Wolf Creek 2 (2014)

At the beginning, the two cops are driving off after giving Mick a ticket. I thought in two seconds: "Here comes a missile of a bullet from afar to the back of one of their heads, leaving the other to endure the car spinning out of control and off the road, leading him to be mangled, unable to move, but alive of course just so that Mick can come along to finish him off face to face as he helplessly begs Mick for his life." How he begs is telling him that he can make the charge against him go away. I thought, "Or he could just make YOU go away." Then Mick goes, "...Or...I can make YOU go away." As for unnecessary gore, I'm talking about chopping the guy's body all up into every little segment he possibly can once he kills the young couple. Gore, like this, for example, isn't scary. It's just gross. And also pointless, because we get it: he's dead; so move on.

"Wolf Creek 2" is the sequel to the wildly chilling Australian horror film "Wolf Creek" (2005) but was it any good? The answer is yes. It was fantastic. John Jarratt returns as Mick Taylor the "outback legend" and quite frankly ups his game from the first on everything that needed to be upped. With his return becoming gruesomely apparent within the first few minutes, you really know your in for a ride. Car chases, truck chases and horse chases ensue as Mick hunts down the tourist scum polluting his perfect country. Featuring a tension filled "torture scene" that keeps you hanging off the edge of the sofa the whole time and an ending, though not phenomenal or groundbreaking, still leaves Mick more of a mysterious character. Which brings me to my next point, Is Mick the "antagonist" anymore? The movie seemed to push the idea that he was who we were meant to be rooting for, which mind you I don't have a problem with, I just hope Wolf Creek 3 (if we ever get there) will bring the fear back into Mick. This movie is fabulous and I recommend to anyone who enjoyed the first or anyone that enjoys horror movies at all! Score - 9/10

I'm a huge fan of the original Wolf Creek. Mick Taylor cemented himself as one of the best horror villains of all time. Yeah I said it. He doesn't wear a mask, he's not invincible, he doesn't have any superpowers; he doesn't need any of that. No, this guy is a hunter. A straight up Australian outback sharpshooter with weapons up the wazoo. Thing is, he hunts tourists. Any poor bastard wandering around the wide open plains of Australia better not cross paths with the guy because he'll kill them in the slowest, most degrading way possible. He thrives on fear and wants to squeeze as much life out of each one of his victims before letting them die. His smirk is chilling, his laugh is sinister. He's a sick sadistic psychopath, and he's absolutely captivating to watch. The thing about Wolf Creek is that it focused on these three backpackers who were going to the Wolf Creek Crater or whatever but their car broke down, so some guy in a truck comes by and offers them a lift. Turns out this guy is Mick Taylor, and after a brilliantly tense campfire scene where they're all having a drink and a good laugh, he poisons them and proceeds to do vile things. What made it so terrifying is that we knew these characters. They had chemistry, you believed they were friends, you were on this adventure with them, so when the sh*t starts happening, it gets downright disturbing because you feel for these people.In Wolf Creek 2, the focus is almost entirely on Mick Taylor. It's literally just a day in the life of Mick Taylor, which I don't have a problem with at all. But there really isn't a clear protagonist we can root for during a large portion of this movie. At first you think it's a German couple since we follow them around for the first act, until they set up a fire that catches Mick's attention. Then, the guy gets killed. And the girl runs and runs until she reaches the road, and this is where we're introduced to our "real" protagonist: Paul. He almost runs her over but quickly stops, lets the girl in his car and hauls ass out of there. But of course Mick catches up, things happen, and it ends up becoming a cat-and-mouse game between Mick and Paul.Paul really is a good protagonist though. He's a British tourist who was just driving through the Australian wilderness until he finds the girl in the street, then things start heading south for the guy. Paul is a sympathetic character because he was genuinely just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even Mick reminds him that he wasn't his primary target, but Paul interfered with his hunting so now he's in the crosshairs. The psychological warfare between Paul and Mick near the end was riveting, and the actor who played Paul did a phenomenal job despite having such little character development to work with. It's definitely a fun ride. There are some cheesy moments like Mick riding a horse with the sun going down behind him, but overall it has the same thick, brooding atmosphere as the original Wolf Creek. It's just told from a different perspective. It's the same type of extreme over-the-top sadistic horror as the original so if you don't like that stuff then steer clear. But if you did like the first one and want to see more of Mick Taylor, Wolf Creek 2 will give you exactly that.

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.