Not allowed for children under 16, this radical road trip is sure to shock you

With a warning not for children under 16, this Australian road trip will blow your mind. It’s Wolf Creek, a feature film released in France in the summer of 2006 is currently not available on any platform and may stay that way for a long time!

Ben, Liz and Kristy embark on a three-week trek through the Australian desert to visit Wolf Creek, a thousands-year-old crater created by a falling meteorite. On the ground, at nightfall, they find themselves spoiled and a local who comes to lend a hand. And this is where their troubles begin…

Its director Greg MacLean’s first feature film, Wolf Creek, is inspired by real events, a native mix between two real-life killers: Bradley John Murdoch, a mechanic who hunted down two Britons, and Ivan Milat, arrested in 1994 for murder. out of seven tourists. He died in 2019.

When it was released, the film came with a disclaimer:

This classification is justified by the film’s climate of constant suffering and sadism and the torture scenes, which are difficult to sustain.

And indeed, the film is disturbing and in keeping with Deliverance, offering a world of growing tension and conflict between the countryside and the city.

With a rather stingy display roll, Wolf Creek plays its horror on short and intense bouts of barbarism that grab the viewer when they least expect it. Between these moments of sudden violence, it has the luxury of developing its characters and giving them a thickness unusual for this kind of “horror show.”

Wolf Creek had a theatrical sequel in 2013, followed by a two-season run of six episodes. Having aired relatively unnoticed from 2016 to 2017 on Stan, the Australian video-on-demand service, it is a spin-off of the films and stars John Jarratt, who plays Mick Taylor in both films.

It is the last production in the franchise and deserves to be rediscovered.