Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean, 2005)

Wolf Creek is one of the movies that were praised by almost everyone but I have always managed to miss somehow. I don’t think it got theatrical release in Slovenia and I downloaded it few times but file was always somehow fucked (either synchronized or badly ripped or created by some obscure codec etc). So I didn’t hesitate for one moment when they were showing it on Film Four the other night.

It was worth waiting because it really is that good! It’s surprising how great horror flick can (still) be made without trying to do anything really new or radical and just using well known and established “tools of the trade”. Suspense, eerie atmosphere, creepy sound effects and music, few unsettling scenes (I guess torture porn became mandatory these days) together with good technical qualities all result in above average movie.

But what I liked the best is intelligent use of clichés to achieve some cool mind fucking. Good example is when our villain is lying unconscious and his victim is frantically trying to find car keys in his pockets. In 90% of the movies guy would wake up and in the rest 10% some other shit would happen (usually nasty and not pleasant at all for our heroine). But nothing here! Greg Mclean just uses this cliché to scare us shitless. Very smart and original!

Cool stuff, go see it!

8/10