Cert: 18 cert (R-rated)
Director: Greg Mclean,
Writers: Greg Mclean, Aaron Sterns
Starring: John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn, Philippe Klaus, Gerard Kennedy, Annie Byron ,Shane Connor , Ben Gerrard , Chloé Boreham
Running time: 106 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: One scene with foreign hitch-hikers hints at sexual activities. There are a few scenes with kissing and affection.
Mick Taylor refers to using female captives for a "few fun months". Rape is heavily implied throughout the duration of this movie
Violence & Gore: The film contains several scenes of strong sadistic violence and torture.
Mick uses his sniper and shoots 4+ characters in the head. It is quite graphic and full on.
Mick Taylor violently butchers a hitch-hiker. He severs his spinal cord and then proceeds to behead him in front of his girlfriend, He is later seen dissecting the body as if it was cattle or sheep and placing the body in the back of his car.
In one scene Taylor is seen cutting two of Paul's fingers off with an electric saw while his hand is broken and clamped.
A chandelier of human bodies was made. You can see 5 skeletons tied together with lights around it for decoration.
There are hundreds of mutilated, decomposing females corpses in Mick Taylor's underground pathways. You can see each female as Paul walks past them in graphic and gruesome details. One female presumed dead starts screaming and grabs out for Paul, she is extremely bloody and he runs away. Later on, he find a way out, past a series of booby traps, one of which is a hole in the ground with sharp bamboo spikes coming out from the ground. Paul plans on hitting Mick with the hammer and into the hole, killing him, except who he thought was Mick was actually the girl who had started screaming earlier on. You see her dead body face down on the spikes for a few moments.
Profanity: Terms such as bitch, fuck, cunt, and pussy are repeated frequently. Australian slang and play on profanities are used.
Racist terms are used toward the English
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Some young adults are seen drinking vodka and wine while having a cigarette at a party.
There is a scene where Mick Taylor offers an alcoholic drink, assuming whisky, to his hostage. They drink and his hostage plays along with his 'game'
Frightening/Intense Scenes: As this whole movie is intense and may be considered frightening, there is a few scenes towards the end that is extremely intense.
Paul escapes from Micks torture dungeon and runs through underground tunnels for a good 10 minutes. Through those tunnels, there are dead, mutilated corpses from females lining the walls. Most are chained up or hung from ceilings and are starting to decompose. As Paul is investigating one female body, she suddenly jumps up and starts screaming for help. She is quite mutilated and bloody and her eyes have glazed over with a white film. This is sudden and is possible the biggest jump scare of the entire movie.
Story: The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-hunter Mick Taylor.
Likes : As much as i love a good horror film, the first wolf creek was ok it had all the elements of a horror slasher , John Jarratt returns as serial killer Mick Taylor. He delivers another strong performance. His laugh and hoarse, Aussie voice never falter. He gets totally into character and runs the show. He has too much screen time, however, to make him as scary as he should be. The viewer is given too much knowledge of his whereabouts, I felt that kid of took away the surprise of where is he.
The first set of victims The film doesn't provide much insight into their character's which might be the reason why your find yourself not feel that they get killed by this guy, Ryan Corr, playing well-educated British traveler, Paul it just the same but you kind of find your self rooting for him in the end.
The sense of isolation is there but doesn't have the same effect as it did in the first film, probably because there are a few more characters in this film, and other devices used to create action, which made the film appear less chilling and more thrilling in a way.
Essentially we have two movies here, cut at the half way point. The first is an interesting hodge-podge which riffs not only off Wolf 1 but also pays "homage" to Spielberg's DUEL. And to a lesser extent, Texas CHAINSAW. with the body in the tunnel which was pretty sick & twisted. Horror fans might like this film but for me i kind of found this film becoming one sided & it just felt all bad guys & no hero to the story which i think this film will need if there is a 3rd film being done.
Dislikes : Well the fact to one side twice now this guy has got away with killing people i just think its about time now that he hunts someone more that he can handle, the hero takes him down that what i feel is need because the first film he got way with killing, now again hes got away with killing, the ending was lame.
Overall : Blood, body's, gore, strong language, OK acting but weak story.
Rating: 3.1 out of 5 for entertainment / 4.3 out of 10 for story-line
Did you just give away the ending? "Killer gets away with it" or is that made perfectly clear in the beginning of this film and is part of the central plot?
ReplyDeletePretty much clear really from the start.
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