Talk:Wolf Creek (film)

message: Didn't this film also receive praise from both Tarantino and Rodriguez? Or was this Hostel (a similar film in genre)? Although, I believe they praised both of the films (and, Tarantino produced Hostel). Can someone verify this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.6.222 (talk • contribs) 20:53, 2006 February 21
; Yes they did
: Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez both praised the film, so much so that John Jarratt(Mick) is to be in  Death Proof. I'll add details to the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helel (talk • contribs) 19:07, 2006 April 3
: Thanks for editing out my section on it's pivotal scene Cyberjunkie, try providing details next time you make a change like that OK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helel (talk • contribs) 08:49, 2006 April 13
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There is no citation for this and it was added 2 years ago, hence I cut it until someone can find a source. 
Robert Rodriguez also liked it enough that John Jarratt was asked and agreed to be in Tarantino's next film Death Proof alongside Rodriguez' offering called Planet Terror in the film Grindhouse. He has since been dropped from the project, without public explanation; however, the film's title does appear on a movie sign in Death Proof.
SteveCoppock (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Praise from Tarantino/Rodriguez

message: Have added a fuller plot summary for the record. This is from memory so if anyone's watching the movie again, perhaps they could double-check it for accuracy. Barnabypage 15:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the first paragraph of the plot summary is incorrect.  The three main characters already seem to know each other prior to the party and are traveling from Broome on the Western Coast (titles at the beginning of the film) to Cairns on the East Coast (we see a shot of their map early on with this city circled). Interesting to note, though, that in the first 10 minutes we see a scene at dawn (after the party) on the beach and the sun is rising over the ocean...which should only happen on an Eastern Coast. 66.255.25.162 (talk) 16:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot summary

message: The article currently says Mick's camp is "not far from the meteorite impact site", but isn't the point made that the drive there takes a long, long time? Barnabypage 15:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, although I guess it's relatively close, when the remoteness of the location is taken into consideration. Cnwb 05:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the outback. Even things that are close together are pretty far apart. But the drive doesn't necessarily take that long. They are towed there and brutalised all within a few hours, and Taylor would have been driving fairly slowly considering he was flat-towing another vehicle. BrianFG 02:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Location of Mick's camp

message: I've removed the Cinematic Differences section on the basis that it's entirely POV. Having said that, the points are good ones - maybe the author would rewrite it based on reviews of the film which make the same points? Barnabypage 10:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cinematic Differences

message: I've removed the sequel section entirely. The report attributed to the Herald Sun turns out to come from a movie-gossip Website which in turn sourced it directly from another, and I can't find it on the Herald Sun's own Website, so there is doubt as to its reliability. The rest is original research - interesting but OR all the same! Barnabypage 20:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sequel section

message: Is it true what Mick says about the vietnam war that they used to stop prisoners escaping by sticking a knife through their spine.
:Not sure about the details, but there is a definite mention of this technique used in the Vietnam War while he is doing it.
While the article discusses Liz dying of blood loss after the head on a stick stuff, the movie gave me the impression that the point of that injury was not to kill, but to keep the victim around for more, um, long term activities.  Anyone else get that impression?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.189.242.89 (talk) 13:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Head on a stick

message: I know that director Greg McLean referred to Wolf Creek a horror film, but that seems to me completely incorrect - it doesn't fit into the genre at all. Classic horror films (The Shining, The Exorcist, The Omen) usually have a strong supernatural element, and those that don't (Psycho, When a Stranger Calls, Scream) are only horror films because they employ certain generic scare devices with the principal goal of frightening the audience, and making them jump. Wolf Creek claims to be based on real events, and is harrowing rather than scary. It is no more "horror" than, for example the Korean film Oldboy or the recent Russian film Gruz 200, which fall under the extreme cinema category but have not been classed "horror" by anyone.
Palefire (talk) 00:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a "horror film"

message: * The car is probably sabotaged by Taylor when they are exploring the crater, but it's never made clear when or what he does. This becomes clearer later when Liz discovers he has been following them since the roadhouse at least. The car doesn't even kick over, so it's most likely done when they're away from the car. Taylor tells them the problem is the ignition coil, which is an easy thing to fake. The scene with the watches stopping directly references a similar scene in Picnic at Hanging Rock in which Jarret also appeared. I read or heard somewhere that it was just done as a tribute to that scene, to make the crater "weirder" and help build the tension, but I had no reference for it so it was removed. BrianFG (talk) 16:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Why did their watches stop and their car break down?

message: * I was kind of shocked to see a content warning on wikipedia. It's bizarre, and certainly not encyclopedic 137.22.97.20 (talk) 01:26, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed the "warning"

message: Why is the budget listed in a foreign currency, and where is the reference for what the actual budget was (it certainly wasn't made on a USD budget)?? 210.9.139.96 (talk) 13:07, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Budget?? 

message: Yes 120.17.43.245 (talk) 11:31, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yes