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Release Date
December 25th, 2005
Director
Greg Mclean
Writers
Greg Mclean
Starring
John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Gordon Poole
Studio
The Weinstein Co.
Wolf Creek
Wold Creek is a chilling story of three road-trippers in remote Australia who are plunged into danger when they accept help from a friendly local. Intense, bloody and brutal, Wolf Creek will ensure you never step foot in the Outback.
Though marketed as being based on true events, Wolf Creek is only loosely inspired by the murder of British traveler Peter Falconio and the assault of his girlfriend Joanne Lees in July, 2001 by Bradley John Murdoch. Murdoch’s trial was still under way at the time of the film’s initial release in Australia, and for this reason the Northern Territory court placed an injunction on the film’s release there in the belief that it could influence the outcome of the proceedings.
Production
Wolf Creek is set in a real location; however, the actual meteorite crater location is called “Wolfe Creek”, and is located in northern Western Australia. It is the second largest meteorite crater in the world from which meteorite fragments have been recovered. Wolf Creek was filmed almost entirely in South Australia; however the aerial shots of the crater in the movie show the genuine Wolfe Creek crater.
Several strange occurrences happened during the production of the film; one particular location that was used during the shooting of the travelers’ drive to Wolf Creek had not seen rainfall in over six years – however, once the crew arrived and shooting proceeded, it rained for three continuous days, forcing the writer, director, and actors to incorporate the highly unexpected rainfall into the script. According to Greg McLean, the fact that it was raining and gloomy in an otherwise dry, sunny desert area gave the sequences a feel of “menace”. Star Kestie Morassi also mentioned several odd occurrences during an audio commentary for the film, which was the fact that there was a full moon on the first night of shooting the film, and – over a year later, when the film premiered at Sundance – there was also a full moon.
The rock quarry where Mick’s mining site is located was the site of a real-life murder, which stirred up controversy from the local residents who mistook the film as being based on that crime. According to director McLean and others, John Jarratt went to extremes in preparing for his role as Mick, emulating real-life serial killer Ivan Milat: he spent significant time alone in the isolated outback, and went for weeks without showering.
Since the film had a relatively low-budget, many of the action scenes involved the real actors; for example, after running through the outback when her character escapes, star Kestie Morassi ended up with hundreds of thorns and nettles in her feet. During the shooting of Morassi’s torture scene in the shed, her non-stop screams and crying began to discomfort and unsettle the crew; executive producer Matt Hearn said that the female members of the shooting crew were brought to tears by it, as if someone were actually being tortured.
The film was shot entirely on DV cameras (aside from a few CG scenes) and was mostly handheld.
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