Also released as
- Wolf Creek 1
- Wolf Creek - UR
- Wolf Creek - OZ
- El cazador de Wolf Creek
- Viagem ao Inferno
- Terreur à Wolf Creek
- Wolf Creek - O apolytos tromos
- Волчий ручей
- Волчья бухта
Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek is a 2005 Australian backwoods horror film directed by Greg McLean.
Three backpackers in the Australian outback. The first hour is a holiday film and it is not padding.
goreledger editorial rating: 7/10 · Read the review
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Two English women and an Australian man drive across the country, visit a crater, and find their car will not start.
Greg McLean spends an hour on the trip: pubs, driving, flirting, a campfire. That hour is why the second half works, because you know these people and how they talk to each other.
Mick Taylor is the reason it is notorious. John Jarratt plays him as a genial bushman who is very funny for a long stretch, and the shift is not signalled.
The film draws on the Backpacker Murders and the Falconio case, which is the source of the objections to it, and the on-screen claim about real events is a marketing device rather than a fact.
It was refused classification in one Australian state and is nasty, particularly one sequence that is over quickly and that nobody forgets.
Goreledger editorial rating
7 / 10
The first hour is a holiday film and that is why the second half lands. Jarratt's genial, funny Mick shifts without warning. Nasty and well made, with a real-events claim that is a marketing device rather than a fact.
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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