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Article: SLASHER FLICK `WOLF CREEK' IS HARROWING BUT ONLY SKIN DEEP
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2005
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Three friends on an outback adventure, desolate vistas, creepy
music, a squirrelly truck driver . . . yes, "Wolf Creek" is an Aussie
slasher movie. Isn't that what you asked for this Christmas?
Anyway, that's what you're getting from writer-director Greg
McLean, whose first feature film is at least as unnerving as it is
gratuitously sadistic, skin deep, and full of plot holes the size of
Ayers Rock.
Taking broad liberties with the already meaningless "based on true
events" label, "Wolf Creek" riffs off of some of the most notorious
serial-killer cases in Australia, including the grisly "Backpacker
Murders" attributed to Ivan Milat, and the scary random crimes of
just-convicted mechanic ...
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