testament to mysteriousness and uncertainties of Australia's vast outback with a sense that familiar urban rules are no longer in force a la 'Wake in Fright', to which 'Wolf Creek' has been compared.