Wolf Creek 2 (2014)

I thought season 1 was ok for a sequel to the movie but I have to say the concept for this Season had me hooked from the first episode. The casting and performances were awesome and was hooked right to the end. Bring on Season 3. Stan you have nothing else to offer!!!

Wolf Creek 2 is the sequel (duh) to 2005's Wolf Creek, and writer/director Greg McLean is once again at the helm.Let me start by saying that I think the first one (WC1) was not an out-of-this-world kind of picture...it wasn't even "scary" to be honest. But it had 1 "redeeming factor" going for it: it was entertaining as hell! And sometimes that's the only thing that matters. Even if a movie isn't "Grade A" material, if it accomplishes the not-so-easy task of "giving you a good time" while watching it...it deserves to be recommended.Also the fact that a movie may not be "mainstream Hollywood" doesn't make it "an instantly bad movie".I just want to establish those grounds so that people can understand that I'm not basing this review on one of those dumb reasons.OK, I'll be brief: Wolf Creek 2 is a REALLY BAD movie. Don't watch it.Well...that's it. Thank you for reading my review. Bye bye!I'm just kidding!"Why is it so bad", you ask? Here's why: while the first movie had some kinda ridiculous moments here and there...it also had some eerie sense of "realism" that pulled you into the action, mainly because you were seeing things, thinking "this definitely could happen...for real!". And that's one of the most powerful things a movie can do, especially a horror one. If the acting and the story has "some" ground where you can latch onto, things can go from "this is cool" to "OMG, this feels so real! I can't watch it anymore! It's disturbing!". And let me tell you: that's a GOOD thing for a horror movie. ;)The acting is not atrocious...but it's not as good as WC1's cast. The only redeeming factor, of course, is John Jarratt, repeating as Mick Taylor, the star of the whole show. The rest of the cast goes from "acceptable" to "mediocre".But the main problem with this movie is the fact that everything is just a huge mess. Aside from 1 or 2 things...nothing has any sort of "plausibility" whatsoever. Almost all the things that happen in this movie are complete and utter NONSENSE.I know, I know...Suspension of disbelief, right? Yeah...no. When you're seeing sequences and behavior that have zero chances of happening in real life it's almost impossible to "suspend" anything.Remember what I said about the first movie earlier? Well this one does almost the opposite of all that.Every couple of minutes you just watch the action unfold while thinking "seriously? You gotta be freakin' kidding me!".And the reason for that is a poorly written script. McLean takes not only the premise of the first movie...but basically everything else too! There's not a single "new" element on this thing. It's like if he simply changed some names here & there, added a lot of nonsense...and said "done". And I'll give you a good example: remember watching the Droopy the dog cartoons while growing up? Remember how he had the "ability" to appear anywhere in a blink? No matter what? Well now apply that cartoonish approach to a human being and tell me: is it still funny?And you know why they did that on the cartoon? Because that was an easy way to simply not care about any situation: if the dog can appear anywhere no matter what, you can write any nonsense and everything will be fine at the end. And that's exactly what McLean did on his script. Some truly lazy way of not having to care about what happens on screen...because the main character can do basically impossible things, allowing him to get away with anything.Bottom line: if you're able to completely shutdown your brain while watching a movie maybe this one will be "almost bad" for you. Otherwise there's no way a smart person will be able to withstand so many ridiculous plot holes and nonsensical "twists" without trying to crush the TV in the process.This is an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Wolf Creek while not caring about trying to develop new things and/or telling a coherent story. This is as bad as sequels can go.Save yourself of wasting almost 2 hours on this one...and just watch the first movie.

One of the best horror films of recent years was the Australian "Wolf Creek". Its success has lead to this belated sequel, simply entitled "Wolf Creek 2", (and now a television series in production), which is even more effective and a lot nastier than the original. John Jarratt's Mick Taylor is still out there, slicing up backpackers; first a couple of young Germans run up against him and then Ryan Corr's gutsy Pommie falls foul of him in the middle of nowhere. This is a nerve-shredder of the first order, terrifically played by Jarratt and to a slightly lesser extent Corr and brilliantly directed, once again, by Greg McLean with a couple of nice nods in the direction of both "Duel" and "The Night of the Hunter". Terrifying and terrifyingly funny in almost equal measure.

This film is brutal, graphic and unrelenting. I have seem many horror films in my life, but during one of the scenes in the film, I stopped the film to take a breather. The scenes in the film are so disturbing that I would definitely not recommend it to people who haven't seen a horror film in their lives and for those persons who are sensitive in nature.The rating I have given to this film is justified. It succeeds in the portrayal of a soulless serial killer who kills his victims in the most unimaginable ways. He doesn't take any pleasure in killing - it has become a way of life to him. In the film he states himself to be a pig-hunter. Indeed he dismembers and castrates his victims like any butcher would do when slaughtering a pig.I wonder what was going on in the mind of the director as he was filming the most intense and brutal parts of this film.Plot: Highway patrol officers Gary Bulmer and trainee Brian O'Connor are parked by a road and want to fine someone for speeding. A man drives past and they pull him over, claiming he went over the speed limit when he was actually under the limit. The officers mock and belittle him, giving him a speeding ticket and an order to get rid of his truck.Watch the film to find out what happens next...You may also like: Red Dragon 2002, The Silence Of The Lambs 1991, Hannibal 2001, Manhunter 1986, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986, Wrong Turn Pentalogy 2003-2013, Hatchet Trilogy 2009-2013, I Saw The Devil 2010, Citizen X 1995, Evilenko 2004, Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation 2007, The Gray Man 2007, Cannibal(Marian Dora 2006), Dahmer 2002, Ted Bundy 2002, To Catch A Killer 1992.