Based on true events and terrifying speculation, "Wolf Creek" is played out against the landscape of the desolate Australian Outback. 30,000 people are reported missing in Australia each year. Ninety percent are found within a month. Some are never seen again.

Kristy and Liz are twenty-something backpackers who have hooked-up with new friend Ben as the three of them party their way through a dancing and drinking holiday. They smoke joints, sing by the campfire and usually have ear to ear grins on their faces. When they decide to make a trip to the largest meteor crater on earth at Wolf Creek, it changes their lives forever.

The hike to the crater is three miles from the remote parking lot. It’s beautiful and they soak up the sun a bit before the trek back to the car. It’s nearly dark and they notice that their watches don’t work. However, what really gets their attention is that the car won’t start. They decide to wait it out until the next day, but soon after nightfall a friendly bloke named Mick arrives and he offers to tow them to his place where he can probably get the car running in the morning. What a coincidence that someone would be on this stretch of road. Remember…there are no coincidences.

Mick’s truck tows them for what seems like forever into the black hole of the night, and things begin to feel not quite right. Finally, they reach Mick’s place, an abandoned mining compound. Mick offers them water and a little to eat, as they sit around a campfire swapping stories and the conversation becomes a little strange. Gradually one starts to have an "Alien" moment (a slow starter that kicks into high gear in a way you would never expect). You know that before long the peace and quiet of the film will forever be broken.

When the moment comes, it’s one of quietly believable fear, shattered by terrified screams. Soon the horror is light years beyond the chill you get from the so-called scary movies of today. This is no ordinary slasher picture. Ben, Kristy and Liz are all fighters and they give Mick a run for his money, figuratively and literally. Only one will survive to tell the tale.

First time writer-director Craig McLean sends audiences on a journey of pure terror. The cinematography evokes emotion as it is used in that in your face, hand-held, documentary style at the beginning of the film. The Australian landscape that is incredible, vast and open at first, by the end of the film is still beautiful but cold, dark and distant. We also liked the fact that there were no "red herrings." The license plate, the video camera and the relationship of everything in the movie all make sense. We love a great finish and the end of "Wolf Creek" is so chilling that it will make you wish the villain had been a supernatural creature like the "Alien."