Film Threat

Every single performance is the result of a cast that has gone to the far reaches of acting ability and even exceeded them.

Film Threat by Daniel Bernardi

Every single performance is the result of a cast that has gone to the far reaches of acting ability and even exceeded them.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Easily one of the most brutally realistic horror movies since the original "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974).

Variety by Dennis Harvey

Essentially a worst-case-scenario white-knuckler executed with terrifically focused skill and realism.

L.A. Weekly by John Patterson

Full of clever reversals, brief triumphs and bitter setbacks, Wolf Creek is consummately well-crafted, unapologetically vicious and leavened with moments of humor that merely intensify the horror.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

Holiday counterprogramming at its finest. This gut-churning horror indie is based on true stories of tourists disappearing in the vast Australian outback... This scared the hell out of me.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

What makes Wolf Creek so effective is not its originality (which, let's face it, is practically non-existent), or even its amount of gore (the violence is implied more often than it's shown), but the ways in which McLean tweaks the usual formulas, so what you think is going to happen next almost never does.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Director McLean doesn't let up on the suspense, which builds to an electrifying climax that is greatly abetted by Will Gibson's gritty cinematography and Francois Tetaz' nerves-inducing score.

Portland Oregonian by M. E. Russell

While Wolf Creek has clunky moments, when you want to slap the idiot prey until they wake up, the movie embraces a minimalism that feels refreshingly old-school in a field of slasher films drunk on self-referential wisecracks and narrative tricks. And Jarrat's jolly-creepy performance might place Mick in the pantheon of great movie killers.

San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson

What's Christmas Day without a good serial killer movie?

Dallas Observer by Luke Y. Thompson

Writer-director Greg McLean, who has many shorts and commercials under his belt, makes a significant feature debut here, with unapologetic horror that doesn't compromise.

The Hollywood Reporter by James Greenberg

An auspicious debut from first time Aussie writer/director Greg Mclean, film combines the style of cheesy horror films and the flair of classic thrillers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

John Jarratt is perfectly creepy as the outback loner gone psychotic survivalist who gets his kicks from the systematic degradation and torture of hapless victims. And make no mistake, the ordeal is excruciating.

The Hollywood Reporter

An auspicious debut from first time Aussie writer/director Greg Mclean, film combines the style of cheesy horror films and the flair of classic thrillers.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

The vogue for retro-horror, particularly the stripped-down shivers of 1970's slasher flicks, continues apace in this nasty little piece of work from Australia.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

The ambitions are so paltry that our response should be too: Wolf Creek is unimaginative, light on the grue and heavy on the faux-serious desperation.

USA Today by Mike Clark

There's no substitute for bad taste. And this one has it double-barreled, both in the timing of its release and as a movie, one said to be loosely based on fact.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

There is a line and this movie crosses it. I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of Wolf Creek. There is a role for violence in film, but what the hell is the purpose of this sadistic celebration of pain and cruelty?