Wolf Creek

Dopo essere stato in australia mi è venuta la voglia di rivedere quei rari film ambientati li
Ho rivisto Ned Kelly, ma non riesco a ribeccare Wolf Creek, questo qui

Wolf Creek (2006)"First off, I like the poster. It's not my favorite poster out of the ones used but I do like the idea of this one. I think this one is probably my favorite. They're all mediocre posters though..nothing special. I guess it fits the movie well though...This is a good movie. It's above average but it's not great. I've seen mixed reactions over it but I personally enjoyed it. The basic plot is there's a guy and 2 girls in Australia just partying it up and vacationing. They go and visit this huge piece of land where a meteor hit in the past. The ground rises like a mountain then once you hit the top it sinks like a bowl...it's real and amazing to see. I believe it's called "Wolf Creek," as well..hence the title of the movie.. So, they go and visit this site. Come back to their car and it's dead. This guy, Mick Taylor comes along and offers to fix the car so they get towed back to his living area and it basically turns into a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," kinda' thing going on where a guy is hunting them down.What I like about the movie is that..personally for me it wasn't packed with clich'e moments. There was only one really clich'e moment that bothered me while the rest of the movie stayed as far away from them as possible.The movie is paced a bit akwardly but I liked it. The first 30 minutes is basically all getting to know the characters and so-forth with no cheap scares or anything like that. Then the shit hits the fan and doesn't stop. All the actors are really fucking good...like, they're really good. John Jarratt is especially good as Mick Taylor.The direction is good and I love the camera work. It's very...hands on puts you right in the middle of the situation. The only thing that I dislike besides the single clich'e moment that happens about half-way through the movie is that the ending is very abrupt. It works but it's a very abrupt ending and sort of feels out of place. It does work though.I can't wait to see the next movie from Greg McClean which sounds like it has potential to be real fun. Overall I really enjoyed "Wolf Creek," and for me personally it was better then more then half of the American horror flicks that are put out...way better. Even Australians do horror better then Americans.. America needs to step up their game and quit putting out these shitty clich'e horror flicks. Anyways, go and check out "Wolf Creek," I personally enjoyed it. Nothing to great but it was definately above average.

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Due ragazze provenienti dall' Inghilterra ed un australiano di nome Ben si mettono in viaggio verso il parco nazionale di Wolf Creek. Di ritorno, scoprono che l'auto non parte a causa del motore ed inaspettatamente vengono colti di sorpresa da un tale chiamato Mick, il quale si dimostra un tipo abbastanza aperto, disponibile, gioviale ed un po' strampalato. Egli fa di professione il meccanico e può riparare durante la notte il guasto; un vero colpo di fortuna, insomma. Tutt' altro, purtroppo. Mick lega ed imbavaglia le ragazze nella sua officina piena zeppa di armi e quant'altro (è stato in precedenza un cacciatore) e nonostante i loro sforzi nel voler sopravvivere e fuggire dal serial killer, egli riuscirà a violentare entrambe ed a ucciderle. Solo Ben sopravvivrà dal tragico evento, ma la polizia non troverà l'assassino a causa dell' inattendibilità dell' unico testimone e della mancanza di prove.
Curiosità [modifica]
Nonostante il film sia stato magistralmente ricostruito dal regista è basato realmente su una storia vera. L' Australia negli anni '90 conobbe il peggior assassino che la storia del suo paese ricordi: Ivan Milat. Prediligeva come vittime soltanto i turisti che si portavano il sacco a pelo. Fortunatamente, l'assassino venne catturato dalla polizia e condannato all'ergastolo, diversamente da come dice il film.

Ivan Milat.
The Backpacker Murders is a name given to a serial killing case that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres south west of the town of Berrima, New South Wales. Five of the victims were international backpackers visiting Australia, and two were Australian travellers from Melbourne. Ivan Milat was convicted of the murders and is serving seven life sentences in prison.

Belanglo State Forest
The term Backpacker murders specifically refers to the seven murders for which Ivan Milat was convicted. There is some speculation that Milat may have committed up to thirty more killings, but this has never been determined.

