An unusually crisp and boldly shot Texas Chainsaw Massacre knockoff.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 4, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 31, 2005

Women in horror movies are always the ones most brutalized, sure, but what McLean does to Magrath and Morassi borders on pure amoral hatred.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 30, 2005

It's a depressing exercise in just mutilation and torture.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2005

Wolf Creek is wicked and witless -- cruel for the sake of cruelty.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

There's no substitute for bad taste. And this one has it double-barreled, both in the timing of its release and as a movie, one said to be loosely based on fact.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 25, 2005

This is some horror flick.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 25, 2005

The four actors fit into their respective roles nicely, though in the case of Jarrat's bushman Mick, nice isn't quite the right word.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 25, 2005

Just because Dimension considered Greg McLean's nasty exploitation flick worthy of their time and money doesn't mean it deserves yours.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Dec 25, 2005

An initially promising horror film that turns exploitive, Wolf Creek fails to deliver the requisite payoff considering its leisurely pace.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 25, 2005

You want to close your eyes but can't -- a sure sign the horror is working.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 25, 2005

As a purely visceral -- in both senses of the word -- exercise, Australian import Wolf Creek is extremely effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 25, 2005

A very unpleasant movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 25, 2005

Shoehorning predictable parable and pallid allegory into a hobnail boot full of horror and sadism.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 24, 2005

As horror movies go, this is a pretty good one, at once a tense, visceral and tightly woven tale.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 24, 2005

At least as unnerving as it is gratuitously sadistic, skin deep, and full of plot holes the size of Ayers Rock.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 24, 2005

A gorily effective Australian variation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 24, 2005

Australian writer and director McLean produces what is likely the most riveting horror movie you will see this year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 24, 2005

Mr. McLean uses all sorts of storytelling tricks to keep you guessing while the quartet of unknown actors deliver deeply affecting performances.

| Original Score: B | Dec 24, 2005