[edit] First and second cases
On 20 September 1992 Ken Seily and Keith Caldwell discovered a partially decaying corpse while jogging in the Belanglo State Forest. The following day, police constables Roger Gough and Suzanne Roberts discovered a second body 30 metres from the first. Early media reports suggested that the bodies were of missing British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, who had disappeared from the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross the previous April. However a German couple, Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied, had also disappeared from the Kings Cross area sometime after Christmas, 1991 and Simone Schmidl, also from Germany, had been reported missing for more than a year. It was equally possible that the bodies were of a young Victorian couple, Deborah Everist and James Gibson, who had been missing since leaving Frankston in 1989 . Police quickly confirmed, however, that the bodies were those of Clarke and Walters. Both had been violently stabbed and Clarke had also been shot several times in the head. In spite of an intense search of the forest over the following five days, no further evidence or bodies were found by police. Investigators categorically ruled out the possibility of further discoveries within Belanglo State Forest.
[edit] Third and fourth discoveries and body identification
In October 1993 , local man Bruce Pryor discovered a human skull and thigh bone in a particularly remote section of the forest. He returned with police to the scene and two more bodies were quickly discovered and identified as Deborah Everist and James Gibson. The presence of Gibson's body in Belanglo was a puzzle to investigators as his backpack and camera had previously been discovered by the side of the road at Galston Gorge, in the northern Sydney suburbs almost 100 kilometres to the north.
[edit] Fifth, sixth and seventh discoveries
On 1 November 1993 a skull was found in a clearing in the forest by police sergeant Jeff Trichter. The skull was later identified as that of Simone Schmidl from Munich, Germany. She had been last seen hitch hiking on January 20, 1991. Oddly, clothing found at the scene was not Schmidl's, but matched that of another missing backpacker, Anja Habschied. Simone Schmidl was found to have died from numerous stab wounds to the upper torso.
The bodies of Habschied and her boyfriend Gabor Neugebauer were found on 3 November 1993 in shallow graves 55 metres apart. Both, like the other victims, they had been either shot or stabbed, or both, and sexually molested.
[edit] Search for the identity of the serial killer
While aspects of each murder were similar, each murder had been committed somewhat differently. The killer had evidently spent considerable time with the victims both during and after murdering them, as campsites were discovered close to the location of each body and shell casings of the same calibre were also identified at each site. However, no two victims had been slain the same way. Joanne Walters and Simone Schmidt, for example, had been stabbed whereas Caroline Clarke had been shot numerous times in the head and stabbed post mortem. Anja Habscheid had been decapitated and other victims showed signs of strangulation and severe beatings. Speculation arose that the crimes were the work of several killers, at least two, and Ivan Milat's sworn statement had suggested anywhere up to seven people were involved.
On 13 November, police received a call from Paul Onions in Britain. Onions had been backpacking in Australia several years before and had accepted a ride south out of Sydney from a man known only as "Bill" on January 25, 1990. South of the town of Mittagong, New South Wales, Bill pulled a gun on Onions who managed to escape, flag down passing motorist Joanne Berry and reported the assault to local police. Onions' statement was backed up by one from Berry, who also contacted the investigation, along with the girlfriend of a man who worked with Ivan Milat, who thought he should be questioned over the case.
[edit] Milat becomes suspect and eventually found guilty
Milat very quickly became a suspect. Police learned he had served prison time and in 1971 had been charged with the abduction of two women and the rape of one of them, although the charges were later dropped. It was also learned that both he and his brother Richard worked together on road gangs along the highway between Sydney and Melbourne, that he owned a property in the vicinity of Belanglo and had sold a Nissan Patrol four-wheel drive vehicle shortly after the discovery of the bodies of Clarke and Walters. Acquaintances also told police about Milat's obsession with weapons. When the connection between Onions and the Belanglo murders was finally made, Onions was asked to fly to Australia to help with the investigation.
On 13 April 1994, Paul Onions positively identified Ivan Milat as the man who had picked him up and attempted to tie up and possibly shoot him.
Milat was arrested on May 22, 1994 at his home at Cinnebar Street, Eagle Vale, north of Campbelltown, New South Wales after a 50-strong army of police surrounded the premises. Homes belonging to his brothers Richard, Alex, Walter and Bill were also searched at the same time by over 300 police. The search of Ivan Milat's home revealed a cache of weapons that included rifles, hunting knives, swords, automatic pistols and a home-made silencer, plus clothing, camping equipment and cameras belonging to several of his victims.
Milat's trial lasted fifteen weeks. His defence argued that in spite of the amount of evidence, there was no proof Ivan Milat was guilty and attempted to shift the blame to other members of his family, particularly Richard.
On 27 July 1996, a jury found Ivan Milat guilty of the murders. He was also convicted of the attempted assault and robbery of Paul Onions, for which he received six years' jail. For the killings of Caroline Clarke, Joanne Walters, Simone Schmidl, Anja Habschied, Gabor Neugebauer, James Gibson and Deborah Everist, Milat was given seven life sentences. On his first day in Maitland Gaol, he was beaten by another inmate. Almost a year later, he made an escape attempt alongside convicted drug dealer and former Sydney councillor George Savvas. Savvas was found hanged in his cell the next day and Milat was transferred to the maximum-security super prison in Goulburn, New South Wales where he remains.